Information requests
When companies collect the information themselves
Many supply chain initiatives rely on individual information requests. Companies ask eachother to complete surveys, questionnaires or periodic reports describing their policies, activities, performance, and product details.
This approach can provide useful insights, but the information is typically reported by and to a single organisation. As a result it is cumberstone, ineffective and inefficent. You are busy with reporting instead op progress.
While valuable, it is difficult and, most of the times, highly imcomplete and doesn’t provide a clue about what actually happens across the wider value chain and what you should do right now.
AI monitoring:
When external systems estimate what happens
Another approach uses artificial intelligence and public data sources to estimate supply chain activity and impact. These systems analyse large volumes of general information such as public records, news sources or databases to identify impact materiality.
This can help with generic insights. However, these insights are typically indirect, non-specific and not confirmed by the companies involved in the value chain itself.
Transaction platforms:
When platforms focus on transactions
Some digital platforms focus primarily on transactions between trading partners. These systems support processes such as ordering, logistics or financial exchanges between companies.
While they provide important operational capabilities, they typically focus on direct trading relationships, specific processes, and integrations. As a result, they provide visibility into individual transactions but not about e.g. forecasts, materiality impact, life cycle information.
Mutual confirmation:
When value chain partners confirm the facts together
1Left1Right takes a different approach.
Instead of asking companies to describe themselves, the platform focuses on confirmed relationships between companies. Each organisation confirms its connections and relevant information with its direct partners: one step left with suppliers and one step right with customers.
Both parties confirm the data. From these confirmations, a network of confirmed value chain connections emerges. This creates a shared view based on what companies actually confirm with each other, rather than on assumptions or estimates. The result is a growing network of trusted value chain data that provides information you can plan with and act on.
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Value chain visibility cannot be created by one company alone.
It grows when organisations connect and validate information with their partners.
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