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GE Infrastructure Sees 10 to 15 Percent Growth: SINGAPORE (Reuters) - General Electric Co's GE infrastructure unit, GE Infrastructure, said it will maintain its business growth forecast of 10-15 percent for 2008, despite rising costs. Chief Executive Officer John Rice said he expected rising inflation and higher commodity prices...; Tags: General Electric Co., Singapore, commodity price, turbine, inflation, Thomson Reuters Corp., financial service, supply chain, industry, e-mail; News items 2008-06-22
Seven Practices You Need to Succeed: Supply Chain Execution Systems Implementations: A common assumption about supply chain execution SCE systems implementations is that, while they have the potential to provide value, in the end, they are not worth the risk or hard work required. At worst, many fear that the organizational changes brought on by this kind of investment could ultimately...; Tags: supply chain; White papers
Seven Best Practices for Supply Chain Execution Implementations: A common myth about supply chain execution SCE systems implementation is that while they have the potential to provide value, they are not worth the risk or hard work required. At worst, some fear that the organizational changes brought on by this kind of investment could ultimately damage relationships with...; Tags: best practice, supply chain; White papers
i2 Supply Chain Planner and i2 Demand Fulfillment Stabilization for a Hi-Tech Telecommunications Company: The client, a world leader in hi-tech telecommunications and part of a large joint venture between two global telecommunications enterprises in Germany manufacturing cellular hand phones had implemented the i2 Supply chain planner using the ELOPS template, but was encountering stabilization issues. Wipro provided help on the i2 Supply Chain...; Tags: Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Wipro Technologies, i2 Technologies Inc., telecommunications, manufacturing, phone; Case studies
How Efficient Is Your Reverse Supply Chain?: Companies spend more time and money in fine-tuning their forward supply chains while ignoring their backward supply chains. However, in today's competitive business environment when there is both external and internal pressure, companies can no longer ignore reverse supply chains. Efficient reverse supply chains bring many benefits to the companies....; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), supply chain, benefit; White papers

Branding's New Math: The search for new ways to boost earnings is now under way. For many CEOs, weathering the economic downturn demanded a focus on improving operations and supply chains and on reining in costs. But now that markets are starting to improve, companies are again looking to grow. For many, growth...; Tags: McKinsey & Co., brand, branding, emerging market, supply chain; White papers
KSA Develops Supply Chain Strategy for Grocery Retailer: A top-10 grocery retailer was faced with the challenge of revamping its supply chain to improve efficiency and ensure its current market advantages could be maintained. As other grocery retailers announced significant growth plans and supply chain initiatives, our client realized that time was of the essence. This initiative required...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Retail, Food & Beverage, grocery, supply chain, retail company, vision, strategy, consulting; Case studies
Motor Coach Industries Service Parts: Supply Chain Management: Motor Coach Industries Service Parts MCISP is North America's number one supplier of after-market bus parts. Its parent company, Motor Coach Industries MCI, is the continent's largest over-the-road bus manufacturer. MCISP chose Accenture to make meaningful, long-term changes to increase service levels and operational efficiency and decrease inventory investment -...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Accenture Ltd., SCM, supply chain, performance; Case studies
PeopleSoft Case Study: C.F. Sauer: C.F. Sauer's customer base includes national retailers as well as large food service organizations. C.F. Sauer wanted to establish consistent supply chain management practices integrated with financial processes. The challenge was to implement a manufacturing and planning solution that supports both make-to-order and make-to-stock environments at plants in Virginia, South...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Oracle Corp., PeopleSoft Inc., manufacturing, SCM, food, supply chain, customer service, environment, financial; Case studies
Supply Chain and Demand Chain Integration: The Pathway to Profit and Competitive Advantage: Over the last decade, a powerful mandate for sustained business productivity has emerged: to design, alter, and combine products and services to profitably and efficiently meet the needs of customers. "Managing demand for the total value maximization of the enterprise and the supply chains" is the "competitive battleground" of the...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), SAP AG, supply chain, demand chain, competitive advantage, business productivity, SCM, CRM; White papers
