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Closing The Gap Lessons Learned From Supply Chain 'Masters' Can Help Businesses Survive The Downturn
Jan 2010
These are unsettling times. With little forewarning, the global economy tipped into creditcrunch induced recession - and only now are signs emerging that the precipitous collapse in business...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
The Supply Chain Learning Choice For High-Performance Retailers
Sep 2007
The most powerful benefit from the Supply Chain Academy is improved business results. The authors have had unsolicited comments from users stating that completing specific courses allowed them to...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
5 Supply Chain Trends For 2010 And How To Use Them To Your Advantage
Jan 2010
As the economy starts its slow recovery, one will want to look for opportunities to position ones business as a leader and continue to benefit from efficiency measures. No matter what its size,...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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White Papers
The Sustainable Supply Chain: Balancing Cost, Customer Service And Sustainability To Achieve A High-Performance Supply Chain
Feb 2009
Supply chain executives face ongoing pressure from their customers and from regulators to reduce carbon emissions and run "Greener" operations. While the impression persists in many organizations...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
With Packaging, Small Changes Can Add Up To Big Savings
Jan 2010
When most people think about packaging, they typically think about damages, claim problems or dimensional weight charges. Instead, let's think about solutions - ones that go beyond solving the...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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White Papers
Seven Tactics For Restructuring In A Turbulent Market
Feb 2010
Restructuring troubled businesses typically involves some form of financial restructuring: changing the mix of equity and debt, renegotiating loans, or finding one lender to take out another. The...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Tool For Reinforcing Shareholder Value
Apr 2008
During the 1990s, a leading sportswear company hit the headlines because of the intense scrutiny it attracted over the treatment of workers in its suppliers' Asian factories. Not long after that,...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Profit, Sales & Operations Planning: A Key Component Of Supply Chain Mastery
Jan 2010
Today, supply chain leaders must know how their decisions affect and control revenues and margins across the enterprise - how supply chain operations can dovetail most effectively with yield...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Getting The Most Of Technology In The Supply Chain World
May 2010
Technology has offered a lot of opportunities for businesses to grow and expand and remain competitive in the rapidly changing world of industry. There is a lot of software released in the market...
Provided by Free Articles Directory
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White Papers
Winning In Wireless Ten Inventory-Optimization Strategies For Ringing Up High Performance
Mar 2008
In recent years, wireless device sales have soared. In the near future, it is likely that they will fly even higher. How high? By the close of 2007, the year's unit sales should top 160 million in...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
The Sustainable Supply Chain: Creating Value Through Sustainable Packaging
Jan 2009
Consumers are choosing to buy products that fit with a more sustainable lifestyle. The trend to sustainable consumption gives high performance businesses the opportunity to place sustainability at...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
The High Performance Supply Chain Study - Service Management Mastery
Sep 2009
Across numerous industries, effective service management has become increasingly important to companies' ability to achieve high performance for a number of reasons. One reason is simply that the...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
The High Performance Supply Chain Study: Fulfillment Mastery
Sep 2009
Fulfillment has long been a core capability of successful companies. Recently, however, myriad factors have challenged companies' ability to effectively and efficiently fulfill orders in today's...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
The High Performance Supply Chain Study: Supply Chain Planning Mastery
Sep 2009
As globalization drives rapid change in all aspects of nearly every company's operations, effective supply chain planning - of both supply and demand - has become an increasingly critical factor...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
The High Performance Supply Chain Study: Manufacturing Mastery
Sep 2009
Just as it has affected almost all business functions and operations, globalization is challenging manufacturing companies' ability to achieve high performance. Many of these challenges revolve...
Provided by Accenture
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Case Studies
Zero To Hero
May 2010
A bio tech company was looking to expand its operations internationally. It also had managed to acquire U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for a promising antiviral. However, before it...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Case Studies
World-Class Manufacturer Improves Its World-Class Supply Chain; Redefines Service Parts Management Excellence For Industry
Mar 2009
In the process of becoming one of the largest industrial equipment manufacturers in the world, this company accumulated a host of legacy supply chain management systems that were proving to be a...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Case Studies
Case Study Retail - Nike Indonesia
Jul 2009
Nike is the world's leading designer, marketer and distributor of authentic athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories for a wide variety of sports and fitness activities. Nike needed...
