Aberdeen has just come out with a report entitled “Multi-Enterprise Manufacturing: The Role of Visibility and Collaboration in Driving Responsiveness”

The study highlights success strategies for managing integrated demand-supply networks.  In particular, the study finds that top performers have:

• More flexible supply and demand networks
• More granular visibility and traceability across more supply chain and manufacturing processes
• Higher level of supply chain integration and B2B connectivity
• Higher level of manufacturing and supply chain process collaboration

As per Nari Viswanathan, vice president and principal analyst of the supply chain management practice at Aberdeen (and co-author of the report) :

Companies can no longer rely on a core group of experts to make the critical decisions necessary to effectively manage a multi-enterprise global supply chain.  Improving supply chain visibility is top-of-mind for those companies looking to regain control of their supply chains and better manage those responsibilities, which have now been spread over the network.  We have entered a new paradigm of customer-driven, global supply chains, and those organizations with the agility to respond quickly and effectively to sudden changes will find themselves benefiting from Best-in-Class results.

Good news….as an underwriter, we can offer complimentary access to the report here.

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Tags: Collaboration, Outsourcing, Performance management, Supply chain management, Supply chain management software, Supply chain visibility
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