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- Demand Chain Strategy - The Missing Link?
- Whilst organisations and the stock market continue to cite the supply chain as a reason for corporate success or failure, the enlightened few will start to quote the demand chain. Demand chain strategy is the crucial missing link between business unit, market and supply chain strategy - that creates alignment...
- Tags: Demand Chain, Demand Chain Strategy, Pricing, Marketing
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- When You Demand Supply Chain Solutions, Demand the Best: Overview
- Companies succeed by synchronizing the extended supply chain to stay one step ahead of demand. Synchronization delivers industry-leading customer service in a profitable manner by balancing the supply chain. Manugistics enables you to stay one step ahead of demand by forecasting and influencing what products will sell and then ensuring...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Manugistics Inc., Synchronization, Goal, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-04-01
- Next Generation Supply Chain Strategic Planning Technology and Applications
- What is supply chain strategic planning? Its not execution, and its not re-engineering. It is strategic decision-making and business-planning by forward-thinking companies. Operational supply chain strategy remains the weak link in the market, mainly due to the degree of difficulty involved in using sophisticated models and complicated algorithms. In the...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Strategic Planning, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
- White papers 2000-04-15
- Transforming Discrete Manufacturing Supply Chains
- In the world of manufacturing, it’s essential that you have an agile supply chain that can rapidly adapt to shifting market conditions. That’s how you align supply with demand to keep your total cost of inventory in check. But that’s easier said than done, especially if your supply chain information...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Hewlett-Packard Co., Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Issues With Supply Chain and RFID in the Retail Industry
- The retail industry is experiencing problems in the supply chain because there is no formal collaboration between the retailer and supplier. Demand uncertainty in the supply chain, known as the "Bullwhip effect," results in excess inventory and inefficiencies in the supply chain. Demand forecasts and orders are often distorted unless...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Industry, RFID, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2008-03-13
- Creating the Demand-Driven Workforce
- As the 21st century is beginning to hit its stride, a tectonic shift has occurred in supply chain management. The factory-based push economy of the 20th century that made the U.S. a world powerhouse has given way to a retailer-focused pull economy where customer demand is the dominant force in...
- Tags: Supply Chain, RedPrairie, Supply Chain Operation, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Globalization, Transportation, Enterprise Software, Software, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-01-13
- Adaptive Supply Chain Network: The Vision Is Now Reality
- This webcast outlines what is fueling the need for demand-driven supply chain networks, the context of adaptive supply chain networks as a pillar of adaptive business networks, and the information and supply chain process implications of this transformation. The webcast also helps one learn about the capabilities and benefits of...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Network, Vision, mySAP SCM, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- Webcasts
- e-Commerce in Supply and Demand Chains: Case Studies & How-To's
- An important reason for an electronic business strategy in a demand chain is to improve the performance of participating businesses in terms of their efficiency, sustainability and profitability. It is also about encouraging and facilitating interdependency. Case studies of working electronic business applications provide a mechanism for eliminating the fear...
- Tags: Business Application, Demand Chain, E-business, Pricing, Marketing
- Case studies
- Tales From DDSN Leaders: Structure Follows Strategy
- A panel of business executives from top companies gathered at AMR Research's Executive Leadership Conference to discuss the state of and organizational issues involved in becoming more demand driven. The discussion focused on the governance and organizational problems companies face as they begin their Demand-Driven Supply Network DDSN transformation. The...
- Tags: Strategy, Supply Chain, AMR Research, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
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- Demand-Driven Supply Networks: Advancing Supply Chain Management
- Most consumer products companies realize that developing a Demand-Driven Supply Network DDSN could provide the pathway to true customer focus. These supply networks depart from the traditional systematic manufacturing "Push" of products to market - which meets the demand of the distribution center, but not of the end customer. Because...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Network, SCM, Replenishment, DDSN, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-06-01
- New Opportunities in Supply Chain and Logistics
- The globalization of trade that has presented commercial enterprises with enormously complex supply chain and logistics issues also presents the government and military with exciting new opportunities for meeting their own challenges. Driven by the relentless demands of competition, global companies have turned to increasingly sophisticated technology solutions for supply...
