In some situations, supply chain managers have to make decisions every day that can sometimes be small, but sometimes also far-reaching. Good, informed decisions can only be made on the basis of correct, relevant and complete information. This is exactly where track and trace solutions comes in. It is designed to provide supply chain managers with a complete picture at any time and at any point in their logistics processes.
Of course, Supply Chain Visibility is not about blindly piling up collected data, but about translating the collected, high-quality data into information. Therefore, the data should meet criteria such as real-time , comprehensively , meaningfully and specifically so that the correct conclusions can be drawn. The quality of the decisions is directly related to the quality of the data.
How important supply chain visibility is and what positive effects it has can be observed in different industries despite the possibly different and highly industry-specific motivations. In the pharmaceutical industry, for example, the focus is on factors such as protection against counterfeiting, in the consumer goods industry the risk of shrinkage, in the logistics industry the traceability of shipments and in the food industry the uninterrupted maintenance of the cold chain. As numerous projects for the practical implementation of companies in recent years have shown, these goals can be achieved with a correctly adapted application for visibility. They illustrate that the complexity of visibility can be approached in small steps and that the individual specificity of visibility corresponds to one’s own needs.
