Supply chain management allows customers to optimize efficiency of movement of goods along the supply chain by analyzing accumulated data regarding the location, movement and status of those goods.

Movement of material and supplies across geographically diverse supply chains can be monitored and recorded. Movement and status data can then be used to more effectively plan timing and location of future interconnection along the supply chain. After the movement has been completed, actual performance is compared against planned performance to support further optimization.

This can help shippers reduce lead times, increase just-in-time inventory, support lean manufacturing and reduce costs. Logistics services providers can leverage these benefits to improve customer satisfaction and generate new business.

• Increase customer satisfaction & confidence through faster, more reliable delivery
• Better support lean manufacturing by quickly meeting unexpected demand and quickly reacting to supply chain disruptions
• Increase reliability in the supply chain by reducing stock shortages, reducing back orders and reducing product re-orders
• Improve support for just-in-time logistics
• Cut costs by reducing inventories, reducing lead times, improving product handling and reducing cancelled orders
• Continuously optimize the supply chain by monitoring supply chain performance and providing data for iterative process optimization
• Reduce inventory shrinkage
• More easily achieve Sarbanes-Oxley compliance

Logistics services providers and shippers utilizing industry-leading services from SkyBitz for Supply Chain Management can establish continuous visibility of resources as they move across the entire supply chain to optimize delivery times, reduce unnecessary costs and react quickly to unexpected disruptions or new demands.

More efficient supply chain operations quickly translate into faster and more dependable services that create competitive advantage and attract new customers, and produce internal efficiencies which result in lower operating costs.

SkyBitz combines the unmatched capabilities of its patented Global Locating System (GLS) with other forms of location based services to deliver the industry’s most powerful and complete set of remote asset management services to support Supply Chain Management.