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How to Improve Your Accounts Payable Process…

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Perceptant.com

With global supply chains under increasing pressure to exchange more and more data, current inefficiencies can often be linked to slow, inaccurate, and poorly defined paper-based workflow and capture processes. Continue reading →

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Is Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment the Holy Grail of Supply Chain Management?

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Perceptant.com

Supply Chain Management (SCM) means many things to many people but fundamentally it’s the management of the flow of materials and services needed to make a product and deliver it to customers. For many companies, it’s an integral part of … Continue reading →

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Vendor Managed Inventory – Competitive Advantage?

Posted on April 26, 2010 by

Managing your inventory in an effective and efficient manner is a goal that many businesses continue to strive for. One such idea that has been developed and is now in full use is the vendor managed inventory (VMI) system, which if … Continue reading →

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Supply Chain Management – Why Inventory Levels are the Current Hot Potato

Posted on April 13, 2010 by

It may come as a surprise that many companies have still not reduced the amount of inventory they keep in their supply chains.  In a recent post by Dan Gilmore at Supply Chain Digest, he details by industry how many companies … Continue reading →

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Supply Chain’s Still Struggle With Remote Islands of Integration

Posted on March 17, 2010 by

Forrester Consulting today announced the results of a new multi-client study that focuses on enterprise electronic data interchange (EDI) and business-to-business (B2B) document exchange operations. The findings highlight that enterprises are still using multiple integration solutions, and still face the … Continue reading →

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Shift toward Supply Chain Management Cloud Unstoppable

Posted on February 22, 2010 by

The latest technology software report from investment bank Goldman Sachs confirms what IT industry analysts have been seeing as an unstoppable shift toward on-demand IT services and what we now consider to be cloud applications, especially among small businesses. According … Continue reading →

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FCMG Companies Face Rising Supply Chain Pressures

Posted on February 8, 2010 by

Major retailers are under tremendous pressure to go green and reduce their carbon footprint. To achieve this, they first turned to initiatives close at hand, including the reduction of energy consumption at the store level, product packaging resizing and the … Continue reading →

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Effective supply chain management will address eight cross-functional business processes…

Posted on January 13, 2010 by

It’s not just about logistics and purchasing. The supply chain consists of a broad network of partners who interact at every level of their organizations, says Douglas M. Lambert, director of the Global Supply Chain Forum at Ohio State University. … Continue reading →

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Supply Chain Visibility & Inventory Control are Key…

Posted on January 12, 2010 by

The recession and credit crisis has thrust supply chain visibility — and the need to gain greater visibility and control over inventory and landed costs within the global supply chain… Continue reading →

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Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): Resurgence on the Horizon?

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Perceptant.com

A much maligned often overlooked technology is Electronic Data Interchange or EDI as it’s often commonly referred to. During the 1970’s and 1980’s it was seen as the solution to all business to business communication although high costs and many … Continue reading →

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