IS YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN READY TO ENABLE PROFITABLE GROWTH AND HIGH PERFORMANCE? By John Matchette, Accenture Hans von Lewinski, Accenture - London Growth is clearly back on the executive agenda. Yet executives increasingly find that growing profitably is extremely challenging due to the complexity and volatility characteristic of today’s business environment. Further complicating matters is the fact that, after several years of intense focus on cost reduction, most companies’ supply chains are operationally efficient but are not tuned to support growth. As companies pursue profitable growth, they will have to move past operational efficiency – largely table stakes in today’s environment – to construct a growth-enabling supply chain that is information rich and technologically robust, highly flexible, tightly integrated and organized and measured to address the needs and preferences of highly dynamic customers. In short, a company’s supply chain will spell the difference between success or failure in its chosen markets.

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CREATING OPERATING SOLUTIONS THROUGH REAL ESTATE ASSET STRATEGY ACROSS THE SUPPLY CHAIN In today’s rapidly evolving and competitive business environment, corporate America is looking at its industrial real estate in a whole new way.

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Pilot Provides Process to Improve Performance: PilotWorks 2006 advances operational performance management
Mark Smith, Ventana Research

SUPPLY CHAIN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE   ClearMomentum is your resource for Supply Chain Business solutions. Companies that compete in Distribution, Service and Manufacturing industries can rely on ClearMomentum to help improve free cash flow and profit. ClearMomentum delivers cutting edge strategies that uncover value, and, create more profit without necessarily going to the bank or shareholders for additional capital.

Elusive Integration: Linking Sales and Operations Planning
Effective sales and operations planning requires intensified levels of collaboration, trust and data integration. Fostering a commitment to relationship building, shared incentives and accountability can help.

Interview: Oracle senior vice president Sonny Singh foresees an open-link, high-visibility supply chain network revolution.
Sonny Singh, Oracle Corporation

Case Study: First Industrial and Mary Kay Inc.
When one of the world’s largest and most admired cosmetics companies needed a distribution center to accommodate growth, it sought a facility whose aesthetics and build-quality were consistent with its world-class image.

SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZATION FOR RETAILERS AND SUPPLIERS   4R Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of software tools, analytical models and information services that help retailers and manufacturers significantly increase profits by optimizing their inventory and related supply chain decisions.

Radio frequency identification is an emergent player in the business environment. Enterprises can achieve significant business value by utilizing RFID – or be left behind in the RFID revolution.
BEYOND FULFILLMENT: THE BUSINESS CASE FOR RFID

Supply Chain Strategy Supply chain strategies, including optimization, integration, automation, and implementation.
Planning and Forecasting Understanding customer buying patterns and developing aggregate, collaborative forecasts. Demand planning feeds into the supply planning process, and subsequently the demand fulfillment process. Long-term, intermediate-term and short-term time horizons are considered in the demand planning process.
Logistics Logistic functions.

E-Commerce: Its Impact on Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management
The transportation and logistics industries have only intermittently applied B2B e-commerce to their practices. Transportation carriers have had a great deal of trouble utilizing e-commerce solutions to fulfill customer supply chain expectations.
ASCET - Supply ChainVolume 2, 4/15/2000