Channel
Follow the supply chain from the warehouse to point-of-sale transactions, and see how leading manufacturers manage their channel partners, distributors, consultants and value-added resellers (VARs).
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Live Event - Conversations on the Future of Business: Insight Driven Innovation
As organizations continue to leverage insights generated by social media, online and offline sales transactions, and mobile shopping, the selling process will become dramatically more intelligent and streamlined. Target is one of many retailers that have continued to improve e-commerce, mobile commerce and point-of-sale technologies to improve the way it...
Sponsored By SAP
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How Organisations Are Improving Business Resiliency With Continuous IT Availability
Stakeholders no longer care what causes downtime or even if the downtime was planned. They no longer make a distinction between incidents that disrupt a portion of IT services such as localised software failures, hardware failures, and data corruption or incidents that affect the entire data centre such as extreme...
Sponsored By EMC
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Live webcast - Anticipate and act: how analytics enhances the supply chain
Data is constantly being created as a byproduct of customer interactions and business activities. That data can have tremendous value because it can be used help you take the pulse of all the factors related to your business processes and customer needs. Today’s analytics systems can be easily used and...
Sponsored By SAP
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Technical Computing for a New Era
Once principally the domain of big government labs and universities, technical computing is now a mainstream tool for commercial users in industries like manufacturing, financial services, oil and gas, healthcare, entertainment, and retail. Its use there and elsewhere is expanding as companies discover how technical computing can accelerate their mission-critical...
Sponsored By IBM
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Energizing the Workplace with Mobile HR
Mobility is not about the device. It’s about people. It is about improving the collaboration, engagement, and productivity of mobile employees. Understand the mobile HR opportunity, challenges and benefits. See how you can get started with a mobile strategy and how to measure your success.
Sponsored By SAP
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Download a Free vRanger 6.0 Trial
With Dell vRanger, you gain comprehensive protection for both virtual and physical environments from one intuitive interface. No wonder more than 40,000 customers rely on vRanger’s speed, simplicity and scalability to protect their critical data every day.
Download a Free Trial!Sponsored By Dell
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Keeping distributed endpoints safe and secure
In today’s far-reaching environments, where the numbers and varieties of servers, desktops, laptops, mobile devices and specialized equipment such as point-of-sale (POS) devices, ATMs and self-service kiosks—known collectively as “endpoints”—are growing at unprecedented rates, traditional protection schemes such as firewalls and anti-virus agents are no longer sufficient on their own....
Sponsored By IBM
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Supplier Management: Five Simple Things Your Organization Can Do to Improve Supplier Performance
Find out what supplier management is, as well as what the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) says about it. This white paper also discusses five simple things that every organizations can do to improve supplier performance. Organizations that do these simple things as part of an overall program of supplier...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Top 5 Requirements for Guest Wi-Fi Access
While free Wi-Fi is ubiquitous in airports, coffee shops, hotels, and other highly trafficked areas, this service is no longer unique to these locales. Guest Wi-Fi is now expected in nearly every industry – but how do you deliver Wi-Fi while enforcing acceptable use policies and meeting compliance regulations?
...Sponsored By Blue Coat Systems
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Retailers in the Omnichannel World: What does it mean and how do you get there?
To really understand why Omni-channel is the new and emerging way to operate user's business it is important to understand the history of how businesses and customers have changed in the past 40 years. Prior to the introduction of the internet in the late 1990's, retailers had been conducting business...
Provided By DXagency
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Four Reasons to Adjust Your Endpoint GRC Strategy
With the growing use of tablets, smartphones, and ultrabooks, companies today must support a much wider variety of endpoint devices. And as the population becomes more mobile, there is an increasing overlap between the use of these devices for personal and work life. Most importantly, the data stored on these...
Provided By Absolute Software
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The Different Types of UPS Systems
There is much confusion in the marketplace about the different types of UPS systems and their characteristics. In this Whitepaper we define each of these UPS types, discuss practical applications, and explore advantages and disadvantages. With this information, an educated decision can be made as to the appropriate UPS topology...
Provided By APC UPS
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Predictive inventory management: Keeping your supply chain in balance
This white paper outlines some of the major factors affecting inventory and supply chain management, and covers practices and capabilities that distinguish the most successful approaches to this complex process. You'll learn the factors to consider as you evaluate the maturity of your organization's supply chain and inventory management processes...
