Supply Chain Management

Profiles of the Leading Supply Chain Management Software Vendors.

The question for today's supply chain professional isn't whether your ERP offers warehouse management functionality. The question is whether you'll actually be able to achieve efficient order fulfillment operations when using it.

In the past decade, procurement and finance executives have become generally aware of the potential impact of supplier insolvencies, supply disruptions, commodity pricing volatility and the impact that these-not to mention a range of other dangers lurking within their supply chain can have on their business.

Leverage the tacit knowledge in your organization to improve decision making, increase control, and proactively reduce risk.

Leverage the tacit knowledge in your organization to improve decision making, increase control, and proactively reduce risk.

In the IBM white paper, "The Smarter Supply Chain of the Future: Global Chief Officer Supply Chain Study," you'll see how sensor technologies, new analytic capabilities and simulation techniques can predict, if not prevent, disruptions before they occur.

In the IBM white paper, "Supply Chain Management 2010 and Beyond WP," you'll see how the role of the supply chain manager is shifting from tactical to strategic. And learn why successful supply chains must be strategic, dynamic and customer-driven.

In the IBM white paper, "Attaining sustainable growth through corporate social responsibility," you'll see how corporations can differentiate their brands and reputations by helping to maintain society's wellbeing. Plus, you'll learn how corporate social responsibility can generate significant returns.

Read the white paper, "Understanding Consumer Patterns and Preferences in Multi-channel Retailing," to see how consumers are filling their baskets, why shoppers change channels and other key findings.

Learn how core corporate processes can help your company meet financial objectives and mitigate risk in troubled economic times.

Learn what is driving manufacturers to focus on creating more efficient manufacturing operations and which manufacturers are most successful in achieving these efficiency gains. This Aberdeen paper also highlights specific and actionable recommendations to achieve more efficient manufacturing operations.

This white paper presents a low risk, high impact approach to gaining control of regulatory compliance. The procedures, tasks, and behaviors that bear upon compliance can be overwhelming.

If your company is looking to purchase a Manufacturing/ERP software solution, the 2009 Top 10 Manufacturing Software Vendor Report from Business-Software.com can help you find the software that is right for your company. Must Read!

If your company is looking to purchase a Supply Chain Management (SCM) software solution, the 2009 Top 10 Supply Chain Management Software Vendor Report from Business-Software.com can help you find the software that is right for your company. Must Read!

Learn about how an Information Agenda can help your organization create information agility, invest in the right Information On Demand projects and create a long term Information On Demand enabled infrastructure to achieve business goals and create competitive advantages.

For many years small to midsize manufacturers and ERP software providers struggled with the notion that full system implementations included more complexity, not to mention cost, than could be incurred by organizations with limited resources. Fortunately, drastic improvements in price performance, enhancements to underlying technologies and introduction of new forms of delivery have made ERP solutions viable and affordable to manufacturing companies of all sizes.

This paper from Ventana Research describes lean manufacturing and how it can be applied to supply chain management.

Today’s supply chain is, of course, the primary processing mechanism of every manufacturing company. But it’s more than that: Its multifaceted, multicompany, multinational structure makes it the most complex management challenge found in any enterprise. Supply chain management no longer means just making sure that the right resources and the right materials move to the right place at the right time.

This white paper describes lean manufacturing and how it can be applied to supply chain management.

Consider how life sciences manufacturers can deal effectively with dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, and rapid product innovation.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.