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2008: Risks To Look Out For: AMR Research has been tracking global risks and their effect on businesses for several years. Beyond the natural and worldwide challenges that companies continually face - hurricanes, disease, and terrorism, among others - they need to prepare for some more basic risks heading into 2008: brand reputation; technology risk; global...; Tags: Management, Marketing, Human Resources, Software, Branding, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Workforce Management, AMR Research, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Talent, Supply Chain; White papers 2008-01-14
Improving Customer Loyalty: Retaining customer loyalty is vital to the long-term success and profitability of your business. With industry consolidation, increasing competition, and changes in the marketplace, you need to work harder than ever to maintain a strong customer base. Improving customer loyalty is an essential element in customer retention. What You...; Tags: customer retention, customer relationship, industry, auditing, decision-making, benefit, market research, consulting, supply chain, supplier, team, survey, performance, Service, BNET Editorial, Management, Sales, Marketing, Strategy, Industry Experience, Community, Internet, Marketing Research, Web Site Development, Product, Cost Reduction, Newsletter, Sales Force Management, Channel Management, Sales Strategy, Customer Loyalty, Information, Business, Customer; Articles 2007-10-10
Understanding Pricing Issues: In an era of increasing globalization, the costs of labor, transportation, and materials constantly fluctuate. This presents a problem because it creates new complexities and encourages new competition. This also presents an opportunity because those complexities challenge your organization to re-evaluate its pricing process regularly. Doing this will help you...; Tags: pricing decision, globalization, transportation, Process Management, downsizing, inflation, supply chain, tool, income, outsourcing, strategy, benefit, BNET Editorial, Marketing, Pricing, Re-engineering, Marketing Research, Senior Management, Pricing Strategy, Price, Product; Articles 2007-10-02
Why Your Company Needs a Water Strategy: If you head over to NYTimes.com today, you'll be confronted with a fairly horrifying picture of a polluted, sludge-filled Chinese river. The photo accompanies one of a series of articles on the environmental cost of China's rapid economic growth. It concludes that the ever increasing usage and pollution of the...; Tags: Supply Chain, China, Jessica Stillman, Management, Software, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Global Environmental Management Initiative, Photograph; Blog posts 2007-09-27
Strategies to Run a Lean Supply Chain: How Principles of Lean Manufacturing Transfer Benefits to Operations: The blurring of the line between manufacturing and supply chain logistics provides the opportunity to move efficient manufacturing management concepts to supply chain management. One manufacturing concept stands out as most successful: the concept of lean. This paper from Ventana Research describes lean manufacturing and how it can be applied...; Tags: Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Lean Manufacturing, Benefit, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations; White papers 2007-04-20

Supply Chain Relationships And Contracts: The Impact Of Repeated Interaction: Consider a firm developing an innovative product. Due to market pressures, production must begin soon after the product development effort is complete, which requires that an upstream supplier invest in capacity while the design of the product and production process are in flux. Because the product is ill-defined at this...; Tags: Contract, Supply Chain, Management, Marketing, Business Operations, Research & Development, Strategy, Product Marketing, Product Development, Columbia University; White papers 2006-12-01
The Conceptual Framework For Business Process Innovation: This paper outlines the conceptual framework for a research program on Business Process Innovation based on advanced Enterprise Information Systems in a global supply chain context. The paper has argued that most industrial supply chains are globally scattered and nearly every business relies on their Enterprise Information Systems ES for...; Tags: Supply Chain, Business Process, Innovation, Operational Planning, University Of Reading, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Leadership, Strategy, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Management; White papers 2006-11-24
Supply Chain Management In The Petroleum Industry: Supply chain management in the petroleum industry contains various challenges, specifically in the logistics area, that are not present in most other industries. These logistical challenges are a major influence on the cost of oil and its derivatives. However, opportunities for cost savings in logistics still do exist. Giant oil...; Tags: Petroleum, Industry, Logistics, SCM, Petroleum Industry, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Telecom & Utilities, Strategy, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Management; White papers 2006-11-01
Making Progress In Manufacturing And Distribution: Technology That Fits Your Business: Change is constant. Nowadays manufacturers, distributors and logistics companies face an unprecedented rate of change in business processes and practices, in global competition, and information technology. As your business changes, so do your Information Technology IT needs. You have made significant investments in IT. New solutions must leverage your existing...; Tags: Information Technology, Progress Software Corp., Logistics, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Strategy, Business Operations, Management; White papers 2006-07-19
Effective Supply Chain Strategy: Take This Strategy Test to Check How Your Company Scores: Implementing Supply Chain Strategy is a lot like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube puzzle; the objective of the puzzle is to twist layers of multi colored squares in such a way that each of the six faces of the cube contains all the squares of one color. The author...; Tags: Implementing Supply Chain Strategy, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Operational Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Management, Supply Chain, Business Process, Square, Author; White papers 2006-07-01
