Supply Chains

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

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

WEBCAST: This webcast discusses a new method for dealing with part nonconformance. Additionally, this webcast will present a demonstration of software that will was created to deal with part nonconformance that can reduce costs and save time for any organization.

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 16 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: In this webcast you'll learn about the seven best practice strategies that your company needs to transform your reverse logistics into a value-added process. You will also gain a fresh perspective on developing the practices and methods needed to recapture value from returned items, protecting your brand’s integrity, and more!

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 16 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: This webcast explores the emerging paradigm for fixed asset management -- including new approaches and technologies for tracking the logical and physical deployment of fixed assets within the enterprise to extend asset life, improve utilization, and squeeze every dollar out of a company’s investment in equipment and facilities.

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 16 Nov 2009

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

ANALYST REPORT: This report takes a close look at the capabilities of the software vendors that are addressing the Global Trade Management (GTM) market and summarizes their functionality and ability to address the different kinds of risk in the global supply chain.

Posted: 05 Nov 2009 | Published: 05 Nov 2009

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

CASE STUDY: ConAgra Foods, Inc. is one of North America's largest packaged food companies. With the help of SAP and SmartOps, the company was able to tackle its key challenges in making its supply chain more efficient. Read this case study to learn about the challenges ConAgra faced along with the benefits achieved from implementing SAP and SmartOps solutions.

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

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

EBOOK: It's getting more and more difficult for SAP customers to contain the costs of supply chain management. This eBook looks at the technologies and techniques that SAP customers are using to optimize their sourcing processes and to make their supply chains as efficient as possible.

Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | Published: 18 Sep 2009

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

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

WHITE PAPER: Compiled by SearchManufacturingERP.com editors, this directory includes ERP software products for process and discrete manufacturers of all sizes, as well as all verticals. It includes software that is meant to be deployed on-premise as well as Software as a Service (SaaS) or on-demand software.

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Published: 14 Aug 2009

PODCAST: In this podcast, manufacturing industry analyst, Roddy Martin, explains strategies and best practices for demand-driven manufacturing.

Posted: 11 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 11 Aug 2009

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

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

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

WHITE PAPER: ERP implementations don't have to take months or years. This white paper discusses how Colfax Corp. implemented IFS Applications in as little as nine weeks. It presents a case study of Colfax's complex but rapid rollout, and offers fast tracking tips from Colfax Business Analyst Jay Michael.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper gives four tips to help you bring lean supply chain improvements to your manufacturing operation. Additionally, it discusses six technology tools that help automate these lean supply chain practices.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper looks at the ecological impact of a business's entire IT infrastructure and provides the CIO with a holistic prospective to a business's carbon footprint.

Posted: 18 Feb 2009 | Published: 18 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines how to tap into the potential of your nimbler organization by instituting efficient operations. Learn how to predict and respond quickly to changing market trends and customer demands.

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 26 Jan 2009

BOOK: To avoid a 7.96% increase in logistics costs, companies should follow the roadmap of Best in Class companies, which have been able to reduce costs or keep them flat via supply chain transformation.

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 26 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Business intelligence (BI) can be considered critical to the very existence of most organisations. The purpose of this research was to explore whether and how companies are using BI to improve their businesses; to identify the obstacles they encounter in its use; and predict how BI will evolve in the next ten years.

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 26 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Sourcing and procurement organizations have great potential to reduce costs, contribute to the bottom line, and deliver against enterprise strategic goals.

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 26 Jan 2009