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Supply Chain Management

ALSO CALLED: Supply-Chain Management, Supply Chain Optimization, Supply Chain Planning, SCM, Managing Supply Chain, and 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  … 
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Footprint: Warehouse Management System WMS
sponsored by Datex Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Datex FootPrint WMS is a full-featured Warehouse Management System developed to automate any and all of the operations and tasks within a warehouse.
Posted: 23 Jul 2008 | Published: 21 Jul 2008
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Driving Business Agility via a Software Supply Chain
sponsored by Black Duck Software
WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this white paper is to lay out software development "supply chain" strategies, to nurture community culture, and to discuss techniques to improve code usage as software creation evolves toward greater complexity.
Posted: 22 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Product Management - Big Fish, Small Pond or Small Fish, Big Pond
sponsored by ZIGZAG Marketing, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Many companies try to be everything to everyone and this mentality inhibits their growth. Learn how to always be a big fish in the pond by redefining the size of your pond as you grow.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Product Demos - Problem Discovery & Product Objections
sponsored by ZIGZAG Marketing, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: When demonstrating products, the single biggest factor to overcoming sales objections is to understand early in the sales cycle the connection between your value proposition and the pain points at the executive levels of the prospect's organization.
Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Automating Complete PO Document Packages
sponsored by Esker Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Esker DeliveryWare offers a comprehensive solution that streamlines document processes by eliminating inefficient steps, automating information exchange regardless of source or delivery type.
Posted: 03 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Optimizing the Quality and Performance of SAP Applications
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes how HP and SAP can optimize the application lifecycle for our mutual customers.
Posted: 02 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
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Enable Project-Centric Manufacturing with Business Software
sponsored by IFS
WHITE PAPER: Project-centric manufacturing business models that involve outsourcing and short product lifecycles expose manufacturers to a number of risks they were not vulnerable to previously.
Posted: 01 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
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Empowering Store Managers
sponsored by Wipro Technologies
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses profiles a tool that enables the convergence of various systems across the supply chain and provides a simplistic but holistic view that will empower the Store Managers in proactive decision making.
Posted: 27 Jun 2008 | Published: 26 Jun 2008
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RFID and the Mainstream Supply Chain: Seven Steps to RFID Sanity
sponsored by Quest Solution
WHITE PAPER: This white paper outlines the keys to investigating RFID in your supply chain applications, differentiators for RFID tags and steps to test tags in your unique applications.
Posted: 27 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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Managing Imports in an ERP System
sponsored by Xperia
WHITE PAPER: Managing imports is more complex, difficult, and error-prone than it initially appears. This white paper explains three points for inventory managers to consider.
Posted: 19 Jun 2008 | Published: 19 Jun 2008
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT DEFINITION (continued): …  that the ultimate goal of any effective supply chain management system is to reduce inventory (with 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:



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