Though manufacturing industries have made continual progress toward improving and sustaining competitiveness and profitability; however, customer expectations and compliance requirements have advanced at the same time. This has necessitated increased operational visibility on the part of manufacturing organizations, and leveraging end-to-end product traceability has been a key capability in companies accelerating on this Operational Excellence path.

In this Research Spotlight, LNS Research discusses how leading companies today are tackling these traceability initiatives and common roadblocks to success through the alignment of appropriate business processes and supporting Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) software applications.