B2B Collaboration: Assessing the ROI of Process Integration Business and IT leaders are under increasing pressure to improve B2B collaboration and the underlying electronic communication capabilities of their organisations. This report: (1) looks at the key drivers for B2B collaboration in both the purchase-to-pay and order-to-cash areas, (2) shares the latest insights into corporate priorities for B2B collaboration and connectivity, and (3) provides an ROI framework to help companies and their IT organizations assess their areas of opportunity. |
Organizations have made significant investments in B2B software and connectivity to automate business transactions with their trading partners. This white paper illustrates how Sterling Commerce drives greater efficiencies, and improves the return on your B2B infrastructure investment. It explores a straightforward approach to how Sterling Commerce identifies opportunities to automate more transactions with your existing electronic partners, and simplifies the assessment and onboarding of the remaining 80 percent of your manual trading partners. |
Synchronizing the Supply Chain through Adaptive Collaboration Phrases such as “supply chain synchronization” and “adaptive collaboration” certainly carry a powerful punch. Familiarity with these terms and their meaning relative to the viability of what are becoming increasingly diverse and complex global supply chains is of even greater importance to the 21st Century enterprise. Learn what supply chain synchronization and adaptive collaboration really mean, and how they produce a real world outcome that benefits your organization. |
| "Nearly nine out of ten senior IT and business executives say that data, voice and network services can be leveraged to drive innovation, facilitating remote access to critical applications and speeding up customer service. They can generate immediate cost savings by eliminating the cost of maintaining separate voice lines." |
| Paper discusses tools to achieving success with collaborative practices. |
Order Forecast Collaboration: Benefits for the Entire Demand Chain In the recent past, suppliers and retailers often viewed themselves as adversaries. Retailers would order what they wanted a lead time prior to expected receipt and be upset if first time fill rates were not 100%. Suppliers would prepare for future orders in isolation using the history of past shipments as a forecasting basis and were constantly surprised to receive large promotional orders with little warning. |
| To compete successfully today, companies need to look beyond operating efficiencies to improving their processes for managing performance. Many companies have invested heavily in performance management technology, but have placed less emphasis on performance management processes. Our survey of senior finance and IT executives reveals that companies that have adopted clearly defined, well-structured, repeatable processes for strategy setting, business planning, and decision making are more able to make well-informed and timely decisions in response to internal and external changes, among other business benefits. |
Five Best Practices For Unified Communications To meet today’s increasing demands, businesses need to communicate and collaborate more efficiently. Communication needs to be timely and effective, reaching people where and when they want to be reached, at the office, at home or on the go.Once a UC program is under way, reaping the benefits is ultimately up to the users. Read this white paper to learn the five best practices for unified communications. |
Reverse Logistics: From Black Hole to Untapped Revenue Stream Recognizing that reverse logistics can drive real impact to the bottom line, this is an area of high priority for companies looking to reduce costs, add efficiencies, improve the customer experience and build sustainable supply chain practices. As a result, manufacturers are uncovering the hidden value of returned assets and streamlining return, repair and product reallocation processes. Once a supply chain afterthought, reverse logistics has evolved into a highly complex endeavor. This is especially true in the hitech/electronics sector, where product lifecycles have dramatically shortened, global service networks create more supply chain complexity, products are highly customized to consumer preferences and sustainable practices are increasingly required. |
| The results from our Procurement and Sales Surveys are in. And here's the good news. Opportunity abounds. But now for the bad news. While companies continue to pay lip service to "strategic procurement," the reality is that today most sourcing remains anything but strategic. Indeed, the situation today is virtually the same as it was decades ago. Price continues to trump total cost. Activity still masquerades for productivity. And supplier relationships are a coincidence of time and place rather than the outcome of planned collaboration. Most tellingly of all: Only 7% of the sales respondents and 9% of procurement respondents consider themselves to have world-class processes or a strategic role in their company. Read more about the state of our chosen profession - and how sales and procurement view each other - in this white paper prepared by Greybeard Advisors LLC, with survey support provided by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine, Sales & Marketing Management magazine, and the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI Sales and Procurement Councils. |
| True Collaboration between Business and IT... |
| "It's very difficult to get new clients, and we want to make sure that the clients we do have we don't lose," says the senior IT executive for a financial services firm. New research reveals a growing reliance on online interactions, and yet companies today are struggling to provide a better and more cost-effective experience that meets customers' increasingly complex needs. This paper reveals includes further research results as well as commentary from IT leaders. |
