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For apparel and textile companies, delocalized production and complex supply networks make it difficult to coordinate with
trade partners and maintain product traceability. Price pressure, competition, and demanding customers erode margins and increase
the urgency of cost control and fast time-to-market. (...)
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2010-09-16
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In today’s competitive markets, manufacturers and distributors are challenged to achieve supply chain efficiencies that are
on par with their rivals. To stay profitable, they must adopt key performance indicators (KPIs) to drive processes. But KPI-driven
supply chain execution requires manufacturers an (...)
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2010-05-11
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The dynamics of today’s global supply chain are changing rapidly because of volatile fuel costs, overseas wage increases,
security concerns, and global economic issues. In this environment, some US manufacturers are exploring ways to claim a competitive
advantage by bringing operations back to the US. (...)
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2010-03-11
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For many organizations in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, the cost of high product volume sales is extreme data
complexity. This affects line-of-business managers in marketing, sales, manufacturing, and procurement, who must derive tangible
business value from this quagmire of data. Find out (...)
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Published:
2010-03-11
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High-level strategic decisions often have multiple, cascading cost impacts. The reaction of the costs to changes in the
supply chain system is not predictable in a simple relationship that is based on current standard costs, because strategic
changes often involve step changes in costs that alter the ba (...)
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High-level strategic decisions often have multiple, cascading cost impacts. The reaction of the costs to changes in the supply
chain system is no...
Published:
2003-07-22
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The increased complexity of global supply chains has led to longer lead time, more pipeline inventory, and the need to control
downstream and upstream logistics. Growing supply chain complexity is a top business pressure, contributing to increased supply
chain management costs. This report focuses on gai (...)
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... logistics. Growing supply chain complexity is a top
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Published:
2012-01-25
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Rethinking the Supply Chain: Meeting the Complexity Challenge.Solutions and Other Documents to Characterize Your Buy, In Relation
To Rethinking the Supply Chain. The requirements of operating in a global, just-in-time (JIT) market have made supply chains
much more complex than they were 10 years ago. Much (...)
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Rethinking the Supply Chain: Meeting the Complexity Challenge.Solutions and Other Documents to Characterize Your Buy, In Relation
To Rethinking the...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Performance addresses issues surrounding how the new economy is transforming the supply chain and ultimately, how Andersen
conducts business. Through this effort, they express how their customers, and the industry in general, are creating a more
innovative supply chain. (...)
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Performance addresses issues surrounding how the new economy is transforming the supply chain and ultimately, how Andersen
conducts business. Thro...
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2001-12-08
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A vendor compliance database can range from a complex system built within the retailer's existing architecture to a smaller,
stand-alone desktop database application. Find out what's Andersen's take on vendor compliance programs. (...)
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A vendor compliance database can range from a complex system built within the retailer's existing architecture to a smaller,
stand-alone desktop d...
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2001-12-08
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Supply chains come with their own challenges: new products and channels, demanding customers, changing markets, rising energy
and labor costs, security issues, and government compliance—as well as internal pressures to cut costs. All this complexity
is driving the need for more sophisticated transp (...)
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Published:
2010-03-11
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To optimally complete the global trade cycle, a business must automate, track, and provide visibility to the entire global
trade management process to optimize its supply and distribution chains. (...)
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To optimally complete the global trade cycle, a business must automate, track, and provide visibility to the entire global
trade management proces...
Published:
2005-06-18
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This article describes the unique challenges of the service supply chain, provides a framework for understanding the service
management decision hierarchy, and highlights the dramatic value proposition available to companies that deploy advanced service
strategies and decision-support tools to address th (...)
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This article describes the unique challenges of the service supply chain, provides a framework for understanding the service
management decision h...
Published:
2004-06-22
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Today, there is less clarity in wholesale, retail, and vertical sales operations than ever before. In a marketplace that
dictates increasingly complex operations, distribution centers of all types need to ensure that their warehouse management
systems keep up with customer demand. To keep your supply cha (...)
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... demand. To keep your supply chain from exploding in your face, defuse
complexity with a simple distribution indexing tool. Download ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Advanced planning and optimization makes supply chain systems cost effective. It is the brain of the supply chain because
it works on top of all other software tools that plan, monitor, and control supply chain activities and control them. (...)
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Advanced planning and optimization makes supply chain systems cost effective. It is the brain of the supply chain because
it works on top of all o...
Published:
2005-08-20
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Abstract:
While globalization has resulted in many bottom-line benefits, it has simultaneously increased the level of complexity and
uncertainty by which companies operate today, making the S&OP process more critical to a company’s success than ever before.
Read further and see how companies that embrace an inte (...)
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... White Paper Description: While globalization has resulted in many bottom-line benefits, it has simultaneously
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Published:
2012-01-26
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Business-to-business (B2B) selling has proven to be more intricate than business-to-consumer (B2C) selling, as B2B involves
dealing with longer-term contracts and complex products with specific requirements that are not needed in the consumer world. (...)
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Business-to-business (B2B) selling has proven to be more intricate than business-to-consumer (B2C) selling, as B2B involves
dealing with longer-te...
Published:
2004-11-06
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Getting Value From Industry Best Practices the High-Tech Supply Chain Challenge. Find Out Solutions and Other Information
Associated with the Industry Best Practices and the High-Tech Supply Chain Challenge. Supply chain operations play a vital
role in the success of any consumer or high-tech original equ (...)
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... Business realities such as outsourcing, globalization, and accelerating product life cycles are increasing
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Published:
2010-03-11
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To achieve a high level of supply chain transparency, companies must share their technology systems and data with many suppliers,
distributors, transportation carriers, and channel partners that bring their products to market. This information may be seen
by thousands worldwide. While there are doubtless (...)
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Published:
2012-01-25
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Abstract:
Click Commerce recognizes that the SCM playing field is highly competitive and fragmented. However, it believes it will remain
competitive because its composite applications will create business process solutions that follow the current trend toward
integrated suites of best-of-breed applications. (...)
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Click Commerce recognizes that the SCM playing field is highly competitive and fragmented. However, it believes it will remain
competitive because...
Published:
2006-05-08
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The merger of traditional brick-and-mortar manufacturer Illinois Tool Works with Internet-based Click Commerce is puzzling,
but has some method to the madness. Only time will tell how easily and tightly their tools will "click" with each other. (...)
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The merger of traditional brick-and-mortar manufacturer Illinois Tool Works with Internet-based Click Commerce is puzzling,
but has some method to...
Published:
2006-11-13