To keep pace with ever increasing customer demands and to ensure survival in today's competitive environment, businesses have developed supply chain structures that encompass global operations. These structures often include manufacturing facilities, distribution centers, agents, warehouses and IT facilities.
The resulting globally distributed facilities and operations all need networks that are tightly linked and integrated in a manner that will ensure effective execution of sales, movement of goods and, ultimately, customer satisfaction. These requirements add ever growing complexity to logistics and supply chain processes in all sectors.
The additional factors of shortened product life cycles, increased competition, heightened expectations of customers, opening of more sales channels (business-to-business, business-to-consumer, online, telephone, email), have forced global players everywhere to focus on the urgent need to optimize supply chain execution and management across the board.
Only by having complete control over every piece of inventory in your supply chain, at every minute of every day, can you guarantee delivery, reduce labor costs, and increase distribution efficiencies.
