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- In Depth: Global Supply Chain - Mastering the Complexity Challenge in the Global Supply Chain
- A variety of pressures are pushing enterprises across diverse sectors to extend their supply chains around the world. But while many companies are acting globally, they are still thinking locally. How hard is it to manage a complex, global supply chain for optimal efficiency? Too hard for most companies, according...
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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 - Michael Foods / Iasta
- Michael Foods, Inc., a 75-year-old $1 billion diversified food processor and distributor, initiated a project to achieve cost reduction goals through the use of reverse auctions. The company was looking to achieve better competition for its business while increasing efficiency and obtaining better reporting/data analysis by using e-RFx and project...
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- Quality Management in Outsourced Manufacturing
- After outsourcing manufacturing to lower-cost countries, many companies find new demands imposed on their quality management processes. And for many, their existing quality management systems prove to be no longer effective, especially if they are either a spreadsheet-based manual system or a PC-based point solution. So how exactly can a...
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- Supply Base Localization: A Different Look at Low-Cost Country Sourcing
- The trend to move manufacturing to low-cost regions is becoming pervasive. Companies of all sizes in nearly every sector of business in the United States and Europe are developing and implementing strategies not just to source from low-cost regions but also to actually produce goods in those countries. The reason...
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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 - 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 - 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 - DSFI, LLC / Swift Technologies, Inc.
- As a manufacturer selling to resellers, all with demanding integration requirements, from procurement to Web site integration to order integration, DSFI faced growing demand to find ways to integrate and automate the various ways data flow into and out of the organization to and from suppliers and customers. By utilizing...
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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 500 Software Company / Expense Management Solutions
- As part of an ongoing effort to improve shareholder value, this Fortune 500 provider of software, services and Internet technologies was looking to enable strategic management of a facilities management outsourcing contract under an extremely lean staffing model. The company also had the goals of embedding continuous improvement and performance...
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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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- Seven Best Practices of an Agile Enterprise
- Today's consumer marketplace operates at breakneck speed, blazing an array of goods to customers through a host of different channels. In the past, companies offered a limited product line through a single channel that was delivered by one shipment method. No more. Today's supply chain copes with scores of new...
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- Digging Deeper With the Supply and Demand Chain
- When a company is growing either by Merger or Acquisition (M&A), looking over the Profit and Loss (P&L) statement and balance sheet is simply not enough to make a "Go" or "No go" decision. With M&As on the rise again, it may be prudent to examine the reasons that sound...
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- B2B Supply Chain Trends Pose Risk, Opportunity for Wholesalers
- As the role of strategic sourcing in many companies becomes the focus for cost-cutting measures, wholesaler-distributors may find their world being turned upside-down. Dynamic forces of change are converging upon the wholesale distribution industry. The business environment is changing, and distributors must change, too. This sobering conclusion comes from the...
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- Managing the MRO Monster
- With sharp cost increases an ongoing reality across many categories, savings targets may seem elusive to even the most experienced procurement organizations. Year-over-year price decreases have no doubt become increasingly hard to find. But by looking at a well-established spend category from a new perspective, they can be captured. Applying...
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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 - 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 - Fortune 100 Consumer Package Goods Manufacturer / ePlus, Inc.
- With a diverse corporate portfolio, both from acquisition and internal growth, the company recognized the need to consolidate its purchasing data in order to leverage total spend and benefit from associated cost savings. After a thorough evaluation process, it selected the Spend+ VisualEngine graphical mapping tool from ePlus to provide...
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- Running the Numbers
- Procurement outsourcing refers to the complete or partial transfer of the business processes, infrastructure and resources associated with purchasing all indirect costs, including contracted services, by a company to a third-party services provider. Procurement outsourcing is one segment of the larger Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector. The Everest report found...
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