(Apriso: Long Beach, CA) -- Learn how top manufacturers are taking a global approach to traceability to gain visibility and control across their entire manufacturing operations and supply chain. Join Adrienne Selko, online editor of BusinessWeek, and Apriso’s industry directors Rick Gallisa and Fred Thomas for a live, one-hour webinar. “A Manufacturer’s Guide to Best-in-Class Supply Chain Traceability” is scheduled for Thurs., July 21, 2011, at 2 p.m. EDT.

Traceability can help drive your continuous improvement initiatives, including lean manufacturing and Six Sigma. In today’s global manufacturing economy, the term “track and trace” is routinely used to describe the geographic visibility requirements of containers and packages moving via air, sea, and land transportation to initial, intermediate, and final processing destinations. In addition, track and trace applies to the monitoring of a product’s path to distribution centers, repackagers, and, ultimately, to the point of sale.

However, best-in-class manufacturers require a much larger real-time context of a synchronized global manufacturing and supply chain.

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