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Abstract:
For businesses to respond quickly to customer demand, timely metrics need to be supported. Monthly metrics can provide guidance
on modifying the planning process and tactical plan, but there’s more to it than that. By monitoring daily fluctuations, early
warning signs can be detected to indicate possib (...)
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Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Economic volatility over the past several years has been illustrated by the highly unstable raw material, fuel, and commodity
prices, and has been the cause of a majority of supply chain disruptions over the past year. This white paper highlights the
challenges and solutions in complex industry supply ch (...)
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Boosting Process Industry’s Supply Chain Performance: A Case for Visibility
and Control. Source: itelligence, Inc. Document Type ...
Published:
2011-03-25
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Abstract:
Today’s manufacturing supply chain is challenged with quality mandates, cost reductions, and delivery improvements. Technology
plays a key role in a company’s ability to build and manage an effective supply chain. Read this paper to learn about the
next wave of supply chain solutions and how effectiv (...)
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The Effective Supply Chain: Maximizing Performance of the Entire Manufacturing
Enterprise. Source: Plex Systems. Document Type: White ...
Published:
2011-03-31
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Abstract:
For many organizations in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, the cost of high product volume sales is extreme data
complexity. This affects line-of-business managers in marketing, sales, manufacturing, and procurement, who must derive tangible
business value from this quagmire of data. Find out (...)
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BI for the CPG Industry: Supply Chain Visibility Drives Performance. Source:
SAP. Document Type: White Paper Description: For many ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Since supply chains, by definition, are about the end-to-end inter-enterprise process, we highlight the growing importance
of looking outside your four walls when thinking about supply chain performance management. If you are overwhelmed by the
number of supply chain measures you are tracking, it’s bet (...)
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supply chain performance:
Since supply chains, by definition, are about the end-to-end inter-enterprise process, we highlight the growing importance
of looking outside your...
Published:
2005-05-20
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Abstract:
Supply chain analytics is gaining popularity with organizations, as it is an effective mechanism to monitor and track supply
chain performance. And with new technological innovations promising to enhance these tools, businesses can look forward to
benefiting more fully from this area of supply chain mana (...)
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supply chain performance:
Supply chain analytics is gaining popularity with organizations, as it is an effective mechanism
to monitor and track supply chain performance. An...
Published:
2008-05-07
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Here we are in the New Year. So, what should the going forward picture be of the Supply Chain portfolio? Something old, something
new, something from a service provider, something blue. OK, enough of that. (...)
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Here we are in the New Year. So, what should the going forward picture be of the Supply Chain portfolio? Something old, something
new, something f...
Published:
2004-02-12
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Abstract:
Optimizing supply chain management processes to work more closely with trading partners, requires enterprises to act together
as interdependent supply networks. The development of service oriented architecture will be crucial in achieving the necessary
flexibility characterizing such networked supply cha (...)
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supply chain performance:
Optimizing supply chain management processes to work more closely with trading partners, requires enterprises to act together
as interdependent su...
Published:
2005-11-07
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Abstract:
In Maximizing Performance of the Entire Manufacturing Enterprise, learn how a new wave of innovative supply chains solutions
can help your company ... (...)
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New Wave of Supply Chain Solutions Drives Higher Performance. Manufacturers
are caught in a "perfect storm" of tough markets, tight ...
Published:
2012-02-27
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Abstract:
The key to a successful supply chain is simple: understand the needs of your customers, and deliver the product to them fast
and efficiently. Improving these large-scale activities, however, can be challenging, and requires a comprehensive and systematic
master plan. With a dynamic simulation model, the (...)
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Supply Chain Agility: Inducing World-class Performance for the 21st Century.
Source: Rockford Consulting Group. Document Type: White ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
High-level strategic decisions often have multiple, cascading cost impacts. The reaction of the costs to changes in the
supply chain system is not predictable in a simple relationship that is based on current standard costs, because strategic
changes often involve step changes in costs that alter the ba (...)
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supply chain performance:
High-level strategic decisions often have multiple, cascading cost impacts. The reaction of the costs to changes in the supply
chain system is no...
Published:
2003-07-22
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Abstract:
Supply chain planning vendors have moved beyond enterprise planning to solutions that encompass the whole supply chain. Companies
like Kinaxis are using enterprise response management to manage events and responses as they occur and align results at the
point-of-action. (...)
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supply chain performance:
Supply chain planning vendors have moved beyond enterprise planning to solutions that encompass the whole supply chain. Companies
like Kinaxis are...
Published:
2005-12-09
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Abstract:
Many organizations in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry are experiencing a trade-off between the benefit of high
product volume sales coming at the expense of extreme data complexity. Many CPG organizations are seeking business intelligence
(BI) tools to help create supply chain linkages and del (...)
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supply chain performance:
BI for the CPG Industry – Supply Chain Visibility Drives Performance. Source:
SAP. Document Type: White Paper Description: Many ...
Published:
2011-03-22
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Abstract:
Transforming an enterprise to a lean supply chain requires both enabling technology and discipline. By following some specific
guidelines to extend lean methodology, you can proceed through your supply chain transformation to become effectively lean. (...)
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supply chain performance:
Transforming an enterprise to a lean supply chain requires both enabling technology and discipline. By following some specific
guidelines to exten...
Published:
2005-09-14
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Abstract:
This article describes the unique challenges of the service supply chain, provides a framework for understanding the service
management decision hierarchy, and highlights the dramatic value proposition available to companies that deploy advanced service
strategies and decision-support tools to address th (...)
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supply chain performance:
This article describes the unique challenges of the service supply chain, provides a framework for understanding the service
management decision h...
Published:
2004-06-22
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Abstract:
IBS may be the first vendor to fully integrate a supply chain operations reference model in its business intelligence solution.
Customers receive more efficient measurements and benchmarking across their supply chain regardless of their supply chain
and ERP software. (...)
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supply chain performance:
IBS may be the first vendor to fully integrate a supply chain operations reference model in its business intelligence solution.
Customers receive ...
Published:
2005-09-07
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Abstract:
The objective of supply chain logistics - to provide goods to the right place at the right time in the right quantity - is
easy to understand, but achieving this objective while minimizing costs is not an easy task. (...)
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supply chain performance:
The objective of supply chain logistics - to provide goods to the right place at the right time in the right quantity - is
easy to understand, but...
Published:
2001-12-02
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Abstract:
Performance addresses issues surrounding how the new economy is transforming the supply chain and ultimately, how Andersen
conducts business. Through this effort, they express how their customers, and the industry in general, are creating a more
innovative supply chain. (...)
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supply chain performance:
Performance addresses issues surrounding how the new economy is transforming the supply
chain and ultimately, how Andersen conducts business. Thro...
Published:
2001-12-08
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Abstract:
Advances in leaner and faster supply chains have, in many cases, come at the price of increased brittleness. It is time to
make supply chains more resilient, and deal with risk more intelligently to maintain the gains from lean strategies, and take
performance to the next level. (...)
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supply chain performance:
Advances in leaner and faster supply chains have, in many cases, come at the price of increased brittleness. It is time to
make supply chains more...
Published:
2004-04-23
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Abstract:
Changing business requirements have forced supply chain execution (SCE) vendors to expand via add-on modules. Seeing this
upward push from the SCE vendors, enterprise resource planning vendors are now pushing downward and including SCE modules
within their solutions. (...)
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supply chain performance:
Changing business requirements have forced supply chain execution (SCE) vendors to expand via add-on modules. Seeing this
upward push from the SCE...
Published:
2009-03-25