Provided By IBM
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A Fuzzy Mixture Two Warehouse Inventory Model With Linear Demand
This paper deals with fuzzy based two warehouse inventory model with linear demand. Deterioration rates in both warehouses are considered to be different due to change in environment. Shortages are not allowed. In the real life and global market situations some parameters like ordering cost, holding costs and deteriorating cost...
Provided By International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management (IJAIEM)
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The Different Types of UPS Systems
There is much confusion in the marketplace about the different types of UPS systems and their characteristics. Each of these UPS types is defined, practical applications of each are discussed, and advantages and disadvantages are listed. With this information, an educated decision can be made as to the appropriate UPS...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Watts and Volt-Amps - Powerful Confusion
This note helps explain the differences between Watts and VA and explains how the terms are correctly and incorrectly used in specifying power protection equipment. Many people are confused about the distinction between the watt and volt-amp measures for UPS load sizing. Many manufacturers of UPS and load equipment add...
Provided By APC by Schneider Electric
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Universal Commerce: A Seamless, Personalised Purchase Experience for Today's Connected Consumers
Around the world, every second of every day, First Data makes payment transactions secure, fast and easy for merchants, financial institutions and their customers. Whether the choice of payment is by debit/credit card, gift card, mobile, online or at the counter, First Data takes every opportunity to go beyond the...
Provided By First Data
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PtakNoel - Riverbed Stingray solution customers speak out about their move from Appliance-based application delivery
If your traditional application delivery controller (ADC) is leaving much to be desired, download this Ptak, Noel & Associates report now to find out why Riverbed® Stingray™ solution customers switched from traditional suppliers and to learn how you too can perform application delivery operations more efficiently, manage capacity more cost...
Provided By Riverbed
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Capture industry white paper - Transportation
Manifests, EPA forms, bills of lading, purchase orders - the transportation industry finds itself on the front lines of a raging battle to understand, manage and process paper documents. The burden is made more acute by the decentralized nature of the transportation industry as well as diversity of document types,...
Provided By IBM
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Impact of Warehouse Management System in a Supply Chain
In a supply chain, warehousing function is very critical as it acts as a node in linking the material flows between the supplier and customer. In today's competitive market environment companies are continuously forced to improve their warehousing operations. Many companies have also customized their value proposition to increase their...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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Best Practice Guide- Three Rules for Building a Smarter Supply Chain
The key to truly elevating organizational efficiency and profits lies in building a smarter supply chain. And building a smarter supply chain requires that you focus your attention on three key priorities. Read on to learn how these three rules can transform your business and discover how supply chain management...
Provided By IBM Australia
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Genpact powers a global chemical company with smarter inventory management process, resulting in optimized working capital and a 27 percent reduction in on-hand inventory carrying costs
A global chemical company was not able to effectively manage its on-hand inventory, impacting cash flow and bottom line. Genpact worked with the client to study their current order to delivery process, applied Six Sigma and Lean methodologies to identify improvement areas and implemented smarter processes and analytics. Result: 27%...
Provided By Genpact
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Genpact delivers a bottom line impact, with 12% savings of the addressable spend for a global energy company, by deploying smarter sourcing and spend management strategies and ensuring compliant processes globally
The client's sourcing process was decentralized and fragmented across its multiple business units which resulted in low spend visibility, higher level of non-compliance and leakage in cost savings. Genpact's team of category and sourcing experts analyzed the client's spend across categories, business units and locations, and identified multiple savings opportunities....
Provided By Genpact
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Three Rules for Building a Smarter Supply Chain
The key to truly elevating organizational efficiency and profits lies in building a smarter supply chain. And building a smarter supply chain requires that you focus your attention on three key priorities.
Read on to learn how these three rules can transform your business and discover how supply...Provided By IBM
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Design to Deliver A Game Changer for the Discrete Manufacturing Industry
Manufacturing order backlog is on the upswing, competition is fierce and customers are unrelenting in their requirements. How do manufacturing companies keep up the pace? With supply chain services coming of age and clients looking for further value adds, it is time for the industry to redefine itself and look...
Provided By Genpact
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Business Transformation Study: LUKOIL MID-EAST
LUKOIL MID-EAST LTD. (LME) operates the West Qurna-2, a large oil and gas field in Iraq. Tight field development timelines and ongoing construction demand a precise but flexible supply of materials. Facing a large number of operational routines and procurement processes and a new market of Iraqi suppliers, LME turned...
Provided By SAP
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It's a Whole New World for Manufacturers: Preparing Your Company to Adapt
Since the start of the recent economic crisis, companies have seen the global manufacturing market shift greatly. See 4 Operational Strategies to Help Companies Thrive in a Changed Market.