Provided by Agility
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Case Studies
Improving Automobile Product Offerings And Inventory Management
May 2010
One of the leading automobile companies was looking to improve the management of its inventory of high-end, complex product offerings along with making significant cost savings. Recognizing the...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
White Papers
Global Supply Chain Management
Sep 2009
In today's world of liberalization and globalization, economies are opening their doors towards each other because no one is self sufficient, and getting confined to themselves may result in their...
Provided by Free Articles Directory
-
White Papers
High Performance Through Service Management: Accenture Research And Insights Into Service Management Mastery
Aug 2009
In nearly every industry today, managing after-sales customer service effectively has become critical to achieving high performance. Manufacturing high-quality products and distributing them on...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
High Performance Through Supply Chain Planning: Accenture Research and Insights into Supply Chain
Apr 2009
Globalization has driven rapid and fundamental change in every aspect of nearly every company's business - particularly in the ways they source, manufacture and distribute products and provide...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Achieving High Performance In The Supply Chain: Inventory Optimization
Mar 2009
Even with thoughtfully established inventory policies, many companies continue to operate at the extremes, with excessive inventory for some items binding up cash flow while other items suffer...
Provided by Accenture
-
Case Studies
Popular Consumer Brands Need Leading-Edge Supply Chains
Jan 2010
A large multinational consumer and foodservice manufacturer wanted to save on excess inventory on a global basis. Towards this end, they wanted to simplify the complex supply chain by implementing...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
Case Studies
Engine Manufacturer Flies High With On-Time Delivery, Supplier Network Transformation And Aftermarket Plan
May 2010
Deloitte assisted a major aerospace manufacturer to achieve its goal of improving On Time Delivery (OTD), bringing in efficiency in the functioning of its supplier network, and lastly, of putting...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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Case Studies
Building A Sustainable Supply Chain
Jul 2008
It is easy to think about the present without considering the future. Consumers want more goods and services to improve their standard of living. The problem is they make choices about goods and...
Provided by MBA Publishing
-
Case Studies
Sony Canada Launches New High Velocity Supply Chain
Jan 2010
When Sony Canada wanted to improve its supply chain management capabilities in the consumer electronics marketing, sales and distribution division, they had a clear vision in mind. The enhancement...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
Inventory In Vertical Relationships With Private Information And Interdependent Values
Feb 2010
This paper studies if borrowers optimally conserve debt capacity to take advantage of investment opportunities due to temporarily low asset prices, when financing is subject to collateral...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Improving Supply Chain Efficiency Through Wholesale Price Renegotiation
Nov 2007
In a decentralized supply chain, double marginalization is an important source of inefficiency. This paper suggests a simple mechanism to reduce it, that uses a wholesale price contract and...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Myopic Inventory Policies Using Individual Customer Arrival Information
Nov 2007
This paper investigates optimality of myopic policies using the single-unit decomposition approach in inventory management. This paper derives, under certain conditions, closed-form replenishment...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Competing For Shelf Space
Nov 2007
This paper studies competition for shelf space in a multi-supplier retail point. This paper considers a retailer that seeks to allocate her shelf space to maximize her profit. Because products...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Inventory Control With Generalized Expediting
Nov 2007
The authors consider a single-item, periodic review inventory control problem where discrete stochastic demand must be satisfied. When shortages occur, the unmet demand must be filled by some form...
Provided by Washington University Olin
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White Papers
A Periodic Review Base Stock Inventory System With Sales
Apr 2010
This paper considers a system in which an order is placed every T periods to bring the inventory position up to the base stock S. It accepts demand until the inventory position reaches a sales...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
An Inventory Allocation System With Backorders And Sales Rejection
Nov 2009
This paper considers a variant of the periodic review system with a virtual warehouse that is due to Eppen and Schrage (1981). Depending on the realized pattern of demand during the delivery...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Tight Credit Is Choking Many Small Suppliers: Watch For Weakened Suppliers To Require Financial Support From Customers
Dec 2009
The major defense and aerospace giants are riding out the worst global economic meltdown in generations with their financial health largely unscathed. But the tens of thousands of small companies...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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White Papers
Is A Global Mindset In Your DNA?
