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• Supply Chain Collaboration Checkup

  BNET - 2005-08-17

  Collaboration can eliminate inefficiencies for all parties, but collaborative planning and execution among trading partners is daunting. Short-term projects can be a realistic route to prepare for more strategic collaboration efforts. Through collaboration, buyers and sellers can simultaneously eliminate inefficiencies from their supply chains. But given the growing complexities of...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Supply Chain, Inefficiency, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

• Inquiries and Insights on Supply Chain Collaboration

  BNET - 2004-08-17

  In late 2003, Accenture published a cross-industry paper, "Connecting with the Bottom Line: A Global Study of Supply Chain Leadership and Its Contribution to the High-Performance Business." Among the report's conclusions were two particularly salient findings. First, a direct, statistically viable connection was made between supply excellence and increased market...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Supply Chain, Collaboration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software

• Leveraging Standards for Connectivity and Collaboration

  BNET - 2004-06-29

  Marked differences between the way the United States and the rest of the world use health care IT standards to enable collaboration are beginning to emerge. These differences reveal the ways in which U.S. standards and their applications must change to make collaboration more successful. Interestingly, some of these differences...

  Tags: U.S., Montgomery Research Inc., Standards, Quality, Collaboration, Groupware, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

• The Collaboration Process

  BNET - 2004-06-29

  In payer-provider collaboration, participants rarely have a problem identifying issues that need to be resolved. The difficulty comes, however, when these two diverse organizations must work as a team to decide which projects will produce group wins and which should be attacked first. Collaboration demands a shift in relationship dynamics...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

• Lifecycle Collaboration: Linking Strategy and Execution to Sustain Superior Performance

  BNET - 2002-05-16

  To be successful, cross-company collaboration must extend beyond point solutions, such as sharing execution data, to synchronize corporate strategy with execution across companies for the duration of a product's life. Sometimes it brings up lack of trust between collaborating parties, and companies have not realized the full value from well-executed...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Performance, Collaboration, Groupware, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

• Building a Collaborative Supply Chain

  BNET - 2002-04-29

  The initial wave of the Web has come and gone with much fanfare. In the wake of this enormous online surge, many firms have figured out that they can use the Internet to beef up their collaboration with suppliers. To cultivate these connections, companies can invest more than $50 million...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software

• Re-Inventing Supply Chains: From Automation, To Integration, To Collaboration

  BNET - 2001-04-15

  In recent years, supply chains have undergone paradigm shifts in operations and performance. As the customers become more and more quality sensitive, there is a need to upgrade the supply chains to conform to the enhanced quality benchmark. The paper elucidates modern trends prevailing for re-inventing the supply chains. ...

  Tags: Montgomery Research Inc., Supply Chain, Collaboration, Automation, Integration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software