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- Greenlighting Efficiency: 7 Easy Steps to Reduce the Environmental Impact of Today's Supply Chains
- With increased international attention focused on the environmental impact of manufacturing and transportation, today's leading companies are using cutting-edge technology to "Go green" in another area that can make a dramatic difference: the supply chain. In addition to boosting a company's reputation in the minds of consumers, applying a "Green"...
- Tags: Supply Chain, RedPrairie, Financial, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Transportation, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-08-28
- Execution Management: Maximizing Store Productivity
- As retailers have expanded their chains of stores across larger geographies and ever increasing numbers of stores in different and far flung locations, they have experienced more issues with trying to execute corporate strategies and merchandising concepts at each store location. Store employees are not highly paid, there is typically...
- Tags: RedPrairie, Retail Company, Store, Location, Retail
- White papers 2007-07-18
- Integrated Workforce Management Solutions: Improving Customer Service and Profitability
- In retail, competitive differentiation has never been more difficult. Consumers have an unprecedented number of choices - more products are available through more channels, often twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Increasingly, retailers are turning to service and the shopping experience to attract and retain customers. However, in...
- Tags: Customer Service, Workforce Management, RedPrairie, Retail Company, Labor Management, Retail, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-04-16
- The 10 Keys to Global Logistics Excellence
- Globalization of the world economy and the supply chains has advanced at an almost unbelievable speed. Growth in world trade, and corresponding cargo container movements, continues to substantially exceed overall economic growth, meaning that trade volumes are doubling every 5-7 years. Being part of this global economy is high on...
- Tags: Sourcing, RedPrairie, Logistics, Purchasing & Procurement, Globalization, Supply Chain, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2007-04-12
- The Bottom Line Benefits of Workforce Management in Retail Distribution
- Retailing is one of the world's most challenging and competitive industries. Regardless of the segment, "Brick & mortar" retailers, catalogers and online retailers face an environment characterized by intense competition - too many outlets or sites chasing too few consumers - and the need to invest heavily in information technology...
- Tags: Workforce Management, RedPrairie, Retail Company, Benefit, SCM, Retail, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-12-15
- Optimizing Global Transportation and Trade Logistics in Real-Time
- The intricate timing involved with same day delivery operations has a tendency to cause extra work and stress for Fleet managers today. Societal advances, such as internet shopping, has created smaller yet more frequent orders with tighter time windows for delivery. This environment is dynamic in nature and the ability...
- Tags: Customer Service, RedPrairie, Logistics, Supply Chain, Transportation, Product Marketing, Roi/Tco, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Operations, Marketing, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-10-18
- The Lean Workforce
- Ever since the industrial revolution supplanted individual craftsmen as the means to get products to consumers, there has been a continual quest to drive time and cost out of the production and delivery process, what one now calls the supply chain. This quest is often expressed colloquially as "Better, cheaper,...
- Tags: Supply Chain, RedPrairie, Workforce, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Achieving Best Practice Performance in Automotive Parts Distribution
- Globalization and structural issues have caused the automotive market to become more competitive than ever, with pressure to deliver increasing levels of service at lower costs. The companies that establish themselves as dominant players in this market will have a streamlined supply chain that can deliver extraordinary customer service levels....
- Tags: Customer Service, RedPrairie, Best Practice, Globalization, Supply Chain, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-07-24
- Creating the Demand-Driven Workforce
- As the 21st century is beginning to hit its stride, a tectonic shift has occurred in supply chain management. The factory-based push economy of the 20th century that made the U.S. a world powerhouse has given way to a retailer-focused pull economy where customer demand is the dominant force in...
- Tags: Supply Chain, RedPrairie, Supply Chain Operation, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Globalization, Transportation, Enterprise Software, Software, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-01-13
- Sarbanes-Oxley and IFRS
- The high-profile corporate scandals of several U.S. based companies, most notably Enron and WorldCom, led Congress to act to restore public confidence in U.S. financial markets. The result was the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 often referred to as SOX which set strict guidelines for financial disclosure and reporting for all...
- Tags: U.S., International Financial Reporting Standards, RedPrairie, Financial, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures
- White papers 2005-01-10
- Reducing Distribution Costs: The Value of RedPrairie's Productivity Management Solution - Customer Survey
- For many companies, distribution costs as a percentage of sales continue to rise. Labor costs generally represent the greatest single component of distribution costs, ranging from 40 percent to as much as 70 percent of the total. In this context, ARC conducted a user survey of RedPrairie's labor Productivity Management...
- Tags: RedPrairie, Customer Survey, ARC Advisory Group, Distribution Cost, Labor Relations, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Human Resources, Marketing, Sales
- White papers 2003-03-01
- A Better Way for Mid-Market WMS Deployment: Achieving Distribution Excellence Through Rapid, Cost-Effective Implementation
- Facing an increasingly complex distribution environment and rising fulfillment costs, many mid-market companies have correctly looked to advanced WMS solutions as an answer to these challenges. A robust WMS can help companies lower fulfillment costs, increase throughput, get inventory accuracy under control, and increase customer satisfaction. RedPrairie's DLx Warehouse has...
- Tags: RedPrairie, Logistics, Fulfillment Cost, Supply Chain, Transportation, Business Operations
- White papers 2002-09-30
- TDG Achieves World First With RedPrairie's MARC WMS Running Under AIX on IBM System i5
- In a fast-moving global economy, TDG's customers are increasingly dependent on accurate, up-to-the-minute information about their extended supply chains. TDG's existing Warehouse Management Systems WMS lacked the ability to support new technologies such as RFID and could not deliver information easily via the Web. The company selected a new solution...
- Tags: Supply Chain, RedPrairie, IBM AIX, IBM Corp., TDG, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Leadership, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
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- Testing Show SQL Server 2005 Exceeds Needs for Global Warehouse Management
- Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, RedPrairie has been helping companies better manage their warehouses for more than 30 years. Although about 95 percent of its customers used to deploy RedPrairie solutions using the UNIX operating system, the trend has reversed in past few years with now more than 70 percent asking...
- Tags: RedPrairie, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Databases, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Software, Operating Systems, Software, Data Management, Microsoft Windows
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