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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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Supply Chain Management White Papers (View All Report Types)
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What’s Under the Hood? Five Secrets of Successful Automotive Manufacturers
sponsored by Infor
WHITE PAPER: Every company in the automotive market has run up against an array of difficult challenges. However, such challenges are addressable. This paper will show how industry leaders are prospering and will outline five key factors that differentiate them from industry laggards.
Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 04 Dec 2009


Managing Change Effectively with ERP: The Impact On 5 Key Business Functions
sponsored by Infor
WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the impact of using disparate systems versus an integrated ERP system on your manufacturing operations. The detailed charts on the following pages provide insight into how the inefficiencies associated with change management today can be easily and cost-effectively eliminated.
Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 04 Dec 2009


The Six Hidden Costs of Reverse Logistics
sponsored by TAKE Supply Chain
WHITE PAPER: For many companies reverse logistics is the last frontier of waste in today's supply chain. To help identify where poorly managed returns may be affecting your bottom line, this paper takes a look at the six hidden costs of reverse logistics.
Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 2009


Returns Management Process: Software Maturity Model
sponsored by TAKE Supply Chain
WHITE PAPER: This paper is designed to provide a blueprint for evaluating software solutions that have the potential to assist organizations in meeting their returns objectives. This model can also serve as a useful tool in objectively identifying compelling yet rudimentary products.
Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 2009


Closing the Gap with ERP EWM: Yard Management and Cross Docking
sponsored by CDC Global Services - Catalyst
WHITE PAPER: This white paper is designed to give warehouse operations and IT managers an understanding of the capabilities of SAP's ERP Yard Management and Cross-Docking solutions. Introduced with Release 4.7 extension set 2.0, SAP continues to improve its Logistics offering, while minimizing the gap between Best-of-Breed software solutions.
Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009


Task and Resource Management - Optimizing Your Warehouse Operations with SAP® R/3® TRM
sponsored by CDC Global Services - Catalyst
WHITE PAPER: This white paper is designed to give warehouse operations managers and IT managers a useful framework for understanding SAP's Task and Resource Management (TRM) application. It presents an overview of TRM and its unique capabilities and benefits to provide key insight into which organizations will reap the highest value from TRM.
Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009


Optimize Your SAP Applications and Maximize Your Return on Investment
sponsored by CDC Global Services - Catalyst
WHITE PAPER: Companies do not always know what technologies or processes exist that can help them achieve their desired improvements. Read this paper to learn how Catalyst Logistics Assessment for SAP, makes it easy and affordable to identify specific areas where they can improve.
Posted: 12 Nov 2009 | Published: 12 Nov 2009


Using Supply Chain Performance Management Strategically
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: Paralleling the explosion in materiel sourcing over the past decade, corporate supply chains have grown strikingly more complex because of a greater amount of outsourcing, increased globalization and a more complex regulatory environment.
Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 05 Nov 2009


Spend Performance Management - Maximize Savings, Reduce Supplier Risks
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: The SAP BusinessObjects Spend Performance Management application provides full visibility into direct and indirect spend, and helps companies proactively identify cost savings opportunities and supply risks, reduce costs, maintain supply continuity, and increase spend under management.
Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 05 Nov 2009


Manage the Supply Network: Ensuring Efficient, Effective Supply Chain Operations
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER: To succeed, you need to optimally manage the entire scope of your supply chain network. The SAP® Business ByDesign™ solution helps you ensure efficient and effective supply chain operations and increase transparency and visibility throughout – and control over – your entire supply chain network.
Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009


Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies
sponsored by SAP AG
WHITE PAPER: Maintain operational efficiency while cutting supply chain costs with new approaches, technologies, and methodologies. Third party logistics providers, radio frequency identification rentals, and attribute-based demand planning can help you reduce supply chain costs and boost customer satisfaction.
Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009


Streamlining the Collection of Shipping, Manufacturing and Warehouse Data with Gemini for SAP®
sponsored by TAKE Supply Chain
WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how Gemini for SAP®, from TAKE Supply Chain, allows manufacturing and distribution personnel to perform complex transactions and data entry. Read on to learn how streamlining the collection of shipping, manufacturing, and warehouse data can greatly reduce errors and increase visibility and profitability.
Posted: 14 Oct 2009 | Published: 14 Oct 2009


