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- Lean on Oracle And Capgemini For Automotive Transportation And Logistics Optimization
- As global competition in the automotive marketplace intensifies, automotive companies face increasing market performance challenges, and pressure toward building and maintaining brand effectiveness and profits. In the race to dominate market share and increase their competitive positions, OEMs and suppliers alike are looking outside the shop floor to optimize operating...
- White papers 2006-11-23
- Pre Pack Optimization: Increasing Supply Chain Efficiency
- Pre packing refers to packing of individual Stock Keeping Units SKUs of merchandise into bigger cases for easier handling in the supply chain. The pre packs consist of varying quantities of different SKUs clubbed together to form the lowest level of packaging hierarchy and are designed to flow through from...
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Modeling Of Purchase And Sales Contracts In Supply Chain Optimization
- This work presents a novel approach for modeling of different types of contracts that a company may sign with its suppliers and customers. The main objective is to expand the scope of current planning and supply chain optimization models by including the selection of the types of contracts as an...
- White papers 2005-11-25
- Downstream Petroleum Supply Chains: Incremental Optimization Leads to Greatest Gains
- In the face of worldwide uncertainty about volatile crude oil supply and the availability of refined product and prices, downstream petroleum companies need to make fast, well-informed supply decisions. The solution that may seem the most daunting to implement is the solution that can provide results: supply chain optimization that...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Using Supply Chain Design and Optimization to Reduce Inventory
- Manufacturing and distribution firms are moving beyond transactional and operational technologies to tackle their complex supply chain processes. New solutions, such as Supply Chain Design and Optimization SCDO, help companies satisfy customer demand while balancing limitations on supply and the need for operational efficiency. SCDO moves beyond automating efficiency to...
- White papers 2005-10-17
- The Art of Supply Chain Optimization
- This paper explains crafting of supply chain processes that updates logistics and inventory management. It explains the case of the growing retail chain Michaels Stores Inc who called a logistics team to do this crafting. The new supply chain and inventory management plan was designed to streamline product flows to...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Currency Management and Optimization for Banks With mySAP SCM
- Shrinking profit margins, tougher competition, and rapid change have radically altered the way financial institutions view currency management. Many banks still treat currency as cost-free inventory, however. They keep excess amounts of cash at branches, ATMs, and central vaults to make sure there is enough on hand to meet customer...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Demand-Driven Solution for Production Scheduling Based on SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization
- AstraZeneca, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, is an innovator when it comes to supply chain management SCM. The project was driven by the need for greater agility and flexibility in the supply chain process, with the ultimate objectives of enhancing customer service and improving the flow of information...
- Case studies 2005-01-01
- Supply Base Optimization and Integrated Supply Chain Management
- Competition is not just firm versus firm, but chain versus chain or network versus network. Company executives have recognized the pivotal role of supply chain management and the organizational benefit of integrated supply chain management. The analysis revealed in the paper signifies that benefits are obtainable through leveraging effective supplier...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Consumer-Driven Merchandise Optimization
- Big retailers are big for a reason - customers and investors reward them for solid value and good returns. Retailers constantly confront new dynamics. Today's environment is marked by empowered customers, competitive Darwinism, and competitors who've mastered market, product, and brand lifecycles. As leaders succeed on these fronts, followers risk...
- White papers 2005-01-01
- RFID Technology For Supply Chain Optimization
- This paper explores the benefits and liabilities of using Radio Frequency IDentification RFID technology in supply chain management operations to support optimization as suggested by Byrnes. Through content analysis, a review of RFID technology benefits is centered on goals relative to the optimization of logistics activities, specifically related to inventory...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- "One": A New Tool for Supply Chain Network Optimization and Simulation
- Nowadays, in a hotly competitive environment, companies are continuously trying to provide products and/or services to customers faster, cheaper, and better than the competitors do. Managers have learned that they cannot do it alone; rather, they must work on a cooperative basis with other organizations in order to succeed. Although...
- White papers 2004-11-11
- Real-Time Profit Optimization
- Advances in Information Technology have resulted in remarkable opportunities for both marketing and supply chain management. In the marketing sector, firms are increasingly able to understand individual customer preferences that improve the ability to optimize revenue generation. In the supply chain area, firms can employ technology to improve the visibility...
- White papers 2004-06-15
- Supply Chain Optimization Using Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms
- In the work presented in this paper, multi-objective evolutionary algorithms are used to model and solve a three stage supply chain problem for Pareto Optimality. Typically all supply chain problems are characterized by decisions that are conflicting by nature. Modeling these problems using multiple objectives gives the decision maker a...
- White papers 2004-04-29
- Recent Trends In Inventory Optimization
- During 2003, more than one hundred SCM Supply Chain Management solution vendors started promoting "Inventory Optimization", an application solution described by various analysts as a new frontier in Supply Chain Planning. The ability to automatically determine the correct stock levels for multiple SKUs in multiple locations, in such a way...
- White papers 2004-02-01
- Simulation Based Optimization for Supply Chain Configuration Design
- The design of a supply chain network as an integrated system with several tiers of suppliers is a difficult task. It consists of making strategic decisions on the facility location, stocking location, production policy, production capacity, distribution and transportation modes. In this paper, a hybrid optimization approach has been developed...
- White papers 2003-10-31
- Event - Driven Optimization: A New Model for Supply Chain Execution in the Retail Industry
- As retailers strive to reduce inventories and manage working capital more effectively, they need to streamline processes throughout the supply chain to provide goods when needed and maintain their tight margins. Unexpected disruptions to the flow of goods through the supply chain, however, can make this formidable task all the...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Supply Chain Multi-Objective Simulation Optimization
- A critical decision companies are faced with on a regular basis is the ordering of products and/or raw materials. Poor decisions can lead to excess inventories that are costly or to insufficient inventory that cannot meet its customer demands. These decisions may be as simple as "How much to order"...
- White papers 2002-11-15
- Sustained Inventory Optimization: The Next Challenge For Logistics And Supply-Chain Teams
- From the executive summary: ‘In returning capital and cost control issues to most management teams’ agendas, the economic downturn has displaced e-commerce and software initiatives in many cases. The renewed balance between revenue growth and operating efficiencies has empowered operating executives to demand better performance and more support from their...
- White papers 2002-11-01
- Distributed Simulation With Incorporated Aps Procedures for High-Fidelity Supply Chain Optimization
- Tactical and operational planning for manufacturing enterprises are more important today than ever before as their supply chains span the globe. Two state-of-the-art technologies that are critical to success are Discrete Event Simulation and Advanced Planning and Scheduling. They are commonly applied in designing and executing operations at each site...
- White papers 2001-11-14
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