Supply Chain Intelligence Research
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Inventory Optimization: A New Approach to Operational Inventory Planning
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.In today's business environment, supply chain management cannot afford inefficiencies caused by planners using outdated inventory management models. Read this white paper to discover an SAP application that enables planners to manage today's complex supply chains by facilitating analysis of many variables, constraints, and scenarios.
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Reducing Healthcare Costs Through Supply Chain Management
Sponsored by: InforThis e-guide from SearchHealthIT.com demonstrates how hospitals can integrate supply chain management into their overall strategic IT plan. Read now to learn how to form a collaborative relationship between IT and supply chain executives.
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Accenture Technology Vision 2013
Sponsored by: ComputerWeekly.comAccenture's technology vision assesses the impact of digital technology on the enterprise in 2013 and offers action points for CIOs and business leaders.
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Hong Kong and China Technology (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. (Towngas Technology) Increases Gas-Related Transactions 400%, Triples Concurrent Users with Embedded Database
Sponsored by: ORACLE APACIn this case study, find out why the utility company Towngas Technology chose to implement Oracle software to provide the sophisticated supply chain information tracking and analytics it needs for billing and demand planning purposes.
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Drive Your Supply Chain in Real Time with SAP HANA
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.A recent Oxford Economics study found an vast number of companies are leveraging in-memory computing to improve supply chain visibility and enable real-time operations. View this comprehensive e-book to learn the many drivers behind in-memory computing and get an introduction to SAP HANA, SAP's game-changing real-time analytics appliance.
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Elevating Your Procurement Organization from Knee Jerk Reactions to Predictive Analytics
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.Benchmark findings prove that a 5% reduction in spending can drive upwards of a 45% increase in net income, and migrating to automated spend analytics can capture a 30% higher rate of cost savings and a 27% higher rate of spend under management. This study will walk through a four-step process to help you start reaping these rewards.
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Data Enrichment and Classification to Optimize Procurement and Spend Analysis
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.Read how the utilization of a Data Enrichment and Classification toolkit can help you unlock the full potential of your existing procurement applications by making your data reliable – the key to more accurate and consistent insight into your spend. Learn how you can increase leverage opportunities and improve decision making.
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Strategically leveraging Sales and Operations Planning in manufacturing
Sponsored by: IQMSRead this SearchManufacturingERP.com e-guide to find industry expert recommendations for how to choose the right sales and operations planning (S&OP) tools for your organization (ERP add-ons vs. specialized "best of breed" tools) and leverage new S&OP capabilities such as what-if analysis and financial performance data integration.
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Unifying supplier, customer data for manufacturing
Sponsored by: StiboRead this e-guide to learn how to fine tune data management systems to collect relevant data, consolidate it, and integrate it for analytics systems.
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Improving supply chain management with analytics
Sponsored by: Epicor Software CorporationThis e-guide examines the business case for manufacturing BI, and shows how manufacturers can take both demand and supply side signals into account when predicting future needs.
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Smarter Commerce for Consumer Products
Sponsored by: IBMThe connected customer is changing the way you must conduct business. In order to comply with your customers' demands, you must change the way your products are sourced, manufactured and distributed. Smarter commerce enables this, allowing you to transform how quickly you can manage and adapt your source, market, sell and service processes.
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Inventory Optimization for Mill Products Companies
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.This paper explores how the latest inventory optimization techniques can help increase supply chain visibility and reduce inventory costs. Read this resource now to learn how to capitalize on a multi-stage, multi-inventory optimization model to help increase efficiency and gain much-needed competitive advantage.
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SEEBURGER Supply Chain Management (SCM) Monitor for SAP Achieving Real-Time Supply Chain Visibility with New SAP Best Practices
Sponsored by: SEEBURGERRead this white paper to learn how, centralizing and intelligently automating supply chain monitoring within SAP, you can extend real-time B2B supply chain insight and problem-solving beyond the IT department to your business departments.
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E-Book - Cloud Computing: What It Can Do for Your Manufacturing Supply
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.Cloud-based manufacturing applications have exploded onto the market, and with so much hype, determining their suitability and usefulness can be tricky. Read this expert e-book to get tips on how the cloud can be leveraged for ERP, supply chain management, and global inventory management, and learn what to look out for in a still-maturing market.
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The Strategic Supplier Mandate: Three Principles to Deliver Transparency Across the Supply Base
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.Read this article to discover the three supplier management initiatives that have helped market-leading procurement organizations drive innovation, increase productivity and mitigate risk.
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CPO Rising 2011 -- The State of Spend Analysis
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.Companies that can move high percentages of their spend into managed scenarios will reap much larger returns. This article discusses the importance of visibility in bringing more spend under management, and the types of outcomes one can expect from a strong spend analysis program.
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Manufacturing IT Best Practices: Supply Chain Management
Sponsored by: SearchManufacturingERPAs supply chains extend across the globe and their complexity increases, manufacturers are learning that the right software can be a key component of successful supply chain planning and execution. Read this expert e-book to find tips and best practices for supply chain management (SCM).
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eGuide: Supply Chain Management Tips and Best Practices
Sponsored by: SEEBURGERAccording to a recent Aberdeen Group study, companies are prioritizing supply chain visibility, inventory optimization, supply chain analytics, and supply chain outsourcing as ways to cut supply chain management (SCM) costs this year. Read this e-guide to explore the latest expert tips and guidance on SCM cost-cutting strategies.
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3 Questions to Ensure You’re Collaborating Effectively Across Your Supply Chain
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.To drive market share, sales, product adoption and greater efficiency, many businesses are strategically partnering with suppliers and other supply chain participants to collaborate and share information. In this white paper, find answers to three of the top concerns for organizations developing these collaborative supply chain networks.
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Onboarding suppliers to sustainable supply chain
Sponsored by: IBMIt is essential to convey sustainability in a meaningful way to manufacturers and clear manner for suppliers. In this tip guide, you will learn best practices for green manufacturing policies, tips for overcoming resistance to green supply chain management and expert insights to identify and manage performance metrics.
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Tip Guide: Study finds manufacturing analytics falling short
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.Nearly two-thirds of manufacturers use time-consuming, unreliable spreadsheets for their business analytics, and many say the information is stale or unreliable, leading to time consuming, costly mistakes for companies. In this tip guide, readers will learn more about the shortcomings of manufacturing analytics.
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eGuide: Best practices for managing sustainable supply chains
Sponsored by: IBMMany organizations, from large corporations to small not-for-profits, are eager to jump on the supply chain sustainability bandwagon without fully understanding what such a program means to the organization and its supply chain. In this e-guide, find best practices for managing sustainable supply chains and onboarding suppliers.
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Tip Guide: Supply chain analytics offers cost, revenue advantages
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.Propelled by globalization and the convergence of mobile and cloud computing, industry experts believe that although supply chain analytics has been around for a decade, it is truly on the verge of taking off. In this tip guide, readers will discover the advantages of advanced manufacturing business intelligence (BI).
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Tip Guide: Supply chain data management essential for “sense and respond” analytics
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.In this tip guide, readers will learn best practices for supply chain data management to provide a successful, responsive analytics strategy for their organization.
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Tip Guide: Unify supplier, customer data for manufacturing business intelligence
Sponsored by: SAP America, Inc.Installing the building blocks for manufacturing business intelligence (BI) can be challenging for organizations. In this tip guide, readers will learn best practices to unify supplier and customer data for manufacturing BI.
