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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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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
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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White Papers
Meeting The Challenges Of Supply Chain Management
Feb 2008
Price and margin erosion, high logistics cost, increasingly shorter life cycles, the acceleration of product introductions and a competitive imperative to maintain product availability "On the...
Provided by MeriTalk
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White Papers
The Value Of A Supply Chain Partner
Oct 2009
This paper is for professionals who want to improve business performance through better product design, lower manufacturing costs and lower supply chain investment. With the increasing ease of...
Provided by Trusted Supply Chain Partners
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White Papers
Business Case: Third-Party Supply Chain Solutions
Apr 2009
The core purpose of this paper is "To simplify the customers' daily lives." They do so by providing a large fresh food selection and award-winning, freshly brewed coffee in stores designed to...
Provided by McLane Company
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White Papers
The Benefits And Challenges Of New Technologies In Global Supply Chain Management
Jul 2008
Non-business professionals should be able to grasp the concept presented in this paper. The general tendency or spirit of this paper shall be to educate the reader or raise attention as to the...
Provided by University of Indianapolis
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White Papers
Bringing Products To Market: Supply Chains Vs. Value Webs
Nov 2007
Companies scramble to satisfy ever-increasing customer demands for customized products, on-time delivery, and complete order fulfillment. Simultaneously, competition intensifies accompanied by...
Provided by Florida A&M University
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White Papers
Improving Supply Chain Traceability Using RFID Technology
Jun 2010
One of the major issues in the supply chain management is product loss or shrinkage. Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) as an emerging technology has generated enormous amount of interest in...
Provided by INTI University College
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White Papers
Mitigating The Risk Of A New Workforce By Reducing Rework And Rightsizing On Hand Inventory
Jun 2009
Dramatically increasing the hourly workforce at a rapid pace to support accelerated product demand in an aircraft manufacturing facility in a short amount of time resulted in: increased rework,...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Building An Ecommerce Business In The Sports Cards Industry Using Online Inventory Management Applications
Sep 2008
With an explosion in choices for Online Inventory Management Applications (OIMA), business owners will find it hard to choose the right provider for their business needs. This white paper outlines...
Provided by Beckett Channel Integration
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White Papers
Integrated Pricing And Inventory Control With Reference Price Effects
Jul 2007
In this paper the authors study a joint pricing and inventory control model with backlogging for single items under reference price effects. The reference price effect models the empirically well...
Provided by Vienna University of Economics and Business
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White Papers
E-Commerce And Inventory Management
Feb 2009
The rise of the Internet has revolutionized the manner in which retailers operate. The early stages of the dot com era allowed businesses to experiment with different business models. Internet...
Provided by National University
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White Papers
Complementarities Between Product Design Modularity And IT Infrastructure Flexibility In IT-Enabled Supply Chains
Dec 2009
As contemporary firms become reliant on networks of supply chain partners, their performance increasingly depends on their supply chains' ability to be responsive to changing markets. This...
Provided by Florida State University
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White Papers
Over-Reaction To Demand Changes Due To Subjective And Quantitative Forecasting
Aug 2008
In this paper, the authors study managers' errors in decision making for inventory replenishment and how these errors affect their inventory system. In particular, primarily for its expected...
Provided by Harvard Business School
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White Papers
Exploring Inventory Trends In Six U.S. Retail Segments
Aug 2008
The authors find that inventory is positively correlated to gross profit dollars but negatively correlated to gross margin return on inventory. This supports a potential explanation: Inventory...
Provided by Harvard University
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White Papers
Cycle Counting And Physical Inventories
Jan 2011
If you are running a successful and comprehensive cycle counting program, there is little benefit to performing an annual physical inventory. Unfortunately, many in the financial establishment...
Provided by Inventory Operations Consulting
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White Papers
Optimizing Safety Stock
Jan 2011
Optimizing Safety Stock levels by calculating the magical balance of minimal inventory while meeting variable customer demand is sometimes described as the Holy Grail of inventory management. Many...
Provided by Inventory Operations Consulting
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White Papers
Lost & Found: Has The Productivity In Your Distribution Center Been Languishing Or Even Declining?