Momentum Now: Innovation with Excellence CIO Summit Top 10 Takeaways |
Systems of Engagement and The Future of Enterprise IT: A Sea Change in Enterprise IT |
B2B Customer Insights that Sell: How to Create a Customer Insight Process in Your Organization |
Know Thy Customer – From Customer Knowledge to Customer Insight |
Customer Insight: Strategic intelligence across the technology adoption life cycle This article explores how businesses can develop that agility through customer intelligence—a way of looking at business that is customer-centric and interdisciplinary. Customer intelligence helps you gain cross-departmental insight into every aspect of technology adoption—from research, to product development, customer adoption experiences, business analytics, marketing, and sales—giving your business a tremendous advantage in the marketplace. |
| This new SandHill Group white paper explores the powerful advantages of SaaS technologies in addressing the challenges of a global market, virtual teams and an ever-changing business climate. |
Generate Value Throughout the Entire Supply Chain Enterprise This paper focuses on how lean, agile and Six Sigma concepts can be effectively leveraged to create value throughout the extended supply chain. It is no longer sufficient to consider only lean, agile and Six Sigma in terms of just traditional manufacturing, a more revolutionary approach is now necessary as illustrated in the iceberg diagram manufacturing is only the tip of the iceberg. Uncovering the hidden value throughout the global supply chain network requires applying the basic constructs of lean, agile and Six Sigma with integrated solutions in advanced planning, supply chain planning, warehousing, logistics, collaboration, and business intelligence. |
| Emerging security threats require innovative technologies and services that enable organizations to be more proactive and get ahead of the threats. In 2006, the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force research and development team noted a change in the way security threats presented themselves to users and to security defense systems. Familiar anti virus and firewall solutions are no longer sufficient |
Impacts of Effective Data on Business Innovation and Growth This report provides insight into the importance of selecting a technology partner that is future proof as well as considerations for mobilizing an embedded database application. This report details the various benefits that five ISVs have experienced since making the decision to embed, with a special focus on the cost-saving realities that influenced their decision. |
Enforcing Business Collaboration Consistency in Business Transaction Net Managing business collaboration is about coordinat- ing the ow of information among organizations and linking their business processes into a cohesive whole. A consistent outcome is expected within and among involving organization. However, inadequate coordi- nation on the autonomous, heterogeneous, and long- lasting cross-organizational business processes can lead to inconsistent execution in loosely-coupled environ- ment, e.g., Service Oriented Computing (SOC). There- fore, a model that describes business collaboration to enforce consistency for each partner as well as consis- tency for the collaboration as a whole becomes essen- tial. Previously we proposed a Business Transaction Net(BTx-Net) as a theoretical model to describe busi- ness collaboration during design time and manage con- sistency at run-time execution. In this paper, we will further explore the BTx-Net's enforceability for manag- ing consistency by performing Transactional Manage- ment Actions(TMAs) which are needed to be taken dur- ing the occurrence of runtime faults and exceptions. |
Supply Chain Management Or Adaptive Business Network? – Coordination Versus Collaboration You are not the only company capable to create value for your clients. For making valuable products, for performing high standard services, one company is no longer enough in this new informational era, in this new needs era. Better business performing means now to satisfy more complex needs quicker than ever. Could one company face this challenge alone? Is there another way? Collaboration may be the answer. Maybe the most well-known term when it comes to collaboration between companies is Supply Chain. Why Supply Chain, why Supply Chain Management (SCM)? This article presents the answers to these questions, but also presents different approaches regarding SCM: the logistics approach regarding supply chain management, the strategic approach, the new entrepreneurial approach, supply chain as a win-win game. New paradigms regarding collaboration appeared regarding business collaboration: Adaptive Business Network (ABN). |
Cloud Computing – Dramatic Transformation in IT Strategy & Delivery |
Navigating the Cloud: Insights and Guidance from Cloud Connect 2011 |
| The traditional value chain is a hierarchical ordering of inputs that results in the ability of one firm - a manufacturer of automobiles, for example - to offer a finished product directly to consumers. The market is characterized by two distinct lines of business relationships: the vertical relationship between input suppliers and product manufacturers, and the horizontal relationship across the market in which the manufacturers compete against one another. Although the traditional value chain has not been replaced, today's broadband marketplace is witnessing the rise of an alternative structure - the “value circle." |
The Innovation Value Chain: Who profits from innovation in global value chains? |
Integrating Supply Chains: An Investigation of Collaborative Knowledge Transfers |
| Weissman will share best practices for developing such strategies and detail the key steps that companies should take to make sure that their ECM and collaboration plans will add value to corporate information and help business users work more efficiently. |
