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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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This article describes the unique challenges of the service supply chain, provides a framework for understanding the service
management decision h...
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2004-06-22
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As companies struggle to control costs, the supply chain and management of supply resources have come under scrutiny. The
supply chain is one area where a company can achieve quick gains and receive a fast return on investment. (...)
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As companies struggle to control costs, the supply chain and management of supply resources have come under scrutiny. The
supply chain is one area...
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2009-07-24
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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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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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Embedded knowledge exists in the supply chain to understand and unlock customer value. Integrating the chain is crucial to
aligning the goals of customers and provider. (...)
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Embedded knowledge exists in the supply chain to understand and unlock customer value. Integrating the chain is crucial to
aligning the goals of c...
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2004-11-02
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There remains no shortage of experts and solutions that purport to have the keys to improving your supply chain. However,
executives who bear bottom line responsibility for the performance of the enterprise would do well to evaluate every potential
new program from the perspective outlined here. (...)
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There remains no shortage of experts and solutions that purport to have the keys to improving your supply chain. However,
executives who bear bot...
Published:
2002-11-13
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Understanding the nature and specifics of your product development life cycles, and especially new product design and initiation,
can help you realize tangible cost savings and will offset the total cost of ownership of a product lifecycle management system. (...)
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... Broader supply chain networks; New product market opportunities. ...
So where does the value come from? ... PLM, as a strategy, is as much process
definition as it is ...
Published:
2005-09-28
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Most lean manufacturing deployments target production operations, but can also be extended to other supply chain processes.
To realize the multiplicative benefits of real time information and reduced inventory, companies must assess their production
environment and supply chain activities. (...)
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Most lean manufacturing deployments target production operations, but can also be extended to other supply chain processes.
To realize the multipl...
Published:
2005-09-13
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Significant differences exist between the new parts production supply chain and the service and replacement parts supply
chain. Companies using conventional, new product inventory methods are missing opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness. (...)
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Significant differences exist between the new parts production supply chain and the service and replacement parts supply chain.
Companies using c...
Published:
2005-08-01
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The quintessential business challenge is to minimize downtime on assets while minimizing the cost of spare and replacement
parts inventory. To meet these challenges, heavy investments have been made in extensive spare ad replacement parts networks. (...)
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The quintessential business challenge is to minimize downtime on assets while minimizing the cost of spare and replacement
parts inventory. To mee...
Published:
2005-07-30
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Putting PeopleSoft's strategy to work for the JD Edwards community. What can the JD Edwards install-base expect from the
PeopleSoft merger? (...)
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Putting PeopleSoft's strategy to work for the JD Edwards community. What can the JD Edwards install-base expect from the
PeopleSoft merger?
Published:
2003-09-17
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Supply chain planning tools deliver potentially tremendous savings when well implemented, and wreak havoc when they fail.
A company considering an outsourcing strategy for their supply chain planning processes should first address some key aspects
of these tools. (...)
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... about how to increase the value delivered by ... thoroughly understand
the supply chain, transactional systems ... organization issues, and business strategy,
as the ...
Published:
2006-04-11
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The appeal of global sourcing is understandable given the benefits of seemingly lower costs. But without discerning hidden
challenges and eliminating potential shortcomings, the process may be more costly than anticipated—a situation especially
true for companies using inadequate, out-of-date enterpris (...)
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The appeal of global sourcing is understandable given the benefits of seemingly lower costs. But without discerning hidden
challenges and eliminat...
Published:
2007-08-06
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Infor's latest acquisitions and vertically-focused "assembler strategy" are furthering its goal to be number three (after
SAP and Oracle) in the world of enterprise resource planning vendors. (...)
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Infor's latest acquisitions and vertically-focused "assembler strategy" are furthering its goal to be number
three (after SAP and Oracle) in the w...
Published:
2006-04-27
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Given the competition for retail customers and wholesale orders is intense, retailers, including software vendors, must be
able to meet consumer demand quickly, accurately and at the most competitive price. Despite its failed QRS acquisition, which
promised to expand JDA's retail demand chain optimizatio (...)
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Given the competition for retail customers and wholesale orders is intense, retailers, including software vendors, must be
able to meet consumer d...
Published:
2004-12-31
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Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) addresses the full lifecycle of a product. The focus of most of the current PLM solutions,
however, does not make the most of the value available from servicing products after they have been sold. Service Lifecycle
Management (SLM) promises valuable business benefits (...)
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... Define your SLM strategy to achieve a tangible ROI ... benefits by
tapping into the value of the ... Product Lifecycle Management, ERP, Supply Chain
Management, CRM ...
Published:
2003-06-11
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Improved service management boosts revenue from both service offerings and new product sales, while improved customer service
and enhanced offerings increase customer retention, and draw new service business, providing an additional, low risk and likely
repeated revenue stream over a long period of owner (...)
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Improved service management boosts revenue from both service offerings and new product sales, while improved customer service
and enhanced offerin...
Published:
2005-08-02
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Abstract:
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) addresses the full lifecycle of a product. The focus of most of the current PLM solutions,
however, does not make the most of the value available from servicing products after they have been sold. Service Lifecycle
Management (SLM) promises valuable business benefits (...)
Excerpt related to
value strategy chain cost:
... Define your SLM strategy to achieve a tangible ROI ... benefits by
tapping into the value of the ... Product Lifecycle Management, ERP, Supply Chain
Management, CRM ...
Published:
2003-06-11
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Abstract:
The Atrion International User Group met in Montreal, Quebec (Canada) to discuss ways to improve regulatory compliance for
their respective companies. At the conference, Atrion presented a vision and product strategy to their customers that will
provide critical regulatory and compliance capabilities need (...)
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The Atrion International User Group met in Montreal, Quebec (Canada) to discuss ways to improve regulatory compliance for
their respective compani...
Published:
2004-11-10
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Supplier Logistics Management (SLM) offers the opportunity for considerable improvement in efficiency as well as cost reductions.
SLM enables companies and their suppliers to successfully synchronize information. (...)
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Supplier Logistics Management (SLM) offers the opportunity for considerable improvement in efficiency as well as cost reductions.
SLM enables com...
Published:
2002-01-23
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Users with outdated warehouse management systems (WMS) who want the latest technology available and the next generation of
transportation and logistics software should place RedPrairie on a shortlist of SCE vendors. Blossoming RedPrairie has offered
its prospects a risk/gain-sharing arrangements. In oth (...)
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Users with outdated warehouse management systems (WMS) who want the latest technology available and the next generation of
transportation and logi...
Published:
2003-01-07