Provided By SAP
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Supply Chain eBook
This is your comprehensive, one-stop point for SAP Supply Chain Planning and Collaboration (SAP SCM) collateral: Business Transformation Studies, Customer Success Stories, Customer Testimonial Videos, Solution in Details, Articles.
Provided By SAP
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Warehousing: Best-in-Class Processes from Cat Logistics
Read how a leading service parts organization has optimized its warehousing processes, along with the IT infrastructure supporting them. By so doing, the firm operates at a new level of flexibility, efficiency, and responsiveness that enables it to proactively address customer demands and drive profitable growth.
Provided By SAP
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Security Configuration Management: Foundational Security with Tripwire Enterprise
SCM provides the most security "bang for the buck" against today's threats, which is why the SANS Institute places so much importance on using it. With Tripwire Enterprise as your SCM solution, that foundational control extends across the enterprise infrastructure.
Provided By Tripwire
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Andalusia Cash and Carry: Hardware and Lumber Store Point of Sale (POS)
Andalusia Cash and Carry and Luverne Cash and Carry are hardware and building material stores located in Alabama. A Home and Hardware retail chain in Alabama struggled with manual transactions at each of their three locations, inflexible pricing capabilities, and little insight into their inventory and supplier information. They partnered...
Provided By Microsoft
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Manage Social Content
The business application of social technologies, both within the enterprise, and with customers, suppliers and partners, has created a new paradigm of interaction and contribution, and is creating a new competitive edge for early adopters. The biggest organizations have been the first to see the benefits of improved collaboration, knowledge-sharing...
Provided By IBM
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Oracle Crystal Ball Download - 30 Day Free Trial
Oracle Crystal Ball is the leading spreadsheet-based application suite for predictive modeling, forecasting, simulation, and optimization. It gives you unparalleled insight into the critical factors affecting risk. With Crystal Ball, you can make the right tactical decisions to reach your objectives and gain a competitive edge under even the most...
Provided By Oracle
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End of Life Reporting and Beyond - A challenge that keeps on growing
This paper provides an overview of key global trends and regulations relating to packaging, electrical and electronic equipment and batteries. It lays out the challenges of compliance and consequences of non-compliance, and warns that the approach many companies are taking today will not scale with the rapid growth and increased...
Provided By SAP
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Ardent Partners CPO Rising 2011 - Performance, Risk and Information - The State of Supplier Management
Read this report from procurement analyst firm Ardent Partners to learn the nuances of supplier Information Management, supplier performance management, and supplier risk management. Hear how each of these supplier management principles play a key role in mitigating risk and getting the most out of your supply base.
Provided By SAP
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Reverse Auction Best Practices (SAP Thought Leadership Paper)
Reverse auctions are a key tool that sourcing organizations can use to bring about huge success if executed along with a well-defined sourcing process. Careful thought and planning must precede an auction event in order to achieve double-digit price compression
Provided By SAP
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Six Steps to Sourcing Excellence
Achieving excellence in strategic sourcing requires companies to consolidate spend for better visibility and to drive savings to the bottom line. Read this article to learn the six key steps to achieving sourcing excellence: executive sponsorship, key stakeholder collaboration, process automation, access to key data, tight spending controls and policies.
Provided By SAP
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Spend Performance Management Solution Brief (SAP Solution Brief)
How do you effectively rationalize your company's supply base to generate visible savings and limit the introduction of risk while meeting the needs of your stakeholders? As executives prepare for growth in a recovering economy, their top initiatives include reducing spend, increasing cost savings, and managing supplier risk. To accomplish...
Provided By SAP
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Supply Chain Planning Save Time and Money and Satisfy Customers
Learn how to transform your supply chain into a responsive supply network in which demand-driven companies share knowledge; adapt to changing market conditions; and proactively respond to shorter, less predictable lifecycles. Find out how you can be up and running in a matter of weeks with rapid-deployment solutions.
Provided By SAP
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The Strategic Supplier Mandate: Three Principles to Deliver Transparency Across the Supply Base
Read this article to learn about the three supplier management initiatives that have become mandates for market-leading procurement organizations. Learn how effectively deploying supplier information management, supplier performance management, and supplier risk solutions can drive innovation, increase productivity and mitigate risk for your business.
