The term Supply Chain Visibility is not well understood. Here I explain the meaning and how to get started with the tactical processes that support your efforts to receive supplies on time, and deliver to your customers on time. This data based exception identification and resolution status system, often called a supply chain tower, is less complicated than many think and gets to the level of detail that is required to solve very near-term impediments to performance.

This is important when we care less about shipping on time and more about actual receipt on time, which should be all of us all the time.