SharePoint WAN Optimization and WAFS In this world of instant communication, distributed teams around the world regularly collaborate to design and deliver products. However, inefficient, bandwidth-consuming file sharing amongst teams is still a thorny problem for IT organisations. Learn about four different technologies that can help your organisation share files more efficiently. |
| This eBook addresses how IT and business professionals can align network performance with business requirements to accelerate the Web-enabled business and gain significant competitive advantage |
A Hub System For Cloud-Computing Based Business Collaboration In this paper, we analyze the requirements, design architecture and system behavior of such a BPaaS-HUB to enable a fast setup and enactment of business-process collaboration. Moving into a cloud-computing setting, the results of this paper allow system designers to quickly evaluate which services they need for instantiationg the BPaaS-HUB architecture. Furthermore, the results also show what the protocol of a backbone service bus is that allows a communication between services that implement the BPaaS-HUB. Finally, the paper analyzes where an instantiation must assign additional computing resources vor the avoidance of performance bottlenecks. |
| Four tips for lean supply chain improvements in manufacturing operations and six technology tools to automate these best practices. |
Managing Risks and Mitigating Failures in a Fragile Global Supply Chain “Today’s electronics supply chain must improve product quality, as customers have zero tolerance for defects. This paper is a frank discussion of this critical issue and explains the central role of product test data in business outcomes. Averna does a great job illustrating how the various stakeholder teams are involved (finance, operations, compliance, quality, design, marketing, and product line management). This paper covers key considerations for these teams in deciding how to create visibility into the product data at every stage.” |
| The paper examines the global and local forces driving this outsourcing movement across the Americas region and offers specific insights from life sciences manufacturers on the growing need for supply chain flexibility, expertise and cost efficiency. Content also spotlights the local factors at play in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil and how they contribute to the complexities of designing and managing effective multi-national supply chains. |
Supply Chain vs technical innovation for medical devices Our aim is to provide you with outstanding industry content in different formats. We have made video, Q&A's and Whitepaper's from medical device supply chain and logistics thought leaders available to you, ready to be viewed and downloaded. This portal will also contain pharmaceutical supply chain content, to show how the medical device supply chain and logistics industry can learn and benchmark. The portal will be updated regularly with medical device supply chain and logistics content. |
Don’t Re-Plan, Just Execute: Making Supply Chain Plans Work with Collaborative Execution How can we accurately plan in today’s outsourced, volatile marketplace? And, once plans are made, how can we most effectively implement them—plus respond intelligently when demand shifts or disruptions occur? This white paper will explore these questions by considering two different approaches to supply chain planning and exception management: one that focuses on a “plan-and-re-plan” cycle, and another that focuses on collaborative execution of the original plans. |
| Success increasingly relies on users being able to communicate from anywhere in a cost-effective and secure manner. Organizations seek integrated productivity tools that enable real-time collaboration. This guide shows the process for implementing Microsoft collaboration tools in a small company, one with fewer than 250 employees. |
| Success increasingly relies on users being able to communicate from anywhere in a cost-effective and secure manner. Organizations seek integrated productivity tools that enable real-time collaboration. This guide shows the process for implementing Microsoft collaboration tools in a small company, one with fewer than 250 employees. |
10 Best Practices for Making Video Part of Your Collaboration Strategy Inside this paper, you'll find the 10 best practices for incorporating video into your business collaboration strategy. |
Improving Productivity in the Connected Enterprise Through Collaboration As organizations seek to streamline collaboration both internally and externally with partners and suppliers, they are looking to deploy technologies that make collaboration seamless. In many cases, these technologies must integrate with existing technologies and must allow communications across different devices and applications. |
| Today's businesses need to make their brand unique-- but with all the challenges they face regarding supply chain management, what is the solution? |
| This white paper gives four tips to help you bring lean supply chain improvements to your manufacturing operation. Additionally, it discusses six technology tools that help automate these lean supply chain practices. |
| The goal of this article will be to contribute to the emerging dialog on the subject of business value by extrapolating from BI lessons learned and from DecisionPath Consulting’s experience working with Fortune 1000 customers and Government agencies |
| The manufacturing enterprise is driven by tight profit margins; a tough economy; escalating energy, material, labor, and operations costs. This paper describes the next wave of supply chain solutions. Read on to learn how technology plays a key role in a company’s ability to build and manage an effective supply chain. |
