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ALSO CALLED: Supply-Chain Management, Supply Chain Optimization, Supply Chain Planning, SCM, Managing Supply Chain, Supply Chain Logistics
DEFINITION: Supply chain management (SCM) is the oversight of materials, information, and finances as they move in a process from supplier to manufacturer to wholesaler to retailer to consumer. Supply chain management involves coordinating and integrating these flows both within and among companies. It is said that the ultimate goal of any effective supply chain management system is to reduce inventory (with  … 
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Become a More Demand-Driven Organization
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Today’s global supply chains are marked by lack of visibility and long decision-making times that make it difficult to plan and execute with the speed and precision required by today's volatile markets. This paper explains how to establish a highly collaborative, demand-driven planning process that will help you overcome these modern challenges.
Posted: 06 Feb 2012 | Published: 06 Feb 2012

SAP America, Inc.

International Transportation Management Benchmark Study:Winners See Strategic Value of Visibility
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This third annual study examines how successful firms are managing international transportation and emerging trends in the industry.
Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

SAP America, Inc.

Export Operations & Compliance Benchmark Report: Going Global With Regulatory Reform
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This benchmark study from American Shipper covers U.S. export operations and compliance of more than 300 U.S. based exporters.
Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

SAP America, Inc.

The Five Keys to Manufacturing Success
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines clear strategies that can help manufacturers achieve competitive advantage while giving clients the innovative, competitively priced products they demand.
Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

SAP America, Inc.

Three Steps To Strategic Planning Excellence In Wholesale Distribution Companies
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines a set of core analytics customized for wholesaler-distributors.
Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

SAP America, Inc.

MPI Group: The Informed Manufacturer — Tips, Tricks and Tactics for High-Tech Manufacturers
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: For high-tech manufacturers, even a brief delay in design, production, or distribution can severely limit sales and profitability. With so much at risk, speed and accuracy are imperative. Read this white paper to learn what practices, processes and systems will keep your high-tech manufacturing organization on the cutting edge.
Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

SAP America, Inc.

The Idea to Delivery Framework: A Holistic Approach to Deliver Customer Value
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Idea-to-delivery is an approach to delivering customer value that takes into account today's highly volatile, regulated, globally interconnected, and trading partner-dependent business environment. In this paper, find an action plan with the evolutionary steps companies can take today to move toward this new approach.
Posted: 01 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012

SAP America, Inc.

Taking Control:Improved Inventory Visibility Leads to Lean Success
sponsored by Plex Systems
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a comprehensive look into inventory inside the manufacturing plant - everything from inventory, to receipt of material, to finished products. Learn how to  take control of your inventory and supply chain to achieve lean manufacturing and increased efficiency and profitability.
Posted: 01 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012

Plex Systems

3 Questions to Ensure You’re Collaborating Effectively Across Your Supply Chain
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: To drive market share, sales, product adoption and greater efficiency, many businesses are strategically partnering with suppliers and other supply chain participants to collaborate and share information. In this white paper, find answers to three of the top concerns for organizations developing these collaborative supply chain networks.
Posted: 31 Jan 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

SAP America, Inc.

Driving Sustained Improvements with Supply Chain Metrics and Analytics
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Managing today's complex, volatile, global supply chains requires the right set of performance metrics as well as the insight into risks and opportunities that analytics provides. Read this paper to learn how to use the widely-accepted SCOR framework to assess and improve your organization's supply chain performance management.
Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Published: 30 Jan 2012

SAP America, Inc.

From Idea to Delivery: Take a Holistic, End-to-End Approach to Bringing Products to Market
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Many organizations still struggle with siloed operations for lack of a clear path to collaboration. But with the right IT strategy and organizational change, a company can enable collaboration beyond its four walls and extend out to suppliers, customers, and partners, integrating all processes from idea to delivery. Read this paper to learn more.
Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Published: 30 Jan 2012

SAP America, Inc.

Becoming Customer Driven - Enabling Distributed B2B Order Management
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This brief white paper focuses on the unique order management of B2B commerce, outlining the requirements for distributed order management as a new business requirement and sharing the experiences of Dal-Tile as they implement an end-to-end distributed order management solution from IBM.
Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Published: 30 Jan 2012

IBM

Sell. Smarter. Thriving in the age of the empowered customer
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Read this brief white paper and learn about some smarter commerce technologies available from IBM, including cross-channel selling, distributed order management, customer integration and collaboration and much more! You also will gain insight into different supply chain management platforms that IBM has to offer.
Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Published: 30 Jan 2012

IBM

Beyond EDI: How a Smart Invoice Network Reorders P2P to Drive Global e-Invoicing and Collaboration with All Suppliers
sponsored by Ariba, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn best practices for automating workflow and AP to increase accuracy, overall business efficiency, and decrease costs to improve your AP operations.
Posted: 10 Jan 2012 | Published: 10 Jan 2012

Ariba, Inc.

