SUPPLY CHAIN
His take is that leaders ’ thoughts relating to visibility should be more heavily focused on situations where transportation doesn ’ t go to plan , a concept he and DP World call ‘ exception management ’.
“ It ’ s one thing having visibility ,” he explains , “ but let ’ s assume your customer upscales and you have thousands of shipments – you don ’ t want to know where your shipments are ; you want to know which one isn ’ t coming as planned .
“ If you have a standalone system , it ’ s very difficult to reach that . You can have visibility but then it ’ s very difficult to know the exception .”
DP World ’ s answer is to use workflow technology where every step in the supply chain is a milestone with a timestamp , allowing operations teams to examine the workflow and assess where things are going wrong .
As a result , they can easily measure milestones , take action and better optimise the supply chain .
Beat continues : “ A lot of people might ask , where is my container ? We ’ re working on the next step , exception management , which looks at which shipments do not perform as planned . We want visibility beyond the container level or purchaseorder level . supplychaindigital . com 87