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Simple questions often have complex answers. Whether they are speaking with you on the phone or placing an order on a Web
storefront, your customers expect immediate gratification. They want to know when their order will ship the moment it is placed.
How do you respond? (...)
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Order Promising: Pre-Condition Your Enterprise for Operational Excellence. ...
is critically important because changes that occur in the supply chain, such as late ...
Published:
2001-11-24
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Operational Excellence: The New Lever for Profitability and Competitive Advantage. Find Out Solutions and Other Applications
for Your Decision Related to Operational Excellence. Better. Faster. Cheaper. Every company is grappling with these concepts
today as economic uncertainty spreads. Though many are f (...)
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Operational Excellence: The New Lever for Profitability and Competitive Advantage. Find Out Solutions and Other Applications
for Your Decision Rela...
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2010-03-11
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The lack of effective game plans is typically cited as a leading cause of poor system implementation. The following guidelines
provide suggestions for improving the effectiveness of sales and operations planning (S&OP) game plans. (...)
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The lack of effective game plans is typically cited as a leading cause of poor system implementation. The following guidelines
provide suggestions...
Published:
2004-03-26
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Supply chain management is a truly dynamic field. Over the last few years the fundamental structure of the chains has changed
to the point where many of the working assumptions have to be reevaluated. ChainLink Research’s new 3D approach provides a
useful framework for evaluating supply chain solutions (...)
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Supply chain management is a truly dynamic field. Over the last few years the fundamental structure of the chains has changed
to the point where m...
Published:
2005-05-20
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Delivering Supply Chain Excellence. Papers and Other Software Package to Use In Your Complex System and for Delivering Supply
Chain Excellence. Gaps between enterprise resource planning (ERP) functionality and best-of-breed applications are diminishing
rapidly. Deciding between the two may thus come down (...)
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Delivering Supply Chain Excellence. Papers and Other Software Package to Use In Your Complex System and for Delivering Supply
Chain Excellence. Gap...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Getting Value From Industry Best Practices the High-Tech Supply Chain Challenge. Find Out Solutions and Other Information
Associated with the Industry Best Practices and the High-Tech Supply Chain Challenge. Supply chain operations play a vital
role in the success of any consumer or high-tech original equ (...)
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... and technology enablers with your company"s supply chain strategy
and IT ... Benchmarking can help reveal the association between operational excellence
and best ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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To achieve a high level of supply chain transparency, companies must share their technology systems and data with many suppliers,
distributors, transportation carriers, and channel partners that bring their products to market. This information may be seen
by thousands worldwide. While there are doubtless (...)
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Every Organization Values Supply Chain Visibility but Sharing Information Can Be a Dangerous
Proposition. Source: JDA Software Group. ...
Published:
2012-01-25
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Abstract:
Over 190 companies were surveyed regarding their challenges within demand-supply networks and the top priorities for managing
these networks. This paper is based on an analysis of that survey and highlights the need for companies to focus on intelligent
response management strategies that bridge planning (...)
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Intelligent Response Management Strategies for Managing Demand-Supply Networks. Source: SAP. Document Type:
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Published:
2012-01-25
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Deliverng Operational Excellence with Innovation. Read White Papers and Other Software for Your Assessment and for Deliverng
Operational Excellence. Changing business practices, especially those that consolidate business and IT functions, requires
careful research and decision making. For companies needin (...)
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Deliverng Operational Excellence with Innovation. Read White Papers and Other Software for Your Assessment and for Deliverng
Operational Excellence...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
The Long Tail—a strategy involving the sale of a large number of exclusive items in small quantities—is growing.
Most companies are dealing with a far greater variety of stock keeping units (SKUs) and slow-moving items with lumpy, unpredictable
demand patterns. Learn why Long Tails are growin (...)
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Mastering the Long Tail of Demand. Source: ToolsGroup. Document Type: White Paper Description: The Long Tail—a strategy involving
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Published:
2010-03-11
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Dorcy, a global distributor of flashlights and batteries, manufactures its product line in Taiwan, China, and Korea, and
repackages products in two US warehouses to ship to major retailers. With 2,500 items in its inventory—approaching $12
million (USD) at any given time—Dorcy needs a warehou (...)
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Case Study: Dorcy International. Source: VAI. Document Type: Case Study Description: Dorcy, a global distributor of flashlights
and ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
For the coffee producer Mother Parkers, scheduling coffee production across two plants was an ever-increasing challenge.
Mother Parkers decided to take proactive steps toward consolidating its day-to-day scheduling data by engaging Supply Chain
Consultants (SCC) to help. SCC applied its scheduling algori (...)
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... Source: Supply Chain Consultants (SCC). Document Type: Case Study Description:
For the coffee producer Mother Parkers, scheduling coffee production across two ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
SAP Manufacturing—Manufacturing Intelligence Dashboards. IT Reports and Other Software Package to Use In Your Complex
System Associated with Manufacturing Intelligence Dashboards and SAP Manufacturing. Adaptiveness in the manufacturing sector
depends on being able to push decision making to the s (...)
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SAP Manufacturing—Manufacturing Intelligence Dashboards. IT Reports and Other Software Package to Use In Your Complex System
Associated with ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Improvement is not simply an idea: it is a process. And processes without frameworks are recipes for underachievement, or
worse, chaos. For this reason, value leakages in procurement functions must be resolved in a systematic, progressive, incremental,
and formalized manner. (...)
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Improvement is not simply an idea: it is a process. And processes without frameworks are recipes for underachievement, or
worse, chaos. For this r...
Published:
2006-07-17
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... It felt like SCM professionals were married to Excel, and their supply chain
and operational activities cannot function without it. ...
Published:
2010-04-23
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See how modern computing devices can support the expansion of mobile solutions for SCM and how the clouds will help you achieve
total portability. Mobile computing is changing the way companies manage their entire business. The development of ultra-portable
computing devices is geared to support a sle (...)
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The Mobile Supply Chain Management Puzzle: Almost There. Phil Reney - February 9, 2011.
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Published:
2011-02-09
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Abstract:
All too often, fragmented IT landscapes make it difficult—and sometimes downright impossible—for wholesale distributors to
improve processes, control costs, and create the efficiencies needed to succeed in a competitive industry. Nevertheless, enterprise
technologies do have the potential to be power (...)
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... have the potential to be powerful tools, quickly reacting to shifting market forces in a consolidating
industry, and achieving operational excellence and solid ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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As one of the fastest-growing home shopping retailers in the UK, JD Williams sells products through its 45 Web sites and
more than 700 annual catalogs. To better face the challenges of its Internet sales—and to take advantage of opportunities—JD
Williams began an end-to-end supply chain initi (...)
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... To better face the challenges of its Internet sales—and to take advantage of opportunities—JD Williams
began an end-to-end supply chain initiative, with a ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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... and the need for service level excellence, ToolsGroup is ... ToolsGroup
offers a full-fledged operational solution that ... onto an ERP or supply
chain management (SCM ...
Published:
2008-09-12
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Abstract:
Pulse is a global leader in the design and manufacture of electronic components. With its far-flung design centers, manufacturing
facilities, and customer care centers, Pulse sought to adopt a global supply chain management strategy, integrated with demand
planning and manufacturing operations. The benef (...)
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... With its far-flung design centers, manufacturing facilities, and customer care centers, Pulse sought
to adopt a global supply chain management strategy ...
Published:
2010-03-11