Enabling Growth through Business Model Innovation Change Is the Only Constant Find out why industry leaders rely on innovative business models as the competitive assets that help them expand their industry influence and improve their market position - and learn how you can help transform your firm's business model. |
Information Supply Chain: Optimizing Information, Data and Storage for Business Value This comprehensive white paper explores how tiering, data protection, and archiving interrelate for optimal efficiency. |
| This white paper explores the use of prize-based Challenges to accelerate innovation outcomes and improve business performance through integration to existing enterprise business processes. Specifically, the paper dives into how Challenges complement and add value to the ubiquitous Stage-Gate process. |
Out-Innovating the Competition Through Challenge Driven Innovation Our research with clients reveals that most organizations aren't starved for ideas. Rather, they struggle to implement a systematic method and process for defining and solving their key problems and challenges. This white paper answers the question: what methods are currently available to help organizations accelerate innovation by expanding their current capabilities to solve key challenges? The answer is a proven innovation management framework called Challenge Driven Innovation, which accelerates traditional innovation outcomes by leveraging open innovation principles and the power of crowdsourcing. |
| Download the presentation by Executive Summit speaker Cindy Reese, Senior Vice President Worldwide Operations at Oracle Corporation (previously Sun Microsystems), to learn how the hardware manufacturer performed a dramatic one year transformation by radically redefining its supply chain strategy. Following Oracle's acquisition of Sun, Oracle Sun moved from a complex make-to-stock supply chain model to a simplified 100% make-to-order model. Oracle Sun achieved this transformation in under 12 months using standard software while launching an entirely new product line. Learn more about how this feat was accomplished in the presentation. |
Growth trends in Supply Chain Finance: The views of Europe’s top 40 banks Supply Chain Finance (SCF) programmes have gained in popularity over the last few years, with larger corporate buyers seeking to use them to extend their payment periods for supplier invoices, while shortening the period in which the supplier gets paid. Suppliers can take advantage of the credit ratings of their debtors to secure funding priced against the debtors’ credit profile, and are therefore able to obtain early payment services from the programme financier at highly advantageous rates of interest. |
| In today's globally outsourced business environment, most of the data that companies need to run their supply chains resides with partners, and typically in the systems of those partners. Cloud platforms represent a truly radical shift in how companies exchange information with one another. |
| New Global Trade Management (GTM) technologies - software, trade content and e-commerce services - are increasingly important to automate global operations across procurement, logistics and trade compliance business processes. |
| The Chief Supply Chain Officer Report 2011 is co-authored by Dr. Hau Lee, Chairman of SCM World and Thoma Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, alongside Kevin O’Marah, Faculty member at SCM World. Hau and Kevin have designed this report to draw out the critical insights that executive supply chain professionals are prioritizing across four key areas: value-driving supply chain management, globalization, sustainability and talent management. |
Enabling Supply Chain Visibility and Collaboration in the Cloud Aberdeen's Research Benchmarks provide an in-depth and comprehensive look into process, procedure, methodologies and technologies with best practice identification and actionable recommendations for the supply chain. |
| It is well known that the emerging markets such as China and India are in a period of extreme growth, and this is possibly no more evident than in the pharmaceutical sector. Whilst many, if not all the big pharmaceutical companies have concerns in these markets, it is becoming increasingly important for all companies to consider carefully how they align their sourcing, procurement, purchasing, and related supply‐management groups in these areas. Benchmarking analysis and survey results reveal the increasing importance of the supply chain management function in these emerging markets |
Consumer Goods Manufacturers Seek Greater Supply Chain Flexibility Global economic and demographic changes are transforming the growth and operational strategies of retailers and Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) manufacturers. Retailers’ new methods of attracting customers create supply chain challenges for manufacturers. Learn about strategies FMCG manufacturers can adopt to meet retailers’ needs and grow their businesses. |
| Supply chain faces a severe shortage of talent at a time when the demands on the profession have never been greater. Globalization, market uncertainty, shifting demographic patterns, and the emergence of supply chain as a strategic function are some of the factors that are driving the skills shortfall. |
10 Classic Articles from Supply Chain Management Review magazine The articles in SCMR come from thought leaders in the acadmic, analyst and management consulting communities. Perhaps most importantly, they also include contributions from supply chain practioners themselves - the individuals who are literally transforming their organizations. |
3rd Annual Survey of the state of global trade management Kewill's 3rd Annual Survey of the state of global trade management is presented in this informative report based on responses from over 800 logistics and export professionals. Export Control Reform is happening and the survey indicates that many companies have not made any significant changes to their global trade compliance operations in light of these impending changes. |
