What is Supply Chain Visibility

The concept of visibility is often associated with seeing everything that is going on across an entire supply chain. The following chapter takes a close look at the current understanding and practice of supply chain visibility to establish what it means and how the concept is applied in organizations today. It investigates current problems and introduces an innovative approach to supply chain collaboration that allows all participants in a process to work together, eliminate manual communication and coordination, and achieve higher efficiencies than any one company could reach on their own. The chapter includes several practical examples and illustrates the benefits of collaboration through a real-life business case.