Jan 2011
Inventory slotting or profiling is the process of identifying the most efficient placement for each item in a distribution center. Since each warehouse is different, proper slotting depends on a...
Provided by Industrial Data & Information
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Case Studies
ePartners And Great Plains Help Vogue With Its Makeover
Jul 2007
Florida-based Vogue International sells personal care products to chain retail stores around the world. Vogue's existing systems and processes were failing under the pressures of fast growth, hard...
Provided by ePartners
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Case Studies
Renal Advantage Controls Inventory And Growth With Dynamics SL
May 2009
Renal Advantage is the fourth largest supplier of dialysis services in the nation and operates over 135 centers. Renal Advantage needed a solution to centralize the management of their supply...
Provided by ePartners
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White Papers
Five Important Questions CEOs And CFOs Should Ask Their Supply Chain Directors
Feb 2010
Complex supply chains are inevitable in many Australian and New Zealand businesses. The complexity brings about uncertainty and increased levels of risk. Businesses pay for this risk by carrying...
Provided by Centre for Strategy Development
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White Papers
Answering the Call: Emerging Best Practices in Consumer Mobile
Feb 2011
This paper will examine the state of consumer mobile in retail today, Driven in part by RSR's research among retailers as well as a look at the mobile use cases that retailers have currently...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
The Great Trade Collapse Of 2008-09: An Inventory Adjustment?
Jun 2010
This paper examines the role of inventories in the decline of production, trade, and expenditures in the US in the economic crisis of late 2008 and 2009. Empirically, the authors show that...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Reaping The Advantages Of Advanced Supply Chain Management
Aug 2007
As supply chain efforts mature, one distinction is becoming apparent. Firms that embrace the inherent concepts, as part of a total enterprise optimization effort, have gained the high ground. The...
Provided by Advanced Supply Chain Institute
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White Papers
An Inventory Control Project In A Major Danish Company Using Compound Renewal Demand Models
Aug 2007
The authors describe the development of a framework to compute the optimal inventory policy for a large spare parts distribution centre operation in the Refrigeration & Air Conditioning (RA)...
Provided by University of Aarhus
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White Papers
Inventories In ToTEM
Aug 2010
ToTEM - the Bank of Canada's principal projection and policy-analysis model for the Canadian economy - is extended to include inventories. In the model, firms accumulate inventories of finished...
Provided by Bank of Canada
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White Papers
Inventories, Stockouts, And ToTEM
Jul 2010
Inventory investment is an important component of the Canadian business cycle. Despite its small average size - less than 1 per cent of output - it exhibits volatile procyclical fluctuations,...
Provided by Bank of Canada
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White Papers
Supply Chain Dynamics In Asia
Jan 2010
Supply chain management in Asia is a relatively new topic but is a key challenge for all Asia based manufacturers and traders trying to integrate into the "Global Market." The purpose of this...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
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White Papers
Information Governs: Run Your Business Better-and Prove It.
Feb 2011
In the past, organizations have chosen to tackle governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) projects among different departments and business units. As a result, this myopic strategy can be costly,...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Thriving in the Recovery: Getting CFOs and CIOs in Step for Forecasting and Planning
Feb 2011
New research proves that many organizations continue to rely on spreadsheets and manual processes to tackle forecasting. IT executives must take a proactive approach to looking for solutions,...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Reading The Signals: Process Manufacturers And Customer Demand
Apr 2008
In decades past, building inventory was a midsize manufacturer's tried and tested way of guarding against uncertainty in the demand environment. The nature of manufacturing demand is changing,...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
Resilient Supply Chains In A Time Of Uncertainty
May 2010
As companies struggle to cope with the uncertain global economy in 2010, nurturing resilient supply chains is vital for survival. Companies must stay efficient to generate healthy cash flows, and...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
Business Process Management II: Best Practices of Boeing and UPS
Oct 2006
This executive summary is a follow up report to APQC's 2005 "Business Process Management" Best- practice Report. It digs deeper into how organizations are navigating the transition from...