Supply Chain in the Cloud – Looking Beyond Total Cost of Ownership Cloud offers the potential to not only transform how supply chain organizations procure IT capabilities, but also can fundamentally change how they manage business processes. As forecast accuracy levels are at historic lows and supply disruptions are on the rise, manufacturers are beginning to realize that the solution lies within the Cloud. |
Rethinking parcel-intensive inbound supply chains to improve visibility As companies look to streamline operations, improve efficiency and wring costs out of their supply chains, one of the most exciting opportunities for improvement is the inbound shipment of small parcels. Whether it’s aftermarket automotive parts or manufacturing components, few companies control how shipments are sent to them by suppliers. Too often, small parcels are shipped via air or premium service when they could just be shipped ground or consolidated with other parcels for further savings. |
Executive Brief Smarter Commerce is redefining value chain visibility Smarter Commerce is redefining the value chain in the age of the customer. It starts with putting the customer at the center of your operations – which of itself is not a new idea – however, truly operationalizing this strategy is not easy. It requires synchronizing your entire value chain to deliver consistent and predictable outcomes and necessitates improved collaboration and visibility for your customers and partners. |
| An overview of the Collaborative Ecosystem |
Supply Chain Optimization - Hidden Opportunities to Increase Cash Flows and Working Capital Companies across virtually all industries are quickly recognizing that business collaboration is a core area for gaining efficiencies and securing competitive advantage. As such, software vendors of all stripes have entered the collaboration space with their own take on what companies need to effectively collaborate within and beyond their corporate firewall. But because of this spate of new entrants, definitions have blurred. What exactly is collaboration? How does it fit into the context of my organization? How, when and with whom will I collaborate? And what are the “best fit” solutions for supporting the collaborative needs of my company? These are the questions we will attempt to answer. |
| The implementation of the initiatives proposed by the Commission in its Communication |
| How Sophisticated Is Your Supply Chain Network? |
Supply Chain Planning through the tax lens In the year 2010 the global volume of goods traded amounted to 15,238 bn USD. The increase over 2009 was round 21%. For long years, Germany has been the largest exporter, but has been surpassed by China and is now the third largest exporting country. The strong increase in trade volumes is partly due to the segmentation of business processes into sub-processes and the de-centralisation of business functions. The term ‘supply chain’ refers to the entire system of ac-tivities, people and resources involved in the creation, manufacturing, logistics, marketing and ultimate sale of a product or service. The multitude of sales and services is generated by dif-ferent companies from different countries under different tax and regulatory systems. |
| 中国绿色供应链 in partnership with GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN IN CHINA supplychains.com Industry Focus Respondents to the survey came from a variety of industry sectors, with the top six concentrated primarily in logistics (18%), electrical appliances (11%), food and bev- erage (9%), apparel and textile (9%), industrial equipment (8%), and high tech (6%). High Tech Industrial Equipment Industry Focus Food and Beverage Electrical Appliances Other 2 2 11% 39% 18% 9% |
| Electronic Supply Chain Collaboration in China 中国电子供应链合作 To assess the current state of e-Collaboration in China, SupplyOn, a leading cross company electronic collaboration facilitator, commissioned the Global Supply Chain Council to do a survey of industry practitioners in China to assess the current and projected level and type of electronic collaboration. |
Emergency Survey on Supply Chain Restoration Damaged by the Flood in Thailand We have conducted an urgent survey on the impact of the flood in Thailand on Japan’s supply chain, its restoration and the future prospect. |
| The way we assess value in medical technology is changing radically. Payers are refusing to pay for incremental innovations that do not significantly improve health or reduce cost. The faster, better, smaller, cheaper advances so common in consumer electronics foreshadow the future of medical technology. The study results show that innovation leaders of today may find their position slipping during the next decade. Countries that can overcome their current weaknesses and develop a supportive ecosystem to help medical technology companies thrive will lead into 2020 and beyond. |
| Migrating to a low carbon economy through leadership and collaboration |
| Asia Pacific economies have crossed into a new kind of growth, a new era of interconnectedness. Global companies, at the same time, are on a new course of regional integration. They are setting up regional hubs, or "second HQs", and laying down intra-regional distribution and services networks, building brands, tapping innovation in the region for new products and services, and forging partnerships with local governments. |
| There are two things we know without question about the future of work: it will require significantly more collaboration, and it will be dramatically more distributed. But what really matters is that these two trends are in direct conflict with each other. |
Business Collaboration Networks Throughout history, people have relied on networks to successfully conduct commerce. Networks are powerful conduits that allow the unimpeded flow of goods and services. The more efficient the flow of something throughout an ecosystem—be it goods, data packets or even language—the easier it is to gain competitive advantage. It is no surprise that the organization with the best network always wins. |
