Supply Chain Management

HP’s $8 billion write-down. A disappointing IPO from Facebook, Groupon’s famous flameout. These watershed moments have crystallized what we’ve known for a while: Fluff can no longer trump sound operations in terms of a company’s valuation. Organizations must be built on an empirically firm foundation to flourish. And everyone – from investors on Wall Street to customers on Main Street to the SEC– is looking at companies with more scrupulous eyes.

Setting the price of goods for sale can be considered either an art or a science. And accurately tracking the cost of the thousands of component parts that go into a piece of complex machinery can be some combination of both.

The Definitive Guide to Marketing Metrics and Marketing Analytics shows marketing professionals how to talk the talk of C-level executives in terms of forecasting and reporting, and walk the walk to the revenue table by leveraging metrics that matter.

Learn how CPG and Wholesale Distributors are becoming more efficient, more innovative, more agile, and more competitive.

Read this whitepaper to find out just how valuable a consolidation effort can be.

This white paper examines Enterprise Content Management challenges, solutions and benefits from an Energy industry perspective.

Read this brief to learn four steps to help guide your customer loyalty strategy.

Four tips for lean supply chain improvements in manufacturing operations and six technology tools to automate these best practices.

AB World Foods has a highly complex supply chain, driven in part by the nature of its globally sourced and distributed products as well as by the demands of growth and acquisition. With Infor SCM Demand Planning, the company cut costs while also improving service levels.

Find out what characteristics you should take into account when selecting Sales and Operations Technology and how Infor10 Sales & Operations Planning respond to those needs today.

This white paper provides an overview of the benefits that ASICS achieved by implementing Infor WMS.

Find out why manufacturers and distributors are rethinking warehouse management and why these best-in-class performers are investing in advanced warehouse management solutions to strengthen their competitive market positions.

Find out how Ter Beke improved supply chain efficiency with Infor SCM and what Infor SCM can do for you and your business.

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Find out how discrete manufacturers are becoming truly customer-centric by pursuing or planning a variety of initiatives, including the improvement of customer service and the closer integration of customers into product design.The greatest impact is expected from plans to implement demand-driven manufacturing.

Find out how operations is a key driver to operational excellence. Operations executives are closest to the processes along the value chain, and as a result are best positioned to drive operational excellence initiatives. However, collaboration with other functions is essential. Data from IT, metrics and measurements from Finance and changing customer and market demand from Sales and Marketing are all drivers for operational excellence. But ultimately, it is the operations function that needs to be responsible for implementation.

The next generation in software adaptability is here. Download the free industry report: "Six Reasons Why It's Time for App Stores for Supply Chain Management Software". Download now.

Prompted by volatile markets and a troubled economy, the need to contain or reduce costs is key for small to medium size enterprises (SMEs). In the pursuit of cost reductions and in the struggle to sustain and grow revenue and profits it becomes more and more important to preserve the level of visibility that becomes elusive as SMEs grow in both size and complexity. Download this research now to learn more.

Manufacturing evolved from manual to automated, ad hoc to repeatable. From art to science. Manufacturing has been forced to "industrialize." Aiding in the effort are product lifecycle and supply chain management tools for streamlining manufacturing process and linking together previously isolated stages in the value chain.

Read more about why top organizations of every size, across industries and in every region around the globe use Ariba Solutions and Services to control costs and improve performance.

Telecoms companies need to adapt and rapidly to these new threats to ensure they can survive, and hopefully thrive, on some of the new opportunities that emerge. Find out how by downloading this paper.

In this download, a panel presents how their organizations are working to drive continued spend adoption through process-based enablement, category flight planning, team reorganization, and other important initiatives.

Listen to our new podcast as we interview Andrew Reese, Editor of Supply & Demand Chain Executive. He's interviewed hundreds of procurement execs over the last 10+ years, writing many articles on the future of procurement.

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Spend analysis has gradually become the top process in the procurement executive's toolbox, placing itself in the top tier of functionalities alongside e-sourcing, e-procurement and strategic sourcing solutions.