The importance of effective logistics management is well known in industries all over the world. Production and production-related processes are often highly effective with a high level of automation. Even though there is a high level of automation in production, the level of automation in administration of sales and external logistics is low in general. Many businesses are struggling with the heavy and complex administrative burden that comes with international shipments and therefore discouraged to expand to new markets. Logistics regarding information is often neglected and focus is typically found on the flows of goods, however, effective logistics can never be the ultimate goals in business and that is where supply chain management (SCM) complements logistics management.
SCM is a concept that has a well-defined customer focus, which must be the drive of all change within a company and outside a company to create interorganizational synergies. It is, after all, the end-customer that is paying for the final product and therefore also for all the upstream activities in a supply chain. Logistics management is the part of SCM that is concerned with the coordination, integration and management of flows of goods and information within one organization, whereas SCM is concerned with the management and coordination of organizations (within a supply chain).
Logistics management has come a long way and is well developed within its definition. SCM is however more complex and has not been around to be developed for so long, but effort is being made and the concept is getting established. One area in particular in global trade (and therefore a matter of SCM) is managed very primitively even to this day, which is from business inquiry and when the products leave the factory, until the products arrive at their destination. A surprisingly high number of top market players rely on shared folders, excel sheets, email, telephone and manual drafting of documents when it comes to administration of sales and cross-border logistics. There is no shared workspace or system for trade partners to facilitate and automate time consuming activities and communication between them, even though they do play in the same team from a SCM point of view.
The Centersource B2B collaboration platform was built by industry professionals who have experience from international trade and logistics and therefore also have been struggling with the supply chain blind-spots from business inquiry until when the goods are delivered at destination. The initial vision of everyone involved was to build one platform to gather and facilitate all activities between trade partners; procurement, sales, the logistics management, all administrative tasks, communication, tasks management, analysis, relevant statistics – everything concerned with global trade and logistics in a shared, fail-safe and intuitive workspace.
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