Current marketing operational models are becoming increasingly complex and more crucial to the strategic success of global businesses, but are facing significant challenges from entrenched corporate cultures, inter-departmental politics, and a lack of adequate data and information systems. According to new research, marketers fear they will be unable to implement the needed marketing platforms and automated processes required to effectively support strategic growth initiatives. |
| A Business Collaboration Network enables companies and their customers, partners and suppliers to connect, communicate and collaborate in a productive, secure and effective manner, driving positive business results for all involved. Business Collaboration Networks are vital to the success of businesses large and small, because, in today’s environment, no company is successful alone. Learn how to optimize and transform your Business Collaboration Networks to create new and innovative business opportunities for success in today’s global economy, in the following informative white paper. |
The Role of Unified Communications (UC) Services in Building Lasting Competitive Advantage This whitepaper will explore how the unique benefits of unified communications can help you address your business challenges. It will showcase two successful organizations that are already enjoying substantial benefits from unified communications, and it will provide recommendations to businesses looking to streamline their communications. |
5 Best Practices for Unified Communications UC can improve organizational efficiencies, while simultaneously empowering knowledge workers. The efficiency gains come from the integration and optimization of communication silos, supported by enterprise-wide standards and shared services. Productivity gains are harder to measure, but there’s a clear intuitive benefit that could be realized by reducing human latency. Learn about the top 5 best practices in this white paper. |
Emerging Technology: Telepresence Solutions Telepresence offers a completely new way to collaborate. This new technology enables connections across companies and locations, so you can meet with customers, suppliers and business partners around the globe as if you were all in the same room, transforming how business gets done. You will be able to redefine business processes, procedures and applications within your enterprises and across industries. |
The Financial Close: Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence In this white paper, we discuss how corporate finance centers can overcome the barriers to a fast, high-quality close. By converging previously disparate disciplines of business intelligence; governance, risk, and compliance; and enterprise performance management, companies can get trusted data into the hands of key stakeholders in a timely manner. This paper identifies solutions to help organizations improve and sustain their close times and address the challenges associated with automating and testing internal controls... |
The global recession is taking no prisoners. Neither industry, nor region, nor company-size has provided shelter from its impact. Within the enterprise, few business functions have been unaffected. Yet, as this business downturn continues, the Chief Procurement Officer's ("CPO") agenda and the CEO's agenda have started to converge. |
Prepare To Bounce Back: The Importance Of Incorporating Resilience Into The Supply Chain Supply chains have become fragmented and brittle. This is due in part to the rapid growth in outsourcing to partners and suppliers that are geographically distant, and in part to an increased focus on sole sourcing, whether to capitalize on price advantages or to cultivate relationships in the extended enterprise. |
On-Demand Business Intelligence Solutions With all the competitive, organization, technical and financial challenges facing today's businesses, the macro-market trends of Globalization and eCommerce are making it more important than ever before for corporate executives and end users to have the ability to access critical information to make more effective business decisions. |
As Economy Slows, Lean Six Sigma Grows As budgets are being slashed across the board, many Six Sigma Deployment executives are facing the seemingly insurmountable task of maintaining - or even increasing - their LSS Green Belt Training Levels |
Out Of The Shadows: Why Supply Chain Strategy Should Be At Top Of The Corporate Agenda Some Aerospace & Defense (A&D) executives worry that today's global business environment of high demand with high levels of complexity is moving too fast for their supply chains to keep pace. We actually believe that velocity at low costs with flexibility is increasingly what customers want. |
Synchronizing the Distribution Supply Chain with Mobility With growing customer demands and shrinking profit margins, there's simply no room for a sluggish supply chain. That’s where mobile and wireless technologies are making a difference. From the production line to the checkout line, from the warehouse to the delivery truck, mobile solutions are replacing old-fashioned manual processes. By putting wireless computers into the hands of your workforce, you eliminate time-consuming and error-prone paper processes. This increases accuracy, raises productivity, and improves collaboration up and down the supply chain. |
12 Strategies to Improve Your Forecast Quickly Because forecasting is the top box in the supply chain flow chart, an improvement in accuracy touches almost every area of the company and quick progress can be seen in a variety of measurements including order fill rates, expedite reductions, margin improvements, logistics costs, and customer satisfaction. |
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