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7 Ways to Cut Supply Chain Costs with Enterprise Test Software - 0 views

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    Manufacturing technology can help improve visibility and control over operations, correlate suppliers to product quality, optimize resources and improve quality - the holy grail. There are technologies that can make you leaner and more efficient and improve decision-making. One such technology is enterprise test software.
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IBM Announces New Energy-Management, Sustainability Solutions for Smarter Enterprises -... - 0 views

  • Press room Press releases IBM Announces New Energy-Management, Sustainability Solutions for Smarter Enterprises
  • IBM (NYSE: IBM) today added new software and services to its expanding portfolio of solutions aimed at creating sustainable enterprises and smarter urban infrastructures. The new offerings, piloted in-house by IBM, help owners and managers of commercial buildings leverage the latest efficiency technologies and compliance systems to deliver economic, operational and environmental benefits.
  • IBM also announced that Autodesk has joined its industry alliance, Green Sigma Coalition, a move that can help the group improve buildings’ sustainability from blueprints to daily operations. Additionally, IBM announced an expanded relationship with Schneider Electric, global specialist in energy management, to deliver new combined offerings that monitor and reduce energy use to make buildings smarter.
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Lean and ERP - Can They Co-exist? - 1 views

  • Some pundits have opined that ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) or ERM (Enterprise Resource Management) is dead and that Lean replaces it. That’s like saying that the car chassis is replaced by the new engine. ERP is the backbone system of a modern enterprise. Lean is a management philosophy, with supporting tools and techniques to run a business much faster, cheaper—better. They are NOT mutually exclusive, but Lean ERP must differ from the traditional approach. The chassis needs some design changes.
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The Extended Enterprise: Gaining Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Supply Cha... - 0 views

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    Complete strategic framework for identifying, entering, and managing enterprise partnerships and alliances.
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Servigistics - 1 views

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    Enterprise software solutions suite for Service Lifecycle Management (SLM)
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Enabling Supply Chain Visibility and Collaboration in the Cloud - 0 views

  • top performing companies have experienced significant improvement when it comes to collaborative processes. However filtering the results based on those companies that have implemented Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for collaboration, reveals that these subset of companies have greater collaboration capabilities than lower performing companies. 
  • top performing companies have experienced significant improvement when it comes to collaborative processes. However filtering the results based on those companies that have implemented Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for collaboration, reveals that these subset of companies have greater collaboration capabilities than lower performing companies. 
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    This trend is bolstered by the rising importance of this process for succeeding in the multi-enterprise supply chain, especially in difficult economic times ...
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Supply Chain Reality: Much Risk Tied Up in Shrinking Pool of Suppliers - 0 views

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    Today's companies have better supply chain apps than ever before -- but they also face bigger risks. Many large enterprises use the same, small pool of supplier companies, so the ripples from one recession-related sinkage can spread far and wide.
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Oracle Delivers Integrated Business Planning Through the Integration of Enterprise Perf... - 0 views

  • To improve operational alignment and financial performance, Oracle today announced the integration of Oracle® Hyperion Planning and Oracle's Demantra Real-Time Sales and Operations Planning.
  • Linking Hyperion Planning and Oracle's Demantra Sales and Operations Planning gives CFOs and supply chain executives a direct path to evolve from a disconnected enterprise and operational planning environment to integrated business planning.
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LLamasoft's New External Data Integration Tool Streamlining the Supply Chain Modeling - 0 views

  • LLamasoft, the leading provider of supply chain strategic planning solutions, announces the first release of the External Data Integration Tool (EDIT). This new tool, built directly into the Supply Chain GuruTM 6.0.8 user interface, enables supply chain modelers to more efficiently integrate with enterprise data sources in any format or schema and automatically build models for analysis and supply chain visibility.
  • The new EDIT feature compliments Supply Chain Guru’s existing toolset for data migration and editing which includes a one-touch MSExcel Import/Export utility, Input Pipes for connection to real-time data feeds, Batch Geo-Coding for global location of enterprise supply chain sites, a Mileage Calculator for determination of accurate road distances, and integration to LTL and FTL cost data sources.
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Social networking as supply chain enabler - 1 views

