- 21. Demand Planning Innovation
- (News)
- It should come as no surprise that supply chain planning is going through big changes. Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, is intimately familiar with the process. She discusses how demand planning is ...
- 22. It's Integration Time
- (Integration)
- ... days are over. Options abound, mostly due to the growth and proven effectiveness of cloud-based technology. When you look at it, the return on investment in the ‘old days’ maybe wasn't there. You may ...
- 23. Challenges to Consumer Products Supply Chains
- (News)
- The household products industry used to lead the world in supply chain effectiveness, but that's in the past. Industry leaders like Procter & Gamble and Kimberly-Clark haven't evolved quickly enough,while ...
- 24. What’s Your AQ (Analytics Quotient)?
- (Management)
- ... looking at that data as well as the facts about the data (its metadata) that may help expand the reach and effectiveness of your supply chain activities. Knowing just what products your eventual end customers ...
- 25. Is SaaS Based EDI a Cloud Service?
- (Technology)
- ... to SaaS and Cloud-based solutions to meet their key business challenges and as a means of closing the effectiveness gaps that currently exist between HR priorities and HR systems." This all begs the ...
- 26. 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 ...
- 27. The Inventory Challenge
- (News)
- Our favorite Shaman has her sights set on inventory optimization. It's a long-standing supply chain challenge, but Lora Cecere has done the research to help us face it.Not surprisingly, technology is a ...
- 28. Effective Compliance Program Key To Supply Chain Success
- (Logistics)
- ... can change a PO • How often changes to the PO can be made • If amendments translate into additional charges Having a succinct compliance program in effect allows any retailer measure the effectiveness ...
- 29. Supply Chain Efficiency vs. Effectiveness
- (News)
- For supply chains, efficiency equals effectiveness, right? Not so, according to Lora Cecere. She believes that incessant cost squeezing has only allowed companies to tread water.In a Forbes article, Lora ...
- 30. The Importance of Integration
- (Integration)
- Integration is always a hot topic for the supply chain. It's a powerful tool to improve profitability by reducing costs. Like a lot of ideas, though, its effectiveness depends quite a bit on context. What ...
- 31. Fearless Predictions for 2014
- (Blogs)
- ... you’ll see robot-staffed facilities being developed from the ground up and their efficiency and effectiveness will be evident. Drones. Many think that Amazon’s splash with their future delivery ...
- 32. Customers Are Not Always Right - Until They Stop Being Customers
- (Management)
- ... staff would prepare all sorts of documents, facts, and arguments related to EDI. It would all be laid out and ready to go, and just by looking at the cold hard facts, there was no arguing with the effectiveness ...
- 33. E-Commerce for Components
- (News)
- The B2B market for electronic components is beginning to embrace ecommerce in a big way. The promises of efficiency and cost effectiveness are becoming realized. Anne Ting on EBN describes how this evolution ...
- 34. Let's Shar
- (News)
- Industry Week has a nice article about the effectiveness of sharing real-time demand and inventory information. It turns out, the results are mixed. Read Becky Partida's findings on the research here. ...
- 35. Improve Your Inventory Processes
- (News)
- Inventory planning and process optimization is a challenge for organizations of all sizes. In an Industry Week article, Mani Iyer provides a 5 step approach to optimizing inventory processes to address ...
- 36. Don't Forget Digital Assets When Selecting a Vendo
- (Management)
- ... these digital assets can make or break your site’s effectiveness. Due to this need to provide useful product information, selecting the sources for products has likewise evolved. Your sourcing choices ...
- 37. Change Your Routine
- (News)
- In his HBR Blog Network article, Peter Bregman has some great ideas on how to improve your focus and effectiveness. It seems pretty simple, but do you think you can do it? Read his article here.
- 38. Doing it Wrong - Get it Right!
- (Management)
- ... is to assess its effectiveness with its partners. That task is complicated by the unique nature of its 'customer base'. Whereas a salesman may have many customers of the same type, the EDI team usually ...
- 39. What’s on Your Horizon?
- (Management)
- ... opt to use the internet to exchange documents. The rise of XML. I wrote about this in my article EDI and XML: It's Inevitable. There’s no denying the popularity and effectiveness of XML for many purposes. ...
- 40. Can You Improve? Continuously?
- (Management)
- ... valued) processes are constantly evaluated and improved in the light of their efficiency, effectiveness and flexibility.” Trust me, there are as many definitions of CI as there are of EDI or electronic ...
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