(AIAG: Southfield, MI) -- AIAG, a not-for-profit, member-supported organization that works with a wide range of manufacturing companies and service providers to help them operate at peak performance, announced the publication of Recommended Business Practices for Long-Distance Supply Chains, a comprehensive set of guidelines to identify waste, errors, and miscommunication across intercontinental, oceangoing supply chains.

“Companies expect global shipments will be late, so they build waste and inefficiency into their operations to compensate for a bad process,” says J. Scot Sharland, executive director of AIAG. "AIAG volunteers, who represent stakeholders at all levels of the global supply chain, have proven that it doesn’t have to be that way. They have developed an affordable, easy-to-deploy system that will let companies reduce parts inventories and premium freight-shipping costs, and dramatically reduce the time employees spend tracking shipments.”            

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