  • A study of more than 260 manufacturing executives released today by IFS North America indicates how trends in Enterprise 2.0 will affect enterprise software used by mid- to large-sized manufacturers and industrial companies.
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Supply Chain Leaders Balance Efficiency and Resilience : IMT Industry Market Trends - 0 views

  • balance between efficiency and resilience is the key trade-off faced by supply chain managers, according to a recent research paper from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the business-to-business arm of analyst firm The Economist Group. Based on interviews with supply chain executives from Whirlpool Corp., Coca-Cola Co., Home Depot, Inc. and other companies, the paper highlights supply chain problems in the aftermath of the extraordinary swings in demand over the past two years.
  • According to a major IBM survey this summer, more than half of global business leaders believe their enterprises are not adequately prepared to handle a highly volatile, increasingly complex business environment. Based on a survey of 1,500 chief executives from 60 countries and 33 industries worldwide, IBM found that while eight in 10 CEOs expect the global business environment to grow significantly more complex, only 49 percent believe their organizations are equipped to deal with it successfully — the largest leadership challenge identified in IBM's eight years of research.
  • "[N]ow is the time for companies to reassess supply chain processes to ensure that progress towards efficiency does not boost the potential for failure in the face of economic, operational or environmental disruptions," EIU concludes.
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Accenture Launches Risk Management Consulting Service Line - 0 views

  • Accenture (NYSE:ACN) has launched a global Risk Management consulting service line to help companies better identify, manage and mitigate risks and make greater strategic use of risk data and information to support their decision-making processes.  The new service line expands Accenture’s risk-related services as market demand continues to increase in response to recent turbulence in the global economy
  • “Risk is rapidly moving out of the back office, and management must balance the need to create value with the need to protect shareholders.  As a result, companies must break down organizational silos and integrate risk management across the enterprise in order to succeed.”
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Harsco Selects IBM for Global Supply Chain Initiative - 0 views

  • Worldwide industrial services company Harsco Corporation (NYSE: HSC) has selected IBM (NYSE: IBM) as its consulting partner for a business transformation initiative designed to create significant operating and cost efficiencies throughout Harsco's global supply chain, the companies announced today. 
  • "The intelligent supply chain of the future aligns perfectly with our One Harsco objectives for creating long-term strategic advantage as a more globally integrated and optimized enterprise," said Harsco Chairman and CEO Salvatore D. Fazzolari. "Working with IBM gives us access to one of the premier leaders in this field. Moreover, when completed at the end of 2010, we expect this project to improve our Return on Invested Capital and also contribute to Harsco's Economic Value Added (EVA®) growth." 
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Gartner Names Decision Lens As a 'Cool Vendor' - 0 views

  • Decision Lens, a leading provider of desktop and Web-based decision support software for enterprise resource allocation and planning, today announced that it has been named a "Cool Vendor" in the "Cool Vendors in Analytics, BI and Performance Management, 2010" report by Gartner, Inc.
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Lean Manufacturing Demands Intelligent AP Automation - 0 views

  • By definition, Lean manufacturing is intended to reduce the waste of time and resources that do not directly add value to the business. In manufacturing, this philosophy is most evident on the production line, which is continually analyzed and altered in order to maximize employee talents, reduce time spent on menial tasks, eliminate the waste of raw materials and mitigate duplicative efforts.
  • Accounts payable (AP) automation technology achieves three keys benefits that complement the lean manufacturing process: It eliminates waste, optimizes AP workflow to ensure that tasks and responsibilities are clearly defined and executed among the team, and  affords organizations intelligent automation opportunities through integration with the organization’s enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.
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BOOK: Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management - 1 views

  • One of the more pervasive changes in the manufacturing environment is the implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Manufacturing planning and control (MPC) is now embedded in ERP systems in a great number of organizations. This both increases the opportunities for effective management and the complexity of integration required. No MPC activity can now ignore the pervasiveness of ERP systems.
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