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The Friday Round-Up: 177,000 people, 100,000 acres, 700 acts, 80 stages and 3,000 loos, rain forecast all weekend -- it must be Glastonbury. Now in its 28th year, it's also the perfect example of a sustainable business and rare proof of good project management in action. An audit last year...; Tags: Festival, Supplier, Burnout, Chances, Inflection Point, Channel Management, Gender And Diversity, Marketing, Human Resources, Joanna Higgins; Blog posts 2008-06-27
E.ON UK Says Bad Debts Doubled in Past 12 Months: By John Bowker LONDON (Reuters UK) - German-owned utility E.ON UK EONG has experienced a doubling of bad debts in the past twelve months as customers struggle with soaring gas and electricity prices, Chief Executive Paul Golby said on Tuesday. Speaking to parliament's Business and Enterprise...; Tags: Tariff, Supplier, Debt, E.ON UK, Free Trade, Channel Management, Finance, Southern Connecticut Bancorp Inc.; News items 2008-06-24
Supplier Quality Management in FDA-Regulated Industry: Supplier quality management has reached high levels of sophistication in general manufacturing industries like automobiles and computer hardware as input cost reduction and supply chain efficiency is a key profitability driver in these industries. Concepts like supplier scorecards, cost-of-poor-quality, charge-backs and cost-recovery, have matured to a great extent enabling manufacturers...; Tags: Channel management, MetricStream Inc., supplier, medical device, computer hardware, regulatory compliance, cost reduction, supply chain, manufacturing, industry, partnership, computer; White papers
Supplier Relationship Management From IBM and SAP: Supplier relationship management is an emerging discipline in the business world. IBM and SAP converge the processes of collaborative design, strategic sourcing and procurement into a collaborative and integrated framework. This framework integrates data across the organization to streamline communication processes so employees can make informed, timely supplier decisions.; Tags: Channel management, Purchasing & Procurement, supplier relationship management, strategic sourcing, SAP AG, supplier, procurement, IBM Corp.; White papers
Grant Group: Automotive Supplier Supports Three Companies With Single Database, Improves Reporting: Based in Fraser, Michigan, the Grant Group manufactures metal stampings, clips, and assemblies. It needed an accounting application to support its three companies with a single database, provide flexible reporting, and integrate with an automotive supplier-specific application. Working with AIM Computer Solutions, Grant Group deployed Microsoft Business Solutions-Solomon and deployed...; Tags: Channel management, Microsoft Corp., AOL Instant Messenger, manufacturing application, accounting application, supplier, EDI, database, manufacturing, vision; Case studies

How ERP Systems Must Meet the Challenges of Automotive Suppliers: Being competitive in the automotive industry requires adopting new management methodologies, such as just-in-time, electronic data communications, and work order-less scheduling and billing. Packaged ERP systems are now incorporating functionality to support these new methodologies. This paper details some of the new requirements being found in the latest versions of...; Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, ERP system, ERP, JIT, billing, supplier, industry; White papers
Vendor Compliance in the Supply Chain System: The modern retail supply chain has rapidly advanced to become the most remarkable and efficient automation system since Henry Ford developed the assembly line. Global suppliers oceans away are accepting XML purchase orders over the Internet in the middle of the night, filling them with perfect precision using advanced voice...; Tags: transportation, RFID, supply chain, compliance, supplier, XML, Internet; White papers
A Company Steeped in Tradition: DaimlerChrysler has engaged in a series of portal projects in order to provide structured access to the huge amount of data and applications available to customers, partners and employees. One of the most successful usage scenarios has developed around the 'Supplier Portal', serving more than 15.000 individuals from around 7000...; Tags: Portals, Web technology, Channel management, Middleware, Enterprise software, IBM Corp., Daimler AG, IBM WebSphere Portal Server, supplier, portal, Internet; Case studies
Supply Chain Integration Solutions: This paper takes a quick look and analyzes one's position in the Supply Chain. A person can either be the one driving the truck, the one pumping the gas, or the one paying the other two. It does not matter if he is a vendor, supplier, manufacturer, dealer, service supplier...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), supply chain, supply chain integration, supplier; White papers
Ammunition for the Troops: Companies generate huge amounts of data during their day-to-day operations including orders, invoices, point-of-sale transactions, inventory, and customer and supplier information. There is considerable value in all of that data: it can help companies respond more quickly to internal and external events; make better business decisions and gain a sustainable...; Tags: point-of-sale, competitive advantage, supplier; White papers
