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.

Synchronizing the Supply Chain through Adaptive Collaboration

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.

Optimize and Transform Your Business Collaboration Network

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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.