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- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Marine Electronics Supplier Sees Advances in Manufacturing IT With New ERP Solution
- When Navico, a worldwide supplier of marine electronics, moved its Lowrance and other acquired brands into one operating unit, the resulting migration of business and product data exposed the limitations of its older Enterprise Resource Planning ERP system database and capabilities. The company decided to replace the ERP system with...
- Tags: ERP, Microsoft Corp., Manufacturing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Supply Chain, Software, Business Operations
- Case studies 2009-08-04
- University of Missouri Reshapes Hospital Supply Chain Management to Reduce Cost, Increase Effectiveness
- University of Missouri UM wanted to improve supply chain management systems, which had operational issues and limited the ability to control supply costs and improve operating rooms' inventory visibility, to limit stocking costs and prevent frequent expediting of supplies. The challenge was to improve reporting and analytics to properly manage...
- Tags: Hospital, Oracle Corp., University Of Missouri, SCM, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Supply Chain, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Hansol CSN Enhances Global Logistics Planning, Improves Customer and Partner Communications
- Founded in 1994, Hansol CSN began life as the logistics affiliate of Korean paper manufacturing conglomerate Hansol Group. Ensuring on-time delivery is essential in the logistics industry. To ensure it could meet delivery deadlines for local and international customers, Hansol CSN implemented a new logistics information management system based on...
- Tags: Global Logistics Inc., Oracle Corp., Logistics, Hansol CSN, Supply Chain, Portals, Business Operations, Internet
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Oriental Overseas Container Line Cuts Development Cycle by 50%
- OOCL leads the container transportation industry in its use of technology. In 2007, the company was looking for a more efficient and cost-effective way to improve response times in its core container line and logistics applications, and online subsidiary portal services. OOCL implemented a Java-based distributed query cache framework, which...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., OOCL, Transportation, Portals, Web Technology, Supply Chain, Software Development, Internet, Business Operations, Software/Web Development
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Keune Haircosmetics Streamlines Business-Critical Processes With Supply Chain Management Solution
- Keune Haircosmetics wanted to replace aging business systems due to their limited functionality and support phase out and procure and integrate a warehouse location system for integrated logistical activities. The challenge was to link up systems on three sites to save costs by having one instead of three separate systems...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Oracle Corp., SCM, Keune Haircosmetics, Transportation, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Investment, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Supply-Chain Services Firm Standardizes Global Operations on Flexible ERP Solution
- One company that has actually seen business increase during an economic downturn is supply-chain services firm PCH International. The company quickly realized, however, that its current enterprise resource planning system could no longer keep up with its growth. PCH began looking for a system that could automate tasks that employees...
- Tags: Supply Chain, ERP, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2009-07-20
- Why the best get better in sourcing
- Late last week, I took a call with Tim Albinson, CEO of Aravo. Aravo manages, supplements and enhances supplier information. Tim and I discussed the types of firms that adopt better supply chain practices and technologies. While we spoke,...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Sourcing, Aravo, Purchasing & Procurement, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Strategy, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- ActiveWidgets 2.5.4 (Windows)
- Very fast AJAX datagrid and many high-quality javascript UI components make ActiveWidgets library one of the most popular commercial web development tools. ActiveWidgets javascript grid can work with very large datasets on the client-side without any loss of speed and supports complex visual layouts (fixed columns, multiple headers/footers) and full...
- Tags: JavaScript, Microsoft Windows, ActiveWidgets, ActiveWidgets Component, Scripting Languages, Supply Chain, AJAX, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Business Operations, Internet, Web 2.0
- Software downloads 2009-07-13
- Retail Operation Boosts Supply-Chain Efficiency by 70 Percent With ERP Solution
- Expert Group needed a more efficient way to manage updates for the thousands of consumer electronics items it sells through its network of 180 franchise stores. For more than a decade, the company used an IBM AS/400 system with custom-developed software to manage everything from product specifications to corporate accounting....
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Supply Chain, ERP, Microsoft Corp., Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Case studies 2009-07-01
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