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S&OP is a critical cross-functional business process that will help your company
compete more effectively. However,
many companies are still struggling to synchronise
comprehensive planning processes, often leading to the “blame game.” Given the dynamics
of today’s rapidly changing marketplace, S&OP has become one of the hottest
topics in operational planning.
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Logility Voyager Demand Planning Solution: Evaluating the Benefits
Aberdeen recently researched demand management technology trends within consumer
industries. This research brief assesses the performance of companies using Logility’s
Voyager Demand Management solutions in comparison to the overall pool of benchmark
respondents. It also provides guidance on which types of companies can best benefit
from the Logility Voyager Solutions applications.
Making the move to business integration outsourcing: A practical roadmap.
It’s one of those subjects, outsourcing. It divides people. Typically, businesses are either staunch supporters or hardcore resistors and you don’t often find anyone in between. So why does it polarise views so definitively? This white paper uncovers some of the reasons and presents a compelling business case for making the move to business integration outsourcing sooner rather than later.
From trading community to virtual organisation - maximising the potential of a new era of business integration
Interest is growing among IT executives in the benefits offered by relatively new developments in the business integration arena such as service oriented architectures (SOA) – a fact backed up by a recent McKinsey1 survey of CIOs and other senior executives. By improving communication and integration between IT systems regardless of the underlying technology, SOA is just one factor that is making it increasingly easy and quick to share information and reproduce best practice, not only internally but also within an extended business partner community.
Shrinking the Supply Chain Expands the Return:
The ROI of RFID in the Supply Chain
Many organizations that produce, distribute, handle or sell various
goods are researching what RFID can do to improve operating
efficiency, reduce business risk and drive additional revenue
opportunities. According to Alinean Research, these early RFID
projects could cut supply chain costs by 3-5% and achieve a 2-7%
increase in revenue thanks to the better visibility and accuracy
that RFID provides1.
Best Practices in S&OP
S&OP is a critical cross-functional business process that will help your company compete more effectively. However, many companies are still struggling to synchronise comprehensive planning processes, often leading to the “blame game.” Given the dynamics of today’s rapidly changing marketplace, S&OP has become one of the hottest topics in operational planning.
Supply Chain Planning Technology
In developing its ERP versus best-of-breed SCE report, SupplyChainDigest surveyed
80 leading companies and spoke with dozens of supply chain/ logistics executives
and industry thought leaders.
How Companies Are Driving Cost and Service Improvements
Supply chain and transportation executives face intense
pressure to deal with transportation rate and capacity challenges, as well as satisfy
the increased thirst for transportation information from the rest of the organization.
Voice Directed Picking: Expected ROI
The use of voice technology in the warehouse is starting
to take off, particularly for order picking. Voice directed order picking involves
the use of a wearable computer with a headset and microphone so that the order pickers
are instructed by voice on what items to pick and where to pick them, verbally confirming
their actions back to the system. The wearable computer communicates with the warehouse
management system via a radio frequency (RF) local area network (LAN).
Does your WMS hold the key to Increased labout productiviry?
While containing labour costs has always been a challenge for retailers, wholesalers and third-party logistics providers (3PLs), a number of key economic issues are converging to make labour productivity an even greater imperative. Whilst there is freely available immigrant labour, mainly from the widened EU, there are inflationary pressures building in the economy. Even worse, higher inflation is likely to be coupled with a period of low economic growth in a condition referred to by economists as “Stagflation”.
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