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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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Overcoming the Information Challenge on Mining, Oil and Gas Projects
By :Aconex Published Date: Nov 08, 2007
It's a common scenario in the mining and oil & gas industries: the project has been approved to proceed and the pressure is on to get multiple parties – partners, consultants, contractors and suppliers – working together efficiently to meet an aggressive schedule. This challenge is often exacerbated by globalization and by the vast volume of data that flows between the project team.
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How Lack of Identity Federation Leads to End-User Confusion and Increased Help Desk Calls
By :CA Published Date: Mar 25, 2008
Today’s enterprises rarely operate alone. Partnerships, outsourcing, external contractors and suppliers, and other cooperative agreements are all vital to today’s enterprises. These agreements generally require collaboration and interoperation, both organizationally and between their IT resources. They require the ability for users in one organization to easily work with resources provided by another.

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How Can Identity and Access Management Help Me To Improve Compliance and Drive Business Performance?
By :CA Published Date: Nov 08, 2007
CA Identity and Access Management automates the management of user identities and ensures that only properly authorized users can access critical IT resources from the Web to the mainframe. It empowers your organization to reduce IT costs, mitigate overall security risk, enable new business opportunities and deliver continuous regulatory compliance.
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IT Security Management As a Business Enabler
By :CA Published Date: Oct 02, 2006
This paper explores the ways in which integrated security management, particularly identity management, can help you strengthen your existing customer relationships, expand your partner ecosystem, and help you grow your business.
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CA SiteMinder: Security for Enterprise Web Applications
By :CA Published Date: Dec 01, 2006
This technical white paper explains how CA SiteMinder provides all the essential security services required to meet the challenge of building and managing secure websites, while also including management features and technical capabilities that can reduce the total cost of ownership.
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The Business Value of Identity Federation
By :CA Published Date: Jan 02, 2007
Today, the Internet, Internet technology and standards have matured to the point that effective coordination and mass integration between trading partners is now achievable and affordable. This white paper discusses these issues in depth and explains the role of federated identity in general.
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Universal Federation Architecture: Enabling Unified Identity Federation & Web Services Security
By :CA Published Date: Dec 01, 2006
Effective identity federation benefits both users and enterprises. It provides the end-user with a seamless cross-domain Internet experience through single sign-on and it allows the enterprise to expose resources to a larger class of users not directly administered by the enterprise. Learn more in this white paper.

