- 21. Supply Chain and Finance Alignment
- (News)
- Consultants Ernst & Young recently completed a survey on business priorities over the next 3 years. The folks at Supply Chain Digest gleaned some interesting information about alignment between finance ...
- 22. Moving the Supply Chain
- (Supply)
- ... professionals from 71 countries, 75% of respondents reported that they did not have full visibility of their supply chain and that 30% did not know where they fit into any of their suppliers’ priorities. ...
- 23. Stakeholders Bringing in the 5th Edition PMBOK
- (Management)
- ... have a concrete plan in how we will manager our stakeholders, our best intentions can fall to the wayside as other project priorities consume the team’s time and energy. This is why having a Stakeholder ...
- 24. Project Overload
- (News)
- Projects are good things, in general. So more projects would be even better, right? Not so fast.....In a guest article on the A Lean Journey site, Antonio Ferraro discusses how 'project overload' can wreak ...
- 25. What Supply Chain Masters Execute
- (Supply)
- ... analyses and information gathering on a more frequent basis can help rebalance priorities and develop multiple scenarios, the report states. A company’s ability to do this effectively will depend on whether ...
- 26. Some Great Quotes for CIOs
- (News)
- Michael Friedenberg pairs interesting quotes with questions for IT management as 2013 approaches. Although the quotations aren't new, he manages to locate the appropriate message for CIOs for each of them. ...
- 27. Data Quality Laws
- (News)
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- 28. Supply Chain Survey Results
- (News)
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- 29. Turning the Retailer/Vendor Meeting Into a Partnership/Strategic Discussion
- (Supply)
- ... significant product, for instance, while improving cash flow. Without the right authorization for that plan, though, or if its implementation appears to conflict with priorities already established for ...
- 30. Turning the Retailer/Vendor Meeting Into a Partnership/Strategic Discussion
- (Retail)
- ... significant product, for instance, while improving cash flow. Without the right authorization for that plan, though, or if its implementation appears to conflict with priorities already established for ...
- 31. Supply chains, retailers, and the elusive ROI.
- (Supply)
- ... Beyond that, however, there’s no real consensus as to retailers’ priorities. As Brian Kilcourse, RSR analyst, writes in a newsletter article about the report, “there is no majority opinion about which ...
- 32. The Danger of the One-Off
- (EDI)
- ... for future project opportunities. Our bias was generally toward finding a reason to say ‘yes’ to project proposals rather than ‘no’, but realistically the challenges of resources and priorities were ...
- 33. MRO and EDI- a Good Match?
- (Retail)
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- 34. How Is Your EDI Department Attached?
- (Management)
- ... and worthwhile reasons, and as the company modified its approach and priorities their relative importance changed and we often moved under new leadership. For example, eCommerce was an important initiative ...
- 35. How does EDI Fit in SaaS and Cloud Platforms?
- (Integration)
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