- Tags: Logistics, Manugistics Inc., Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2004-11-01
- i2 Technologies Solutions on HP Integrity Servers: Demand-Driven Supply Chain Management
- As the enterprise grows and increases in complexity, one needs to become more agile in managing the supply chain that generates the revenue. And that means that one needs to manage both the information and the business processes more effectively not only within his organization, but across his entire supply...
- Tags: HP Integrity, Supply Chain, Hewlett-Packard Co., I2 Technologies Inc., Server, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Supply Chain and Demand Chain Integration: The Pathway to Profit and Competitive Advantage
- Over the last decade, a powerful mandate for sustained business productivity has emerged: to design, alter, and combine products and services to profitably and efficiently meet the needs of customers. "Managing demand for the total value maximization of the enterprise and the supply chains" is the "competitive battleground" of the...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Competitive Advantage, Demand Chain, SAP AG, Integration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
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- Supply Chain Management & Beyond
- As a worldwide market leader in Radio Frequency IDentification RFID, Philips is committed to an open standards approach to supply chain management. Optimized for all aspects of supply chain management, Philips ICs are already being used in hundreds of applications that use millions of ICs. RFID technologies have significant potential...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Integrated Circuit, SCM, Philips Electronics N.V., Supply Chain Management (SCM), RFID, Semiconductors, Enterprise Software, Software, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Hardware
- Case studies
- A Demand-Driven Approach to Vendor Managed Inventory
- Manufacturers, or vendors, and their customers continue to adopt Vendor Managed Inventory VMI programs to improve supply chain performance through collaboration achieved by consolidating forecasting and replenishment responsibility upstream with vendors. VMI works because vendors gain a better understanding of end-consumer demand and can fulfill this demand with a degree...
- Tags: Vendor, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Retail, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Growing Revenue From CPFR and VMI: Building the Demand-Driven Supply Chain
- Most supply chain projects to date have been all about reducing operating costs through inventory reductions, better transportation planning, lower transaction costs, and improved supplier management. Covering the costs for customer-initiated Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment CPFR programs and Vendor-Managed Inventory VMI programs by further reducing these operating costs is...
- Tags: Revenue, Cost, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Transportation, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- White papers 2006-10-01
- Get ahead of the curve in demand management
- Demand management practices in the manufacturing space are quite common but most tend to concentrate on demand planning and rely solely on forecasting needs. Get this paper by the Aberdeen Group to find ways to refocus your attention on excellence throughout the entire demand lifecycle. In the...
- Tags: Forecasting, Sales Force Management, Sales
- White papers 2007-11-01
- IBM Transforms Its Supply Chain to Drive Growth
- In 2002, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano centralized all of IBM's internal supply chain functions, from engineering to customer service, under the new Integrated Supply Chain ISC unit. ISC's mission? To carry out four supply chain transformation imperatives that bolster Palmisano's strategy to transform IBM into an end-to-end integrated organization that...
- Tags: Supply Chain, IBM Corp., Integrated Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-03-24
- Increasing Customer Satisfaction Through a Demand-Chain Network Solution
- Serious skiers thrive on speed, and Intrawest puts that need for speed at the center of its resort operations. Through the use of Microsoft Windows 2000 - based Demand Chain Network solutions from Microsoft Certified Solution Provider Pivotal, Intrawest resort personnel have instant access to each client's vacation preferences. The...
- Tags: Customer Satisfaction, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, Product Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing
- Case studies
- Momentum Webcast: Driven by Demand: How High Tech Manufacturers Leverage Their Supply Chain for Improved Profitability (Level 100)
- As high tech companies are attempting to change and become more responsive to the high volatility of their markets, they know that they still need reliable and meaningful forecasting and demand management processes. Many companies are expanding their use of traditional demand planning and forecasting tools. Many more are re-examining...
- Tags: Business Process, Supply Chain, Webcast, Forecasting, Sales Force Management, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Operational Planning, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations
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