Provided By SAP
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Live webcast - Anticipate and act: how analytics enhances the supply chain
Data is constantly being created as a byproduct of customer interactions and business activities. That data can have tremendous value because it can be used help you take the pulse of all the factors related to your business processes and customer needs. Today’s analytics systems can be easily used and...
Sponsored By SAP
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Keeping distributed endpoints safe and secure
In today’s far-reaching environments, where the numbers and varieties of servers, desktops, laptops, mobile devices and specialized equipment such as point-of-sale (POS) devices, ATMs and self-service kiosks—known collectively as “endpoints”—are growing at unprecedented rates, traditional protection schemes such as firewalls and anti-virus agents are no longer sufficient on their own....
Sponsored By IBM
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Supplier Management: Five Simple Things Your Organization Can Do to Improve Supplier Performance
Find out what supplier management is, as well as what the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) says about it. This white paper also discusses five simple things that every organizations can do to improve supplier performance. Organizations that do these simple things as part of an overall program of supplier...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Download a Free vRanger 6.0 Trial
With Dell vRanger, you gain comprehensive protection for both virtual and physical environments from one intuitive interface. No wonder more than 40,000 customers rely on vRanger’s speed, simplicity and scalability to protect their critical data every day.
Download a Free Trial!Sponsored By Dell
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Energizing the Workplace with Mobile HR
Mobility is not about the device. It’s about people. It is about improving the collaboration, engagement, and productivity of mobile employees. Understand the mobile HR opportunity, challenges and benefits. See how you can get started with a mobile strategy and how to measure your success.
Sponsored By SAP
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Top 5 Requirements for Guest Wi-Fi Access
While free Wi-Fi is ubiquitous in airports, coffee shops, hotels, and other highly trafficked areas, this service is no longer unique to these locales. Guest Wi-Fi is now expected in nearly every industry – but how do you deliver Wi-Fi while enforcing acceptable use policies and meeting compliance regulations?
...Sponsored By Blue Coat Systems
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Technical Computing for a New Era
Once principally the domain of big government labs and universities, technical computing is now a mainstream tool for commercial users in industries like manufacturing, financial services, oil and gas, healthcare, entertainment, and retail. Its use there and elsewhere is expanding as companies discover how technical computing can accelerate their mission-critical...
Sponsored By IBM
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How Organisations Are Improving Business Resiliency With Continuous IT Availability
Stakeholders no longer care what causes downtime or even if the downtime was planned. They no longer make a distinction between incidents that disrupt a portion of IT services such as localised software failures, hardware failures, and data corruption or incidents that affect the entire data centre such as extreme...
Sponsored By EMC
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Live Event - Conversations on the Future of Business: Insight Driven Innovation
As organizations continue to leverage insights generated by social media, online and offline sales transactions, and mobile shopping, the selling process will become dramatically more intelligent and streamlined. Target is one of many retailers that have continued to improve e-commerce, mobile commerce and point-of-sale technologies to improve the way it...
Sponsored By SAP
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Oracle Crystal Ball Download - 30 Day Free Trial
Oracle Crystal Ball is the leading spreadsheet-based application suite for predictive modeling, forecasting, simulation, and optimization. It gives you unparalleled insight into the critical factors affecting risk. With Crystal Ball, you can make the right tactical decisions to reach your objectives and gain a competitive edge under even the most...
Provided By Oracle
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Use Of Barcodes In Supply Chain Management
Barcodes have influenced almost every aspect of Supply Chain Management. The use of barcodes makes business integration processes in supply chain management simpler and more efficient. Barcodes are an effective identification tool that helps track products and greatly reduce errors. Barcode technology has a range of advantages such as being...
Provided By Bestmanagementarticles.com
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Strategizing In Industrial Networks
Recently, it was claimed that the overall contribution of the IMP approach to the strategy literature has been insignificant and that, within the strategic management field, the strategy-as-practice research is of particular interest to exchange ideas regarding industrial network's strategising. In this paper, the authors are theoretically concerned with how...
Provided By Jonkoping International Business School
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Supply Chain Information Flow Strategies: An Empirical Taxonomy
The paper identifies different information flow strategies to enhance integration in strategic alliances and studies these strategies with respect to contextual factors and the impact on performance. Based on a parsimonious description of inter-firm information flows in the literature and the empirical findings, the authors identify 3 types of alliances:...
Provided By Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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Management Control Of Supplier Relationships In Manufacturing: A Case Study In The Automotive Industry
This paper studies management control system design of supplier relationships in manufacturing, a supply chain phase currently under-explored. Compared to supplier relations during procurement and R&D, which research found to be governed by a combination of formal and informal controls, supplier relations in manufacturing are more formal, so that they...
