ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews popular visibility setups. It explains how and why these types of visibility are popular teaches a lot about other variations and arms new practitioners with a broader set of templates for how visibility can be achieved. It discusses the first type of supply chain visibility is most commonly seen with North American retailers. Retailers hate the idea of losing a sale. The chapter explains a type of track and trace visibility, where retailers use track and trace to update plans based on the inbound supply chain. The type of visibility described below is the opposite: it is predominate among direct-to-consumer manufacturing, oil and gas service and spare part logistics, driver-managed-inventory, and in countries with fast growing and somewhat disorganized public road networks. The phrase "manage by exception" pretty well summarizes the driving spirit behind event management as a kind of supply chain visibility. Competitive market type visibility tries to get one's own information about the direct competition.