Provided by APQC
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Whitepapers
Analyst report: storage virtualization isn't about storage
Mar 2011
In this product brief from Enterprise Storage Group, analyst Steve O'Donnell highlights the value of storage virtualization in general and IBM SAN Volume Controller specifically. With real storage...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Video: IBM Storwize V7000 offers unprecedented midrange disk features and efficiency
Mar 2011
The amount of data you need to store is growing. Your budget and staff probably aren't. If you could increase the capacity and performance of your storage system with less impact on budget and IT...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Commodities Inventory Effect
Jul 2010
Asymmetric GARCH models were developed for equity stocks to take into account the larger response of the conditional variance to negative price shocks. The authors show that these asymmetric GARCH...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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White Papers
Infinite Density At The Median And The Typical Shape Of Stock Return Distributions
Jun 2009
Statistics are developed to test for the presence of an asymptotic discontinuity (or infinite density or peakedness) in a probability density at the median. The approach makes use of work by...
Provided by Korea University
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White Papers
Lot-sizing With Stock Upper Bounds And Fixed Charges
Apr 2009
Here the authors study the discrete lot-sizing problem with an initial stock variable and an associated variable upper bound constraint. This problem is of interest in its own right, and is also a...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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White Papers
Logistics And Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Oct 2006
As competition becomes more global, innovation is moving from a firm-to-firm level to a supply chain versus supply chain perspective. Canadian firms must develop supply chain agility in a...
Provided by Industry Canada
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White Papers
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
Fulfillment Mastery Achieving High Performance In Fulfillment Through Superior Order Execution
Sep 2009
The masters of fulfillment are far better than laggards at designing fulfillment operations that can effectively meet fast-changing demand globally. Masters are also superior at executing their...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
What Is Supply Chain Management
Jan 2010
An organization that manufactures or develops a product or a service has to transport this final product to the customer. The production process, the distribution process, and the management of...
Provided by Buzzle.com
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White Papers
Supply Chain Planning Mastery: Achieving High Performance In Planning Through Greater Visibility And Collaboration
Sep 2009
Companies with best supply chains have superior planning organizations that enable the enterprise to shape demand rather than respond to it, dynamically react to demand and supply situations and...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
At The Top Of The Secure Food Chain
Jul 2009
Over the past decade, the safety of the Food and Beverage Industry's supply chain has fallen under increasing scrutiny due to the high number of food-borne deaths, illnesses and recalls. Each year...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Integrated Resource Management: Synchronizing Asset Management, Work Management And Supply Chain Management Utilities
Jan 2010
Implementing advanced supply chain capabilities (for example, cross-functional planning or collaborative forecasting) at a public utility has always been challenging. One reason is that utilities...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Balancing Demand, Supply And Cost With The Right Mix Of Offshoring, Nearshoring And Onshoring
Sep 2008
The essentials of a sound supply chain management strategy revolve around the age-old industry adage, "Provide customers with what they want, when they want it and at the lowest possible cost." In...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Finding Customer Loyalty in a Multichannel World
Mar 2010
In this 1to1 Media and Oracle podcast, Don Peppers, Founding Partner of Peppers & Rogers Group, and Melissa Boxer, Vice President of CRM Applications at Oracle, engage in a dialogue to find out...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Predicting Archival Life of Removable Hard Disk Drives
Apr 2008
A collaboration between the developer of a Removable Hard Disk Drive (RHDD) storage technology product and academics presents an accelerated life test of non-spinning powered down hard disks. The...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Business Case Study: Assessing Storage Efficiency within NetApp's Data Centers
Nov 2009
This report looks at ways NetApp IT was able to put into practices what the company has been saying to its customers for some time: That the use of NetApp storage offers such efficiency that it...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
The Smarter Supply Chain of the Future: Global Chief Officer Supply Chain Study
Feb 2009
Supply chains are more global and interconnected than ever. That, combined with speed, also makes them more exposed to shock and disruption. In the IBM® white paper, "The Smarter Supply Chain of...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Accelerating Business Applications with Solid-State Storage
Jan 2010
Watch "Accelerating Business Applications with Solid-State Storage" with Joseph Unsworth, Research Director, at featured analyst firm, Gartner Inc., and learn the benefits that solid-state storage...
