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Automating the Quote-to-Cash Process

Global marketplaces have spurred the growth of global supply chains, making them hotly contested areas for business. However, as the business environment continues to evolve, companies are rethinking these long, thin supply chains. Businesses today realize that the sourcing and manufacturing strategies that they adopted over the last two decades...

Tags: Logistics Service Provider, Logistics, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Services, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2009-06-01

Additional Resources

Customer Intimacy wins in SAP SI's and Channel Partners

Yesterday, several bloggers at the SAP TechEd conference in Phoenix had an opportunity to speak with Zia Yusuf, EVP, Global Ecosystem & Partner Group of SAP. I asked Zia what characteristics typify the best SAP partners. He rattled off five qualities that the best systems integrators and...

Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Firm, Channel Partner, Business Services, Strategy, Supply Chain, Product Development, Management, Business Operations, Research & Development, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Global Logistics Provider Deploys New ERP System in Battlefield Environment

The Supreme Group - which provides food, fuel, logistics, and other services to military and commercial groups operating in areas of conflict - had an Enterprise Resource Planning ERP application that was intended for a small organization. After exponential growth, Supreme sought a more integrated, extensible ERP solution. It deployed...

Tags: Food, Environment, Logistics, ERP System, ERP, Microsoft Corp., Supreme Group, Supply Chain, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Food & Beverage, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Manufacturing

Case studies 2009-06-01

Specialist Independent Software Vendor Wins Business With Software-Plus-Services

CargoWise edi, a leading provider of integrated supply chain logistics management systems for freight forwarding, serves 1,300 customers in 45 countries with a total of 33,000 users. The Australia-based independent software vendor - whose leading product is ediEnterprise - is committed to offering its clients simple, powerful tools that are...

Tags: Software Company, ISV, Logistics, Microsoft Corp., Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), EDI, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-06-01

Dell and Microsoft Solutions Help ServiceU Deliver Reliable System Performance and Create a Virtualized Environment That Reduces Power Consumption by 50 Percent

ServiceU Corporation is a Memphis-based Software-as-a-Service SaaS provider that enables organizations to run successful events by helping manage a wide range of event-related logistics, including facilities management, box office management, reserved seat ticketing, registrations, payments or donations, food, transportation, and childcare. ServiceU wanted to deploy reliable hardware to support the...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, Environment, Power Consumption, Microsoft Corp., Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Servers, Emerging Technologies, Hardware

Case studies 2009-02-01

How to be less stupid in 2009

The title of this post was going to be 'How to be more smart in 2009' but three things changed my mind. First up several of my Twitter followers 'voted' for the 'less stupid' title, second several posts I saw in catching up on New Year reading had me groaning...

Tags: Information Technology, Geek, Tool, Mike, Production Deployment, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-06

Supply Chain Provider Saves $227,000 and 15,600 Labor Hours in Less Than a Year

Yobel Supply Chain Management, based in Lima, Peru, provides customers in Latin America and the United States with supply chain planning, sourcing, manufacturing, and logistics. With growing competition and increased demand for innovation in bringing products to market, Yobel began surveying customers, partners, and employees on their operational efficiency and...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Survey, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Supply Chain, Performance Management, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing

Case studies 2008-10-01

CISCO: Why the Olympics didn’t melt NBC

Yesterday I posted about how Limelight Networks was used as the primary caching content provider for NBCOlympics.com and lifted a huge burden off on the public Internet by leveraging relationships with last mile ISPs. It's an amazing story about how technology can be used to solve immense problems. ...

Tags: Camera, Cisco Systems Inc., Corporate Communications, Jason Perlow, Marketing, NBC Universal Inc., Olympic Games, Video

Blog posts 2008-08-18

What paper trail?

I’ve been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I’ve blogged before, I am still one of those people who can’t help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....

Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Third-Party Logistics Provider Achieves 99.5 Percent Average Quality Performance Accuracy With HighJump Solutions

High levels of customer service and attention to detail have propelled Direct Group Fulfillment Services to strong growth in the 3PL industry. But in the late 1990s, the company was growing faster than its IT systems could manage. With the addition of several large customer accounts, Direct Group Fulfillment Services'...

Tags: HighJump Software Inc., Performance, 3PL, Logistics, Manufacturing

Case studies 2008-05-01

IT failure at Heathrow T5: What really happened

Anyone having the misfortune to pass recently through Heathrow's new Terminal 5 knows the huge project debuted as a case study in full-blown systems failure. Most reports have focused on stranded customers, a crazed supermodel, and Queen Elizabeth's grand opening speech, which called the terminal "a 21st Century gateway to...