Aug 2008
On Jan. 18, 2005, Airbus officially unveiled its long-awaited A380, the double-deck mega liner that the European consortium had invested more than $13 billion and spent 13 years to develop. The...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
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White Papers
2008 Supply Chain Monitor "How Mature Is the Green Supply Chain?"
Feb 2008
Limiting damage to the environment is the major challenge society faces over the coming years. Now that companies are beginning to step up their environmental programs, their objective is to...
Provided by ESCP Europe
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Whitepapers
Do Technology And Information Really Create Supply Chain Gains?
Sep 2009
Supply chain managers crave innovative ways to cut costs and streamline systems. Often, they turn to technology, hoping for big savings and process improvements. But not every tool that promises...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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White Papers
A Capacitated Commodity Trading Model With Market Power
Jan 2008
The authors consider in this paper the problem of a trader that may purchase a commodity in one market and resell it in another. The trader is capacitated: the trading volume is limited by...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Store Inventory Can Affect Demand: Empirical Evidence From Magazine Retailing
Nov 2007
In retailing, inventory analysis and inventory practice have traditionally been based on the assumption that underlying demand does not vary with inventory levels. A growing body of research...
Provided by IMD
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White Papers
Inventory Rationalization And Right Sizing Strategies
Mar 2009
The impact of inventory on cash flow can be devastating, resulting in everything from payable extensions to missed payrolls and loan defaults. Still, despite the lean six sigma purists who preach...
Provided by Kinaxis
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Whitepapers
Orchestrating The Chain Supply Chain Performance Management
Jul 2009
The business value of supply chain visibility is simple: it helps one to understand their company's performance. It creates a common context for decision-making across every department and at...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Demand-Driven Supply Chain
Jan 2009
The report was based on desk research and in-depth interviews with executives from around the world about the challenges and opportunities they face in developing more demand-driven global supply...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
SAS Analytics For Inventory Optimization
Jul 2007
Inventory optimization has been residing in the realm of the business innovator or supply chain visionary. Forward-thinking companies have taken these toolsets and shown huge improvements to...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Optimizing Performance Across Your Supply Chain
Dec 2007
Typically a manufacturer or distributor referred to its supply chain it primarily considered business processes directly within its control. Yes customers and vendors mattered, but these factors...
Provided by Information Builders
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White Papers
A Shared Vision Of Supply Chain Integration
Dec 2009
This white paper will be of interest to treasury, trade and procurement staff at companies that have either domestic or cross-border payables and receivables, or both. Articulate emerging...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Evolution To World-Class Inventory Management
Jan 2010
The evolution from elementary to world-class inventory management is one of progressive organizational maturity and management focus. This white paper provides an overview of the growth process...
Provided by Tompkins Associates
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White Papers
Supply Chain Management - Assisting Global Outsourcing
Oct 2010
It's clear that as most parts of the world go global, almost all large organizations & most midsized organizations today are sourcing globally. With the supply of critical components & often...
Provided by Octopuse-e International
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White Papers
Inventory Management Breakthrough: A New Approach To Measuring And Reducing Inventory Exposure In The Supply Chain
Feb 2009
The first and most fatal flaw is that inventory is a post-performance metric. In other words, companies only recognize that there is a problem once they have the inventory on hand. By then, it is...
Provided by Kinaxis
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White Papers
Inventory Is The Store
Jun 2010
Successful retailing boils down to profitable inventory turn, and the best way to improve profitability and turn is to forget everything they thought that they knew about the mundane...
Provided by ZIH
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White Papers
Polymer Supply Chain Management
Jul 2009
A typical polymer supply chain network includes multiple plants, large number of storage terminals, customers and consignment locations, and complex distribution requirements. Here, the author...
Provided by Aspen Technology
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Whitepapers
Three Steps To Improving Your Bottom Line With Better Inventory Management And Control
Jan 2008
Despite this realization, many manufacturers and distributors face stock shortages and overages, shrinkage, obsolescence, operation disruptions, purchasing problems, and difficulty picking and...
Provided by Intuit
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White Papers
Turning Excess Retail Inventory Into Cash: How To Turn Excess Retail Inventory Into Cash
Jan 2010
Slowly, gradually, almost imperceptively over time, the percentage of dead inventory had grown. And as it was growing, the problem was thought to be modest, because the rate of growth appeared to...
