As part of their effort to slash the cost of auto parts by 30% over the next three years, Toyota met with its suppliers last week to enlist their help in the process. Based on their reputation for dealing with suppliers, I'm guessing that Toyota will approach the process in a much different manner than most companies, and the process will be very successful.
Our experts predict several areas of the industry will experience significant growth over the next five years. Reverse outsourcing, verticalization, emerging markets, business analytics, healthcare, transportation, and ERP are some of the areas that will enjoy increased attention.
Unified communications is one of the most promising of all horizontal applications for productivity enhancement because it supports the key activities of customer/sales support, team building for projects and general business communications. It's also an application that has been battered by competitive positioning, vendor consolidation and a host of industry forces. How it reacts to these pressures will determine the form unified communications (UC) will take in the coming decade, and many UC issues will be highly visible in 2010. Here, in inverse order of importance, are the top five unified communications issues for the year.
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.
The event will see the chief procurement officers (CPOs) of some of the world’s largest companies, including , Heinz, Honeywell, Microsoft and Deutsche Telekom, share their knowledge of sourcing and will be chaired by Don Klock, the former CPO of Colgate-Palmolive.
The theme of the Chicago conference is Beyond Borders: The expanding role of the CPO, recognizing the growing skill requirements of modern procurement executives
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.
For the second straight quarter, more than one-third of North American manufacturers responding to MFG.com's MFGWatch survey say they've experienced a significant supply chain disruption in the past three months.
Whether caused by weather, pandemics or financial meltdowns, every supply chain will experience disruptive events, says Phil Renaud, vice president of risk management at Exel.
Increasing complexity of the supply chain creates paramount need for multi-tier visibility and fully automated supply chain processes, according to survey report
California's troubled factory sector could be ready for a comeback. A survey of California purchasing managers shows a remarkable surge in confidence and suggests that production and employment will pick up during the first three months of the year ...
Authors Frank Quinn, chief editor of Supply Chain Management Review (SCMR), Chuck Poirier of CSC Consulting and Morgan Swink of Michigan State University, highlight 10 common denominators of successful supply chains.