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Supply Chain Control: Proactive Operations Excellence, not APS
"Companies have made enormous investments in enterprise and supply chain systems, so why were so many major electronics and high tech companies stuck with enormous inventory liabilities in 2001? It is seen that Advanced Planning and Scheduling APS could not eliminate inventory throughout the chain. Increased speed is only part...
Tags: Supply Chain, Industry Directions, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2003-01-01
Boosting Sourcing Effectiveness & Efficiency: The Online Marketplace Opportunity
Buyers know sourcing is critical to the success of new or re-designed products - and ultimately to the success of their business. With purchased materials costs generally accounting for over 50% of the total cost of goods sold, sourcing can be a major lever in controlling costs, and could make...
Tags: Sourcing, Industry Directions, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
White papers 2005-01-01
Operational Strategies For Next Generation Leadership
There are four operational strategies that companies must seriously address to keep up with what is going on in the marketplace and to transform or differentiate the way they do business. They are results-based strategies that use a mix of applications and technologies - dependent on the companies core competencies,...
Tags: Leadership, Industry Directions, Strategy, Management
White papers 1999-07-01
Evolving To Be Demand Driven: Start In The Plant
"Manufacturers have long talked about being ""customer focused,"" but most have not made the progress they will need to succeed in the new millennium. To generate satisfaction from e-commerce applications, companies will need to focus heavily on demand driven strategies. Demand driven strategies are those that allow the manufacturer to...
Tags: E-business, E-business/E-Commerce, Industry Directions, Internet, Management, Manufacturer, Manufacturing, Strategy, Web Technology
White papers 2000-04-01
Strategies For The Downturn
Companies of all sizes are suffering in the economic slowdown of 2001. To weather this storm and land near the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, manufacturers need to focus on a specific goal. While companies traditionally hunker down and postpone decisions, today's market requires that companies...
Tags: Industry Directions, Balance Sheets, Investment, Strategy, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Management
White papers 2001-07-01
Six Sigma: Competitive Imperative
"Many manufacturers would like to achieve the consistently impressive financial and operational performance of companies such as GE, Allied Signal and DuPont.. Six Sigma is the premier improvement program focused on profits and customer satisfaction. The most advanced practitioners have found that design for Six Sigma is essential to...
Tags: Supply Chain, Industry Directions, Six Sigma, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Product Marketing, Performance Management, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, It Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
White papers 1998-10-01
Strategic Value in Demand Planning
Demand planning can provide not only a firm foundation for APS, but also planning for the non-production segments of your supply chain. Further, demand planning - including forecasting, inventory planning and distribution planning -can provide a strategic management tool for the enterprise to improve service and profits. It can also...
Tags: Enterprise Software, Industry Directions, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Product Marketing, Software, Strategic Management, Strategy, Supply Chain Management (SCM)
White papers 2000-04-01
The Next Wave Of Supply chain Advantage: Collaborative Planning ,Forecasting and Replenishment
"Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR®) is an idea for extending supply chains become more demand driven. Today, it is also a business practice that has begun to deliver significant business benefits to enterprises in the supply chains that have adopted it. CPFR helps trading partners generate the most...
Tags: Supply Chain, Forecasting, Industry Directions, CPFR, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
White papers 2000-04-01
Direct Procurement Comes Into Its Own
Indirect e-Procurement paved the way to Direct Procurement, yet the functions differ. Direct Procurement is primarily driven by contracts and plans for manufactured goods, impacted by changing demand and product configurations, and determined by design factors, complex quotation processes and supplier capacities. The scope spans the design to plan to...
Tags: Business Operations, Channel Management, Customer Satisfaction, Direct Procurement, Industry Directions, Marketing, Procurement, Product Marketing, Purchasing & Procurement, Supplier
White papers 2001-02-01
Successful Supply Chain Management In a Dynamic Economy
"Electronic manufacturers are being pressured by market forces to accelerate product through their extended supply chains, improve reliability and speed of their fulfillment processes for higher service levels, and maximize utilization of assets for lower costs and better financial performance. And it requires better visibility of what is going...