Provided by Fusion
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White Papers
Sybase IQ: The Economics of Business Reporting
Nov 2009
Reporting is recognized as a way for companies to improve service, ensure quality, control costs and prevent losses by empowering decision-makers throughout the organization. This paper explains...
Provided by Sybase
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White Papers
NetApp and VMware Building a Virtual Infrastructure From Server to Storage
Sep 2008
This document discusses the virtual storage solutions that reduce cost, increase storage utilization, increase fault tolerance, and address the challenges of backing up and restoring VMware and...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Infrastructures for Innovation
Jan 2010
"Nearly nine out of ten senior IT and business executives say that data, voice and network services can be leveraged to drive innovation, facilitating remote access to critical applications and...
Provided by Qwest Communications
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Case Studies
HP Business Service Management software resolves ITSM problems at Virgin Atlantic
Dec 2009
Objective: Virgin Atlantic Airways wanted to select and deploy an integrated monitoring toolset to raise end-user satisfaction, reduce service disruption, increase application performance and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Webcasts
Considerations and Best Practices for Virtualizing Business Critical Applications
Dec 2009
Server virtualization is widely accepted as one of the fastest ways to lower costs. Choosing the right storage solution is essential to maximize cost savings and provide the most flexibility to...
Provided by NetApp
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White Papers
Fast, Reliable Data protection from Dell and CommVault
Dec 2009
Dell and CommVault have teamed up to create a next generation disk-based backup system that combines leading-edge Dell™ hardware with innovative CommVault® data protection software. The...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Scaling Up Classiers to Cloud Computers
Jan 2009
As the size of available datasets has grown from Megabytes to Gigabytes and now into Terabytes, machine learning algorithms and computing infrastructures have continuously evolved in an effort to...
Provided by University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
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White Papers
Whitepaper: Dell Proconsult Deduplication Services
Nov 2009
Expert guidance and a proven process for reducing storage requirements and improving.
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Technical Whitepaper: Configuring Deduplication for High Performance
Nov 2009
The Dell PowerVault ™ DL2100 - Powered by CommVault ® Simpana ® 8 Advanced Deduplication Edition delivers end-to-end block-based deduplication to significantly reduce MediaAgent disk storage...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Intelligent Data Management with Dell Product Group
Nov 2009
Data has become increasingly valuable as both a business asset and as a competitive differentiator. Its intrinsic value is being acknowledged in the form of stricter government, industry, and...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Power Solutions Article: Streamlining Data Management with CommVault Simpana and Dell EqualLogic PS5500E iSCSI SANs
Nov 2009
Ongoing data growth can present major challenges for IT organizations. The combination of CommVault® Simpana® backup-to-disk software and Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS5500E Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Information Governs: Oracle Solutions for Governance, Risk, and Compliance
Jan 2009
Enterprises must achieve strategic objectives while operating within prescribed boundaries. To help executives meet these challenges, Oracle delivers a comprehensive GRC platform that works...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Information Governs: Run Your Business Better - and Prove It
Jan 2009
In the past, organizations have chosen to tackle governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) projects among different departments and business units. As a result, this myopic strategy can be costly,...
