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• Making It Pay

  BNET - 2005-08-17

  Financial services companies face an unrelenting challenge to lower their cost base and streamline operations to keep pace in today's competitive and unforgiving world markets. With margins shrinking and customers wary, senior executives must focus all their energies on what can lift their businesses above the pack and deliver shareholder...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Financial Service, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Financial Planning, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance

• Architecting the Liquid Supply Chain

  BNET - 2005-08-17

  A common supply chain misconception equates "Liquids" with "Process industries." A huge opportunity for discrete and service industries lies in recognizing the quantity of liquids that flow through these industries and exploiting the operational, financial and strategic benefits that liquid-oriented logistics offers. Since supply chain networks for liquid products are...

  Tags: Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Montgomery Research Inc., Software, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Supply Chain Misconception

• Are High Tech Manufacturers' Supply Chains Up to the Global Challenge?

  BNET - 2005-08-17

  As high-tech manufacturers continue their quest for high performance by seeking ever-lower costs and promising new markets for their products, cross-border trade accelerates in greater volumes. But while some companies are reaping strong benefits from their global businesses and are achieving high performance, many more are stumbling. In both cases,...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Logistics, High-performance, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Leadership, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

• Next-Generation Logistics Networks

  BNET - 2005-08-17

  Over the next decade, next-generation logistics networks will significantly extend the horizon of logistics savings/service opportunities. While on-demand providers should be evaluated on the depth and breadth of their service offering, next-generation logistics networks should be evaluated on the depth and breadth of their network's quality of the connected partner...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Logistics, Supply Chain, Business Operations

• Electronics Manufacturing Transformation

  BNET - 2005-08-17

  Outsourcing in the electronics industry has evolved dramatically since 1990. In its earliest and most basic form, the OEM's make-versus-buy decisions were based largely on opportunities to reduce costs or meet specialized manufacturing needs. The outsource provider would take on manufacturing for specific products on a contract-by-contract basis. Through economies...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., OEM, Electronics, Manufacturing, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

• Global Sourcing: Insights and Opportunities From China and Beyond

  BNET - 2005-08-16

  Globalization is a reality affecting how companies worldwide formulate their business and procurement strategies. Sourcing from global suppliers will fundamentally alter most companies' supply chain models and competitive cost positions. Clearly, as this paper points out proficiencies in global sourcing are helping a great number of companies achieve - and...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Sourcing, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Globalization, Business Operations, Management

• Industrial Real Estate Strategies to Increase Operating Profitability

  BNET - 2005-08-16

  Industrial real estate plays an integral role in the overall economy. It is the place where ideas are tested, products are created and raw, intermediate and finished goods are stored. This paper explains why corporations that have not considered their property holdings as a primary component of the supply chain...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Real Estate, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

• Real Results From Purchase-to-Pay Opportunities

  BNET - 2005-08-16

  This paper explicates how outsourcing procurement operations can help organizations successfully transform procurement and deliver benefits to increase shareholder value. The right provider also brings proven multinational, multicurrency processes and operations, supported by dedicated technology solutions that enhance the process, along with a level of professional management across the marketplace...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Outsourcing, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

• Creating Operating Solutions Through Real Estate Asset Strategy Across the Supply Chain

  BNET - 2005-08-16

  In today's rapidly evolving and competitive business environment, corporate America is looking at its industrial real estate in a whole new way. More and more, sophisticated companies large and small have begun to recognize the untapped potential of their industrial real estate assets, seeing them as a rich source of...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Supply Chain, Real Estate, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

• Alternative Procurement Strategies

  BNET - 2005-05-02

  Across the globe, public sector procurement seeks to adhere to several fundamental principles. There is a growing emphasis on effective communication between the public agency and the private sector vendors, transparency in executing transactions and gearing the procurement strategy to maximize value for money. This paper explores alternative and innovative...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations