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Ricoh Helps Businesses Track Carbon Footprint of Printing Practices With New @Remote Gr... - 0 views

  • @Remote Green Reports allow businesses to monitor, assess and report imaging fleet performance and employee printing trends in support of internal sustainability and/or cost reduction goals.
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    With @Remote Green Reports, users can track month-to-month trends in energy and paper consumption of their Managed Ricoh @Remote Compatible document output devices, allowing them to monitor fleet performance and the possible environmental impact device usage operations have on such areas as CO2 emissions* or conservation of forests**. This tool collects data from Ricoh networked multifunctional products (MFPs) and securely transmits the information to a Ricoh data center. The data is then processed into green reports that are made available to users via a secure, password-protected Web site.
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Total Cost of Ownership Equation in a Green Economy - 0 views

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    TCO = Purchase Cost + Overhead + Environmental Costs + Social Consequences
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Supply Chain Software: The Big Spend - 0 views

  • Supply chain management is adopting cost cutting, optimization, speed of deployment, agility and real-time process information and automation, with 21st century software leading the way—and as the economy begins to rebound, companies are starting to spend on software again.
  • “Companies are going to stay focused on lowering the costs of doing global business at the same time that they expand their sources of supply and volume of product—and they’re going to use software to do it,” says Collins. “We’re also seeing emerging market companies in countries like India, China, and Brazil that are beginning to bring product into consumer markets from outside suppliers. Regardless of where companies are operating, they are rethinking how their supply chains work. Some are opting to go to regional supply chain depots to hold parts. In this way, they can position more inventory closer to customers, and have fewer shipments. This all depends on the nature of the product and the cost of freight.”
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Global Trade Management - 0 views

  • Between August and September 2010, Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), surveyed 136 companies documenting their processes and capabilities regarding Global Trade Management. The Aberdeen Group report, Global Trade Management: Strategies for Mastering Trade Compliance and Supply Chain Complexity, reveals that trade compliance teams are actively revamping and augmenting their Global Trade Management (GTM) and specifically their Global Trade Compliance (GTC) programs to stay current with supply and demand fluctuations, growing global operations, increasing operational complexity and risk, and trade lane changes.
  • "There is no silver bullet for a successful GTM/GTC program -- it is a combination of excellence in the areas of access, enablement internally and externally, process/technology, and proactive planning and execution. When these things are aligned, in proper combination, they yield superior results," explained Bob Heaney, Senior Research Analyst of Supply Chain Management at Aberdeen.
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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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Corporate United - 0 views

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    Advances the collective spend management efforts of its member companies.
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Supply chain: Responsible sourcing means focus on details - 0 views

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    FT.com / Reports
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Foxfire | WMS Software | Greenville, SC - 0 views

  • Since its genesis in 1985, Foxfire has expanded to become a leading supplier of manufacturing, warehousing software, and supply chain execution systems. Foxfire's worldwide headquarters is located in Greenville, SC and has offices throughout the US. Foxfire also has a research and development center located near Clemson, South Carolina, leveraging the resources and talent pool of Clemson University's world-class institute of higher learning. Foxfire's customer base reaches across the United States, Canada, and Latin America, and we are currently expanding into other world markets rapidly through a network of distribution partners
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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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Expensify Featured in Intuit App Center Promotion to Help Businesses Organize Their Exp... - 0 views

  • Expensify announced it has been picked by the Intuit Partner Platform to help business owners track and manage their expenses from one spot as part of the Intuit App Center's "Get Organized. Get Rewarded promotion." The campaign is focused on helping small businesses be more successful by using apps that reduce paper and improve office organization.
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Cisco and EMC Appoint Michael D. Capellas to Lead VCE Coalition; Named CEO of Acadia - 0 views

  • Top-Flight Leadership to Accelerate Transformation of the Data Center, Helping Organizations Reduce Costs, Improve Business Agility through Private Cloud Computing
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Global Manufacturing Outlook: Relationships, Risk and Reach - 0 views

  • Business attitudes across the globe — jarred by the European sovereign debt crisis, sagging consumer confidence and continuing market fluctuations — are vacillating between confidence and caution, and volatility is likely to remain a permanent feature of the global business environment. While the financial crisis revealed key vulnerabilities of an interconnected global economy, it has also provided a needed catalyst in helping organizations create more dynamic, resilient and responsive supply chains to. A clear majority of leading industrial companies still see cost as their main priority while managing supply chains, despite emerging evidence that excessive focus on cost has damaged relationships. A majority of the leading industrial manufacturing companies have created supply chain models that appropriately balance agility, sensitivity to risk, quality and cost. They plan to enter into more long-term contracts with fewer suppliers — with cost being the key driver for much of the collaboration. Read our report to find out how leading companies are adapting their business models and employing new supply chain tactics to manage risk while capitalizing on opportunities.
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Solve Supply Chain Challenges with New Book - 0 views

  • The Supply Chain Management Center at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business is bringing together top industry and government leaders to address inefficiencies in today's supply chain and come up with innovative ways to manage risk. The center spearheaded a recently released book, "X-Treme Supply Chain Management: A Guide to Mastering Business Volatility," and yesterday hosted an executive roundtable discussion among senior government and business leaders on the implications of the global economic crisis for supply chain management.
  • Edited by Boyson, center co-director Professor Thomas Corsi and senior fellow Lisa Harrington, the book is a collaboration with CSCMP and co-contributors from some of the industry's leading corporations and organizations. The book also includes a companion tool kit, developed by Smith's Supply Chain Management Center and Interactive Learning Solutions Inc., that provides practitioners with simulations and spreadsheets to manage volatility in their supply chains. Sterling Commerce, an IBM company, is the project's technology sponsor and a co-contributor. Published by Routledge, the book was introduced on the West Coast last week at CSCMP's annual global conference in San Diego.
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Gartner Says Majority of Consumers Rely on Social Networks to Guide Purchase Decisions - 0 views

  • Social networks have become a critical, but underutilized, aspect of the marketing process, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner analysts have examined the way social networks shape consumer buying behavior.
  • Gartner believes that it is essential for device vendors, application developers/publishers and communications service providers to understand how the different roles react to marketing information. For example, Self-Sufficients are not particularly swayed by the usual sources of marketing information, nor do Mavens typically act on the information that is their stock in trade. However, Salesmen, Seek
  • and Connectors tend to act on marketing messages and are receptive to them.
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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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Descartes' Federated Network "The GLN" Hits Milestone of 35,000 Connected Trading Partners - 0 views

  • Descartes Systems Group (TSX:DSG) (Nasdaq:DSGX) hit a milestone of 35,000 connections on its federated Global Logistics Network (the "GLN"). Descartes' GLN is a cloud-based technology platform comprised of a dense trading network and application services, used by organizations seeking to optimize their operations. Companies that connect to Descartes' GLN are able to collaborate with their trading partners using one technology platform, significantly reducing operational costs and accelerating time-to-value.
  • Descartes' strategy is focused on uniting trading partners and connecting them through one federated network, allowing for easy communication, collaboration and access to application services. Descartes' GLN is the technology platform that enables organizations and global trading partners to connect and collaborate in a secure and reliable way. Last month, Descartes hit a milestone of 35,000 connections on its GLN.
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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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Great Customers Inspire Great Innovations - 0 views

  • Solving the problem doesn't go far enough. Sustainable — transformative — innovation emerges from the ability to collaboratively explore alternative approaches. Watt, Carrier, and Intel didn't achieve their breakthroughs by solving problems for their strategic clients; success came from testing approaches with their clients. Whether business historians acknowledge it or not, that's equally true for Henry Ford, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs.
  • As the saying goes, the one thing history teaches is that we don't learn from history. Just because business history short shrifts the customer and client contribution to innovation success doesn't mean businesses should. If you want to become a more innovative organization, don't hire more innovative employees, acquire more innovative customers. Your capacity to innovate matters less than your customers' and clients' willingness and ability to exploit it.
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    Michael Schrage - Harvard Business Review
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Elemica - Power Your Supply Chain - 0 views

  • Do you want to lower costs while improving the performance of your supply chain? If so, we are supply chain experts who partner with manufacturers to accelerate revenues through innovative and effective solutions. The Elemica difference is our dedication to replacing obsolete supply chain structures with operational efficiency, allowing a collection of companies to operate as a whole
  • Do you want to lower costs while improving the performance of your supply chain? If so, we are supply chain experts who partner with manufacturers to accelerate revenues through innovative and effective solutions. The Elemica difference is our dedication
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SaaS adoption on the rise, says Gartner - ComputerworldUK - 0 views

  • The research firm lately unveiled results of a survey where respondents cited significant integration requirements and a change in sourcing strategy as the top two reasons for adoption followed by high total cost of ownership (TCO).
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