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- Attention renewable energy developers: Grant fund seeks applications
- Transportation and logistics company seeks grant applications for alternative energy projects. by Heather Clancy
- Tags: Developer, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Supply Chain, Transportation, Telecom & Utilities, Business Operations, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- CEVA Logistics Improves Global Financial Reporting and Consolidation Processes
- CEVA Logistics wanted to integrate two disparate, legacy consolidation and reporting systems following the company's merger with TNT Logistics and EGL Global Logistics freight management and contract logistics companies and improve the company's financial reporting and consolidation processes. The challenge was to implement an integrated consolidation and reporting tool within...
- Tags: CEVA Inc., Financial Reporting, Financial, Logistics, CEVA Logistics, Supply Chain, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance
- Case studies 2009-11-01
- Developer Boosts Agility, Reduces Costs With Web-Based Supply Chain Management Tools
- GXS was eager to find a cost-effective way to add more detailed, on-demand analytics services to its industry-leading business-to-business e-commerce platform, GXS Trading Grid. The company turned to Microsoft Gold Certified Partner MindTree to help develop a solution based on Windows Azure - a "Cloud" services operating system that provides...
- Tags: B2B E-commerce, Developer, Supply Chain, Web, Analytics, On-demand, Microsoft Corp., SCM, Tool, B2B, Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet
- Case studies 2009-11-01
- Logistics Company Expands Communications Capabilities With Messaging Solution
- Seattle's Hotel 1000 constantly seeks to differentiate itself through leading-edge technology and a personalized guest experience. This helps increase on-property spending and repeat visits for both business and leisure travelers. One of the ways that the hotel achieves its goal is through unique technologies, including one of the first customized...
- Tags: Microsoft Surface, Logistics, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Supply Chain, Instant Messaging, Corporate Communications, Groupware, Business Operations, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-11-01
- Manufacturing Company Upgrades E-Mail, Strengthens Ties With Supply Chain Partners
- Lifetime Products was founded as a manufacturer of portable basketball systems. Its offerings have expanded to include other residential playground equipment, folding tables and chairs, sheds, utility trailers, and outdoor furniture. The company's 1,400 employees are located in the United States, Mexico, and China, and work with supply chain partners...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Employee, Microsoft Exchange Server, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Groupware, E-mail, Instant Messaging, E-mail Servers, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Internet
- Case studies 2009-11-01
- Logistics Company Enhances Operations With Efficient Messaging Solution From Dell
- Dell, a global provider of PC hardware and enterprise solutions, began working with customers early in the development of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. By the time the software was launched, Dell had already implemented a communications platform for Super Group, a South African supply chain and logistics company. With Dell...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server, Logistics, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Supply Chain, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-11-01
- IBM adds to green consulting services
- The business consulting division for IBM has come out with a new sustainability consulting service that focuses on helping companies measure and address the energy efficiency and environmental impact of their supply chain partners. The IBM Sustainable Supplier Information Management service is focused on helping businesses define...
- Tags: Sustainability, Supply Chain, Consulting Service, Supplier, Consulting, IBM Corp., IBM Sustainable Supplier Information Management Service, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- 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
- EcoCar 2.0 (Windows)
- Eco-Car Professional Edition is a smart application software to find out how much you can save or loose if you do Car-Pooling instead drive to your destination address alone. It need an Internet connection and the computation can take several minutes, depends from the band speed. All the costs and...
- Tags: Internet Connection, Microsoft Windows, Journey, Eco-Car, Eco-Car Professional Edition, Internet, Supply Chain, Transportation, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2009-10-09
- EcoCar Professional Edition 2.0 (Windows)
- Eco-Car Professional Edition is a smart application software to find out how much you can save or loose if you do Car-Pooling instead drive to your destination address alone. It need an Internet connection and the computation can take several minutes, depends from the band speed. All the costs and...
