Supply Chain Management

Best practices, tips, hints, how tos, 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 chai.

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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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Enterprise Startups: A Long Road Ahead

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

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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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Are the iPad 2 HD Rumors for Real?

When will the iPad finally go high def? The manufacturing challenges have led to rumors of an iPad 3 or iPad 2 HD arriving later this year. But where does this leave the iPad 2 expected this spring?

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Retailers Going Green, But Customers Remain Apathetic

Retailers have put time and money into going green, but consumers don't seem to be rewarding them for it. Some retailers have decided enough is enough.

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Supply Chain Talent: In Demand and Out of Stock?

Companies are bemoaning a supply chain talent shortage--but is it real? One guru says these companies are lazy, even unwilling to train up current staff.

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The Trouble with Supply-Chain Best Practices

When it comes to the supply chain, best practices gleaned from the likes of Apple and Cisco simply don't apply to all companies' problems. Here's some advice on how to think more critically about improving supply chain.

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RFID Tags Arrive on the Store Floor as Retailers Go After ROI

After years of struggle with this complex technology, retailers are profiting from targeted areas where RFID is paying off. But as Wal-Mart's now doing, retailers must stop thinking cases and palettes and start thinking about tracking individual items.

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Apple, P&G, Cisco and Wal-Mart Tops Among Global Supply Chains

AMR Research's annual list of the top 25 supply chains names Apple as No. 1 (again). P&G, Cisco and other global manufacturers (Dell) and retailers (Wal-Mart) made the list for supply chain and financial excellence.

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Can SAP Get Its Supply Chain Mojo Back?

An AMR Research report questions SAP's commitment to its supply chain management product portfolio. Will the new co-CEOs offer better product, clearer vision and sweeter incentives? Customers are dubious.

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Zappos tries video sharing to boost sales

The retailer bets that sharing video of the products it sells and helping customers share their own will put shoppers in the mood to spend.

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RFID: A New Hope in a New Decade

For all the hype and some pockets of success, RFID's time in the mainstream sun remains five to 10 years off, analysts say. CIO.com's Thomas Wailgum uncovers a few bright spots--and examines what's stopping some businesses from making the most of RFID.

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Supply Chain Data on Holiday 2009 Hotties: Zhu Zhu Pet 'Hot,' Hannah Montana 'Not'

New supply-chain import data analyzed by Panjiva, as well its new Trends product, shows who's hot and who's not this holiday gift-giving season. Watch out kiddos: Coal imports are on the rise!

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Nintendo Wii Left Out in the Cold This Holiday Season

Nintendo's charmed status as the holiday gift that defied even the recession seems to be ending. Should Nintendo's supply chain planners have seen this coming?

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Business Intelligence: How Analyzing ERP Data Helped a Retailer to Get More Value from Suppliers

A BI project using ERP data allowed furniture retailer Slumberland to find its most profitable suppliers

 
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.
Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services and GT Nexus, a market leader in cloud supply chain technology, today announced that they have signed a joint go-to-market BPO initiative to enable Supply Chain Orchestration.
This white paper describes how leading importers are reaping the benefits of end-to-end global supply chain visibility and control.
Convergence of Physical and Financial Global Supply Chains (ChainLink Technology Series) The silos of global trade management can no longer operate independently.
Read this white paper to learn how implementing a service-based TMS, together with a well designed freight audit and payment module help reduce your transportation spend.
Read this white paper to learn how implementing a cloud-based TMS, together with a well designed freight audit and payment module, can help reduce your transportation spend.
One theme that is beginning to bubble up is the concept of "Multienterprise Commerce."
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.
Have you been thinking about what it would take to start using virtualization? Or do you know the basics and want to find out more? No problem. This webcast is designed for anyone with little to no knowledge of virtualization technology. Attend this webcast to learn:

-A basic overview of the business value of the technology and some key capabilities that make virtualization so valuable to IT and the businesses you serve.
-The basics for creating virtual machines and the key choices that can be made along the route to deployment.
View this on demand webcast to learn if moving business communications to the cloud is right for your business. Featured industry experts DMG Consulting LLC president, Donna Fluss, Frost & Sullivan principal analyst, Michael DeSalles, and Interactive Intelligence senior vice president, Joe Staples discuss this topic and help you answer your pressing questions at the conclusion of this web event.
In this webcast, Vantage Point Performance's Michelle Vazzana will reveal how to coach your reps to better performing pipelines.
In this webcast produced by the Sales Management Association (SMA), Forrester's Scott Santucci will explore the new sales paradigm and discuss how businesses must transform their selling models into dynamic, communications-intensive systems, empowering individual sellers to define, create and deliver value to customers.
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