Provided by Oracle
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Case Studies
Reducing Guesswork: A Clothing Retailer Gets Shipping Buttoned Up
Jan 2009
Stores save time, improve service with online labeling and tracking. GUESS, a Los Angeles-based retailer, sends its hip, upscale jeans, shirts and skirts to stores and customers across the...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Powering Up The Supply Chain
Jan 2009
A battery retailer focuses its energy on growth and counts on UPS to handle logistics. A national franchise that specializes in selling batteries of all types, Batteries Plus stays focused on the...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
A Construction Equipment Manufacturer Gets A Supply Chain Makeover
Jan 2009
Multiquip Inc., a Carson, Calif.-based manufacturer of construction equipment for the rental industry, needed to modernize management of its warehouse inventory. Consultants from UPS audited the...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
A Camera-Repair Business Focuses On Customer Service
Jan 2009
United Camera & Binocular Repair Corp., based in Bensenville, Ill., used to manually update online repair and shipping status several times a day. The company reached out to its longtime shipping...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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White Papers
Power Solutions Article: Advancing Integration of Microsoft Hyper-V and Dell EqualLogic Virtualized SANs
Nov 2009
An enterprise-class storage infrastructure is essential for organizations transitioning to a virtualized data center. Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN)...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Whitepaper: EqualLogic TCO Analysis by ESG Lab
Nov 2009
This ESG Lab report examines the economic excellence of highly scalable EqualLogic iSCSI storage solutions compared to traditional direct attached storage (DAS), Fibre Channel storage area network...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
Power Solutions Article: High-Availability Virtualization with Dell EqualLogic Arrays and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
Nov 2009
The Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 Release 2 (R2) Hyper-V™ platform introduces capabilities designed to deliver high availability for virtualized data centers. Integrating a Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Case Studies
Avio: Building The High Performance Supply Chain
Nov 2007
Established in1908 and headquartered in Turin, Italy, the Avio aerospace company is at the leading edge of propulsion technology. Avio is always innovating products and processes in order to...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
How To Use Vendor-Managed Inventory Programs
Sep 2009
A well-run Vendor-Managed Inventory (VMI) program could allow your business to speed up its cash flow by more closely matching your cash outlay for inventory with your cash inflows from sales and...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Adapting To The New Retail Market
Oct 2009
The current market is asking retailers some very difficult questions - questions that their existing processes and tools do not have the answer to. The only certainty is that consumers are less...
Provided by Quantum Retail Technology
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Webcasts
Video: Enhance Your Business with Fast, Efficient Middleware
Oct 2009
Watch the free, on-demand video to learn how modern enterprise software infrastructure must keep pace with dynamic business needs. As a business changes through growth, contraction, or seasonal...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Which UPS is right for the job?
Sep 2009
Traditionally, data center managers and facilities managers could choose from three UPS topologies: standby, line-interactive and double-conversion—offering widely varying levels of efficiency,...
Provided by Eaton
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Webcasts
Dell PowerEdge Servers: Energy Efficient and Powerful - The Best of Both Worlds
May 2009
Listen to Chad Fenner, product manager for Dell M Series blades, explain the new features of this series of servers.
Provided by Dell
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Downloads
Installation and deployment methods for Windows Server 2008
Nov 2007
When installing a new system like Windows Server 2008 (Longhorn), many datacentre managers want to know what technologies and best practices are available to make the process foolproof. So what...
Provided by Dell
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Resource Center
Dell Tech Center: Windows Server Virtualization Hyper-V
Aug 2009
Use the Dell Technology Center to interact with other IT professionals.
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Exploring Inventory Trends In Six U.S. Retail Segments
Aug 2008
The authors find that inventory is positively correlated to gross profit dollars but negatively correlated to gross margin return on inventory. This supports a potential explanation: Inventory...
Provided by Harvard University
-
White Papers
Cycle Counting And Physical Inventories
Jan 2011
If you are running a successful and comprehensive cycle counting program, there is little benefit to performing an annual physical inventory. Unfortunately, many in the financial establishment...
Provided by Inventory Operations Consulting
-
White Papers
Optimizing Safety Stock
Jan 2011
Optimizing Safety Stock levels by calculating the magical balance of minimal inventory while meeting variable customer demand is sometimes described as the Holy Grail of inventory management. Many...
Provided by Inventory Operations Consulting
-
White Papers
Lost & Found: Has The Productivity In Your Distribution Center Been Languishing Or Even Declining?
Jan 2011
Inventory slotting or profiling is the process of identifying the most efficient placement for each item in a distribution center. Since each warehouse is different, proper slotting depends on a...
Provided by Industrial Data & Information
-
Case Studies
ePartners And Great Plains Help Vogue With Its Makeover
Jul 2007
Florida-based Vogue International sells personal care products to chain retail stores around the world. Vogue's existing systems and processes were failing under the pressures of fast growth, hard...
Provided by ePartners
-
Case Studies
Renal Advantage Controls Inventory And Growth With Dynamics SL
May 2009
Renal Advantage is the fourth largest supplier of dialysis services in the nation and operates over 135 centers. Renal Advantage needed a solution to centralize the management of their supply...
Provided by ePartners
-
White Papers
Five Important Questions CEOs And CFOs Should Ask Their Supply Chain Directors
Feb 2010
Complex supply chains are inevitable in many Australian and New Zealand businesses. The complexity brings about uncertainty and increased levels of risk. Businesses pay for this risk by carrying...
Provided by Centre for Strategy Development
-
White Papers
Answering the Call: Emerging Best Practices in Consumer Mobile
Feb 2011
This paper will examine the state of consumer mobile in retail today, Driven in part by RSR's research among retailers as well as a look at the mobile use cases that retailers have currently...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
The Great Trade Collapse Of 2008-09: An Inventory Adjustment?
Jun 2010
This paper examines the role of inventories in the decline of production, trade, and expenditures in the US in the economic crisis of late 2008 and 2009. Empirically, the authors show that...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Reaping The Advantages Of Advanced Supply Chain Management
Aug 2007
As supply chain efforts mature, one distinction is becoming apparent. Firms that embrace the inherent concepts, as part of a total enterprise optimization effort, have gained the high ground. The...
Provided by Advanced Supply Chain Institute
-
White Papers
An Inventory Control Project In A Major Danish Company Using Compound Renewal Demand Models
Aug 2007
The authors describe the development of a framework to compute the optimal inventory policy for a large spare parts distribution centre operation in the Refrigeration & Air Conditioning (RA)...
Provided by University of Aarhus
-
White Papers
Inventories In ToTEM
Aug 2010
ToTEM - the Bank of Canada's principal projection and policy-analysis model for the Canadian economy - is extended to include inventories. In the model, firms accumulate inventories of finished...
Provided by Bank of Canada
-
White Papers
Inventories, Stockouts, And ToTEM
Jul 2010
Inventory investment is an important component of the Canadian business cycle. Despite its small average size - less than 1 per cent of output - it exhibits volatile procyclical fluctuations,...
Provided by Bank of Canada
-
White Papers
Supply Chain Dynamics In Asia
Jan 2010
Supply chain management in Asia is a relatively new topic but is a key challenge for all Asia based manufacturers and traders trying to integrate into the "Global Market." The purpose of this...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
-
White Papers
Information Governs: Run Your Business Better-and Prove It.
Feb 2011
In the past, organizations have chosen to tackle governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) projects among different departments and business units. As a result, this myopic strategy can be costly,...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Thriving in the Recovery: Getting CFOs and CIOs in Step for Forecasting and Planning
Feb 2011
New research proves that many organizations continue to rely on spreadsheets and manual processes to tackle forecasting. IT executives must take a proactive approach to looking for solutions,...
Provided by Oracle
-
White Papers
Reading The Signals: Process Manufacturers And Customer Demand
Apr 2008
In decades past, building inventory was a midsize manufacturer's tried and tested way of guarding against uncertainty in the demand environment. The nature of manufacturing demand is changing,...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
-
White Papers
Resilient Supply Chains In A Time Of Uncertainty
May 2010
As companies struggle to cope with the uncertain global economy in 2010, nurturing resilient supply chains is vital for survival. Companies must stay efficient to generate healthy cash flows, and...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
-
Whitepapers
Product Information Management (PIM) Advances the Next Generation of E-commerce
Sep 2006
Download this white paper by Julie Hahnke, President of IDTech, to learn how your business can benefit from correct, consistent and readily available product information, which can be securely...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Product Information Management
Dec 2005
This report is a must-read if you're an IT strategist who's currently evaluating product information management (PIM) technologies. It explains why the as-yet-immature PIM market is evolving...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Business Process Management II: Best Practices of Boeing and UPS
Oct 2006
This executive summary is a follow up report to APQC's 2005 "Business Process Management" Best- practice Report. It digs deeper into how organizations are navigating the transition from...
Provided by APQC
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Case Studies
Hewlett-Packard's Design for Supply Chain Program
Dec 2005
For more than 10 years, Hewlett-Packard has evaluated supply chain impacts on design decisions. Now, Design for Supply Chain (DfSC) is a systematic, repeatable process for product development...
