Enhancing your supply chain visibility when in wholesale business

The global business environment has turned really dynamic and to stay on top one needs to stay active. Same is the case with the wholesale business. Supply chain management mainly depends on efficiency of people involved in it. Wholesalers, distributors and suppliers who lack efficiency face severe problems in staying alive in this business. An important trick in staying alive in the business is to enhance your supply chain visibility. It means to make the status of the shipment, order and products in-transit visible. It further means to make the wholesale supply chain network clear and make the tracking of products easy at different positions.

Nowadays it has become important and difficult both for the wholesalers to enhance the supply chain visibility. Important because people are now more concerned about the quality and on time delivery of wholesale products ordered by them and they are always looking for supply chain networks with excellent visibility. And difficult because supply chains have now expanded globally and now someone who practices supply chain visibility has to do endless effort to make it work.

Following are discussed a few reasons for enhancing your supply chain visibility:

Reducing disintermediation
Disintermediation is one of the major problems faced by people in this business. Wholesalers, suppliers and distributors face disintermediation which almost brings them to the point from where they once started. Supply chain visibility enhances the image of wholesalers, distributors and the suppliers among the people in the whole supply chain process. People know that they are reliable and their products, shipments and orders are in safe hands. Supply chain visibility thus makes them powerful enough to eliminate the risk of disintermediation.

Reduces communication gap and enhances quality standards
Supply chain visibility requires high integration among different supply chain processes. Therefore, wholesale suppliers and other entities in the supply chain try to reduce the communication barriers locally as well as globally. The need of high integration due to supply chain visibility reduces the communication gap between different entities in the supply chain. The major focus of clients is on the quality of wholesale supplies once they have ordered them. Supply chain visibility also enhances their confidence regarding the quality of wholesale supplies.

Though practicing and enhancing supply chain visibility is a costly process and many people avoid introducing it in their business, it has endless benefits for a wholesale business in long run because it uplifts the image and provides proof of its reliability.