There is no question that supply chain visibility is a requirement for any company competing in today's global marketplace. After all, you've got to be able to see something if you want to manage it, especially if that something is as vital to your business as your supply chain, right? Okay, now that we're all agreed on that, can we also agree there's a lot of disagreement out there about exactly what supply chain visibility is - it seems to differ from one company to the next - and, just as important, how to achieve it?

If you answered "yes" to that question - or even if you didn't - we at Inovis respectfully suggest that it's time for all good trading-community partners and their suppliers to step back, take a deep breath and collectively blow away all the fog that's obscuring our visibility.