Supply Chain Visibility: Integrate Supplier Information to See Across the Supply Chain

If you're serious about creating a world-class supply chain, you need to integrate your information with key data from suppliers, hubs, carriers and customers, so you can see what's happening as it happens. In today's competitive environment, with suppliers and distribution points spanning the globe, you can't wait for business to resume at a factory in India or delay a recall while someone checks crates for their country of origin. You need to know—now!—whether you have adequate inventory in Denver for a promotion or your Internet customers will be told you're out of stock.

Supply Chain Visibility by Manhattan Associates operates across all suites to enable you to see a single, consistent view of your entire global supply chain. Whether you need to know inventory positions or shipment in-transit status, you can rely on Supply Chain Visibility to show you real-time order, inventory and shipment information to make more informed, educated supply chain decisions. This cross-functional view also helps align department goals with the business' overall objectives, as managers can see what's happening in other areas as well.

With user-friendly views, users can quickly access critical supply chain data. Each division, department or user can define how they view and filter entity information. At the same time, you can ensure that all users share the company-wide "one view of truth," so that everyone is acting on the same information. And, with integration with a variety of other web-based tools, you can even look at inventory across your region and map the location of excess stock or impending shortages. In addition, inventory balances can be leveraged by order management and allocation systems to dynamically distribute inventory through optimal channels and more efficiently meet demand. Supply Chain Visibility is even more powerful when run with Manhattan's Supply Chain Event Management and Supply Chain Intelligence, which enable an even broader view of event and performance tracking.

Gain Insight into Your Business

No matter your industry, Supply Chain Visibility gives you clear benefits:

• Systemically monitor perishables and reduce inventory loss from expired goods
• Reduce costs associated with expedited delivery.
• Lower inventory levels and safety stocks.
• Enable and optimize direct-shipping channels.
• Improve customer service, while raising productivity of customer service representatives.
• Achieve faster time-to-market for new products.
• Outsource logistics effectively.
• Reduce cost of goods sold through drop shipping.