Value Chain Management

WHITE PAPER: The connected customer is changing the way you must conduct business. In order to comply with your customers' demands, you must change the way your products are sourced, manufactured and distributed. Smarter commerce enables this, allowing you to transform how quickly you can manage and adapt your source, market, sell and service processes.

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 | Published: 16 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how when deployed as a virtual application over the cloud and streamlined by mobile and social technologies, next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems create an integrated decision-making environment that will enable manufacturers to operate in real time over an intelligent value chain.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides concrete guidance and a detailed example of how clients can gain measurable business benefit through iterative business process improvement enabled by an SAP applications platform.

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 | Published: 12 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Despite the significant progress made with open standards in the industry, most SOA platforms are delivered with many proprietary, closed extensions that focus on customer lock-in more than automation of the value chain. Red Hat believes there is a better way. We redefine SOA to be simple, open, and affordable.

Posted: 20 Jul 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2008

WHITE PAPER: Business process management provides a new management discipline, a new suite of software technologies and tools, and a new IT implementation style based on concrete links between strategy and execution. This white paper explains SAP's place in the BPM landscape and describes its new offering in that arena, NetWeaver BPM.

Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: This Report is intended to map the journey companies are making to build demand driven Value Chains. It includes a four-stage maturity model, and identifies the projects and appropriate technology components needed to transition through each stage.

Posted: 18 Sep 2008 | Published: 18 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the best practices essential for effective value chain analysis during an enterprise level SOA initiative.

Posted: 29 Oct 2007 | Published: 01 Mar 2007

WHITE PAPER: Organizations are struggling to derive more and better business value from their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations. Read this paper to learn how to evaluate your ERP landscapes to better align IT with business goals.

Posted: 04 Jun 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2006

WHITE PAPER: Learn what it means to be lean across all departmental functions, how an organization can position itself to achieve lean business practices supply chain wide, as well as critical elements each line manager needs to consider to support lean principles.

Posted: 26 Feb 2007 | Published: 01 Feb 2007