- 1. How You Should be Using Analytics
- (Management)
- Business owners have been using analytics to analyze their business data for many years. The real question is, what do we do with that data? Up until recently, there really hasn't been much guidance when ...
- 2. We Won't Get Fooled Again - The Replacement of ED
- (Management)
- The economics of EDI are closely connected with the politics of the supply chain. What started as a utility for moving order information between trading partners has become at times, a battlefield over ...
- 3. A Kill Switch for X12
- (EDI)
- EDI pricing is one of those things that's hard to pin down. ec-bp.com has supported the lowering of costs of EDI since its first issue 10 years ago. We recently posted a story about how GXS intends to ...
- 4. The Buzz About Omnichannel
- (Retail)
- Is ‘omnichannel’ a sea change, or just a clever name for a reality that’s been around for awhile? After consuming dozens of articles on the subject and reflecting on my own experiences, I’d say it’s some ...
- 5. Want to Keep Pace with Ecommerce? Sign on to Integrated Electronic Product Catalogs
- (Retail)
- It goes without saying: Ecommerce has changed everything, from the way we shop to the way retailers stock their in-store and virtual shelves. Consider the endless aisles, with a multitude of product choices ...
- 6. EDI Costs are Rising
- (EDI)
- Recently ec-bp.com hosted a webinar about transaction costing. The topic is a perennial one with the EDI and supply chain professionals. In that webinar Tony Dukes provided an explanation of a cost analysis ...
- 7. Robots Are Running The Shipments
- (Logistics)
- Think Logistics, a Canadian-based third party provider of supply chain products saw the handwriting on the wall a while back. Its parent company was a successful optical disk manufacturer for years, but ...
- 8. The Importance of Trading Partner Cred
- (Management)
- Selecting a trading partner is becoming one of the most important tasks in the supply chain. At the same time it has become one of the biggest areas for potential mistakes resulting in financial disaster. ...
- 9. Uncovering Benefits to the Bottom Line
- (Management)
- Ever heard "EDI is a huge cost savings for our company" from a manager in your organization? Invariably you will hear a resounding "YES!" from anyone that is within 50 feet of that manager all coming to ...
- 10. RFID Improves Efficiencies and Reduces Shrinkage for Retailers
- (Technology)
- Advance shipping notices (ASNs) can drive up efficiencies and accuracies by reducing discrepancies – which experts estimate happen about 30 percent of the time -- between invoices and the orders a retailer ...
- 11. That Darn UOM Problem
- (Management)
- I’ve made a lot of friends in my consulting travels, some of whom keep in touch by running various business problems by me. I received a note from one of my old contacts the other day that read like this: ...
- 12. Pursuing Change
- (Management)
- What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word “change”? For many of us, words like “anxious”, “overwhelmed”, or “unknown” pop into our head. Why is it that changes and transitions bring ...
- 13. Why You Should Be Using EDI With Your 3PL'
- (Logistics)
- Using EDI with your transportation providers or 3PL's is an element of business that is often overlooked, although it shouldn't be. Even business owners who are already utilizing EDI for other aspects ...
- 14. Calculating the EDI Benefit
- (EDI)
- With the maturity and prevalence of technology in the market today, the benefits of migrating from a paper based system to communicating business documents via some electronic platform are well documented. ...
- 15. Is the Battle Over?
- (Blogs)
- So, I was sitting around thinking about what’s going on with that EDI vs. XML topic. I’ve been out of the trenches for about 3 years now, it’s raining outside and I can’t work on my golf game, so why ...
- 16. Leverage Analytics To Solve Common Supply Chain Problems
- (Technology)
- Business owners have been using analytics to analyze their business data for many years. The real question is, what do we do with that data? Up until recently, there really hasn't been much guidance when ...
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