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This article describes the unique challenges of the service supply chain, provides a framework for understanding the service
management decision hierarchy, and highlights the dramatic value proposition available to companies that deploy advanced service
strategies and decision-support tools to address th (...)
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This article describes the unique challenges of the service supply chain, provides a framework for understanding the service
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2004-06-22
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Achieving Supply Chain Visibility. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant
and Time-Bound. Industry research shows that one of the most important challenges facing supply chain professionals today
is supply chain visibility. As companies scramble to ado (...)
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Achieving Supply Chain Visibility: There Is More to It than Meets the Eye. Source: Kinaxis.
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2010-03-11
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Suppliers are one of your most valuable resources. Unfortunately, Many companies have supplier relationships that are tacitly
adversarial. This article discusses how to manage suppliers as a resource-- defining your needs and then engaging your best
suppliers to have them suggest innovative ways to deve (...)
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Suppliers are one of your most valuable resources. Unfortunately, Many companies have supplier relationships that are tacitly
adversarial. This a...
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2004-07-31
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might have more than one supply chain. ... Writing in the Harvard Business
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2009-05-12
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In the food and beverage industry, the channel master makes final volume decisions and mostly controls the unit price, with
the manufacturer having limited power to increase or maintain prices. The only real variable the manufacturer does control
is cost. (...)
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In the food and beverage industry, the channel master makes final volume decisions and mostly controls the unit price, with
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2006-11-01
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Supporting the Lean Value Stream with Technology Solutions. Read White Papers and Other Software for Your Implementation and
for Supporting the Lean Value Stream with Technology Solutions. In today’s manufacturing environment, suppliers and manufacturers
alike need to be highly selective when choosing a (...)
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Supporting the Lean Value Stream with Technology Solutions. Read White Papers and Other Software for Your Implementation and
for Supporting the Lea...
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2010-03-11
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Information appliances, also called Internet or PC appliances, are a new market that appeal to those customers who want to
reduce their desktop hardware expenditures. What are they, who makes them, and what do you get for your money? (...)
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Information appliances, also called Internet or PC appliances, are a new market that appeal to those customers who want to
reduce their desktop ha...
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2000-03-28
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... I’ma statistical economist by training, but when I left school, I wanted ...
Instead of laboriously creating a range of rate plans, promoting them, and analyzing ...
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2012-02-03
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... prospective customers in the realm of supply chain management (SCM
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2010-11-19
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Mid-market and the SMB segment are the next frontiers and a promised land for all the enterprise vendors, small and large
alike.Still, the willingness of smaller IT departments to go for more sophisticated technology beyond the all-too-common dispersed
islands of information on Excel spreadsheets, Access (...)
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Mid-market and the SMB segment are the next frontiers and a promised land for all the enterprise vendors, small and large
alike.Still, the willing...
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2003-06-07
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Configurability Strategy a Competitive Advantage. Download Free IT Research Reports on the Configurability Strategy. To gain
a competitive advantage, manufacturing companies that sell complex products are implementing a configurability strategy that
provides more options using fewer resources. Learn about (...)
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Configurability Strategy a Competitive Advantage. Download Free IT Research Reports on the Configurability Strategy. To gain
a competitive advantag...
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2010-03-11
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The Advanced Sourcing & Negotiation Benchmark Report. Download Technology Research Reports about The Advanced Sourcing
& Negotiation Benchmark. The wave of e-sourcing that began a decade ago resembled a “crash diet:” it had an immediate
and noticeable effect on enterprises. Today’s challenge (...)
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The Advanced Sourcing & Negotiation Benchmark Report. Download Technology Research Reports about The Advanced Sourcing
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2010-03-11
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Six Sigma Quality is a popular approach to process improvement, particularly among technology driven companies such as Allied
Signal, General Electric, Kodak and Texas Instruments. Its objective is to reduce output variability through process improvement,
and/or to increase customer specification limits (...)
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Question: When is Six Sigma not Six Sigma? Answer: When it's the Six Sigma Metric!!©. Arthur M. Schneiderman - June 13,
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2000-06-13
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... Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management ... as customer
relationship management, supply chain management, risk ... uncertainty,
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2011-09-08
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Industry Perspectives: Strategic Workforce Management in the Automotive Industry. Read White Papers or Case Studies In Relation
To Strategic Workforce Management in the Automotive Industry. There’s a buzz in the automotive industry around the concept
of “strategic workforce management”—getting the (...)
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Industry Perspectives: Strategic Workforce Management in the Automotive Industry. Read White Papers or Case Studies In Relation
To Strategic Workfo...
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2010-03-11
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The software as a service (SaaS) delivery model is here to stay, and most vendors have noticed. Recently, the endorsement
for SaaS in the realm of manufacturing enterprise resource planning has come from a veteran vendor and SaaS pioneer. (...)
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The software as a service (SaaS) delivery model is here to stay, and most vendors have noticed. Recently, the endorsement
for SaaS in the realm of...
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2007-12-14
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The software as a service (SaaS) delivery model is here to stay, and most vendors have noticed. Recently, the endorsement
for SaaS in the realm of manufacturing enterprise resource planning has come from a veteran vendor and SaaS pioneer. (...)
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The software as a service (SaaS) delivery model is here to stay, and most vendors have noticed. Recently, the endorsement
for SaaS in the realm of...
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2007-12-14
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Top 10 PLM Pitfalls To Avoid. Get Free Knowledge and Other Software to Define Your Assessment According To 10 PLM Pitfalls
To Avoid. Product lifecycle management (PLM) implementation strategies are in many cases unique from company to company. However,
it is not uncommon for companies to encounter some of (...)
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Top 10 PLM Pitfalls To Avoid. Get Free Knowledge and Other Software to Define Your Assessment According To 10 PLM Pitfalls
To Avoid. Product lifecy...
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2010-03-11
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In the food and beverage industry, the channel master makes final volume decisions and mostly controls the unit price, with
the manufacturer having limited power to increase or maintain prices. The only real variable the manufacturer does control
is cost. (...)
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In the food and beverage industry, the channel master makes final volume decisions and mostly controls the unit price, with
the manufacturer havin...
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2006-11-01
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... com is the first cloud company to exceed US$2.1.billion run rate and over ...
all you can eat” arrangements have been the province of old-school vendors, which ...
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2011-10-05