- 21. Data drives the supply chain but data storage can cripple yours
- (Technology)
- ... storage can be restricted by simply not purchasing more drives and you can establish spending caps for cloud accounts. But assess your data growth and make appropriate budget decisions. Make sure your ...
- 22. Supply Chain and the TCJA Effect on Jobs
- (Management)
- ... their employees. However 48 percent don’t expect to see any increases in salary and merit increase budgets. Unfortunately nearly the same number of respondents (47 percent) see either no change or a ...
- 23. It’s a Bird, it’s a Plane, it’s a Walmart Blimp!
- (Supply)
- ... in more than 450 locations across the US. And it’s already lowered prices on many of what’s often been termed “Whole Paycheck” items to make shopping there more in line with its budget targeting competitors ...
- 24. 3D Printing will Replace Your Supply Chain
- (Technology)
- 3D printers are available to everyone with even a small budget. That means that even though what they produce may not be up to the quality level you would manufacture or sell yourself, the ability to directly ...
- 25. Getting Started on Metrics
- (News)
- It's important for supply chain managers to identify trends and appropriate metrics to use for budgeting and evaluation purposes as we begin the new year. We're lucky that Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, ...
- 26. What’s In YOUR Bill?
- (EDI)
- ... accounting department for payment and may only show up when you run over-budget… or review your bill. The point is that your invoice is not necessarily what you think it should be. And you may never know ...
- 27. How to Excel at S&OP
- (News)
- Balancing go-to-market strategies against operational plans is a challenge across businesses of all sizes. Whether it's called Sales & Operations Planning or some other name, almost everyone tries to do ...
- 28. Should EDI be outsourced?
- (EDI)
- ... of internal personnel issues, hardware and software support, and even connectivity issues from internal budgets to predictable contractual agreements. In fact, in a 2013 report, Gartner estimated that ...
- 29. Cloud and the Budget
- (News)
- There is a dizzying array of potential ways that cloud technology can be deployed. They're not only a challenge to keep straight technically, but your IT group may also find that budgeting for it may be ...
- 30. Is China Outgrowing the World?
- (Management)
- ... forward to in 2014. Of course it's still to early in the year to check whether the predictions are holding but here are a couple of points to consider: The average growth rate of IT budgets around the ...
- 31. Guide to Becoming a Procurement Leader
- (News)
- Everyone wants the secret sauce for procurement success, right? Well, the folks at Supply Chain Digest are providing it on a silver platter in a recent article based on research by the Hackett Group.Procurement ...
- 32. Money for Nothin'
- (Management)
- Chances are that if you work in supply chain related area like EDI, you're one or two steps away from the IT budget. That usually means that getting funding for supply chain projects is a competitive battle. ...
- 33. Does 'Navel-Gazing' Deliver the Best Visibility
- (Supply)
- When it comes to developing reliable supply chain connections, it's important to consider that there are multiple sources of data that produce multiple instances of the data that is collected. The majority ...
- 34. Setting Project Expectations
- (News)
- Jennifer Lonoff Schiff, in a CIO article, tries to give us a few ideas on how to to set and control expectations for your projects. Based on the sheer number of project failures, this may be a critical ...
- 35. The Supply Chain IS Big Data
- (Management)
- ... includes all the documents used to develop forecasts, create budgets, present plans, and discuss options at the beginning, and continues after the sale including register data, warranty information, customer ...
- 36. DC Automation Challenge
- (News)
- In a Supply Chain Digest article, the challenge of building a DC with the optimal level of automation is addressed. Peapod had a classic budget vs. technology issue to face.As usual, a compromise was reached, ...
- 37. Control ERP Project Costs
- (News)
- Zinovy Radovilsky has studied a lot of ERP projects. In a recent interview on the Smart Business site, he talks about controlling costs and managing the inevitable over-runs and other constraints.They ...
- 38. Leveraging Analytics To Solve Common Supply Chain Problems
- (Technology)
- ... analytics against your estimates to make sure that you are staying within your budget. If you see that there are budget problems, analytics can give you the details you need to figure out just what is ...
- 39. Customers Are Not Always Right - Until They Stop Being Customers
- (Management)
- ... operating budgets, and they all were working hard to meet very different goals. What they did all have in common was a very similar problem. The problem? A trust issue, in a sense. The managers did not ...
- 40. Software on a Budget for the SMB
- (News)
- Rob Piancone, in a short article on supplychaindigital.com, helps the small business population by giving some solid recommendations on how to automate on a budget.The products he discusses work well and ...
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