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- The Global Enabled Supply And Demand Chain Series: Fulfillment And Logistics
- Recognition of the fulfillment function's value to supply and demand chain management makes sense when customer function is recognized. Fulfillment is the most critical step in gauging how well a business is meeting its customers' needs. This article says that ignoring fulfillment and logistics in one's company's supply and demand...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Global Enabled Supply And Demand Chain Series: Procurement
- The article questions the state of procurement enablement in 2003. However, this is a more cryptic question than ever under the current economic conditions. This question has been posed for all the functional areas of Global Enabled Supply and Demand Chain model (Order/Demand Capture, Sourcing, Procurement, Fulfillment, Logistics, Payment, Customer...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Global Enabled Supply And Demand Chain Series: Sourcing
- Sourcing is a market that suffers from the lack of a discernable leader, offers applications that are simplistic in the midst of a very complex business process and bidding event functionality that is similar between products. Until the hype generated during the overblown Internet bubble died down, along with the...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- Global Enabled Supply And Demand Chain Series: Sourcing-II
- Cost control has companies re-evaluating their commitment to sourcing apps, especially as best-in-class firms are driving high returns from the technology. The procurement and sourcing space became a tragic play of small suppliers struggling to survive while users hunkered down to digest the applications acquired in the B2B buying binge....
- White papers 2003-11-01
- 2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Johnson Space Center / MfgQuote Inc.
- For more than 40 years, Johnson Space Center JSC in Houston, Texas, has been home to the U.S. human space flight program from the final Mercury flight to today's space shuttle and International Space Station missions. In the past, the process to find three suppliers who could do the work...
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- 2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Fortune 150 Conglomerate / Silver Oak Solutions
- Silver Oak provided the first-ever corporate-wide spending analysis for this global customer across 20-plus domestic and five European business units. Silver Oak completed strategic sourcing for three complex, difficult categories for a major business group at the company, identifying 21 percent in annual savings. Using Silver Oak's sourcing process (involving...
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- 2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Fortune 100 Manufacturer / Perfect Commerce
- This Fortune 100 Manufacturer has more than 115 years experience building and optimizing facilities across the globe, but when it came to optimizing its sourcing and procurement operations, the company's Building Solutions unit turned to an on-demand supplier relationship management solution to drive end user adoption and achieve uniform processes...
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- 2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Global 1000 Industrial Manufacturing Company / Global eProcure
- This global manufacturer was seeking to reduce its spend on direct and indirect commodities and services by 15 percent, improve its sourcing process efficiencies, and get a better handle on its spend centrally with enhanced reporting capabilities. For this consulting engagement, Global eProcure worked with the manufacturer's global purchasing team...
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- 2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Revlon / Frictionless Commerce
- Revlon was undergoing a strategic procurement transformation, with the scope involving people, process and technology changes. Part of this transformation entailed implementing a Supplier Relationship Management SRM solution that would enable the group to consolidate spending and improve supplier communication. After undergoing a selection process that gave strong consideration for...
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- 2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Fortune 100 Retailer / EnergyWindow, Inc.
- national retailer had ongoing energy procurement requirements for a large number of facilities in many deregulated states. The company sought a way to simplify a high volume of requests for quotation and subsequent bidding scenarios in a variety of differently structured energy markets. As part of its procurement strategy, the...
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- 2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Connell Purchasing Services / EC Sourcing Group
- Connell Purchasing Services CPS, a strategic purchasing firm, was founded in 1994 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Connell Company. CPS was interested in automating its already sophisticated sourcing process to reduce cycle time, increase throughput without increasing headcount and maximizing the competition for their requirements. After almost...
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- 2005 Supply & Demand Chain 100 Case Study - Alcoa/Ariba
- Alcoa is widely known as the world's largest producer of aluminum and aluminum products, with 350 operating locations in 41 countries, bringing revenue of $23.5 billion a year. However, staying at the head of the pack is not easy. Alcoa's sourcing and procurement team was challenged to decrease the overall...
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- In Depth: Global Supply Chain - The Hidden Costs of a Global Supply & Demand Chain
- When a company moves production offshore or begins sourcing from suppliers overseas, lead times inevitably increase for goods brought into the country. Extended lead times, in turn, diminish the accuracy of forecasts as companies are forced to project demand further out than when they were producing goods closer to end...
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- Supply Chain Planning: Synchronizing Supply and Demand
- In a fast-paced and rapidly changing business environment, supply chain must be able to meet the highest levels of demand accuracy and order fulfillment satisfaction, fully supporting order, product, and execution tracking and logistics. Transportation and fulfillment operations need to be smoothly synchronized. This paper discovers how the mySAP SCM...
- White papers 2005-09-01
- Demand Management
- Demand management activities in any global supply chain consist of three activities: demand management, demand planning, and sales forecasting management. The role of sales forecasting changes depending on the position in the supply chain that a company occupies. Any supply chain has only one point of independent demand - or...
- White papers 2006-06-12
- What's The 'Breaking Point' Of Your Business?
- When Boeing and other aeroplane manufacturers are developing new aircraft they literally test them to destruction. This ensures that the planes will still operate effectively even in the most extreme situations. It is a concept that I think should be applied to business operations. When many...
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- How Did Cisco, Motorola, Xerox and Others Successfully Transform their Supply Chain Operations?
- Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks company (NYSE: HHS), and partners Manufacturing Business Technology and Supply & Demand Chain Magazine are gearing up to host the 2008 Supply Chain Management SCM Summit on April 2-3, 2008 at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center in Boston, MA. The 2008 SCM Summit is the...
- Research articles 2008-02-21
- Lessons from the field - Effective Sales Management: Short and Long-term Planning, Forecasting, and Expense Budgeting - Part 2 of 2 - By John Hogan
- Lessons from the field - Effective Sales Management: Short and Long-term Planning, Forecasting, and Expense Budgeting - Part 2 of 2 - By John Hogan 'The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.' Frank C. CarlucciCarlucci has had a very diverse career, having served as US...
- News items 2009-08-10
- A Just-in-Time Supply Chain?: Achieving Just-in-Time Operational Objectives Requires the Coordination of Production Planning, Sourcing and Logistics
- Linking seemingly disparate business functions like demand planning, sourcing and logistics can often yield very positive results by reducing costs and improving performance in supply chain operations. The widespread adoption of just-in-time JIT inventory principles undoubtedly makes production operations more efficient, cost effective and customer responsive. Companies effectively implementing JIT...
- White papers 2005-06-15
- TradeBeam Hits a Home Run for Stryker Instruments~ Supply Chain
- Faced with the challenge of sharing real-time forecast and consumption rate data information with suppliers, Stryker Instruments suffered inflated inventory levels, stock-outs and a variety of time-consuming supply chain administrative issues and costs. Stryker needed to give its U.S. and overseas suppliers a window into the division's data without administering...
- Case studies 2006-07-01
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