- Tags: Internet Connection, Logistics, Microsoft Windows, Eco-Car, Eco-Car Professional Edition, Car-Pooling, Supply Chain, Transportation, Internet, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2009-10-09
- Asian Paints enables growth through improved planning
- Asian Paints is India's largest paint company and is ranked among the top 10 decorative coatings companies in the world. When the company needed a competitive edge in the challenging Indian marketplace, it found a clear advantage in establishing a leaner, more agile and cost-efficient supply chain. Its management chose...
- Tags: Supply Chain, I2 Technologies Inc., Asian Paint, Asian Paints, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Change Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- IT Business Increases Growth by 55 Per Cent With Innovative Logistics Solution
- CargoWise edi used the software-plus-services approach to create a highly competitive IT solution for global logistics businesses, expanding growth by 55 per cent. CargoWise edi is an innovative logistics software company based in Australia. In 2007, it redeveloped its flagship product called ediEnterprise to incorporate a range of Web services...
- Tags: Information Technology, Logistics, CargoWise Edi, Supply Chain, Business Operations
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- Supply Chain Planning 4.2.4.6 (Windows)
- SCP 4.0 has been helping companies reduce capital tied up in inventory, accurately forecast procurement needs, and enhance vendor managed inventory VMI relationships for more than 10 years. Using SCP, businesses are also saving money using full-container shipments through optimized manufacturing planning. Businesses in 15 countries have been reaping the...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Microsoft Windows, Procurement, Forecasting, Jada Management Systems, SCP 4.0, Sales Force Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Purchasing & Procurement, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
- Software downloads 2009-09-27
- Is your supply chain gonna kill you?
- A General Management Issue?To me, the biggest roadblock to change is treating this as a supply chain or IT issue and not a general management issue. Most companies today function in a networked world, where they are critically dependent on other companies. The dependence goes way beyond "supply chain." The...
- Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Vertical industries, supply chain, warehouse management system
- Discussion threads 2009-09-04
- Is your supply chain gonna kill you?
- Jason Busch has an excellent post: Friday Rant: Beyond SarbOx -- Waiting for the Big One to Hit . I'm betting few people want to talk about this particular hot potato. Please don't choke on your early morning coffee. He says: Then as now [when SarbOx was enacted], companies...
- Tags: Supply Chain, International Financial Reporting Standards, Audit, Jason Busch, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- SPS Commerce Implements Business Intelligence Platform to Streamline Supply Chains for Customers
- SPS Commerce wanted to implement internet-based business intelligence to deliver supply chain and point-of-sale information to its customers and harness high volume of data traveling among trading partners - retailers and suppliers - to provide customers with information that will help them optimize their supply chains. The challenge was to...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, SPS Commerce, Supply Chain, Oracle Corp., Streamline, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Kiraca Holding Group's Companies Accelerate Supply Chain Management Processes by 100%
- Kýraca Holding Group wanted to establish a process-based application infrastructure to enable groupwide institutional operations and standards, and to allow the group to monitor and coordinate all of its production, logistics, and financial operations and balance assembly line production to increase throughput while satisfying the demand for various product models...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SCM, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Software, Finance
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Dunham-Bush Yantai Increases Speed of Cost and Profitability Analysis by 30%
- Dunham-Bush Yantai wanted to replace outdated manufacturing and finance applications with an integrated enterprise resource planning system and gain centralized control of enterprise resources and standardize business processes. The challenge was to allow various departments to share information easily to better control production planning and obtain production cost data in...
- Tags: Supply Chain, ERP, Manufacturing, Analysis, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- Report: Tech component inventory lean (perhaps too lean)
- Inventory levels of key items in the technology industry's supply chain are very lean, according to a report by Goldman Sachs. Is the tech supply chain ready for demand to snap back? by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Supply Chain, Inventory, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Cloud computing uniquely enables product and food recall processes across supply chains
- In conjunction with GS1 Canada, HP announced a product recall process Monday that straddles many participants across global supply chains. The pressures in such multi-player process ecologies can mount past the breaking point for such change management nightmares as rapid food or product recalls. by Dana Gardner
- Tags: Supply Chain, Food, Cloud Computing, Change Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Food & Beverage, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
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