A Few Words on Supply Chain Visibility from BridgeNet's Kevin McCaskey

Most logistics professionals realize that visibility of their organization’s supply chain is an important fundamental concept. However, actually executing the concept with quality and effectiveness is a challenging task that many companies find difficult, and sometimes, even impossible, to achieve.

Businesses with a global, or even national, footprint have a true need for visibility of the lifecycle of their products. Fulfilling this need is complicated by having multiple vendor relationships with vendors who each have their own processes, and also, multiple carriers that provide their own unique reporting platforms. Things like the high cost of IT integration, achieving data quality integrity, and finding adequate software that is able to handle complex supply chain processes, will usually lead businesses to the conclusion that rather than dedicate an enormous amount of internal resources to gaining supply chain visibility, partnering with a company like BridgeNet, which has tried-and-true processes and proven supply chain technology in place, isn’t just the best solution—it’s the only solution.

Whether you are using BridgeNet’s visibility platform, Xonar, or another supply chain visibility tool, you should make sure your software provider has, in addition to the basic quality technology solutions you will need, the following:

- Well-established relationships with service providers in the transportation industry, including carriers across all modes, brokers, forwarders, and technology partners.
- Proprietary technology that is on the leading edge of today’s supply chain demands.
- A reputation for data quality management.
- Product lifecycle tracking and visibility, from a practical KPI dashboard to line-item on-demand reporting capabilities.
- Event management that allows for real-time alerts and customizable settings that enable global task management.
- Reporting optimization that combines all of the above items into a package that enables a company to guarantee ultimate efficiency in their supply chain.

Advanced visibility software is designed to empower the user with the intelligence and tools needed to manage their supply chain. The complex nature of today’s evolving logistics marketplace requires a complete software solution that packages together all of the components of a supply chain. With a quality software visibility platform, companies will be able to manage performance data for ongoing improvement projects, streamline and automate cumbersome processes, allow for improved planning and task execution, and much more.

To learn more about BridgeNet’s software solutions packages, feel free to e-mail me directly at kmccaskey@bridgenetsolutions.com. I would happy to offer advice, discuss possible solutions, and learn more about your company’s unique supply chain.