Tags: Software, CIO, Baggage, British Airways Plc., Information Technology, Problem, Terminal 5, BA, Vanderlande Industries, Vanderlande, Bags, Paul Coby, Airports Authority, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-04-07

Distributor Simplifies Digital Records Management With New Operating System

Employees of logistics service provider Inveso take and store digital pictures of inventory items in order to monitor their stock. Thanks to the new Instant Search function in Windows Vista, Inveso employees can find any photograph they need in just seconds, saving at least 30 minutes of work per day....

Tags: Operating System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Inveso, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Records Management, Supply Chain, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-03-01

Malaysia Freight Logistics Provider, Kintetsu, Enhances Internal Efficiencies With Enterprise-Wide IP Virtual Private Network

Established freight logistics provider, Kintetsu Integrated Air Services Sdn Bhd Kintetsu, is keen to harness the latest IT technologies to achieve greater internal efficiency and to enjoy economies of scale. Kintetsu turns to Datacraft to design and implement an Internet Protocol IP-based enterprise network that would address its network infrastructure...

Tags: Logistics Provider, Network Infrastructure, Network, Logistics, Dimension Data, Security Management, Supply Chain, Network Administration, Security, Business Operations, Networking

Case studies 2008-01-03

Logistics Service Provider Accelerates Technology Implementations by 50 Per Cent

Headquartered in Belgium, Katoen Natie is a worldwide leader in value-added logistics and technology services. It has a centralised IT team, which supports its international operations. The company wanted to upgrade ICT Information and Communications Technology strategy to reflect the changing needs of a growing organisation, which meant developing a...

Tags: Logistics, Microsoft Corp., Supply Chain, Strategy, Business Operations, Management

Case studies 2007-01-05

Billion dollar SaaS sectors

Billion dollar SaaS sectorsFact Checking 101I completely understand that your post was intended to fuel debate. But your position is drastically undercut by your representation of traditional installed application providers as SaaS providers.As a reminder to your readers, SaaS is about an entirely new business philosophy in which applications, content,...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Supply chain management (SCM), Billion-dollar SaaS

Discussion threads 2006-09-25

Net neutrality loses another round

Net neutrality loses another roundSo Microsoft, Google, Yahoo et al...... were unable to push the telco bills they incur onto the consumer through an action by Congress.I'm a consumer. Those making money from using extra resurces should pay for them from the extra profits received.I don't want to pay...

Tags: INTERNET, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Network technology, Telecom & Utilities, Nothing, Truckers, bandwidth, DSL, telecommunications company, VoIP, Net Neutrality, Higher Bandwidth

Discussion threads 2006-04-26

Could recent Microsoft clamp-downs, missteps accelerate Linux adoption?

Is it me, or has there been a recent wave of headlines from Redmond that add up to a Microsoft clamp-down of the sort that could easily drive people away from destkop Windows? The most recent of these, which not surprisingly has drawn a very vocal reaction from some ZDNet...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Operating systems, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, reseller, Service Pack 2, software

Blog posts 2005-02-28

Transportation Broker Speeds Delivery of Voice Service by 50 Percent Using New Tools

The transportation business in the United States is tough, with four times more truck loads than there are drivers. That's why Landstar, the global third-party capacity and logistics service provider, does everything it can to add value to the services that it offers independent capacity providers and agents. Landstar wanted...

Tags: Voice Service, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Transportation, Supply Chain, Business Operations

Case studies

New Software Helps Logistics Provider Optimise Business Processes

DaimlerChrysler Objektmanagement und Service DEBEOS provides an extensive portfolio of logistics services to DaimlerChrysler in Germany. To meet the requirements of internal customers efficiently, the company invested in a new application called LOGISTIX. This was developed using the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 with support from Microsoft...

Tags: Software, Business Process, Logistics, Microsoft Corp., Daimler AG, Supply Chain, Business Operations

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European Transport Company Boosts Customer Service With Integrated CRM System

Leading European transport company Hauser provides overland logistics solutions to European exporters and importers. As it strives to deliver a fast and reliable service, the company must have an IT infrastructure on which it can rely. Working with a bespoke Lotus Notes account management system, Hauser found that as a...

Tags: CRM System, Customer Service, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Supply Chain, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, E-mail Servers, Business Operations, Software, Marketing

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