Provided by Hurlbut & Associates
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White Papers
Managing Retail Inventory And Maximizing Return On Inventory Investment
Jan 2010
Inventory may be the largest asset on your balance sheet, which makes it very important, but it's not the most important asset. Your most important asset is the customer relationships which enable...
Provided by Hurlbut & Associates
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White Papers
The Full Cost Of Inventory: Exploring Inventory Carrying Costs
Jan 2010
For most retailers, wholesalers and distributors, inventory is the largest single asset on your balance sheet. In many ways, your inventory defines who you are, and your strategic position in the...
Provided by Hurlbut & Associates
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White Papers
The Beginning Of Superior Inventory Management - Accurate Demand Planning And Forecasting
Jan 2010
When retailers seek help with issues relating to inventory management, they are usually concerned about an increasing level of out-of-stocks, which are leading to lost sales and customer service...
Provided by Hurlbut & Associates
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White Papers
Multichannel Inventory: What You Need To Know
Jan 2010
Few merchants today would claim to have reached the level of inventory management, as developing such a strategy can be complex. But there are compelling economic reasons to try. In most...
Provided by F. Curtis Barry & Company
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White Papers
The Best Of Inventory: Fourteen Best Practices For Managing Your Merchandise
Jan 2010
Inventory management and forecasting are strategic issues. Companies that recognize this fact can typically provide higher levels of service to their customers and post higher profits. Developing...
Provided by F. Curtis Barry & Company
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White Papers
10 Steps To Taking A Financial View Of Inventory
Jan 2010
Inventory is the largest balance sheet asset in your business. It's obvious: If your margin is 50 percent, that means your cost of goods is 50 percent; in other words, 50 percent of your net sales...
Provided by F. Curtis Barry & Company
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White Papers
Harnessing Oracle Governance, Risk, and Compliance Applications to Improve Your E-Business Suite 12.1 Upgrade
Jul 2010
Upgrading to the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) 12.1 ERP system requires thoughtful planning and evaluation. Getting controls right during an upgrade process balances risk and helps avoid the...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
On demand webcast: Harnessing Oracle GRC to Control Your E-Business Suite 12.1 Upgrade
Dec 2010
Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) 12.1 offers new capabilities for customers across the application suite, aligning with business objectives in every department, while lowering overall cost of...
Provided by Oracle
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Webcasts
Video whitepaper: Harnessing Oracle Governance, Risk, and Compliance to Improve Your E-Business Suite 12.1 Upgrade
Dec 2010
Upgrading to Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (EBS R12) isn't just a technical activity. Customers planning to upgrade face significant changes to the way they do business. New features...
Provided by Oracle
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Podcasts
Podcast: The Latest in Enterprise Continuous Controls Monitoring (MP3, 13 min.)
Dec 2010
AMR identifies continuous controls monitoring as one of the top GRC software investments planned for 2010. Tune into this appcast to hear why Gartner positions Oracle as a Leader in its Magic...
Provided by Oracle
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Podcasts
Podcast: Leveraging Blueprints to Easily Extend the Value of Your Investment in Oracle GRC Applications (MP3, 12 min.)
Dec 2010
Hundreds of customers globally have invested in Oracle GRC Applications to help solve mission-critical compliance and risk management challenges. To further extend the value of these investments,...
Provided by Oracle
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Podcasts
Podcast: Introducing Oracle Fusion Governance, Risk, and Compliance AppCast (MP3, 13 min.)
Dec 2010
Oracle provides a secure path for customers to benefit from the latest technology advances to drive better business performance. Oracle Application Unlimited is Oracle's commitment to customer...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Transitioning From Sales And Operations Planning To Integrated Business Planning
Oct 2010
Companies have been achieving improved business performance for close to three decades by implementing and operating with an integrated business management process known as Sales and Operations...
Provided by Oliver Wight International
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Podcasts
Podcast: Improving the Extended Financial Close and Reporting Process
Dec 2010
Coming out of the recession, many organizations need to build or re-build trust with key stakeholders by delivering more timely and accurate financial and operating results. In this podcast, John...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Inventory Management With Partially Observed Nonstationary Demand
Jan 2009
The author considers a continuous-time model for inventory management with Markov modulated non-stationary demands. The author introduces active learning by assuming that the state of the world is...
