Gone are the days that most of the work happened within a single facility, or at worst a few factories close to each other. Supply chains of today are increasingly global and can face disruption by political unrest, adverse weather events, accidents, or even the normal perturbations of human endeavor. Improving supply chains to gain efficiency becomes a complex series of trade-offs and a complicated set of considerations. Supply chain management (SCM) professionals need new tools, knowledge, and techniques for managing the tangled web of connections, dependencies, interactions, movements, and processes that compose a company’s supply chain. Success entails combining diverse types of information tied to the geographic nature of a supply chain. That is why SCM professionals need expertise in data, analytics, and geospatial information systems (GIS). With these tools, they can collect and analyze hundreds of constraints for a geographically distributed supply chain; develop and compare contingency plans; reduce supplier costs; better control inventory under just-in-time strategies; forecast and balance supply and demand; and manage risk.

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Gone are the days that most of the work happened within a single facility, or at worst a few factories close to each other. Supply chains of today are increasingly global and can face disruption by political unrest, adverse weather events, accidents, or even the normal perturbations of human endeavor. Improving supply chains to gain efficiency becomes a complex series of trade-offs and a complicated set of considerations. Supply chain management (SCM) professionals need new tools, knowledge, and techniques for managing the tangled web of connections, dependencies, interactions, movements, and processes that compose a company’s supply chain. Success entails combining diverse types of information tied to the geographic nature of a supply chain. That is why SCM professionals need expertise in data, analytics, and geospatial information systems (GIS). With these tools, they can collect and analyze hundreds of constraints for a geographically distributed supply chain; develop and compare contingency plans; reduce supplier costs; better control inventory under just-in-time strategies; forecast and balance supply and demand; and manage risk. - See more at: http://www.mypurchasingcenter.com/purchasing/event/leveraging-data-analysis-and-geospatial-information-systems-enhance-global-supply-chain-management/#sthash.0fsZX9vr.dpuf

Gone are the days that most of the work happened within a single facility, or at worst a few factories close to each other. Supply chains of today are increasingly global and can face disruption by political unrest, adverse weather events, accidents, or even the normal perturbations of human endeavor. Improving supply chains to gain efficiency becomes a complex series of trade-offs and a complicated set of considerations. Supply chain management (SCM) professionals need new tools, knowledge, and techniques for managing the tangled web of connections, dependencies, interactions, movements, and processes that compose a company’s supply chain. Success entails combining diverse types of information tied to the geographic nature of a supply chain. That is why SCM professionals need expertise in data, analytics, and geospatial information systems (GIS). With these tools, they can collect and analyze hundreds of constraints for a geographically distributed supply chain; develop and compare contingency plans; reduce supplier costs; better control inventory under just-in-time strategies; forecast and balance supply and demand; and manage risk. - See more at: http://www.mypurchasingcenter.com/purchasing/event/leveraging-data-analysis-and-geospatial-information-systems-enhance-global-supply-chain-management/#sthash.0fsZX9vr.dpuf