Complex Supply Chains
Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
- Explain the challenges of complex supply chains
- Define why complex supply chains inhibit visibility into supply
- Identify the business value of using SAP Business Network for Supply Chain
Explain the challenges of complex supply chains
Define why complex supply chains inhibit visibility into supply
Supply chains are becoming more and more complex. There is more outsourcing involved in the supply chain:
- There are more trading partners, more requirements for tracking, more partners in different geographies, using different technologies
- Manufacturers are worried about manufacturing capacity and warehousing capacity
- Manufacturers are looking for diverse suppliers, they're outsourcing, and globalizing, and finding new sources of supply
- And as supply chains become more complex, the risk of losing visibility into the available supply increases
- So that's why visibility is so important!