Provided by Regents of the University of Michigan
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White Papers
Integrated Optimization Of Procurement, Processing And Trade Of Commodities In A Network Environment
Apr 2010
In recent times there has been a growing dissatisfaction with both the market and the state as mechanisms to serve social needs, and to solve the interrelated social, economic and environmental...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Bargaining Power And Supply Base Diversification
Dec 2009
Widespread poverty is an urgent challenge for the world. Creating opportunities for steady employment at reasonable wages is the best way to take people out of poverty. Reducing poverty through...
Provided by University of Michigan (Ross)
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White Papers
Use Of Barcodes In Supply Chain Management
Mar 2010
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...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Inventory Control With The Help From An Industrial Storage Company
May 2010
If you are in the business of selling consumer based products or goods, then you understand the importance of having the right inventory control. One way of providing the most competent customer...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Drop Shipping And Virtual Inventories
Apr 2010
It seems as if nearly everything in the world can be done virtually. When you sit down in front of your computer you can create a whole other life for yourself complete with a house,...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Just In Time (JIT) Inventory Model - Is It Effective?
Jun 2010
Just-in-time (JIT) refers to a collection of practices that is designed to eliminate waste. These organizational practices encompass the entire logistics flow of materials from purchasing through...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
How Well Are You Managing Your Inventory?
Nov 2010
Working capital is an important measure of a company's financial health. It's defined as the difference between Current Assets and Current Liabilities (Working Capital = Current Assets - Current...
Provided by American Express
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Webcasts
Taming the Information Explosion with IBM System Storage
Nov 2010
Today's IT departments are being asked to meet tomorrow's storage challenges with yesterday's solutions. In this special announcement webcast, an IBM storage executive and a recognized storage...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Negative Inventory: What You Don't Know May Make Things Worse
Jan 2010
People can get rather excited over negative inventory because the concept seems so ridiculous. Surprisingly, negative inventory is a very common occurrence and may even be a "normal" part of some...
Provided by Inventory Operations Consulting
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White Papers
Consignment Inventory: What Is It And When Does It Make Sense To Use It
Jan 2010
Consignment Inventory is inventory that is in the possession of the customer, but is still owned by the supplier. In other words, the supplier places some of his inventory in his customer's...
Provided by Inventory Operations Consulting
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White Papers
How To Move Old Inventory: Tips You Must Know
Jan 2009
Overall inventory turns help to determine a standard as to how often a company's inventory moves on an annual or monthly basis. Individual items can then be compared to the overall inventory....
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
Inventory Management & Finding The Right Outsource Partner
Jan 2010
The cost of inventory to a retailer is far greater than simply the invoice cost and freight. There are inventory carrying costs, shrink, damage and obsolescence costs, and even the cost of lost...
Provided by Bestmanagementarticles.com
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White Papers
The High Performance Supply Chain Study - Service Management Mastery
Sep 2009
Across numerous industries, effective service management has become increasingly important to companies' ability to achieve high performance for a number of reasons. One reason is simply that the...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
The High Performance Supply Chain Study: Fulfillment Mastery
Sep 2009
Fulfillment has long been a core capability of successful companies. Recently, however, myriad factors have challenged companies' ability to effectively and efficiently fulfill orders in today's...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
The High Performance Supply Chain Study: Supply Chain Planning Mastery
Sep 2009
As globalization drives rapid change in all aspects of nearly every company's operations, effective supply chain planning - of both supply and demand - has become an increasingly critical factor...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
The High Performance Supply Chain Study: Manufacturing Mastery
Sep 2009
Just as it has affected almost all business functions and operations, globalization is challenging manufacturing companies' ability to achieve high performance. Many of these challenges revolve...
Provided by Accenture
-
Case Studies
Zero To Hero
May 2010
A bio tech company was looking to expand its operations internationally. It also had managed to acquire U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for a promising antiviral. However, before it...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
Case Studies
World-Class Manufacturer Improves Its World-Class Supply Chain; Redefines Service Parts Management Excellence For Industry
Mar 2009
In the process of becoming one of the largest industrial equipment manufacturers in the world, this company accumulated a host of legacy supply chain management systems that were proving to be a...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
Case Studies
Case Study Retail - Nike Indonesia
Jul 2009
Nike is the world's leading designer, marketer and distributor of authentic athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories for a wide variety of sports and fitness activities. Nike needed...
