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"tag:scm"
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The SCM Professor interviewed BitLogistics
Steve Brady, at the The Professor Notes, interviewed Ken Lyon and Jean-Baptiste Perrin about supply chain visibility and the Software as a Service (SaaS) approach adopted by VisibleLogistics. |
26-Jan-2009 |
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BitBytes: And they just keep getting bigger and bigger!
The increasing size of ships reduces the number of ports that can handle them. The concentration of risk for the cargo insurers also raises some interesting questions, and calls for innovative solutions. |
26-Jan-2009 |
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BitBytes: Get the data - Use the data
Developing a strategy for global supply chain visibility should be a key component of the long-term strategy for the global supply chain. Although tracking supply chain events is essential, the long-term goal should be to turn the visibility information ... |
07-Jan-2009 |
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BitBytes: Reacting quickly to unexpected events
The ability to react quickly to the unexpected is probably more valuable than trying to forecast the future. But this requires a collaborative mindset and operational flexibility and good communications. |
05-Jan-2009 |
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Business networking software
Social networking software, such as Facebook, implement social applications using a network of 'contacts' or 'friends' - a kind of distributed address book. This turns out to have key advantages, not least of which is the fact that managing your own ... |
07-Dec-2007 |
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Supply Chain Initiatives Require an Iterative Approach
In a world where things are getting smaller, why are big IT projects still getting approved? |
17-Nov-2007 |
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Simple trust, simple truth
The key determinant is trust. Developing trust can only be done in stages and is established, over time, by starting with simple tasks. This certainly goes against the prevailing opinion held by many of the supply chain software vendors. They hold that ... |
11-Oct-2007 |
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SAP's New Business Model - Designed for an On-Demand world
The announcement last week by SAP of their new Business ByDesign solution is very significant and I thought I'd spend some time explaining why this will be important. |
27-Sep-2007 |
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Sustainable competitive advantage
If we accept that the central nervous system orchestrates and manages all of the necessary operations in the human body, we need a counterpart for a collaborative supply chain community. In order to do this what features would such a mechanism need? In ... |
21-Sep-2007 |
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The collaborative nervous system
Many supply chain management solutions are still only focussed on a specific activity, such as improving the planning process, or highlighting unplanned 'events' or 'exceptions'. They are still usually deployed as 'point' solutions in specific instances; ... |
13-Sep-2007 |
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Obliterated agility
In many companies the genesis of supply chain collaboration was the introduction of Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP systems. Assuming the organisation was wealthy and healthy enough to stand the pain of the implementation, it emerged with tightly ... |
06-Sep-2007 |
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The supply chain cultural shift
Supply chain management (SCM) as a topic of conversation comes close to being the fastest way to induce narcolepsy. It is very difficult to explain precisely what supply chain management is, aside from various 'woolly' definitions about the science of ... |
24-Aug-2007 |