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- Supply Chain
- the network of manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers, who turn raw materials into finished goods and services and deliver them to consumers. Supply chains are...
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- What Do You Really Know About Your New Supply Chain Ally?
- As companies continue to move toward extended supply chains and evolve into new ways of doing business, collaboration among supply chain partners is more important than ever before. As supply chain networks compete, a highly effective supply chain will outpace the competition through more efficient operations and increased market share....
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- Can You See Me? Visibility in Your Supply Chain Minimizes Surprises
- Relationships with suppliers have to change so they can better serve the needs. By allowing the supply chain partners and suppliers visibility into the forecasts, orders, inventory levels, and manufacturing schedules one enables them to make better decisions about how they supply materials. True supply chain excellence requires everyone along...
- White papers
- The Triple-A Supply Chain
- The Idea in Brief The holy grails of supply chain management are high speed and low cost--or are they? Though necessary, they aren't sufficient to give companies a sustainable competitive advantage over rivals. Consider these...
- Articles 2008-04-01
- Improved Supply Chain Integration With Secure Self-Service Application For Partners
- SYSCO is North America's leading foodservice marketer and distributor, servicing over 420,000 foodservice locations. SYSCO wanted to provide its supplier, Vitality Food Service, with Web-based access to SYSCO Warehouse Inventory Management System SWIMS applications, enabling the supplier to view inventory levels directly and update customer information as needed. SYSCO developers...
- Case studies 2006-06-20
- Surgical Supply Chain Turns to an Outside Partner for Help
- Maquet GmbH & Co. KG, the German supplier of surgical and post-operative equipment, doesn't have a lot of choice in the matter. It functions in an environment of constant demand pressures, if not outright emergencies. Maquet's products and spare parts simply must be there when needed. At the same time,...
- Case studies 2006-03-01
- Uncovering Hidden Opportunities in Your Supply Chain
- How leading companies are embarking on strategic sustainability partnerships with suppliers and customers. Traditionally CR, environment and sustainability departments have been seen as a business cost. But a few leading companies are creating value by entering into strategic partnerships with suppliers. This paper explains why strategic supply chain partnerships make...
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Peak Performance in Supply Chain Integration: Building Strong Partnerships Through Collaborative Technologies
- The development and manufacturing of products has become increasingly complex in today's global economy. Typically, multiple communities of suppliers are involved in product design and development, and these communities are geographically dispersed. Without a central location or an integrated system of communication, it can be difficult for people, from executives...
- White papers 2005-10-04
- UK Ministry of Defence Controls Frontline Aircraft Cost-Effectively by Partnering With IBM
- Like all areas of Defence, the Royal Air Force, the Fleet Air Arm and the Army Air Corps face challenging and exciting developments. The pace at which innovative equipment becomes available drives the evolution of each Service, but progress must be achieved efficiently and cost effectively. With this in mind,...
- Case studies 2005-09-20
- Integrated Planning In Supply Chains With Buy-Side And Sell-Side Marketplaces
- In this paper we develop a quadratic programming model for partner selection and planning in integrated supply chain networks embedded with both sell-side and buy-side electronic marketplaces. Such a scenario arises in several practical applications. In particular, we consider a contract manufacturer who procures components from suppliers through a component...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Building the Profit Focused Supply Chain: A Game Plan for Capturing Real Value
- The paper proposes a new framework for supply chain collaboration that identifies greater profit improvement opportunities than current approaches by providing better financial visibility with more accuracy and by fostering greater partner buy-in. In addition, it is easier to implement and maintain/sustain. Furthermore, the paper explains how a company can...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Supply Chain Management: An Investigation of Collaboration in the Grocery Industry
- Collaborative efforts in a supply chain are often credited with service efficiencies, improved quality and reduced costs for all participants. Most companies in this study engaged in some form of collaboration; however, there was a low percentage of formal collaborative efforts. Substantial evidence was found that the participants recognize the...
- White papers 2004-10-19
- Metrics Matter
- From the executive summary: ‘The cost problem really gets sticky if one elevates the decision-making level to total supply chain. Now, instead of being concerned only with the firm's costs, the decision-makers must understand the impact of their business processes and practices on intermediaries like their supply chain partners and...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Winning the Supply Chain Race
- It may sound like a stretch, but question is how many organizations run their supply chains with little communication, collaboration and visibility between individual departments. By building an integrated supply chain network, one can gain an understanding of how the trading partners impact the end product, the customers and other...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Maximizing value of outsource partners requires new skills
- The increasing use of third-party logistics providers (3PLs) is changing the duties and skills required of today's logisticians. No longer are logistics managers responsible only for making sure inbound and outbound freight gets to where it is supposed to be. The challenge, then, is to develop logisticians that are versed...
- White papers 2003-09-04
- Supply Chain Co-ordination
- Supply chain partners are like warships at sea, where their combined strength is resumably greater than that of any one member. Read the article to know about the various week links existing in the supply chain and there causes and the effective measures to be taken to for removing them....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Partnerships To Improve Supply Chains
- The organizational supply chain defines the systems and processes in place to take the product from the conceptual level until its delivery at the marketplace. The paper explores the relevance and significance of developing fruitful partnerships in order to energize the supply chains and make them more effective. A roadmap...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Can You See Me?
- From the executive summary: ‘It is true that companies can no longer afford to operate in their sole interest at the expense of their supply chain partners. But, many companies remain reluctant to integrate with their supply chain partners listing security, privacy, and competitive concerns as reasons for not integrating....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 7 Ways To Customize & Reduce The Cost Of Your Distribution Network
- To facilitate channel-spanning performance measurement, many companies are developing common report cards. These help keep partners working toward the same goals by building a deep understanding of what each company brings to the partnership and showing how to leverage their assets and skills to the alliance’s greatest advantage. To balance...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Supply Chain Management - Buzzword or Potential Pot of Gold
- The wonderful aspects of business dictate that there must be particular slogans, or watch words that drive particular areas of current importance. Today one of the more prominent subjects is Supply Chain Management.. An improvement is needed that will develop the necessary competencies for successful customer relations, partnering and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Moderator’s Note Channel Management Strategies: Digital Partnering
- The advent of the Internet in the 1990s brought with it sweeping hypotheses about changes in distribution channels and customer management. While EDI, ERP and new inventory approaches had made significant strides in improving supply chain efficiencies, the opportunity for broad-scale direct interaction capture opportunities, broadened the potential impact. In...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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