Social, crowdsourcing used to build real-time data maps

Supply Chain Visualization: The Eyes Have It

Emerging networking and collaboration tools transform real-time data from global suppliers into vivid, multitier supply chain maps.

The devastating tsunami and subsequent nuclear accident that rocked Japan in 2011 brought the complexity and vulnerability of global supply chains into sharp relief. Across the globe, the automobile, electronics, chemical, and retail sectors, among many others dependent on Japanese output, were faced with unprecedented disruption of their supply chains.

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