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Help Supply Chain Planners Be More Successful In These Uncertain Times

Supply Chain Shaman

As I shopped at Best Buy for office supplies, I struggled to not think about the massive disruption of electronics supply chain. I find three: organizational design, executive understanding of supply chain, and the lack of a clear definition of an optimization function for supply chain excellence. The reason? The problem?

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How ERP can make renewable energy companies more efficient

SYSPRO Smarter ERP

Customer relationship management and service Excellent customer service is a key requirement for renewable energy companies. It can track, manage and report the book value and depreciation of fixed assets. It allows analysis of how expected sales and purchase orders will affect inventory levels.

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Top 15 Supply Chains to Admire from the Supply Chain Insights Conference

Kinaxis

I’ve always believed it’s too unfair to compare a life science supply chain (whose primary goal is to save lives) against a consumer electronic supply chain (whose primary goal are to manage profitability across the drug lifecycle). . Most of this middleware was Excel and Meetings. Strong horizontal processes.

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Supply Chain Management:The Upcoming 2011 Holiday Buying.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

| Main | Demand Planning in CPG industry - Practising the Best Practices » The Upcoming 2011 Holiday Buying Season will again Test Retailer MCO and Supply Chain Capabilities. Overall,retailers performed a decent job in forecasting holiday demand,managing promotions and overall inventory in the 2010 season.

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Roberto Crippa: “If you try to manage new business with old rules you fail”

Supply Chain Movement

Q: What is the strategy of the Company (or Division/Supply Chain): Operational Excellence, Product Leadership or Customer Intimacy? The business is getting tougher as more and more professional buyers at Customer’s site are managing procurement and purchasing. Here he describes his new supply chain agenda.

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Supply Chain Management:The Real Headline for the 2011 Holiday.

Infosys Supply Chain Management

Discuss the latest trends and solutions across the supply chain management landscape. » The Real Headline for the 2011 Holiday Buying Season- Need for Balancing Retailer Online and Fulfillment Process Investments. As we approach the latter stages of the 2011 holiday buying season, the uptick in online buying has indeed occurred.