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Creating Competitive Advantage in Demanding Retail Environments
By :CommercialWare Published Date: Jan 09, 2007
This paper explores what cross-channel transparency looks like through the consumer's eyes, the costs retailers incur by maintaining the status quo, and key steps retailers need to consider as they undertake cross-channel initiatives.
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Storage Management: Supply Chain Apprach
By :Creekpath Published Date: Dec 20, 2005
Supply chain storage management has become universally accepted in the marketplace as the umbrella term for the processes, methodologies and metrics that enable an enterprise to manage and monitor the results of its business activities. Can IT Operations Storage Management utilize the lessons of Supply Chain Management to realize business benefit?
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5 Ways ERP Can Help You Implement Lean
By :Epicor Published Date: Apr 19, 2006
Why is Lean so popular? Because it delivers what manufacturing companies truly need in today's highly competitive world: shorter lead times, improved quality, reduced cost, increased profit, improved productivity and enhanced customer service.
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11 Criteria For Selecting The Best ERP System Replacement
By :Epicor Published Date: Apr 19, 2006
An ERP system is your information backbone and reaches into all areas of your business and value-chain. Replacing it can open unlimited business opportunities. In this white paper are the 11 criteria that will allow you to identify and select the ERP system replacement solution that will meet these expectations.
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Tuning ERP and the Supply Chain for Profitable Growth
By :Epicor Published Date: May 21, 2007
Ventana Research defines a lean supply chain as a set of organizations and processes that are linked in a continuous flow of products and services, finances and information, and that interact collaboratively to reduce cost and waste. Most people in manufacturing are familiar with the idea of “lean” manufacturing.
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The Visible Supply Chain: Ensuring End-to-End Optimization
By :Epicor Published Date: Apr 20, 2007
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.
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Strategies To Run a Lean Supply Chain
By :Epicor Published Date: Apr 20, 2008
In the last several years, the manufacturing sector has moved from vertically organized structures to horizontal organizations; that is, a single company no longer controls its product from, let’s say, the mine to the store shelf. Instead, today’s companies control only pieces of the supply chain, and the companies and divisions controlling those various components may be located just about anywhere in the world.
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RFID for Supply Chain Management
By :GAO RFID Inc. Published Date: Jan 29, 2007
Professionals who manage the supply chain have many concerns, including lost revenues, productivity, and securing the source of goods. Read how RFID technology delivers solutions to all these needs.
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Aberdeen Group: For Mid-Size Manufacturers the Issue is Visible
By :IBM Published Date: Aug 08, 2006
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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Compete More Effectively by Acting as Your Own Supply Chain
By :IBM Published Date: Jan 27, 2004
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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Begin at the End: A Good Lean Strategy Starts with Defining Your Ultimate Goal
By :Infor Published Date: Mar 02, 2006
Countless surveys have confirmed that most lean initiatives are abandoned outright or fail to deliver expected and needed results.  One well-known lean business consultant estimates that the failure rate is 98%. What is it the 2% of companies know that the others do not? Download this white paper to learn more.
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Achieving Lean Success: A Holistic Approach
By :Infor Published Date: Jan 18, 2007
Over the past decade, the concept of lean manufacturing production has gone through a dramatic evolution from an obscure and isolated practice to a mainstream, extensively publicized methodology that is well known throughout the manufacturing and supply chain industry. Download white paper to learn more.
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Maintain Your Focus: Sustaining the Lean Transformation on the Shop Floor
By :Infor Published Date: Mar 29, 2006
Lean has become the proven approach companies have used in industry after industry to transform into – and maintain position as – leading, dominant, world-class competitors. Yet, many companies that begin the Lean transformation process with energy and resolve fail to sustain and complete the transformation to a Lean organization. Download this white paper to learn more.
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Accounting for Lean Success: Overcoming the Barrier of Traditional Accounting in Lean Environments
By :Infor Published Date: Apr 25, 2007

Over the last three decades, lean principles have driven massive productivity improvements in manufacturing operations around the world. Download this insightful guide now and get a free Executive’s view on how accounting will play a larger role in lean by providing analysis, insight and direction that will support lean gains across all functions. 


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American Dairy Brands Reduces Errors, Increases Forecast Accuracy and Increases Service Levels
By :Infor Published Date: Oct 05, 2005
American Dairy Brands, a $300M division of Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) which is the largest U.S. dairy cooperative marketing over 45 billion pounds of milk per year, has achieved substantial supply chain savings through Infor's Supply Chain solutions. Infor has given Dairy Farmers of America the ability to successfully manage the supply chain to drive service levels to greater than 99% for their Borden-brand cheese products.
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Campina joins up its Product Specification Lifecycle Management with Infor Optiva PLM
By :Infor Published Date: Aug 02, 2006
With leading brands including Landliebe and Mona, Campina supplies milk, cheese, butter, desserts, yogurt and all kinds of dairy drinks in over 130 countries. Historically, each of these production and sales centers operated on an independent basis. While this allowed for a degree of localized efficiency, it presented a range of issues and potential fault lines which became exacerbated as the company, and the demands of its consumer grew.
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Infor Manufacturing Essentials Addresses Marine Manufacturer's Business Issues
By :Infor Published Date: Jul 18, 2006
The Viking Yacht Company is a $275-million family-owned business that builds more than 100 sport fishing yachts a year in a high-technology, 550,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in New Gretna, N.J. With an increased emphasis on service, Viking Yacht needed an enterprise resource planning system that would better support its service system.
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Lean Inventory Levels Resulting in Improved Customer Satisfaction
By :Infor Published Date: May 10, 2006
A fast-growing supplier, NEI's delivery performance was declining, creating a significant problem with past-due shipments, even though the company had an excess of finished goods. Access this case study to learn about how they addressed their challenges.
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