Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Best practices, tips, hints, how-to, and more about supply chain management, including how to plan, implement and control all operations in the supply chain and how supply chain software can help you manage your supply chain.

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How to Find Weak Links in Your Supply Chain

Big companies like WellPoint have caught on to the importance of evaluating the disaster-recovery plans of even their smallest suppliers. Does your business-continuity plan cover supply-chain risk? It should. Full Story »
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IBM Tracks Pork Chops From Pig to Plate

IBM is deploying technology that allows meat suppliers to track a single pig all the way from farm animal to pork chop.

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IBM Buys Emptoris for Contract Managment, Supply Software

The move adds to IBM's family of commerce-related applcations

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The CIO as Supply Chain Manager

There will come a day, soon, when even large companies will have very little technology in-house to manage. CIOs can prepare by adopting a supply-chain mentality and approach to IT.

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Software Vendor Says Partnership with SAP Led to Stolen Trade Secrets

It's the latest turn in a long-running dispute between Wellogix and SAP

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The Cloud Solves Those Lingering Supply Chain Problems

When consumes ship FedEx packages they get a reliable, impressive IT experience as part of that $10 service. Yet many of the world's biggest corporations still only dream of having FedEx-like technology to support their global supply chain operations, but cloud-based services promise to change that.

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Enterprise Startups: A Long Road Ahead

This year's crop of DEMO startups targeting the enterprise space face big challenges.

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Drug Maker Fixes Supply Chain with Social Tools

Generic drug maker Ratiopharm, now part of Teva Canada, turned to social networking tools to solve communication problems that choked its supply chain and made it difficult to respond to fluctuations in customer demand.

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Drug Maker Goes Social to End Supply Chain Crisis

Generic drug maker Ratiopharm, now part of Teva Canada, turned to social networking tools to solve communication problems that choked the supply chain and made it difficult to respond to fluctuations in customer demand.

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New SCM Deployments Help Food and Beverage Companies Streamline Business Operations

By finding efficiencies and integrating disparate supply chain systems, Tate & Lyle and Maple Leaf Foods are gaining competitive advantages. Could this help your enterprise, too?

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Four Ways the Red Sox are Scoring with SharePoint

The Boston Red Sox IT group had been left stranded on base by manual processes that handled ticket requests, invoices and fan mail. But now that they've built an intranet portal using SharePoint 2010 they're speeding towards home.

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The Long and Windy Road to Oracle's Fusion Applications

Oracle has laid out the Fusion Apps roadmap for its customers. But how each customer actually gets to the Fusion Apps destination is another question altogether.

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SAP's Not-So-Secret Weapon: Its Own CIO

Oliver Bussmann, now a year into his tenure as CIO for SAP, has re-invented and raised the profile of the ERP vendor's CIO role. One key: Sharing with customers his ongoing experiences with a huge SAP environment.

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GT Nexus today announced that fashion apparel and accessories company Liz Claiborne Inc. (NYSE: LIZ) extended its contract for a supply chain visibility and control platform.
How one CPG customer performed through good times and bad by using the Freight Contracting and Ocean Visibility modules from GT Nexus.
This white paper describes how leading importers are reaping the benefits of end-to-end global supply chain visibility and control.
Read this solution brief to learn how inventory optimization can facilitate coordinated, integrated and multi-echelon inventory planning, improving turns and service levels while freeing working capital.
Learn why a mobile development platform is critical to be able to support today's complex enterprise mobility strategies. Learn what to look for in a mobile development platform and how apply these tools whether you're developing a dedicated app for one device or multiple apps running across multiple devices.
Learn how developers are using HTML5 and native development methods to build mobile apps. Get practical insights on how these tools are being used, what's driving their usage, and how to choose the best development approach for your business.
Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 2:00 PM EDT

Whether your B2B complexity is caused by multiple technologies due to M&A, business or application specific needs or traditional under investment, the net effect is usually the same: high cost and lower productivity. Enabling business-to-business (B2B) integration using point-to-point EDI translators is usually time intensive and cost prohibitive.

Join IDC's Maureen Fleming and SAP for an insightful Webcast on the different approaches companies are taking to B2B integration and how you can ask the right questions to reassess you B2B approach.
Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT

Siloed organizations continue doing the wrong things and doing things wrong, leading to increased costs, project delays, lower quality, and time-to-market delays. Providing a collaborative platform where the whole organization can prioritize, share and manage deliveries with more transparency can help the organizations make more informed decisions at all levels, and greatly improve communications and traceability between teams. Hear from application lifecycle management experts how to increase delivery efficiency and effectiveness with a new approach to Delivery Management.
Date/Time: June 5, 2012, 11:00 a.m., EDT, 4:00 p.m. BST / 3:00 p.m. UTC

Please join us for this webcast, as Dr. Barry Devlin, Founder and Principal, 9sight Consulting, describes what operational analytics can do for your business and reviews an architectural approach that will enable you to make it a reality.
With BMC Control-M, you schedule and manage everything - down to the very last platform and application - from one simple interface. It's the foundation of workload automation, really - the ability to run application and business processes as one. Siloed job schedulers can't do it. BMC Control-M can.
Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, quadrupled its complex batch environment with zero extra headcount using BMC Control-M's Automated File Transfer features.
Learn how IT teams can protect against spear phishing tactics. Harry Sverdlove, chief technology officer of Bit9 offers a frank discussion about spear phishing - the most common technique used in today's advanced attacks. Learn how spear phishing works and three recommendations for IT to protect against modern threats.
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