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SAP Announces New Version of Supply Chain Applications
At the CeBIT 2006 trade fair, SAP AG, the market leader for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, announced the latest upgrade of the Supply Chain Management (SCM) applications in its mySAP Business Suite product line. Scheduled for general release in June, mySAP SCM 5.0 includes major new capabilities that support...
Kinaxis Focuses on Operational Performance Management
Increasingly, organizations judge operational success by how fast they can respond to changes in customer demands and global supply conditions. But many manufacturers, especially in electronics, often don't know exactly what they have to do until the start of each day, so their success depends on making effective decisions that...
Salient Zeroes in on Price and Margin for Performance
Salient Corp. offers integrated Business Intelligence (BI) applications for operations. Through 20 years of technology investments and development, Salient has created a BI platform that provides analytics and reporting capabilities and integrates directly into enterprise resource planning, supply chain management and customer relationship management systems. Ventana Research believes solutions like...
The Return of Sales and Operations Planning
In many manufacturing organizations, a lack of nimbleness and automation in existing Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) processes has stunted management's ability to drive change. Companies looking to maximize the value of their supply chain and their operational investments must automate cross-organizational performance planning processes to enable operational performance management.
IRI Brings Next Generation of Analytics for CPG
Information Resources, Inc., a pioneer in market research and decision support software for the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry, recently held its annual Reinventing CPG Summit in San Francisco. IRI executives asserted that CPG manufacturers and retailers need to collaborate and adapt to the new demands of consumers who will...
Is Your Supply Chain Ready to Enable Profitable Growth and High Performance?
As companies pursue profitable growth, they will have to move past operational efficiency - largely table stakes in the environment ? to construct a growth-enabling supply chain that is information rich and technologically robust, highly flexible, tightly integrated and organized and measured to address the needs and preferences of highly...
Making It Pay
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...
Aligning Supply Chain Management With Utility Operations
Seeking new and innovative ways to cull more costs from their operations, while improving productivity and service, many utilities are focusing on supply chain improvements to enhance performance and profitability. Supply chain improvements have the documented power not only to drive lower operational costs, but also to improve working capital...
Architecting the Liquid Supply Chain
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...
Are High Tech Manufacturers' Supply Chains Up to the Global Challenge?
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,...
Maximizing Fleet Effectiveness
By challenging the way vehicle and equipment fleets have been traditionally managed and run, executives can identify exceptional opportunities to create an integrated fleet management strategy. This strategy, supported by carefully structured business processes and enabled by technology, can offer near-term benefits of cost-savings and improved service. But more than...
Next-Generation Logistics Networks
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...
Rebuilding the 21st Century on Demand
Demand-Driven Supply Networks (DDSN) may seem like just another term for supply chain management. Don't be fooled. DDSN tackles business areas overlooked by traditional supply chain management and promises huge new efficiencies and growth. Proclaiming that the customer is king is not enough. Rebuilding the supply chain is essential for...
The Missing Link - Operational Performance Planning
Manufacturing organizations looking to leverage their supply chain and operational investments must automate cross-organizational performance planning processes to enable operational performance management. The reason - the lack of nimbleness and automation in existing Sales and Operational Planning (S&OP) processes have stunted management's ability to drive change efficiently. Responding to new...
Adaptive Business Networks: A Strategy for Change and Efficiency in Manufacturing
To survive in the demand-driven, collaborative 21st century environment, companies should strive to achieve a balance between market adaptability and stable business processes. Examples of early forms of the adaptive business network are easy to find at innovative companies. Hewlett-Packard uses the structure to orchestrate production of PCs and printers...
A Small Company With Big Supply Chain Designs
Cascade Designs is a Seattle-based manufacturing company. Once their technology foundation was in place and their operations base financially secure, Cascade Designs began to think about interesting ways to leverage their knowledge and people. They decided on three main thrusts that Cascade Designs began work on in 2004 and will...
Supply Chain Collaboration Checkup
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...
Electronics Manufacturing Transformation
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...
Global Sourcing: Insights and Opportunities From China and Beyond
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...
Industrial Real Estate Strategies to Increase Operating Profitability
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...
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