Best Practices For Supply Chain Mapping

Supply chain mapping permits a company to achieve better visibility into where its products and inputs are coming from.

With the complex regulatory landscape regarding sourcing, it is clear the U.S. government expects companies to understand, manage, and oversee their entire supply chain. This can only be done if companies have full knowledge regarding their supply chain, right down to the last sub-supplier. These regulatory expectations make it more important than ever to dig deep to have better visibility into where and from whom raw materials and inputs are being sourced and the path they take to incorporation into finished products.

What is supply chain mapping?

Supply chain mapping is the exercise of examining supply chains to track (i.e., monitor a product's real time location and status) and trace (i.e., identifying the historical locations of items) the inputs from a company's suppliers, the company's suppliers' sub-suppliers, and so on, all the