Effective supply chain design requires taking an end-to-end view … and that means looking beyond the four walls of the enterprise to what is happening (or could happen) in the world at large.
Recognizing this, providers of Global Trade Management (GTM) solutions are expanding their Content as a Service (CaaS) offerings, reports Steve Banker in Forbes.
One case in point: Descartes December acquisition of Datamyne, a leading provider of cloud-based trade data content solutions.
Brendan McCahill, senior vice president of trade data content at Descartes, explains the granularity of the information about import-export trade activity on offer … and how supply chain executives use it to forecast demand, detect counterfeiting of their products, and identify alternative suppliers of their key raw materials.
