Supply Chain Visibility and Collaboration

This Supply Chain Visibility and Collaboration market research study delivers current market analysis plus a five year market and technology forecast. The study is available in multiple editions including worldwide and all regions.

​Supply Chain Visibility and Collaboration Is the Fastest Growing Supply Chain Market

Roughly one half of logistics is outsourced to 3PLs; and a third of manufacturing to contract manufacturers, yet traditional ERP and SCM solutions were not designed to allow companies to orchestrate their cross-enterprise supply chains.  Perhaps this is one major reason supply chain visibility and collaboration is the fastest growing of all supply chain software markets.

Both supply chain “visibility” and “collaboration” are terms that can have a wide variety of meanings.  In this study we are focusing on visibility and collaboration from a cross-enterprise perspective.  Supply chain visibility applications are defined as applications providing visibility to the order process (order placed, order adjusted, order accepted), inventory at rest or inventory in motion events, or supply chain risks or providing a standalone supply chain analytics/event management solution not embedded in other solutions. 

Supply chain collaboration solutions are often built upon a visibility base (order placed, order adjusted, order accepted) but also provide a collaborative, multi-supplier, multi-tier, supply chain planning solution.

The key players in this market are not the same suppliers seen in other supply chain markets.  

Supply Chain Visibility and Collaboration Strategic Issues

ARC undertook this study when we became aware of very large companies with sophisticated supply chain capabilities exploring supply chain visibility solutions in order to take their supply chain programs to the next level. This study addresses a variety of strategic issues.

• Why have B2B network suppliers emerged as leaders in this market? 
• How will Internet of Things data be leveraged by these solutions?
• How will these solutions affect the next generation of supply chain software platforms?
• What are the niche solutions poised to grow rapidly in this market place?

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