Supply Chain Management:Cracking The Bullwhip Effect - Part III: "The objective of supply chain management is to provide a high velocity flow of high quality, relevant information that will enable suppliers to provide an uninterrupted and precisely timed flow of materials to customers. However, unplanned demand oscillations, including those caused by stockouts, in the supply chain execution process create...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), R. Michael Donovan & Co. Inc., supply chain, distortion, information quality, supplier, SCM; White papers
Discount Auto Parts: Knowing that improvements would require substantial investment, and with a history of a "don't take on too much, too soon" attitude, Discount Auto Parts, a leading auto parts and accessories retailer, realized that it needed a fact-based analysis to identify, justify, and prioritize improvement opportunities. Discount Auto Parts recognized Capgemini's...; Tags: Capgemini, capital management, supply chain, analysis, team; Case studies
Banta Streamlines Existing Production, Warehousing and Distribution of Print and Promotional Materials Into a Seamless, Total Supply Chain Management System for its Pharmaceutical Customer: Banta's customer is a division of a premier global healthcare products company with sales in excess of $13 billion and operations in more than 100 countries. A program was needed to streamline existing production, warehousing and distribution of print and promotional materials into a seamless, total supply chain management system....; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), warehousing, SCM, supply chain, IVR, health care, sales, Web; Case studies
Turning a Poultry Packaging Problem Into a Money Maker: This paper cites an issue related to problems faced in poultry packaging. The poultry processing industry has used waxed corrugated containers for many years to ship their products to market. However, the wax on the boxes proved to be a major issue because it prevented the retail supermarket industry from...; Tags: International Paper Co., poultry, barrier, supply chain, environment, industry; Case studies
Denver-based Firm Needed to Expand: J.D. Edwards & Company develops, markets, and supports enterprise software and supply chain computing solutions that enable customers to translate ideas into practical realities quickly and efficiently, using the company's software. The company recently completed construction of a Denver business campus. The individual campus buildings are equipped with a Trane...; Tags: American Standard Inc., Trane, Denver, enterprise software, supply chain, software; Case studies
Midterm Supply Chain Planning Under Demand Uncertainty: Customer Demand Satisfaction and Inventory Management: This paper utilizes the framework of midterm, multisite supply chain planning under demand uncertainty to safeguard against inventory depletion at the production sites and excessive shortage at the customer. A three-site example supply chain is studied within the proposed framework for providing quantitative guidelines for setting customer satisfaction levels and...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Pennsylvania State University, Inventory Management, supply chain, customer satisfaction; White papers
Change Is Good: A Step-By-Step Path to Best Practices: To survive and prosper today, one has to be at the top of the game. The supply chain has to be better than the competition's supply chain. The best way to keep improving is to embrace Best Practices. This means understanding the customers' ever-changing requirements, having the operations and the...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), best practice, supply chain, ROI, job, game; White papers
Benchmarking - A Right Way and a Wrong Way: Improving supply chain performance while achieving meaningful bottom line results is a challenge supply chain leaders know all too well. Understanding how the supply chain performance compares with others in an industry and what best practices are the most effective can mean the difference between marketplace dominance and extinction. The...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), supply chain performance, benchmarking, supply chain, best practice, leader, strategy, industry; White papers
Lean Thinking for the Supply Chain: Although lean thinking is typically applied to manufacturing lean techniques and focus are applicable anywhere there are processes to improve, including the entire supply chain. A lean supply chain is one that produces just what and how much is needed, when it is needed, and where it is needed. The...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), supply chain, manufacturing, technique; White papers
Good, Better, Best: How to Assess Your Supply Chain Performance: Supply chain performance has never been as important as it is today. In an economy where supply chains, and not companies, battle one another, how a supply chain performs determines who will win the battle. To achieve maximum benefit from a supply chain, creating competitive advantage in the supply chain...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), supply chain, competitive advantage, performance, benefit; White papers