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- 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 increasingly being seen as integrated...
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- Networked value chain[SM]: Seizing the competitive edge in supply chain management - Cap Gemini Ernst & Young
- Are your inventory levels mounting? Do your customers complain about late deliveries? Is your once state-of-the-art supply chain software outdated? If you answer "yes" to any of these questions, then you should be examining your entire supply chain. Addressing specific areas, like inventory, customer service, or software will provide only...
- Research articles 2002-03-01
- Assemble a nimble value chain: more supply chain investment going toward consulting services.
- Pressure to build supply chains that can respond to customer demand is driving higher investments in IT consulting services. Microsoft and its systems integrator SI partners see manufacturers using services to help install collaborative framework Pressure to build supply chains that can respond to...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- Retek Extends Its Supply Chain Management Solutions Across The Value Chain
- MINNEAPOLIS -- Retek Acquires Certain Assets and the Related Liabilities of Syncra Systems, Inc. To Expand Its Collaboration Capabilities
- Research articles 2004-11-16
- Value Chain: Logistics Management From Here And There
- Managing inventory and controlling the flow of materials and goods is crucial to success. In an era of instant electronic communication and high-speed global shipping systems, the words "logistics management" can send a chill down the spine of even the most efficient and agile manufacturer. For a small company, logistics...
- White papers 2000-02-14
- Supply Chain Management: New Competitive Realities in the Automotive Value Chain - Results of an IBM and OSAT Study
- The automotive industry faces one of the most demanding phases of its recent evolution. Fierce competition means that some manufacturers and suppliers will face mergers or acquisitions, or ultimately exiting the business. Manufacturers' and suppliers' responses as they confront these obstacles will determine which companies will still be part of...
- White papers 2004-07-02
- Performance Management - Remedy for Value Chain Ills
- A supply chain simply moves products across multiple trading partners whereas a value chain generates a profit accomplishing this. Measuring true performance, not just hundreds of metrics destined for little use in briefing books, is a major challenge for supply chain managers. Increasingly measures must widen their horizon beyond the...
- White papers 2004-06-15
- Supply Chain Management: New Competitive Realities in the Automotive Value Chain
- The automotive industry faces one of the most demanding phases of its recent evolution. Fierce competition means that some manufacturers and suppliers face mergers or acquisitions, or ultimately exiting the business. Manufacturers' and suppliers' responses as they confront these obstacles will determine which companies will still be part of the...
- White papers 2004-07-13
- Value Chains Versus Supply Chains
- The concept of a Value Chain has existed for twenty years but the authors find it still is an unclear concept. It has been suggested that the third generation supply chain is based on customer intimacy and is fully synchronized. In this paper, the authors discuss the need to relate...
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Accenture's Supply Chain Academy Helps Dow Optimize The Global Value Chain
- With annual sales of US$54 billion and 46,000 employees worldwide, Dow is a diversified chemical company that combines the power of science and technology with the "Human element" to constantly improve what is essential to human progress. The Accenture Supply Chain Academy helped the Dow Chemical Co. meet its growth...
- Case studies 2008-12-16
- Tomorrow's Global Giants? Not the Usual Suspects
- In the largest emerging markets, established multinationals and local players are battling for dominance. Conventional wisdom says MNCs rule in high-end, knowledge-intensive businesses; local companies, in low-end segments where production and logistics matter most. But...
- Articles 2009-01-06
- The accelerated Value Chain: Supply chain management just got smarter, faster and more cost-effective, thanks to a groundbreaking alliance between Intel and i2 technologies.
- During the 1990s, manufacturer spent millions on information systems designed to make their factories run more efficiently. "Companies focused on optimizing operations at a single plant, between two plants, or within five plants," observes During the 1990s, manufacturer spent millions on information systems designed...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- AberdeenGroup and APQC Launch 'by the numbers—Procurement'; New Publication Features Industry Benchmarks, Supply Chain Research, and Case Studies
- BOSTON -- AberdeenGroup, the leading provider of fact-based research and advisory services for global technology and value chain executives, and APQC, the leading nonprofit provider of financial and value chain benchmarking and research, announce the launch of "by the numbers--Procurement," a new title in a series of publications co-developed by...
- Research articles 2005-11-17
- The lean supply chain: seating components manufacturer pilots Microsoft-based lean execution system.(Case-in-point)
- For a growing number of manufacturers, lean manufacturing is a key strategy for value chain performance. While lean efforts closely examine factory-floor processes to "pull" work through plants at a pace triggered by demand, lean goes wel For a growing number of manufacturers, lean...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
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- 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....
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Value-Chain Report-Proactively Manage Your Supply-Chain Strategy
- From the executive summary: ‘The challenge for management is not to become complacent about the supply chain, but to continually assess supply-chain effectiveness and the ability of the supply chain to contribute significantly to overall strategic objectives of the company. This must become a proactive process with a focus on...
- White papers 2001-06-04
- Mind Your Own Business: Supply Chain Integration And Feedback
- Feedback and supply chain integration are key instruments in a business. As feedback helps in analyzing the pulse of customers, similarly, supply chain integration also helps in judging the pulse of supply chain providers. Feedback is also important to make bottom-line decisions pertaining to marketing, design, sales, and manufacturing in...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- The Dynamic Value Chain: Quickly Reducing Complexity
- Dynamic value chain management increases responsiveness across organizational structures. Communication between functional areas improves overall supply chain effectiveness. Dynamic value chain management DVCM is a business methodology that helps companies manage marketplace variability and complexity and align company strategies with execution processes. DVCM helps transform a value chain into a...
- White papers 2002-05-16
- Now It's A Job For THE CEO.(top-level value-chain collaboration)
- New IW survey examines the benefits--and barriers--associated with top-level value-chain collaboration. THERE WAS A TIME WHEN TOP-RANKING executives in manufacturing tended to distance themselves from such operational details as supply-chain management or information sharing with upstream and downstream partners in the "value...
- Research articles 2000-03-20
- 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...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- 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...
- White papers 2003-06-04
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