Usability and Compliance: The Carrots and Sticks that Drive E-Procurement Success
sponsored by Simplifying-IT
WHITE PAPER: Enhancing usability is the key to getting beyond tacit user acceptance of an e-Procurement system to the full adoption and compliance that yields cost reduction and full ROI. Read this paper to learn the full compliance strategies that best-in-class organizations are using for their e-Procurement implementations.
Posted: 09 Jan 2012 | Published: 09 Jan 2012


New User Interface for SAP MM Provides Compelling Alternative to SRM
sponsored by Simplifying-IT
WHITE PAPER: This paper evaluates e-Procurement options for SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) customers that are currently using SAP Materials Management (MM) for their procurement processes and want to enhance functionality.
Posted: 09 Jan 2012 | Published: 09 Jan 2012


How to Choose a Distribution System
sponsored by Sage Software
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn best practices for selecting the best distribution strategy and accompanying enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for your organization.
Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

Sage Software

The Link Between Cloud-Based Commerce and ERP Value
sponsored by Ariba, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for an overview of how the cloud enables greater collaboration, transparency and efficiency among hundreds of thousands of trading partners on a global scale. Discover how companies of all sizes can benefit from the effects that cloud computing has on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
Posted: 27 Dec 2011 | Published: 27 Dec 2011

Ariba, Inc.

Collaborative Sourcing: The Keys to Unlocking Greater Value
sponsored by Ariba, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This report looks at how a collaborative sourcing approach can help sourcing teams deliver greater value to the enterprise.
Posted: 27 Dec 2011 | Published: 27 Dec 2011

Ariba, Inc.

Increase Value of Operations Through Purchase-To-Pay
sponsored by Ariba, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: In this paper, discover how performance metrics for P2P’s newly enhanced capabilities can evolve to formally codify the value of the function to enterprise goals such as customer satisfaction or working capital performance.
Posted: 27 Dec 2011 | Published: 27 Dec 2011

Ariba, Inc.

Is the Future of Business Commerce in Social Media?
sponsored by Ariba, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: In this paper, explore a compilation of articles addressing supply chain management, social media in a business environment, and how to leverage the cloud to boost sales and drive customer satisfaction.
Posted: 27 Dec 2011 | Published: 27 Dec 2011

Ariba, Inc.

Executive Brief Smarter Commerce is redefining value chain visibility
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Putting the customer at the center of your operations is not a new idea, but truly operationalizing this strategy can be challenging. Read this paper to find out how to improve collaboration and visibility for your customers and partners and deliver consistent and predictable outcomes by synchronizing your entire value chain.
Posted: 17 Nov 2011 | Published: 17 Nov 2011

IBM

Executive Brief Digital Transformation: Creating New Business Models Where Digital Meets Physical
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: As businesses embrace the digital revolution, they're rethinking what customers value most and creating operating models that take advantage of what’s newly possible for competitive differentiation. This report is designed to provide senior executives with analysis and insight on how fast and how far to go on the path to digital transformation.
Posted: 17 Nov 2011 | Published: 17 Nov 2011

IBM

Top 5 Tips For Evaluating And Selecting Warehouse Management Software
sponsored by HighJump Software
WHITE PAPER: This report will reveal five secrets you should know before you purchase a WMS. They will help guide your evaluation and selection processes in a way that best benefits your business, your customers and your long-term success and competitive advantage.
Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

HighJump Software

Comparing ERP And WMS Approaches For Effective Warehouse Management Operations
sponsored by HighJump Software
WHITE PAPER: The effective management of your warehouse and fulfillment/distribution operations is critical to the ongoing success of your business—but you’re unsure whether to select your ERP’s warehouse module or a best-of-breed warehouse management system (WMS). This paper will help determine which type of solution is the best fit for your business.
Posted: 15 Nov 2011 | Published: 15 Nov 2011

HighJump Software
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT DEFINITION (continued): …  the assumption that products are available when needed). As a solution for successful supply chain management, sophisticated software systems with Web interfaces are competing with Web-based application service providers (ASP) who promise to provide part or all of the SCM service for companies who rent their service.Supply chain management flows can be divided into three main flows:The product flowThe information flowThe finances flowThe product flow includes the movement of goods from a supplier to a customer, as well as any customer returns or service needs. The information flow involves transmitting … 
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