Streamline to Success: The Real Mid-Market Experience: Wholesale/Distribution: "Legacy" core systems, or Business Management Systems, are the lifeblood that supports the financial functions, and track inventory and sales information. In many cases, the legacy core systems represent 20 to 30 years of business rules and logic, customer and supplier data, and extensive internal and external interfaces, which...; Tags: IBM Corp., supplier, financial, sales; Webcasts
SAIC CHERY Revs Up Car Production Lines With New Supplier Links Built With SAP: Based in China, SAIC CHERY Automotive Co manufactures compact family saloon cars. The growth in Chinese household incomes has fueled a large increase in local demand for automobiles. While this growth was of course a welcome trend, SAIC CHERY recognised that its management teams needed the necessary tools and systems...; Tags: SAIC, SAP AG, Supplier, IBM Corp., Business Services, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Operational Planning, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations; Case studies
Telef?nica Optimizes Its Network Lifecycle Management With an On Demand Supply Chain Solution: Telefonica asked IBM Business Consulting Services to develop an on demand supply chain solution that connected its enterprise resource planning ERP systems with those of its network suppliers. For the pilot project, Telefonica chose to synchronize its systems with Alcatel, one of the company's major network suppliers. IBM Business Consulting...; Tags: Business services, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Telefonica, business consulting services, consulting service, ERP, supplier, IBM Corp., supply chain, network; Case studies
Performance Metrics in Supplier Relationship Management: Over the past few years, Supplier Relationship Management SRM has gained significant momentum and leverage as a required tool and process in the Supply Chain Execution SCE space. However, the deployment of this technology is typically focused on the technology application, which has left the process end virtually unchanged. Yes,...; Tags: Channel management, Purchasing & Procurement, Performance management, supplier relationship management, supplier, performance, compliance, supply chain, tool; White papers
The Right Restructuring for US Automotive Suppliers: A thorough industry restructuring may be required to brighten the automotive suppliers' prospects and bring needed balance to their relations with the automakers. Launching another wave of M&A activity will not suffice. This article suggests that to level the playing field, suppliers must become smarter about how they choose to...; Tags: Channel management, McKinsey & Co., supplier, M&A, industry; White papers
Supplying Auto Parts to the World: China's largest auto parts supplier started out, in 1969, as a repair shop for bicycles and farm tractors. Now Wanxiang is China's third-largest privately owned company, earning $165 million in 2003 on $1.8 billion of sales, including $380 million worth of parts exported or produced overseas. However, a global glut...; Tags: McKinsey & Co., China, supplier, brand, sales; White papers
Better Purchasing for Auto Suppliers: Although automakers have improved the way they make purchases, the automotive suppliers they buy components from haven't followed suit. Few of the suppliers have developed good sourcing strategies or analyzed their competitors' costs, and they rarely tap into the strategic knowledge of their own suppliers. The article informs that auto...; Tags: Channel management, McKinsey & Co., supplier, sourcing, knowledge; White papers
Best Practices in Supplier Quality Management: Supplier quality management has emerged as one of the leading business practices in the past few years. World-class manufacturers are making significant investments in systems and processes to improve the supplier quality. This white paper briefly outlines some of the best practices implemented by such manufacturers in supplier quality management.; Tags: Channel management, MetricStream Inc., supplier, best practice; White papers
Collect On Debt: 5 Ways To Make Them Pay: You thought you had been so careful, so very prudent. A customer, perhaps even a supplier, seemed so above-board, so solvent, so trustworthy. But you've been left high and dry. Maybe a client owes you money for products or services or a supplier has happily grabbed your cash without delivering...; Tags: Channel management, Microsoft Corp., supplier, vision; White papers
How to Give a Quality Score to Your Supplier: A supplier scorecard contains categories or main groupings of metrics by which suppliers are measured. These categories include quality, delivery, cost, and responsiveness. Aggregated score for each category is calculated first, providing a company visibility into quality score, delivery score etc. Each category has assigned weighting, which is then rolled...; Tags: Channel management, Quality, MetricStream Inc., supplier, Quality Management System, quality management; White papers