Supply Chain Visibility Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Supply Chain Visibility Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Supply Chain Visibility related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Supply Chain Visibility specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Supply Chain Visibility Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 990 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Supply Chain Visibility improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:


1. Does your organization have the right capabilities related to logistics and delivery, data driven stock forecasting and management, last mile visibility, and overall supply chain management?
   
   

2. What suggestions does the board have for management to improve monitoring to identify shocks early or to have adequate visibility over the supply chain to identify threats?
   
   

3. Have your execution tools progressed beyond the goal of visibility to the capability of exception handling and, ideally, more informed and automated decision making?
   
   

4. Is your it organization focused on digital, consumer behavior data, analytics visibility, optimized planning, forecasts, supply chain, and/or other priorities?
   
   

5. Does your current inventory management system provide visibility into the entire inventory process from supply chain to customer delivery and return?
   
   

6. Do operational challenges, which clearly increase supply chain costs, generate an ROI for investing in improved supplier integration and visibility?
   
   

7. Are you actively using supply chain visibility technology to track inventory or materials inbound and plan manufacturing or distribution schedules?
   
   

8. Do you have visibility of critical supply chain parts and data to properly assess the potential for damage and create immediate plans to respond?
   
   

9. Has your organization thought about using an outsourced or managed services approach to looking after your B2B infrastructure and capabilities?
   
   

10. How can companies use data to gain better supply chain visibility and integrate compliance into core supply chain business performance issues?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Supply Chain Visibility book in PDF containing 990 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Supply Chain Visibility self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Supply Chain Visibility Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Supply Chain Visibility areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Supply Chain Visibility Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Supply Chain Visibility projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Supply Chain Visibility Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Supply Chain Visibility project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Probability and Impact Assessment: Does the Supply Chain Visibility project team have experience with the technology to be implemented?
   
   

2. Source Selection Criteria: How do you facilitate evaluation against published criteria?
   
   

3. Schedule Management Plan: Are Supply Chain Visibility project leaders committed to this Supply Chain Visibility project full time?
   
   

4. WBS Dictionary: Changes in the nature of the overhead requirements?
   
   

5. Procurement Audit: Are decisions to outsource and being part of public private partnerships closely linked to the delivery of departments core services and functions?
   
   

6. Procurement Management Plan: Are vendor invoices audited for accuracy before payment?
   
   

7. Procurement Management Plan: Have process improvement efforts been completed before requirements efforts begin?
   
   

8. Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Do recommendations include actions to address any differential distribution of impacts?
   
   

9. Initiating Process Group: Based on your Supply Chain Visibility project communication management plan, what worked well?
   
   

10. Roles and Responsibilities: What areas would you highlight for changes or improvements?


 
Step-by-step and complete Supply Chain Visibility Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Supply Chain Visibility project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Supply Chain Visibility project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Supply Chain Visibility project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Supply Chain Visibility project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Supply Chain Visibility project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Supply Chain Visibility project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Supply Chain Visibility project with this in-depth Supply Chain Visibility Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Supply Chain Visibility projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Supply Chain Visibility and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Supply Chain Visibility investments work better.

This Supply Chain Visibility All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.