• Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • About Us
  • Supplier Directory
  • Login
  • Subscribe
  • Logout
  • My Profile

  • CORONAVIRUS
  • LOGISTICS
    • Air Cargo
    • All Logistics
    • Express/Small Shipments
    • Facility Location Planning
    • Freight Forwarding/Customs Brokerage
    • Global Gateways
    • Global Logistics
    • Last Mile Delivery
    • Logistics Outsourcing
    • LTL/Truckload Services
    • Ocean Transportation
    • Rail & Intermodal
    • Reverse Logistics
    • Service Parts Management
    • Transportation & Distribution
  • TECHNOLOGY
    • All Technology
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Cloud & On-Demand Systems
    • Data Management (Big Data/IoT/Blockchain)
    • ERP & Enterprise Systems
    • Forecasting & Demand Planning
    • Global Trade Management
    • Inventory Planning/ Optimization
    • Product Lifecycle Management
    • Sales & Operations Planning
    • SC Finance & Revenue Management
    • SC Planning & Optimization
    • Sourcing/Procurement/SRM
    • Supply Chain Visibility
    • Transportation Management
  • GENERAL SCM
    • Business Strategy Alignment
    • Education & Professional Development
    • Global Supply Chain Management
    • Global Trade & Economics
    • HR & Labor Management
    • Quality & Metrics
    • Regulation & Compliance
    • SC Security & Risk Mgmt
    • Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility
  • WAREHOUSING
    • All Warehouse Services
    • Conveyors & Sortation
    • Lift Trucks & AGVs
    • Order Fulfillment
    • Packaging
    • RFID, Barcode, Mobility & Voice
    • Robotics
    • Warehouse Management Systems
  • INDUSTRIES
    • Aerospace & Defense
    • Apparel
    • Automotive
    • Chemicals & Energy
    • Consumer Packaged Goods
    • E-Commerce/Omni-Channel
    • Food & Beverage
    • Healthcare
    • High-Tech/Electronics
    • Industrial Manufacturing
    • Pharmaceutical/Biotech
    • Retail
  • REGIONS
    • Asia Pacific
    • Canada
    • China
    • Europe
    • Latin America
    • Middle East/Africa
    • North America
  • THINK TANK
  • PODCASTS
  • VIDEOS
  • WHITEPAPERS
Home » Event Management: Visibility Into the Inbound Side Yields Huge Dividends

Event Management: Visibility Into the Inbound Side Yields Huge Dividends

February 24, 2010
Bob Heaney, Senior Research Analyst, Supply Chain Execution, Aberdeen Group

The December 2009 Aberdeen report on supply chain visibility  shows that, from a total of 21 categories of events examined in the survey, the top three least visible events (i.e., tracked either manually or automatically) in the supply chain are on the inbound (not outbound) transportation side:

• Raw material arrival at supplier - tracked by only 39 percent
• Suppliers' production in-process events - 48 percent
• Suppliers' projected production plans - 54 percent

These areas, however, are among the top Best-in-Class differentiators in terms of supply chain monitoring. Here, for example, are some specific inbound supply chain events where Best-in-Class performers are leading in monitoring compared to all others:

• Raw material arrival at supplier - 1.47 times more likely to track than all others (53 percent of the Best-in-Class monitoring this milestone)
• Suppliers' production in-process events - .22 times more likely to track than all others (56 percent of the Best-in-Class monitoring)
• Carrier pickup of goods (INBOUND) - 1.28 times more likely to track than all others  (86 percent of the Best-in-Class monitoring)

With 79 percent of study respondents saying that they plan to increase their current level of end-to-end supply chain visibility, companies are now primarily trying to look further upstream into their supply chains to address those visibility "blind spots." Better upstream visibility then helps them improve supply chain planning and ultimately improve their own on-time delivery to customers. They are focusing on the low-hanging fruit.

