At the recent EMEA sales meeting I spoke of in my last blog, we spent a few minutes looking at the fantastic birds of prey and, in particular, a three and a half year old Eagle and thought, “Does an eagle have a supply chain?” Just like us, eagles have to eat and in captivity are fed by their keepers. Now whilst birds of prey will eat many of the animals we find undesirable and if they were found in our houses, we’d flip, it does raise an interesting area around visibility throughout the supplychain.
Birds of prey have some of the best eyesight of any birds on the planet and this level of vision, or visibility, is just what is achieveable using the Inovis Actionable Intelligence solution. Being able to be informed of problems before they happen in the supply chain is just one of the many facilities available. If managers and directors of logistics or supplychain at suppliers to the big high street supermarkets could be aware of an issue before their, or their 3PLs, lorry even arrived to collect the goods to delivery to the distribution centre which then ends up on the shelves for consumers to buy, what would that be worth? Imagine what would happen if an eagle doesn’t get its dinner in time and could talk. Those talons!
