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Supply Chain Management

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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 that the ultimate goal of any effective supply chain management system is to reduce inventory (with  … 
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Recent Vendor Reports on Supply Chain Management
The Technology Strategies for Integrated Business Planning Benchmark Report
sponsored by SAP America Inc
BOOK: Aberdeen research finds that the top 5 pressures for improving S&OP processes are rising customer order fill rate expectations, better return on net assets, shrinking profit margins, customer retention pressures and extended lead-ti...
Posted: 06 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2006
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Supply Chain Collaboration: The Key to Success in a Global Economy
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: Learn how you can transform traditional supply chains from linear, sequential processes into adaptive supply chain networks.
Posted: 06 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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The Unique Requirements of Product Data Quality
sponsored by Silver Creek Systems
WHITE PAPER: TDWI explores traditional approaches to data quality, which focus on well structured data, and shows why these do not work with less structured product data. Read about Product Data's unique requirements and how to address them.
Posted: 23 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
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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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Retail Fashion Market RFID Solutions
sponsored by Motorola, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper explains how Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) provides real-time inventory visibility so you can react quickly to inventory demand and stocking levels, helping ensure that the right product is available for your customers at the right
Posted: 22 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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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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Best Practices for Managing Inventory at the Network Level
sponsored by Epicor Software Corporation
WEBCAST: This webcast covers the benefits of managing inventory at a network level, include mitigating transportation time, costs, and capacity constraints.
Posted: 16 Jul 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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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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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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Inventory Management System IMS: The Ultimate Inventory Management Tool
sponsored by Datex Corporation
DATA SHEET: Datex EX IMS real-time inventory control is a powerful tool and can be combined with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to keep your company in compliance with the latest industry standards.
Posted: 08 Jul 2008 | Published: 08 Jul 2008
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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 flow
  • The information flow
  • The finances flow
The product flow includes the movement of goods from a supplier to a customer, as well as any customer returns … 
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