The Outlook

Tomorrow's leaders should upgrade their visibility and monitoring of transportation events beginning with the best opportunities.  Joan Carter, director of sales support at Orbit Irrigations Products, sums it all up very well: "At this time, our best opportunities for improvement are on the inbound side, namely, in getting more visibility into our suppliers' production capacity," she says. "We have good visibility after the product has left a foreign port, but would like to have more insight into our suppliers' subcontractors and what is happening in their incoming supply chains. We believe that higher visibility is partly contributing to lower lead time variability, reduced inventory, shorter lead-times, increased fill rates, and other supply chain operational improvements."

RELATED CONTENT

RELATED VIDEOS

Logistics Transportation & Distribution Technology SC Planning & Optimization Supply Chain Visibility Transportation Management Global Supply Chain Management SC Security & Risk Mgmt
KEYWORDS Global Supply Chain Management Logistics SC Planning & Optimization SC Security & Risk Mgmt Supply Chain Visibility Technology Transportation & Distribution Transportation Management
  • Related Articles

    Unilever Takes Control of Its Inbound Side

    New Developments In Visibility Go Beyond Just Supply-chain Event Management

    Event Management: The Right Information, When You Need It

  • Related Events

    Driving Supply Chain Sustainability: The Role of Real-Time Visibility Using Vehicle and Location Data

  • Related Directories

    Kuebix

Bob Heaney, Senior Research Analyst, Supply Chain Execution, Aberdeen Group

Event Management: Visibility Into the Inbound Side Yields Huge Dividends

More from this author

Wake up to Coronavirus Updates and the latest Supply Chain News!

Subscribe to our Daily Newsletter

Timely, incisive articles delivered directly to your inbox.

Popular Stories

  • Coronavirus-watch-Armada

    Virus Update: Slow Vaccine Rollouts Delay World’s Economic Recovery; Airbus Plant Hit by Outbreak

    Coronavirus
  • Car Industry

    A Year of Poor Planning Led to Carmakers’ Massive Chip Shortage

    Technology
  • U.S. Vaccine Rollout Hindered by Faulty Coordination, Messaging

    WHO Fumes at Western Drugmakers As China Fills Vaccine Void

    Coronavirus
  • Can Employers Require Employees to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine? Part 1

    Watch: Can Employers Require Employees to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine? Part 1

    Coronavirus
  • Third-Party Cybersecurity

    What Vaccine Supply Chains Must Do to Protect Against Cyberattack

    Coronavirus

Digital Edition

Scb home issue 27

2020 Supply Chain Innovator of the Year

VIEW THE LATEST ISSUE

Case Studies

  • LSP Saves Customer $1.5 Million a Year With MPO Global Inbound Management

  • Auto Supplier Wows Key Client Using riskmethods Supply Chain Savvy

  • Integrating Shipping and Compliance Saves Conglomerate Millions

  • How a Consumer Goods Giant Upped Its On-Time Delivery Performance

  • LSP Wows Global Client, Quickly Advances to Become End-to-End Provider

Visit Our Sponsors

6 River Systems ArcBest Armada
aThingz BluJay Burris Logistics
DSC Logistics DCSA (Digital Container Shipping Association) DHL Resilience360
Genpact GEP Honeywell Intelligrated
Infor Logility Magnitude Software
MPO Old Dominion Oliver Wight
OpenSky Ports America Purolator
QAD Precision Red Classic Riskmethods
TGW Systems Transportation Insights Watson Land Company
Westfalia Technologies Workjam Yang Ming
  • More From SCB
    • Featured Content
    • Video Library
    • Think Tank Blog
    • SupplyChainBrain Podcast
    • Whitepapers
    • Webinars
  • Digital Offerings
    • Digital Issue
    • Subscribe
    • Manage Your Subscription
    • Newsletters
  • Resources
    • Events Calendar
    • SCB's Great Supply Chain Partners
    • Supplier Directory
    • Case Study Showcase
    • Supply Chain Innovation Awards
    • 100 Great Partners Form
  • SCB Corporate
    • Advertise on SCB.COM
    • About Us
    • Privacy Policy
    • Contact Us
    • Data Sharing Opt-Out

All content copyright © 2016 - 2018 Keller International Publishing Corp All rights reserved. No reproduction, transmission or display is permitted without the written permissions of Keller International Publishing Corp

Design, CMS, Hosting & Web Development :: ePublishing