- 21. DSD and Tracking Data
- (Logistics)
- Direct Store Delivery (DSD) is not new but the speed of commerce is having an impact on just how DSD is working… or not working. The old normal pace of delivery just doesn’t cut it any more when store ...
- 22. Changing to Meet Your Customers' Expectations
- (News)
- Like it or not, your customers are driving the bus and you need to either meet expectations or suffer the consequences. The pushing of the envelope by Amazon is certainly a key ingredient.On the Multichannel ...
- 23. Amazon's 3PL Pus
- (News)
- In the eternal quest to figure out what in the world Amazon is up to, the folks at DC Velocity examine their recent logistics moves. Are they a 3PL or not?As they go further down the 3PL path, Amazon is ...
- 24. ERP Requirements for Manufacturing
- (News)
- Believe it or not, there are many companies out there just now testing the waters for ERP technology. Although defining requirements is a good first step, there are several others that need to happen before ...
- 25. To Cloud, or Not....
- (News)
- Should cloud-based computing be the standard in organizations of all sizes? According to Charlie Bess on the Enterprise Irregulars site, cloud should be used by everyone, but not exclusively.Valid reasons ...
- 26. Yet Another Predicticator for this Year
- (Management)
- ... those changes will be good for each of us individually or not will depend on circumstances that will be different for every company. In his story “Supply Chain Predictions for 2015” our own Michael ...
- 27. Money for Nothin'
- (Management)
- ... right way to do things or not is beside the point. The effect is that spending on technology is shifting and the marketing department's budget in many mid to large size organizations is as large as that ...
- 28. Manufacturing Revival or Not?
- (News)
- Much has been made of the American 'manufacturing revival'. But is it really a revival? According to Adam Robinson on the Industrial Distribution website, it's more of a transformation, with much higher ...
- 29. Time to Referee?
- (News)
- We've all seen it: a couple co-workers are going at one another, and you need to decide whether to stick your nose in or not. Sometimes it may be tempting to just watch them slug it out, but intervention ...
- 30. SAP & eBay
- (News)
- SAP's recently announced partnership with eBay gives the folks at Spend Matters something interesting to ponder. SAP continues to add functionality in an attempt to shore up their eprocurement offering.Is ...
- 31. Interview with Hasso Plattner of SAP
- (News)
- Whether you're an SAP customer or not, their plans are often indicative of what's happening in the ERP world at large. In an interview by Doug Henshen on the Information Week site, SAP's Chairman Hasso Plattner ...
- 32. Integrated Procurement, or Not?
- (News)
- Integrated procurement through the ERP always seems to be a topic that's on the table. With big vendors (like SAP), new technologies, new applications, and consolidation all occuring, it can make for some ...
- 33. Same Day Delivery Expectations
- (News)
- Whether you think customers need it or not, same-day delivery expectations are growing. It's not something that can be ignored.In a Supply and Demand Chain Executive article, Rob Howard gives us a few pointers ...
- 34. ERP and the Hybrid Cloud
- (News)
- Whether you go to the 'cloud' or not isn't really a binary decision. Many different options and combinations are out there, and it seems that the 'hybrid cloud' is the hottest direction for ERP projects.Rober ...
- 35. Cloud ERP Project Growth Declines
- (News)
- Cloud ERP implementations are growing like wildfire, right? Not so fast..... According to recent research by Panorama Consulting, cloud deployments actually declined last year.Lots of speculation about ...
- 36. Using Intuition
- (News)
- To use or not use 'Big Data' isn't a binary choice. There are ways you can utilize it in combination with other forms of analysis and decision making.Tom Davenport, in an HBR blog, discusses how intuitiion ...
- 37. To ERP, or Not....
- (News)
- Now you tell us! In a CFO article, Bruce Myers, Chris Payne, and Adam Pollak tells us why investing in ERP is a bad move. Or is it?They explain why there's a bias toward ERP purchases and discuss alternatives ...
- 38. Backup and Security - A Lost Priority
- (Technology)
- ... company, it's easy to lose track of just who is backing up what, and what connections are being used or not used. It's also easy to assume that every connection to your cloud based system is secure and legitimate. ...
- 39. Big Uses for Big Data
- (Technology)
- ... And how will your personal life change due to Big Data? Well, it already has, whether you know it or not. You get great movie recommendations from Netflix, product suggestions from Amazon, GPS enabled ...
- 40. EDI Self-Mapping
- (News)
- I used to work with an executive who dreamed of this: intelligent self-mapping of B2B transactional data. Is it finally here?In a GXS blog by Steve Keifer, we learn about how it might actually happen. ...
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