Supply Chain Management

Customers turn to third-party logistics (3PL) companies because they expect that you will be able to run their warehousing and transportation operations more efficiently and cheaply than they can run it themselves. Tall order! How can you deliver cheaper warehousing, exceptional inventory visibility, seamless freight management and timely and accurate billing for your customers? Download this free report to learn how 3PLs can leverage supply chain technology to; Onboard new customers more quickly, bill more easily and accurately, track inventory attributes by customer, and provide value-added services.

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The 2010 Top 20 ERP Vendor Report reveals: The Top 20 ERP software providers you should consider; Highlights of each vendor's strengths in accounting, manufacturing, supply chain management, and more; Vendor background and contact information to get you started; How the right ERP software can simplify processes and reduce production costs.

Profiles of the Leading Supply Chain Management Software Vendors.

Leverage the tacit knowledge in your organization to improve decision making, increase control, and proactively reduce risk.

Leverage the tacit knowledge in your organization to improve decision making, increase control, and proactively reduce risk.

The research will highlight how leading companies and their key decision makers close this maturity gap to eliminate the obstacles that hinder their ability to make better business decisions and impact their companies' key metrics.

Consider all the complexities that supply chain executives face. Now consider how much more challenging the supply chain becomes when the items being produced and distributed are seasonal, and meeting revenue targets hinges on the sales that take place in just a few months of the year.

In the IBM white paper, "The Smarter Supply Chain of the Future: Global Chief Officer Supply Chain Study," you'll see how sensor technologies, new analytic capabilities and simulation techniques can predict, if not prevent, disruptions before they occur.

In the IBM white paper, "Supply Chain Management 2010 and Beyond WP," you'll see how the role of the supply chain manager is shifting from tactical to strategic. And learn why successful supply chains must be strategic, dynamic and customer-driven.

In the IBM white paper, "Attaining sustainable growth through corporate social responsibility," you'll see how corporations can differentiate their brands and reputations by helping to maintain society's wellbeing. Plus, you'll learn how corporate social responsibility can generate significant returns.

Read the white paper, "Understanding Consumer Patterns and Preferences in Multi-channel Retailing," to see how consumers are filling their baskets, why shoppers change channels and other key findings.

DaimlerChrysler South Africa, a subsidiary to the global leader in the automotive industry, needed to reduce annual operating costs of its mainframe-based systems while maintaining service levels. The backbone of DaimlerChrysler's network of dealerships is the parts supply chain management system, making sure that the right parts are available for service technicians at the right place and at the right time so that customers' service needs are taken care of as quickly and efficiently as possible.

In retrospect, the initial e-sourcing waves that began a decade ago resembled a corporate “crash diet,” leaving an immediate and noticeable impact on the enterprise, but also a daunting challenge to develop a new and different program that could sustain these benefits and keep the “weight” off. As the use of basic sourcing strategies has reached saturation levels with certain categories, enterprises must utilize advanced sourcing strategies across a wider range of categories to deliver the same results.

Learn how core corporate processes can help your company meet financial objectives and mitigate risk in troubled economic times.

To manage performance efficiently, midsize companies need a unified planning, budgeting, and consolidation solution. The SAP BusinessObjects Edge Planning and Consolidation application streamlines the planning process and produces management reports that instill confidence and reduce business risk.

If your company is looking to purchase a Manufacturing/ERP software solution, the 2009 Top 10 Manufacturing Software Vendor Report from Business-Software.com can help you find the software that is right for your company. Must Read!

If your company is looking to purchase a Supply Chain Management (SCM) software solution, the 2009 Top 10 Supply Chain Management Software Vendor Report from Business-Software.com can help you find the software that is right for your company. Must Read!

Learn about how an Information Agenda can help your organization create information agility, invest in the right Information On Demand projects and create a long term Information On Demand enabled infrastructure to achieve business goals and create competitive advantages.

For many years small to midsize manufacturers and ERP software providers struggled with the notion that full system implementations included more complexity, not to mention cost, than could be incurred by organizations with limited resources. Fortunately, drastic improvements in price performance, enhancements to underlying technologies and introduction of new forms of delivery have made ERP solutions viable and affordable to manufacturing companies of all sizes.

Today’s enterprises rarely operate alone. Partnerships, outsourcing, external contractors and suppliers, and other cooperative agreements are all vital to today’s enterprises. These agreements generally require collaboration and interoperation, both organizationally and between their IT resources. They require the ability for users in one organization to easily work with resources provided by another.

Consider how life sciences manufacturers can deal effectively with dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, and rapid product innovation.

Whether you are an electrical supplies wholesaler or a manufacturer of oilfield equipment, the challenge is the same: Are you maximizing your margins by keeping your administrative processes as streamlined as possible? Or, are you wasting time and money by supporting paper-intensive processes to handle quotes, orders, ship notices, receipt documents and invoices?

Today, as more and more organizations strive to improve productivity and profitability by dedicating the bulk of their resources to their core competencies, many of them are looking for efficient and cost-effective ways to outsource ancillary and support activities. Nowhere is this trend more prominent than among supply chain-centric organizations such as retailers, wholesalers, distributors, and manufacturers.

Corning Cable Systems offers the broadest range of end-to-end fibre optic and copper product solutions for telecommunications networks. Corning wanted to improve their supply chain to reduce inventory levels (thereby adding to bottom line savings) and reduce overall administrative costs- all without expensive or time-consuming investments.