The Three Pillars of Effective Returns Management: Visibility, Automation and Reconciliation
sponsored by TAKE Supply Chain
WHITE PAPER: Returns management is an area that poses incredible challenges and opportunities for businesses. This paper will act as a guide to help you implement more effective returns management. Read on to learn more about the three pillars of effective returns management and how they can be used to drive significant costs out of returns lifecycle.
Posted: 14 Oct 2009 | Published: 14 Oct 2009


Driving Costs Out and Efficiency In with Enterprise Barcode and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) Label Management
sponsored by TAKE Supply Chain
WHITE PAPER: In this paper you will learn how TAKE Supply Chain has developed a scalable, rules-based barcode label and RFID print management platform that allows business users — not IT programmers — to effectively administer tagging output and compliance programs, which can increase efficiency while decreasing costs with RFID label management.
Posted: 14 Oct 2009 | Published: 14 Oct 2009


Management Excellence: Leveraging Technology and Techniques
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: One in a series of white papers about management excellence, this white paper describes the techniques and technologies that organizations should master on their way to management excellence.
Posted: 13 Oct 2009 | Published: 13 Oct 2009


Beyond Survival: Thriving Through the Turbulence: BI in the Retail Industry
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: Find out how retail organizations are improving the bottom line, by focusing on key tactics designed to facilitate low cost, efficient, customer-centric operations, all of which require integrated enterprise information and analysis capabilities found in business intelligence (BI) environments.
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009


Value-Driven Healthcare: Transforming the Environment with Business Intelligence
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: Find out why the benefits from applying business intelligence (BI) in the healthcare environment are tremendous. Learn how leveraging the wealth of information to understand patients and physicians, to monitor operational performance, and to anticipate the need for action or change are strong incentives for adopting BI.
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009


Leveraging A Demand-Driven Manufacturing Model To Enhance Profitability
sponsored by SYSPRO
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the fundamentals for successful demand-driven fulfillment manufacturing, including optimal channel and customer relationships, informed online buying and selling, flexible product configuration and order fulfillment and integrated operational infrastructures.
Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009


Catalyst XPS - The Solution for Cross-Carrier Small Parcel Shipping From the SAP® Environment
sponsored by CDC Global Services - Catalyst
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will discuss Catalyst XPS, a tool that can integrate information from all the major small parcel carriers into one view, fully integrated with SAP. Catalyst XPS can save customers money and improve customer service, without creating an additional maintenance burden on their internal IT team.
Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Sep 2009


Ensuring Reliable Inbound Supply Integration
sponsored by Sterling Commerce
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will enumerate the critical business challenges, as well as specific opportunities and benefits of working aggressively to achieve inbound supply integration.
Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 14 Sep 2009


Eliminating Waste in Supply Chain Network Collaboration
sponsored by Sterling Commerce
WHITE PAPER: The focus of this white paper is to highlight how IT can support the kind of agile, rapid response that is needed to drive out costs and delays in their company's business collaboration networks.
Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 11 Sep 2009


Microsoft Dynamics RoleTailored Business Productivity: "Software Designed for Your People"
sponsored by Microsoft
WHITE PAPER: By automating and streamlining financial, customer relationship and supply chain processes, Microsoft Dynamics brings together people, processes and technologies, increasing the productivity and effectiveness of the business, and helping drive business success. Explore the Microsoft Dynamics Customer Model and how it's reflected in this software.
Posted: 18 Aug 2009 | Published: 18 Aug 2009


Reverse Logistics Management-- An Effective Strategy for Revenue Maximization in CPG Industry
sponsored by Wipro Technologies
WHITE PAPER: This paper presents an overview and introduction to reverse logistics and how to manage reverse logistics in the CPG industry in an efficient manner.
Posted: 27 Jul 2009 | Published: 27 Jul 2009


Painting the CPG Supply Chain GREEN
sponsored by Wipro Technologies
WHITE PAPER: This paper offers a solution for businesses to achieve balance between profitability and sustainability by leveraging the platform of packaged implementations.
Posted: 27 Jul 2009 | Published: 27 Jul 2009


A Platform Approach To Manufacturing Operations Management
sponsored by Apriso Corporation
WHITE PAPER: From a manufacturing executive's perspective, focusing on an open and flexible Manufacturing Operations Management platform creates a competitive weapon. This research provides a roadmap for creating such a platform in a cost effective way that still delivers benefits, such as higher levels of profitability.
Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009

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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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