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Marlow's Strategic Recommendations for 2011
- Saturday, 06 November 2010
- Management
- Written by Marlow Atticus
If you're like many companies your year end is also the end of the calendar year. With the approaching new year comes new budgets and new Goals and Objectives. For some retailers, we'll start to see new store openings increase, but for most you'll continue to look within your organizations to continue to shrink the cost of operations, and that will likely include changes or continued expansion of Supply Chain initiatives and Electronic Trading. As you plan your Strategy for 2011 you may want to consider some of the things that I've been writing on over the last year. To refresh your memory below are considerations I'd expect you'd "noodle" over the following:
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To Outsource or not Outsource... That is The Question
- Monday, 18 July 2011
- Management
- Written by Marlow Atticus
With the economy still struggling, retailers continue to postpone investing in new store openings. However they are investing in new systems, upgrading existing ones, or are implementing new processes to help manage the current business more effectively. System changes or new implementations mean massive interface changes between the new systems and existing ones. Many companies hire contractors to manage this spike in IT needs where others take the opportunity to join the "cloud computing" wave and look to outsourcing processes instead of managing the change/upgrade.
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Done with 2011 - Ready for 2012
- Monday, 12 December 2011
- Management
- Written by Marlow Atticus
Well, it's another year come and gone. In a couple of weeks most companies will close out their fiscal year end. It's been an interesting year to say the least. Uncertainty around global economies being the biggest concern. However there are signs of good things that have happened during 2011, one of those being the change in mentality for companies to take a deeper look into their processes and implement several cost saving or efficiency measures to work smarter. Below I've recapped my observations -
How Is Your EDI Department Attached?
- Sunday, 13 June 2010
- Management
- Written by Michael Martz
What I thought I'd touch on today is a topic that's been discussed in the past on the site: where does the "EDI Team" belong in your organization? I have a pretty good perspective on this one, since we experienced almost the entire gamut of organizational possibilities during my tenure.
What Can Go Wrong? Anything!
- Saturday, 26 June 2010
- Management
- Written by Harold DeWayne
What can go wrong with an EDI? Implementation? Anything can. From simple unpreparedness to resistant employees/management. The first thing one needs for a successful EDI implementation is management buy-in. A supportive management team/champion who has the authority to allocate the proper resources can make or break a project.
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The Impact of a Big Project
- Friday, 02 July 2010
- Management
- Written by Michael Martz
How do you like it when the boss lets you know that the EDI team has an important piece of a big, highly visible project that may take up a lot of your time? Do you see it as a major disruption of your work, an inconvenience you'll deal with reluctantly, or as a wonderful opportunity? As someone whose team went through several, I come down firmly on the side of responding to it as a chance to not only show 'em what you've got, but to also learn a little something.
What's It Cost?
- Wednesday, 21 July 2010
- Management
- Written by Michael Martz
I’ve had several communications with Scott over the years about the costs of exchanging electronic data with partners. It’s a great topic, since you need to have a good handle on costs to make all sorts of decisions, from buying software and hardware to looking at outsourcing or SaaS.
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Here's to You!
- Tuesday, 10 August 2010
- Management
- Written by Michael Martz
I spent my entire career at a fairly large company in a variety of roles. I worked with people across the enterprise in many positions and levels. At the end of the day, whose job appeared to be the toughest? I think the most demanding position I ran into is the one that many of our readers hold: EDI Analyst.
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Getting Bigger and Stronger
- Wednesday, 01 September 2010
- Management
- Written by Michael Martz
Wouldn't it be great to do more with what you already have? To leverage an investment you've already paid for? Or how about adding capabilities without breaking the budget? It can be done, whether you're a small manufacturer who was forced into doing EDI with a large retailer or a big company with a robust eCommerce offering.
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Project Pitfalls
- Monday, 18 October 2010
- Management
- Written by Michael Martz
I was involved in a lot of implementations throughout my career and can truthfully say that, although almost every one was different, there's commonality across them that can be exploited. I've mentioned in the past that most of the implementation work we did at my previous employer was related to customer EDI and eProcurement/marketplace connections, but that we also supported our nearly-all-electronic supply chain as well.
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