10 Best practices to gain immediate, actionable insight into your supply chain events across your extended supply chain

Article by Kevin Wilson of ERPGenie LLC - Optimizing your Supply Chain.
Extended Supply Chains have the following characteristics:

• Multiple geographies – Where do your customers and partners reside?
• Multiple languages and currencies
• Multiple systems – SAP, EDI, Web site, ...
• Multiple partners – Carriers, freight forwarders, suppliers, manufacturers, distributors
• Varying regulations and compliance requirements – What’s needed to ensure we conduct business legally across the globe?

The benefits of SAP Event Management to the Supply Chain

The benefits of SAP EM are dependent on the specific challenges an organization faces. This blog describes common challenges that we face today and the 2nd part of the blog will show how SAP EM can be leveraged to address this issues.

Keeping Track of your Supply Chain - 8 1/2 key points to ponder

When it comes to the Extended Supply Chain, it is critical to ensure that any issue that occurs during the process is uncovered in a timely manner. Once an issue has been uncovered it then becomes critical to take action on it in order to get the process back on track. Without this kind of actionable insight we will simply running less effectively and ultimately end up paying more for the execution of our Supply Chain. Increased buffer stock to account for Supply Chain irregularities, poorly optimized reorder points and optimal order quantities, and so on... We have lived with chaos and exceptions for so long but there is hope; there is light at the end of the tunnel. We need to take charge of the Supply Chain and it all begins with gaining control through visibility in to what is actually happening.