Provided by Agility
-
Case Studies
Improving Automobile Product Offerings And Inventory Management
May 2010
One of the leading automobile companies was looking to improve the management of its inventory of high-end, complex product offerings along with making significant cost savings. Recognizing the...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
White Papers
Global Supply Chain Management
Sep 2009
In today's world of liberalization and globalization, economies are opening their doors towards each other because no one is self sufficient, and getting confined to themselves may result in their...
Provided by Free Articles Directory
-
White Papers
High Performance Through Service Management: Accenture Research And Insights Into Service Management Mastery
Aug 2009
In nearly every industry today, managing after-sales customer service effectively has become critical to achieving high performance. Manufacturing high-quality products and distributing them on...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
High Performance Through Supply Chain Planning: Accenture Research and Insights into Supply Chain
Apr 2009
Globalization has driven rapid and fundamental change in every aspect of nearly every company's business - particularly in the ways they source, manufacture and distribute products and provide...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Achieving High Performance In The Supply Chain: Inventory Optimization
Mar 2009
Even with thoughtfully established inventory policies, many companies continue to operate at the extremes, with excessive inventory for some items binding up cash flow while other items suffer...
Provided by Accenture
-
Case Studies
Popular Consumer Brands Need Leading-Edge Supply Chains
Jan 2010
A large multinational consumer and foodservice manufacturer wanted to save on excess inventory on a global basis. Towards this end, they wanted to simplify the complex supply chain by implementing...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
Case Studies
Engine Manufacturer Flies High With On-Time Delivery, Supplier Network Transformation And Aftermarket Plan
May 2010
Deloitte assisted a major aerospace manufacturer to achieve its goal of improving On Time Delivery (OTD), bringing in efficiency in the functioning of its supplier network, and lastly, of putting...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
Case Studies
Building A Sustainable Supply Chain
Jul 2008
It is easy to think about the present without considering the future. Consumers want more goods and services to improve their standard of living. The problem is they make choices about goods and...
Provided by MBA Publishing
-
Case Studies
Sony Canada Launches New High Velocity Supply Chain
Jan 2010
When Sony Canada wanted to improve its supply chain management capabilities in the consumer electronics marketing, sales and distribution division, they had a clear vision in mind. The enhancement...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
White Papers
Inventory In Vertical Relationships With Private Information And Interdependent Values
Feb 2010
This paper studies if borrowers optimally conserve debt capacity to take advantage of investment opportunities due to temporarily low asset prices, when financing is subject to collateral...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
Improving Supply Chain Efficiency Through Wholesale Price Renegotiation
Nov 2007
In a decentralized supply chain, double marginalization is an important source of inefficiency. This paper suggests a simple mechanism to reduce it, that uses a wholesale price contract and...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
-
White Papers
Myopic Inventory Policies Using Individual Customer Arrival Information
Nov 2007
This paper investigates optimality of myopic policies using the single-unit decomposition approach in inventory management. This paper derives, under certain conditions, closed-form replenishment...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
-
White Papers
Competing For Shelf Space
Nov 2007
This paper studies competition for shelf space in a multi-supplier retail point. This paper considers a retailer that seeks to allocate her shelf space to maximize her profit. Because products...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
-
White Papers
Inventory Control With Generalized Expediting
Nov 2007
The authors consider a single-item, periodic review inventory control problem where discrete stochastic demand must be satisfied. When shortages occur, the unmet demand must be filled by some form...
Provided by Washington University Olin
-
White Papers
A Periodic Review Base Stock Inventory System With Sales
Apr 2010
This paper considers a system in which an order is placed every T periods to bring the inventory position up to the base stock S. It accepts demand until the inventory position reaches a sales...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
An Inventory Allocation System With Backorders And Sales Rejection
Nov 2009
This paper considers a variant of the periodic review system with a virtual warehouse that is due to Eppen and Schrage (1981). Depending on the realized pattern of demand during the delivery...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Tight Credit Is Choking Many Small Suppliers: Watch For Weakened Suppliers To Require Financial Support From Customers
Dec 2009
The major defense and aerospace giants are riding out the worst global economic meltdown in generations with their financial health largely unscathed. But the tens of thousands of small companies...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
-
White Papers
Is A Global Mindset In Your DNA?