Provided By Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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Creating Successful Collaborative Relationships
Stevens (1989) was among the first to stress the strategic importance of collaboration in the supply chain. On the other hand, some recent studies point out that supply chain collaboration is no guarantee for success (Van Wassenhove et al, 2003; Vereecke et al, 2004; Holweg et al, 2005) and that...
Provided By Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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Automated Order Management Process Helps Swiss Furniture Business Drive Expansion
Pfister, headquartered in Suhr, is the leading quality furniture dealer in Switzerland, with 17,000 employees. From the start, its internal processes have been efficient. But, as the company grew, it became harder for its employees to maintain high performance. In the case of order management, for example, the company saw...
Provided By Microsoft Tips
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Family Dollar Enables Strategic Business Initiatives With New Store Systems
One of the nation's largest discount retailers, Family Dollar Stores has strategic business initiatives in place to support its growth objectives. To get those strategies implemented at the store level, Family Dollar needed to revamp its 16,000 checkout lanes and legacy POS systems. Toshiba TEC America and Microsoft Corp. partnered...
Provided By Microsoft Tips
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Increasing Internal IT Support Productivity
Wireless Toyz, headquartered in Farmington, MI, is a chain of franchised cellular stores that retail cellular phones, accessories and service plans from major wireless carriers (Nextel, Sprint, Cingular, T-Mobile, and Verizon). The challenge was to overcome cost and complexity issues to support POS and wireless retail software for its 150...
Provided By LogMeIn
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How To Buy A Monitored Alarm
Despite the millions of businesses throughout the country that have a monitored commercial alarm system, there are fewer than 10 companies that actually manufacture the monitoring equipment. These companies provide the equipment for the thousands of monitored commercial alarm system dealers that sell and install the systems. These dealers range...
Provided By BuyerZone.com
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Quality Assurance And Regulatory Compliance Across The Extended Enterprise
Automotive manufacturers as well as suppliers agree that an integrated system that provides visibility into disparate quality processes is the answer to the challenge of managing quality and regulatory compliance in the automotive industry. As the automotive sector is very process intensive and characterized by a high degree of outsourcing...
Provided By MetricStream
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Greening Supply Chain
With companies waking up to an environmentally aware world, whether it's about the competitive advantage or for regulatory reasons, greening the supply chain has become a necessity. Greening the supply chain is not a onetime exercise, nor can it be done overnight. It's a journey that not only requires the...
Provided By MetricStream
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Quality And Compliance In The Medical Device Industry: Issues And Perspectives
Hospitals, healthcare centers as well as consumers rely on reliable and high-precision medical equipment to deliver the highest quality of medical care. The production of electronic and electromechanical medical devices and equipment is largely handled by contract manufacturers (CM). These CMs specialize in specific areas such as device assembly, or...
Provided By MetricStream
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Value Creation Within Port Supply Network: Methodological Issues
The paper proposes a theoretical model based on the concept of Supply Chain Management in port environment, aimed at identifying the sources of value creation in an innovative way. The model views the port as a network of actors, resources and activities - the Port Supply Network (PSN) - which...
Provided By National Research Council
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POS Equipment Leasing Overview
It can be expensive to outfit a retail business or any other type of enterprise with the necessary point of sale equipment. From hardware, such as computer monitors and barcode scanners, to the software programs needed to process and record sales, a POS system can cost you a bundle. This...
Provided By BuyerZone.com
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Challenges And Risks Of RFID Adoption In Manufacturing And Logistics
RFID has also opened the door to a new era in logistics management or Supply Chain Management (SCM) respectively and to optimization of manufacturing processes. The paper is to highlight selected areas of this technology that may be critical for further RFID development and applications. In the paper are also...
Provided By Technical University of Kosice
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Single ERP Software Vs. Multiple Software Systems: Advantages Of Using One Enterprise Solution
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is designed to improve and automate your manufacturing operations. Within a process manufacturing company, these business processes, such as laboratory, regulatory reporting, order entry, accounting, production, stores and Point-of-Sale (POS), inventory, and purchasing, are traditionally managed by several software systems. However, there are many unnecessary...
Provided By Deacom
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Comodo Helps Zamberg.com Land Customers for High-Quality Grooming Products
Zamberg.com is a leading distributor of high quality German grooming products. It is the largest distributor of products made by craftsmen in Solingen, Germany. Zamberg.com is the exclusive U.S. distributor for many European products. The challenge was that many customers who are interested in buying a product off a new...