Provided by SupplyChainBrain.com
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Whitepapers
Analyst report: storage virtualization isn't about storage
Mar 2011
In this product brief from Enterprise Storage Group, analyst Steve O'Donnell highlights the value of storage virtualization in general and IBM SAN Volume Controller specifically. With real storage...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Video: IBM Storwize V7000 offers unprecedented midrange disk features and efficiency
Mar 2011
The amount of data you need to store is growing. Your budget and staff probably aren't. If you could increase the capacity and performance of your storage system with less impact on budget and IT...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Dramatically improve storage efficiency with IBM Storwize V7000
Mar 2011
Your business depends on its data. And you're probably gathering more and more data every day. You need a midrange storage system that offers the efficiency and performance to meet these needs....
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Commodities Inventory Effect
Jul 2010
Asymmetric GARCH models were developed for equity stocks to take into account the larger response of the conditional variance to negative price shocks. The authors show that these asymmetric GARCH...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
-
White Papers
Infinite Density At The Median And The Typical Shape Of Stock Return Distributions
Jun 2009
Statistics are developed to test for the presence of an asymptotic discontinuity (or infinite density or peakedness) in a probability density at the median. The approach makes use of work by...
Provided by Korea University
-
White Papers
Lot-sizing With Stock Upper Bounds And Fixed Charges
Apr 2009
Here the authors study the discrete lot-sizing problem with an initial stock variable and an associated variable upper bound constraint. This problem is of interest in its own right, and is also a...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
-
White Papers
Logistics And Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Oct 2006
As competition becomes more global, innovation is moving from a firm-to-firm level to a supply chain versus supply chain perspective. Canadian firms must develop supply chain agility in a...
Provided by Industry Canada
-
White Papers
VMware vSphere® Reference Architecture for Small and Medium Businesses
Mar 2011
Take the trial and error out of designing and implementing complex infrastructure. Read this white paper to learn more about Dell's business-ready configuration for your small-to-medium-sized...
Provided by VMware & Dell
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White Papers
Dell IT: A Model of Virtualization
Oct 2008
With projects constantly ramping up, the Dell IT team is under pressure to deliver more computing power and new applications for product development and other internal business units. As the...
Provided by VMware & Dell
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White Papers
Inventories, Markups, And Real Rigidities In Menu Cost Models
Jan 2009
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...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Whitepapers
Leverage the IBM Tivoli advantages in storage management
Apr 2011
Despite economic uncertainty, unabated data growth continues. At the same time, organizations are struggling to reduce costs while meeting zero data loss requirements. Read how IBM® Tivoli®...
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ABC Analysis In An Internet Shop: A New Set Of Criteria
Oct 2010
This paper presents a model of ABC analysis tailored for internet shops. The standard set of criteria is expanded to cover e-commerce specific characteristics, such as the number of product views,...
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Input And Output Inventories In The UK
Nov 2009
What is the role of inventories in UK manufacturing? The authors present and estimate a model of inventories that considers separately finished goods and input (i.e. the sum of raw materials and...
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Dynamic Inventory Control With Satisfaction-Dependent Demand
Aug 2010
In this paper, the authors consider the discrete multiperiod newsvendor dynamic inventory control problem where customers follow a simple satisfaction-based demand process, where their probability...
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Inventory Management Under Product Misidentification/ Shipment Errors
Jan 2010
Wrong-product delivery - the delivery of a product different from that desired - is a significant, but as yet unexplored problem in supply-chain management research. There are basically two...
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Inventory And The Stock Market
Nov 2007
How does the stock market affect inventory decisions? The "Efficient markets" view is that low stock price means poor fundamentals, a higher cost of capital, and lower inventory. Normatively,...
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Inventory Signals
Nov 2007
How does operational competence translate into market value, when firms cannot credibly communicate their competence to the market? The author considers the example of inventory and fills rates....
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Does Public Infrastructure Reduce Private Inventory?
Nov 2007
The discipline of operations management is rarely studied with an eye on public policies. Yet, it is glaring to even the casual observer that public infrastructure is very different in different...
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