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Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the process of planning, implementing, and controlling the operations of the supply chain with the purpose to satisfy customer requirements as efficiently as possible. Supply chain management spans all movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point-of-origin to point-of-consumption. The term supply chain management was coined by strategy consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton in 1982. |
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Technology and the Lean Enterprise |
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Published Date: Jan 18, 2008 |
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Manufacturers agree that technology is the key enabler of continuous improvement and eliminating waste. But how do you build an IT infrastructure that drives value to your customers? This SAP white paper presents six brief case studies of manufacturing companies that have used technology to build a foundation to deliver continuous value to their customers.
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Talent Supply Chain Management |
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Published Date: Jul 16, 2007 |
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These survey findings will identify the industry-reshaping challenges that are compelling innovative professional services firms to improve the return on their investments in talent with a holistic, end-to-end, optimized process. From a recent independent survey of over 250 professional services firms this report highlights the outdated, internal processes professional services firms must modernize to make the most of their talent resources and grow their profits.
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Warehouse Management Today: Balancing Financial Pressures and Growing Demand |
| By :SAP |
Published Date: Aug 26, 2007 |
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Traditional linear supply chains with sequential processes are evolving into complex global ecosystems that are highly responsive to customer requirements. This SAP white paper describes how an adaptive supply chain network allows all the stakeholders in the supply chain – both internal and external to the enterprise – to share knowledge, make collaborative decisions and immediately respond to changing conditions. Trading partners can avoid costly supply chain problems. Moreover, firms can enhance their financial position and improve their supply chain economics.
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White Paper: Are You Pushing Too Much Paper? |
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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?
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Aberdeen Group: For Mid-Size Manufacturers the Issue is Visible |
| By :IBM |
Published Date: Aug 08, 2006 |
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As manufacturing goes global, initiatives to standardize processes and key performance measurements across the enterprise to unite the greater supply chain are emerging. The main catalyst? Driving down costs in response to customer and market pressures. However, mid-size companies in particular are driving performance improvements with a more proactive, strategic vision for improving performance than reactively responding to cost pressure.
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Chase & Sons Gain an Asset |
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Chase & Sons has been delivering innovative engineered products and processes to the wire and cable industry for over 50 years. They supply General Cable with specialty tapes. In the past, Chase & Sons would allocate resources for 'emergency handling' of orders which took time away from planning and other more strategic functions.
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Corning Cable Systems: Collaborating with Supply Chain Partners |
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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.
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Compete More Effectively by Acting as Your Own Supply Chain |
| By :IBM |
Published Date: Jan 27, 2004 |
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We’ve heard it over and again: mid-sized manufacturers need to increase efficiencies while protecting their existing infrastructure and boosting profits. IBM can help, with tailored solutions. Click for the complimentary report, "Ten Insights for Success in an On Demand World".
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Demand Planning: Optimizing Operations Across the Supply Chain |
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Demand planning software packages can help manufacturers to: establish baseline sales forecasts, incorporating multiple inputs; perform sophisticated analysis that improves their use of human and capital resources; optimize pricing capabilities; and better understand their markets and customers.
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DIRECTV Business Transformation Study |
| By :SAP |
Published Date: Mar 12, 2007 |
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Tune in to see how the largest U.S. direct broadcast satellite provider transformed its supply chain operations with SAP SCM. DIRECTV now links its extended business partners -- equipment providers -- with key channel providers in a closed-loop, forward-and-reverse logistics process. The related Customer Reference Slide is also available on SMART.
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Effective VMI: Enabling your Suppliers |
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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.
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How General Cable Reduces Over 50% of Time and Costs Associated with Purchasing |
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General Cable operates 28 manufacturing locations in 8 countries and is a leader in the development, design, manufacture, marketing and distribution of copper, aluminum and fiber optic wire and cable products. Their products are widely used in communications, energy, industrial and speciality markets. General Cable has nearly 300 suppliers of raw material for their US operations.
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Industrial Equipment Manufacturing: Innovation and the Competitive Edge |
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In this white paper we do not make specific recommendations for manufacturers to follow; rather, we present suggestions for competing effectively in a fast-paced industry. From adopting lean manufacturing practices to strengthening bidding and quoting processes, opportunities exist for companies to grow and thrive despite relentless cost pressures.
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