Provided By Comodo Group
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Business Credit Application
Use this Business Credit Application when another business, such as a distributor or vendor, wishes to establish credit terms with your company.
Provided By Entrepreneur.com
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Permanent Wholesale Marts A Boon To Retailers
You don't have to wait for the next trade show to keep your shelves stocked with the latest and greatest. There are numerous benefits to incorporating merchandise marts into your product sourcing. Their permanence gives you a great deal of flexibility in scheduling your sourcing trips. And many marts don't...
Provided By Entrepreneur.com
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Outsourcing Helps You To Boost Your Sales Figures: Know How?
Outsourcing to third world countries like India can be quite cost effective for offshore clients. The vast technical work force in India makes it far more economical than western countries. This country has large number of schools, colleges and universities that specializes in science and technology. Due to the availability...
Provided By Article Dashboard
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An Agent-Based Strategy for Deploying Analysis Models Into Specification and Design for Distributed APS Systems
Despite the extensive use of the agent technology in the Supply Chain Management field, its integration with Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) tools still represents a promising field with several open research questions. Specifically, the literature falls short in providing an integrated framework to analyze, specify, design and implement simulation...
Provided By Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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Few Steps To Achieve Logistics Benchmarking
The act of organizing one's company and putting and making it stand out among its competitors is called logistics benchmarking. This can only be done through lots of hard work in terms if analysis and right forecasting. There are several issues besetting the business world because logistics have become costly...
Provided By iSnare.com
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Inventories, Lumpy Trade, And Large Devaluations
Fixed transaction costs and delivery lags are important costs of international trade. These costs lead firms to import infrequently and hold substantially larger inventories of imported goods than domestic goods. Using multiple sources of data, the authors document these facts. They then show that a parsimoniously parameterized model economy with...
Provided By National Bureau of Economic Research
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Supplier Responses To Wal-Mart's Invasion Of Mexico
This paper examines the effect of Wal-Mart's entry into Mexico on Mexican manufacturers of consumer goods. Guided by firm interviews that suggested substantial heterogeneity across firms in how they responded to Wal-Mart's entry, the authors develop a dynamic industry model in which firms decide whether to sell their products through...
Provided By National Bureau of Economic Research
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ASEAN: A Chronicle Of Shifting Trade Exposure And Regional Integration
The paper characterizes trade exposure and regional integration in six ASEAN economies during 1997−2008. For this, the paper uses the 2000 Asian Input Output Tables which are extrapolated using National Income Accounts and COMTRADE data. On the demand side, the paper shows that the level and geographical nature of external...
Provided By International Monetary Fund
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Inventories, Markups, And Real Rigidities In Menu Cost Models
Real rigidities that limit the responsiveness of real marginal cost to output are a key ingredient of sticky price models necessary to account for the dynamics of output and inflation. The authors argue here, in the spirit of Bils and Kahn (2000), that the behavior of marginal cost over the...
Provided By National Bureau of Economic Research
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Professional Partnerships And Matching In Obstetrics
This paper indicates that internally-differentiated professional partnerships can promote matching between heterogeneous consumers and professionals, particularly when consumers have imperfect information or markets have barriers to referrals between firms. The authors test this in obstetrics markets, relying on random assignment of patients to physicians to generate unbiased measures of a...
Provided By National Bureau of Economic Research
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Assigning Tasks In Public Infrastructure Projects: Specialized Private Agents Or Public Private Partnerships?
How should the different tasks in an infrastructure project be allocated to private and public agents, respectively? Traditionally, building the physical asset is assigned to private partners whereas financing and operation are carried out by the public sector. But even if building, operation, and possibly financing are delegated to the...
Provided By EconStor
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Media Exchange & Publishing Platform For One Of The Leading Media And Entertainment Companies In The World
The client faced challenges like growing demand for on-demand just-in-time delivery of digital content on a wide range of devices using multiple access modalities, increasing complexity of managing the ecosystem of content and metadata, video ingestion, formats, transcoding, storage, distribution and tracking, ensuring costs are managed while enabling new digital...
Provided By Patni
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Inquiry About Terms Of Credit
Use this template to inquire about the terms of credit to the supplier. You want to make a positive impression on your supplier, so cast your company in the best light possible. Give the supplier an idea of the magnitude of your request, i.e., how much credit you're going to...
Provided By Best Sample Letters