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- I don't know about you, but I enjoy reading first person accounts of the development of new systems. In a recent Supply Chain Digest article, editor Dan Gilmore discusses the WMS sector with a pioneer ...
- 22. Is Best-of-Breed Best?
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- Best-of-breed seems to be the way to go for supply chain software. Why, then, do so many companies succumb to the advances of the large ERP providers?Lora Cecere, the Supply Chain Shaman, was interested ...
- 23. SAP Announcements
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- Bob Ferrari, in a Supply Chain Matters blog, lets us in on a few recent announcements by ERP giant SAP. Looks like they're getting even more serious about cloud technology.SAP is a leader in the ERP world, ...
- 24. P2P & ERP
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- Purchase-to-pay networks were developed because ERPs didn't do a good job with certain purchasing processes, right? If that's the case, why worry about the ERP?Well, Jason Busch from Spend Matters has ...
- 25. Oracle's New Supply Chain Solutio
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- Just like everything else, it looks like supply chain software is moving to the cloud. At least Oracle's new solution is on that path. A plethora of types of supply chain software and options are offered, ...
- 26. SAP's Future Directio
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- SAP's CEO Bill McDermott recently spoke at their yearly Sapphire conference. It's always instructive to hear what an industry or technology leader is thinking. SAP wants to simplify things, but is also ...
- 27. The Cloud IS the Way... Really?
- (Technology)
- ... numbers are not primarily offering cloud-based systems. The report contrasts the growth rates of the cloud based systems with more traditional installed software like SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft. While ...
- 28. ERP Market Data is Cloudy
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- Louis Columbus, in a Forbes article, analyzes some data on the ERP market and thinks that the future is right in front of us.Although the overall market is growing relatively slowly, those vendors who ...
- 29. Impact of the Latest Ariba Outage
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- When supplier networks are up and running, it's a beautiful thing for automating processes and improving workflow. When they aren't, it's a nightmare.Spend Matters' Pierre Mitchell reviews the latest Ariba ...
- 30. Integrated Procurement, or Not?
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- 31. Where's the Slowdown in EDI
- (EDI)
- ... ERP systems like Oracle Financials and SAP. A significant portion of the expense of these large systems is the amount of customization and management required to simply get them set up in the way the ...
- 32. 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 ...
- 33. More Intelligent P2P
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- If you've considered investing in a procurement system, you may want to wait awhile. According to Jason Busch of Spend Matters, more 'intelligence' is on the way to make P2P systems more intuitive and ...
- 34. The Dinosaur ERP
- (News)
- The day is coming where that hot technology of just a few years ago, the ERP, will be labeled a 'legacy' system, according to Gartner. As someone who worked on a couple ERP implementations, that makes ...
- 35. AS2 Best Practices
- (News)
- "Traditional" EDI, using ANSI standards and transporting messages to and from a VAN, is just one of many options available for B2B electronic documents.As more businesses switch over to internet-based ...
- 36. 2013 Tech Happenings
- (News)
- In a Spend Matters retrospective, Sydney Lazarus covers a few of the important topics addressed during 2013. Technology has been at the forefront, once again!Read his thoughts on what we've witnessed
- 37. ERP Integration Philosophy
- (News)
- What's your ERP integration philosophy? If you don't have one, it's time to start developing it since integration results seem to depend on it.In an article on the Search Oracle site, Mark Fontecchio discusses ...
- 38. ERP Customization
- (News)
- How much ERP customization is too much? That's a bit of a trick question. If you go vanilla, you could be missing out on functionality that may drive competitive advantage for you. Too much, though, and ...
- 39. Procurement Requirement Options
- (News)
- In an update to the "Procurement Bill of Rights" series, Pierre Mitchell of Spend Matters discusses a couple key points related to application alternatives.This gets into some of the newer issues related ...
- 40. B2B vs. B2C
- (News)
- Forrester Research has completed a look at B2B electronic commerce. As expected, there are a lot of similarities with consumer ecommerce (B2C) but a few significant differences.Read Katrina Gosek's article ...
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