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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...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Cygnus Business Media, sourcing, demand chain, analysis; Case studies
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...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Channel management, Manufacturing, Cygnus Business Media, Perfect Commerce Inc., supplier relationship, supplier relationship management, procurement, demand chain, manufacturer, supplier, sourcing, on-demand, tool; Case studies
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...; Tags: Manufacturing, Cygnus Business Media, e-Sourcing, demand chain, manufacturer, consulting, team; Case studies
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...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Cygnus Business Media, sourcing, demand chain, supplier, tool; White papers
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...; Tags: Channel management, Cygnus Business Media, demand chain, consulting service, procurement, customer service, consulting, supplier, Web site, Web; Case studies

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...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Channel management, Cygnus Business Media, Revlon Inc., demand chain, supplier relationship management, contract management, sourcing, procurement, compliance, supplier, software; 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
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...; Tags: Channel management, Cygnus Business Media, Fortune 500, supplier, demand chain, supplier relationship, strategic management, outsourcing, performance management, staffing, shareholder, performance, Internet, software; Case studies
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...; Tags: Cygnus Business Media, ePlus, demand chain, TCO, cost savings, knowledge, acquisition, benefit, tool; Case studies
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...; Tags: Retail, Purchasing & Procurement, Cygnus Business Media, procurement, retail company, demand chain, natural gas, online auction, sourcing, tool; Case studies
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...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Cygnus Business Media, sourcing, e-Sourcing, demand chain, document management, project management; Case studies
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...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Cygnus Business Media, Alcoa Inc., sourcing, Ariba Inc., procurement, aluminum, demand chain; Case studies
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...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Cygnus Business Media, P&L, M&A, demand chain, valuation, merger, acquisition; White papers
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...; Tags: Pricing, Cygnus Business Media, demand chain, sourcing, supplier; White papers
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...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Cygnus Business Media, e-Sourcing, demand chain, cost reduction, sourcing, project management, on-demand, food, analysis, processor; Case studies
Effective demand chain Management and Efficient Supply Chain Can Enhance Cash Flow: The notion of the supply chain manager as the new corporate hero, championing reduced costs, improving efficiencies and rewarding customers with reduced prices, seems somewhat incongruous to those brought up on the notion that Marketing was the dominant corporate philosophy. Indeed at least one generation of business students and practitioners...; Tags: Supply Chain, Demand Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2005-07-18
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....; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Cygnus Business Media, sourcing, procurement, demand chain, cost control, B2B, ROI, supplier, performance, software; White papers 2003-11-01
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...; Tags: Pricing, Supply chain, Cygnus Business Media, demand chain, fulfillment, logistics, software; White papers 2003-07-01
Motorola's Battle With Supply And demand chain Complexity: Motorola, now entering its third year of battle with the complexity in its supply and demand chain, scored solid victories in 2002. Its Personal Communications Sector (PCS), responsible for 41 percent of the firm's $26.7 billion in annual sales, launched the lion's share of its supply and demand chain initiatives....; Tags: Pricing, Supply chain management (SCM), Cygnus Business Media, demand chain, supply chain, Motorola Inc., supplier relationship, supplier, sales; White papers 2003-05-01
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...; Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, Pricing, Cygnus Business Media, procurement, demand chain, e-procurement, solution provider, product lifecycle management, product lifecycle, supplier, SCM, logistics, content management, sourcing, ERP, sales, pricing strategy, CRM, payment, analys; White papers 2003-05-01