Aug 2008
On Jan. 18, 2005, Airbus officially unveiled its long-awaited A380, the double-deck mega liner that the European consortium had invested more than $13 billion and spent 13 years to develop. The...
Provided by Thunderbird School of Global Management
-
White Papers
2008 Supply Chain Monitor "How Mature Is the Green Supply Chain?"
Feb 2008
Limiting damage to the environment is the major challenge society faces over the coming years. Now that companies are beginning to step up their environmental programs, their objective is to...
Provided by ESCP Europe
-
Whitepapers
Do Technology And Information Really Create Supply Chain Gains?
Sep 2009
Supply chain managers crave innovative ways to cut costs and streamline systems. Often, they turn to technology, hoping for big savings and process improvements. But not every tool that promises...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
-
White Papers
A Capacitated Commodity Trading Model With Market Power
Jan 2008
The authors consider in this paper the problem of a trader that may purchase a commodity in one market and resell it in another. The trader is capacitated: the trading volume is limited by...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
-
White Papers
Store Inventory Can Affect Demand: Empirical Evidence From Magazine Retailing
Nov 2007
In retailing, inventory analysis and inventory practice have traditionally been based on the assumption that underlying demand does not vary with inventory levels. A growing body of research...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Learning From Zillow And Zoots
Jan 2009
Zillow is also notable for its approach to managing the service process. Providing real estate appraisals is by no means a new business. The novelty of Zillow is that it gathers the necessary data...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
The Newsvendor With Pricing: A Stochastic Elasticity Perspective
Sep 2007
This paper introduces a measure of elasticity of stochastic demand, called the elasticity of lost sales, which offers a unifying perspective on the well-known newsvendor with pricing problem. This...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Improving Supply Chain Performance: Real-Time Demand Information And Flexible Deliveries
Jul 2009
In some supply chains, materials are ordered periodically according to local information. This paper investigates how to improve the performance of such a supply chain. Specifically, the authors...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Evaluation Of Cycle-Count Policies For Supply Chains With Inventory Inaccuracy And Implications On RFID Investments
Nov 2009
Inventory record inaccuracy deteriorates supply chain performance because it leads to ineffective replenishment decisions. Conducting cycle counts (i.e., periodic inventory auditing) is a common...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Coordination Mechanisms In Decentralized Serial Inventory Systems With Batch Ordering
Feb 2009
This paper studies a periodic-review, serial supply chain in which materials are ordered and shipped according to R(nQ) policies. Three information scenarios are considered, depending on the level...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Optimizing Replenishment Intervals For Two-Echelon Distribution Systems With Fixed Order Costs
Mar 2010
The authors consider a periodic-review inventory system with one warehouse and N non-identical retailers. Each location has a positive lead time and orders according to a base-stock policy in...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Single-Stage Bounds For Optimal Policies In Serial Inventory Systems With Non-Stationary Demand
Mar 2010
This paper considers a two-stage serial inventory system with a finite planning horizon. The downstream stage, referred to as stage 1, orders from stage 2, which orders from an external supplier...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Inventory Management Of A Fast-Fashion Retail Network
Aug 2007
Working in collaboration with Spain-based retailer Zara, Authors address the problem of distributing over time a limited amount of inventory across all the stores in a fast-fashion retail network....
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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Evaluation Of Supply Chains With Inventory Record Inaccuracy And Implications On IT Investments
Mar 2009
Inventory record inaccuracy deteriorates supply chain performance because it leads to ineffective replenishment decisions. Conducting cycle counts (i.e., periodic inventory auditing) is a common...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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The Customer Value Proposition Should Drive Supply Chain Design: An Example In Mass Retailing
Oct 2009
A successful company typically starts with a deep understanding of customer needs in a segment and translates these needs into a value proposition. Then it develops its supply chain capability to...
Provided by IMD
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The Network Is The Risk
Jan 2010
The start of 2009 saw dramatic headlines in the Financial Times about the UK Economy. UK debt fears fuel plunge in sterling (20th January 2009), What started with the credit crunch has become a...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
