- 41. Direct Procurement Automation Challenges
- (News)
- Automating your direct procurement process is a worthy goal, but supply chain managers often take steps with technology that cause more problems than they solve. Bolt-ons are not the answer, according ...
- 42. Late Adopters of EDI Are Just In Time to Benefit
- (EDI)
- ... with your suppliers and make sure they are compatible with and ready to work with your orders. Visibility awaits One issue that every trading partner relationship deals with is the question of where the ...
- 43. EDI is More Than Just Digits
- (EDI)
- EDI is, by just about any definition, a “mature” information technology. It has a long history, with origins in the planning in the Berlin Airlift, and was used in civilian businesses since as early as ...
- 44. The Unnecessary Costs Of EDI Document Errors
- (EDI)
- ... to notify their trading partners of the change. In either case, the transaction requires manual intervention such as a phone call or a retransmission via email or fax. That interruption can lead to delays ...
- 45. VANs Are Well Positioned to Support Logistics
- (Logistics)
- ... to providing connectivity) is to monitor the health of the network and communications between trading partners. When issues arise that impact those communications, the dedicated resources of the VAN kick ...
- 46. Enjoy Big Gains By Involving Your Smaller Vendors In Your EDI Process
- (Retail)
- ... in EDI transactions, electronic updates are automatically transmitted between the trading partners to advise of the order’s status. Dashboards automatically announce when an order has not progressed to ...
- 47. No Risk EDI
- (EDI)
- ... But they can be telling in and of themselves as they include information about your trading partners, your relationships with them, and what products are most important to your company. As single documents ...
- 48. Responsibility For Suppliers
- (News)
- Some well-documented recent business disasters, such as the airbag recalls by the car makers, vividly illustrate the need for manufacturers to take more ownership of their supply chain processes. The risks ...
- 49. Low B2B Integration Adoption for CPG
- (News)
- In a recent research study by IDC that's surprising to me, we discover that a vast majority of consumer package goods (CPG) companies are low adopters of B2B integration technology.Although there's universal ...
- 50. Making it Easy to Improve
- (News)
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