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Three Common Global Supply Chain Issues that Affect Your Bottom Line
When was the last time you heard of a large or even a medium-sized company that is strictly domestic?
It happens, but not very often. Today, the vast majority of enterprise-class companies are global. Why?
The benefits of sourcing from low cost countries and selling into new foreign markets are too strong
to dismiss.
And while companies have found a way to go global, many are still making due with sub-standard global
processes and technologies borrowed and tweaked from domestic operations. Global transportation
and supply chain visibility are two such areas.
Its not enough to track goods domestically; supply chain managers must monitor shipments around
the globe and account for the added complexity of moving goods across international borders.
A recent study by AberdeenGroup showed that only about 30% of companies have automated data
and event monitoring and/or have optimized process capabilities in place. From source to destination,
the inbound process steps or milestones needed to synchronize product and information flows are still
being monitored manually (phone, fax and email) in up to 49% of all companies.1
Here are some questions to ask yourself to highlight ways you may be losing money without the right
processes in place for goods that need to cross international borders.
1 Globalization: Linking Supply Chain Transformation to the Profit and Loss Statement, AberdeenGroup, Sep 2011.
Three Common Global Supply Chain Issues that Affect Your Bottom Line
Three Common Global Supply Chain Issues that Affect Your Bottom Line
Three Common Global Supply Chain Issues that Affect Your Bottom Line
Three Common Global Supply Chain Issues that Affect Your Bottom Line
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