MCA Solutions Puts KLA-Tencor Service Supply Chain in the Chips: As the world's leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor industry, KLA-Tencor serves every major semiconductor manufacturer. Each customer's wafer fabrication facility typically costs $3bn, so these integrated circuit manufacturers rely on KLA-Tencor to ensure maximum uptime. To leverage the advanced forecasting and risk management...; Tags: Software, Finance, Management, Hardware, Financial Services, Semiconductors, Strategy, Financial Planning, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Chip, Keller International Publishing, KLA-Tencor Corp., Supply Chain, Enterprise Software; Case studies 2006-07-01
Terra Technology Provides Campbell Soup With a Recipe for Supply Chain Success: Campbell Soup Company is a $7.5bn leader in the consumer packaged goods industry producing familiar brands such as Campbell's, Prego etc. Campbell adopted a strategy to improve customer satisfaction by aggressively introducing new products to market, introducing a slew of successful products such as Campbell's Soup at Hand. As the...; Tags: Strategy, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Campbell Soup Co., Keller International Publishing, Supply Chain, Management, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies 2006-07-01
Logistics Providers Adapt Services to Shifting Demand: Changing market dynamics, particularly globalization of manufacturing and sourcing, are impacting the types of value-added services customers want from third-party logistics providers. The definition of "Value-added" can be a moving target, however. Many services that used to fall into that category - things like kitting, sequencing and repackaging - have...; Tags: Keller International Publishing, Logistics Provider, Logistics, Supply Chain, Globalization, Business Operations, Strategy, Management; White papers 2006-07-01
IT Deployment Assessment: The intent of this paper is to develop a framework for industries to analyze their Information Technology Deployment efforts base on operational activities along the life-cycle of their supply chains. In particular, industries that is mature and with low profit margin will find this framework pertinent. It is an accepted...; Tags: California State University, Supply Chain, Information Technology, Industry, Framework, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management; White papers 2006-06-22
Globalization, New Customer Demands Drive Logistics Outsourcing to the Next Level: Every business faces periodic moments of truth, when it must redefine itself to face the future. For IBM, the latest turning point came about 13 years ago. Challenged by younger and nimbler rivals, the company was hemorrhaging money, people and market share. Then the former chief executive officer of RJR...; Tags: Keller International Publishing, Logistics, Supply Chain, Globalization, Business Operations, Strategy, Management; Case studies 2006-06-01
Emerging Trends In Supply Chain Governance: This paper explains the impact of vertical disintegration in large scale supply networks-of the type that has been observed in the automotive, textile and electronics industries over the past few decades. Our interest is in understanding the strategic and operational implications for the key network players in industries undergoing such...; Tags: Supply Chain, Network, Industry, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Strategy, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Management, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-06-01
Exploring The Impact Of ICT On Integration In Supply Chain Control: The adoption of Information and Communications Technology ICT is spreading rapidly in supply chain management. As companies seek to improve supply chain efficiency through increased integration, ICT can be considered as a key enabler for supply chain management by supporting information-sharing. Even though there is a considerable amount of research...; Tags: Supply Chain, Information And Communication Technology, Integration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management; White papers 2006-05-18
CMieux: Adaptive Strategies for Competitive Supply Chain Trading: Existing supply chain management practices consist primarily of static interactions between established partners. Global competition, shorter product life cycles and the emergence of Internet-mediated business solutions create an incentive for exploring more dynamic supply chain practices. The Supply Chain Trading Agent Competition TAC SCM was designed to explore approaches to...; Tags: Strategy, Supply Chain, SCM, CMieux, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-05-01
Value Of Demand Observability For Inventory Control: We present a partially observed Markov decision process model of a single product supply chain system with lost sales, in which a single decision maker selects a replenishment quantity at each decision epoch. Demand is modeled using an exogenous Markov chain, such that the distribution of demand in a period...; Tags: Supply Chain, Georgia Institute Of Technology, Inventory Control, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Strategic Planning, Enterprise Software, Software, Strategy, Management; White papers 2006-04-24
Streamlining For Success: The Lean Supply Chain: Automotive suppliers are facing extremely challenging times because the economy is tight, globalization and consolidation are rapidly reshaping the automotive industry as a whole, and their customers, the OEMs, are continuously pressing for more services at less cost. In these tough times, the suppliers who survive and succeed will be...; Tags: Supply Chain, QAD, QAD Lean Supply Chain Solution, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Structures, Globalization, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Strategy, Management, Marketing; White papers 2006-04-19