Tags: Supply Chain, SCM, Industry Directions, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2001-06-01
Keys to Supply Chain Planning in Uncertain Times
The first three keys to success which are given in the paper rely on using up-to-date advanced Supply Chain Planning software. Older systems are not flexible or designed for planning collaboration involving non-planners such as those in sales, finance, and customer service. Many provide little assistance in analyzing basic business...
Tags: Supply Chain, Industry Directions, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2002-01-01
The New Retail: Driving Growth Through Product And Supplier Innovation
The agenda is shifting for retailers. Severe cost-cutting programs of the past decade are giving way to more strategic private label programs focused on delivering differentiated products with higher margins to the market. Sustainable competitive advantage will belong to those retailers that are able to leverage the expertise of their...
Tags: Program, Innovation, Retail Company, Supplier, Industry Directions, Retail, Channel Management, Strategy, Marketing, Management
White papers 2006-10-01

Additional Resources

17-year industry veteran Gens to lead International Data Corporation's research on strategic IT issues and trends
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 8, 1995--International Data Corporation announced today that 17-year industry veteran Frank Gens, a well-known analyst, writer and speaker on IT user issues and trends, has joined IDC in a newly created senior research position. As Senior Vice President of Research, Gens will research and publish analysis about...
Tags: information technology, International Data Corp.
Research articles 1995-11-08
Jog lever switch with tactile feedback in all three directions. (Product Tech Highlight: Switches & Relays).
Omron's surface mount, three-way N6J jog lever switch is said to be the first in the industry to offer confirming tactile feedback in all three directions (scroll up and down, and select). Its tactile feedback for push and scroll functions simplifies Omron's surface mount, three-way N6J...
Tags: handheld, Omron Corp.
Research articles 2003-02-01
SoVerNet Implements CostGuard.NET Solution from Info Directions
Wireless News 08-03-2004 SoVerNet Implements CostGuard.NET Solution from Info Directions WIRELESS NEWS-3 August 2004-SoVerNet Implements CostGuard.NET Solution from Info Directions C2004 10Meters - http:// www.10meters.com Info Directions, a developer of net-centric billing, rating, order management, workflow...
Tags: Sovernet Inc.
Research articles 2004-08-03
The Motion Picture Industry: Critical Issues In Practice, Current Research & New Research Directions
The motion picture industry provides a fruitful research domain for scholars in marketing and other disciplines. The industry has a high economic importance and is appealing to researchers because it offers both rich data that cover the entire product lifecycle for a large number of new products and because it...
Tags: Harvard College, Management, Motion Picture Industry, Strategy
White papers 2005-02-23
Report: economic revival builds momentum for lodging.(Meetings and Conventions: feature section)(lodging industry)
The strong recovery staged by the lodging industry in the late summer builds momentum for robust lodging demand recovery in 2004, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' September 2003 Hospitality Directions Forecast Alert. Given slight upward revisi The strong recovery staged by the lodging industry in...
Tags: PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, recovery
Research articles 2003-10-27
Building Congress: exploring new directions
Building Congress: Exploring new directions The New York Building Congress, the only private-sector commercial association representing business, labor and every segment of the design, building and construction industry, creates many focused opportunities for members to explore new company directions and establish new working contacts. Some Congress events target...
Tags: U.S. Congress
Research articles 1991-08-14
XPLOR: Industry heavy-hitters to speak on future directions of the Internet at Xplor's Marketspace '99.
M2 PRESSWIRE-11 February 1999-XPLOR: Industry heavy-hitters to speak on future directions of the Internet at Xplor's Marketspace '99 C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:100299 -- Marketspace '99 to Feature Speakers from American Airlines, Bank of America, Citibank, Department of Commerce, Doculabs, GTE,...
Tags: American Airlines, conference, Doculabs Inc., exhibition, GTE Corp., INTERNET, Lycos Inc., MARKETING, Strategy
Research articles 1999-02-11
Information Technology in the Home: Barriers, Opportunities, and Research Directions
The home building, telecommunications, and consumer electronics industries are rapidly converging on America's doorstep to provide connectivity, access, and services; but what are the implications of increased Information Technology IT in the home? Can increased in-home IT create opportunities that will change the way we live and function within our...
Tags: Barrier, Information Technology, Ingersoll-Rand, Management, Strategy
White papers 2000-11-02
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