Integration (46)
The Importance of Integration
- Thursday, 09 January 2014
- Integration
- Written by Michael Martz
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 works best for a small manufacturer may be considerably different than what does the trick for a large retailer. The pressure for profits may be the similar but there’s a huge difference in scale.
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Big Data from Small Transactions
- Tuesday, 24 September 2013
- Integration
- Written by Scott Koegler
Cash register transactions are flowing at an ever increasing rate. Actually ‘cash register’ isn’t at all an appropriate term anymore since such a large volume of purchasing take place as credit or debit transactions. But the point is still the same. The challenge of managing those transactions is part of the reason there is so much attention on Big Data. And the obstacles of handling big data are becoming as well known as are the companies that are providing solutions.
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Connecting Everything
- Friday, 12 July 2013
- Integration
- Written by Michael Martz
A few months back, we slogged through predictions for trends that would affect businesses in 2013. Many or most of them have already impacted us, particularly those related to mobile technology and the cloud. But the most powerful of all didn't appear on many lists and seems to be getting traction in the business and technology press a bit ahead of the hype curve.
Embrace Your Problems
- Friday, 22 February 2013
- Integration
- Written by Michael Martz
Those of you in the EDI (or Data Transformation, Partner Integration, or whatever you want to call it) arena know what I mean when I say you’re in the middle of things. You have ‘customers’ both upstream and downstream, and those people are very demanding. When something goes wrong, you hear about it. Nothing good can result from that, right? Wrong!
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E-Commerce Data Feeds: Data for Marketing
- Tuesday, 30 October 2012
- Integration
- Written by Cameron Laird
The nearby article on data feeds for e-tailers emphasizes the value of accurate data for good customer relations. That's far from the only potential e-tailing data has, though.
E-Commerce as Data Supplier
- Tuesday, 30 October 2012
- Integration
- Written by Cameron Laird
The nearby article on data feeds for e-tailers has lessons for suppliers, also. Most crucially, manufacturers need to recognize that data feeds represent an opportunity for co-operation andnegotiation.
Sharing Data Delivers Success
- Thursday, 27 September 2012
- Integration
- Written by Esther Shein
The good news is there’s more and more product data available for suppliers and retailers. The not-so-good news is that sharing that data has become overwhelming as economic conditions continue to be a challenge and industry growth is changing the way data sharing continues to grow.
Infographic: A CFO’s Guide to ERP in the Cloud
- Wednesday, 07 March 2012
- Integration
- Written by Buzz
Take a look at this great Infographic. It's a very understandable depiction of the benefits and costs camparing hosted systems with cloud/SaaS based alternatives.
Read more...2012 year of Collaboration
- Tuesday, 14 February 2012
- Integration
- Written by Marlow Atticus
We're starting to see year end results from 2011. Many look promising but others still show struggles. It seems, from talking with Retailers and Grocers, that they plan to continue implementing the strategies they started mid-2011. As companies continue to look at ways to improve operations to offset lower sales, an area of growing interest is improved partner collaboration. What does that actually mean to collaborate?
Marlow Talks Combos
- Sunday, 02 May 2010
- Integration
- Written by Marlow Atticus
As retailers continue to squeeze as much as they can out of their supply chain they are continuing to look at having the right product in the right place. To faciliate this, many are looking at working with assortments, musical runs, or prepacks which they will create by region. Two years ago I wrote an article on this topic, but thought it woud be relevant to address the concept again and make sure that if your company is considering supporting multiple skus, sizes, and color products within a caselot or prepack, that you are aware of what others are doing, in order to support a colaboration with your trading partners.
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