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Filling the Gaps: Managing Parts Shortages Inside the Execution Window

E2open

If we can’t predict or prevent parts shortages, what can we do to more intelligently manage and resolve them? Instead of re-planning, make your original plans work with assets you already have in motion.…
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Collaborative Execution: Speed, innovation and profitability

SCM World

What does collaboration really mean? What are the barriers to and supposed benefits of good collaboration? SCM World interviewed 374 supply chain, sourcing, and operations executives to uncover the truth.…
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Don’t Let Your Supply Chain Control Your Business

December 30, 2011 | Harvard Business Review

Manufacturers are delegating too much power to top-tier suppliers, undermining their own ability to innovate, cut costs, and manage risk. A heavy reliance on first-tier suppliers is dangerous for OEMs. It weakens their control over costs, reduces their ability to stay on top of technology developments and shifts in demand, and makes it difficult to ensure that their suppliers are operating in a socially and environmentally sustainable fashion. The remedy is for OEMs to forge direct relationships with a select number of lower-tier suppliers, and this article explains how to do just that. (This is a reprint of the December 2011 Harvard Business Review article written by Thomas Choi, professor at Arizona State University’s W.P. Carey School of Business, and Tom Linton, SVP and CPO at Flextronics.) View Now »
Real-Time S&OP: Working to Make the Plan, Then Making the Plan Work

December 21, 2011 | E2open

What really makes a sales and operations planning (S&OP) process successful? This white paper outlines the business processes and technologies that supply chain organizations need for world-class S&OP. It highlights how to obtain the necessary information inputs to produce, communicate, align, and execute complex supply chain plans, plus how to sense and resolve disruptions as they occur in the extended business network. View Now »
Agility Is More Than a Supply Chain Design Strategy

November 11, 2011 | Gartner Inc.

Increased market volatility and demand variability have made the need for supply chain agility undeniable. Natural catastrophes and man-made events have only increased the urgency for agility as part of supply chain resiliency strategies that help mitigate and recover from the effects of disruptions. But what is agility, and how is it different from responsiveness? View Now »
Collaborative Execution: Closing the Loop on Supply Chain Planning and Execution

October 31, 2011 | Aberdeen Group

This Aberdeen Group research shows that companies with closed-loop integration between supply chain planning and execution deliver significant advantages in both supply-side and demand-side processes. Download your copy today, and learn how leading companies are embracing the complexities of the multi-tier supply chain to deliver superior performance results. View Now »
Don’t Re-Plan, Just Execute: Making Supply Chain Plans Work with Collaborative Execution

September 1, 2011 | E2open

We plan in an atmosphere of volatility and uncertainty, with data that is often incomplete and untimely. We then release our plans into a dynamic and unpredictable world that has already moved away from our embedded assumptions. This white paper compares two approaches to answering the questions, "How do we execute supply chain plans once they are made, and how do we respond to the exceptions that inevitably arise when our plans meet reality?"
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Multitier Supply Chain Visibility Improves Supply Chain Relationships and Reduces Risk

August 12, 2011 | Gartner Inc.

Only when companies are faced with an availability or lead-time crisis, or when they're dealing with a significant, upstream supply chain risk, do they think about multitier supply chain visibility (MTSCV). Supply chain leaders, however, don't wait for a crisis to happen to account for the upstream status they need from each tier in their supply networks. In this research, learn how leading organizations are undertaking collaborative initiatives with their suppliers and technology providers to obtain near-real-time visibility for functional stakeholders. View Now »
Vendor Managed Inventory: A Win-Win Proposition

July 8, 2011 | E2open

The increased risks and pressures of today's outsourced global supply chains are driving renewed interest in vendor managed inventory programs, which aim to reduce costs and improve customer service levels. This white paper describes the basics of VMI and helps you determine whether or not your organization would benefit from a VMI program. It also offers a checklist outlining what it takes to set up and maintain a successful VMI program - and how to avoid potential pitfalls. View Now »
Supply Chain in the Cloud: A Primer for Networked Trading Communities

June 3, 2011 | E2open

Most of us use cloud applications every day and just don’t think about it: on-demand movies, Google Docs, online banking, WebEx. But in the world of business applications, people are still concerned that this is just marketing hype and wonder if it’s really secure and reliable. Fear of the unfamiliar, fear of unknown vendors, and fear of an unstable economy are probably the biggest factors standing in the way of broader adoption. This white paper presents E2open’s unique, flexible cloud computing approach to multi-enterprise supply chain management and demonstrates the business and IT benefits companies can realize quickly with a cloud solution. View Now »
The Chief Supply Chain Officer Report 2011

May 24, 2011 | SCM World and E2open

Based on a survey of more than 750 senior supply chain professionals, the Chief Supply Chain Officer Report 2011 highlights the priorities and strategies supply chain executives are undertaking in 2011 and beyond, and uncovers how companies are positioning their supply chain organizations to deliver growth.

The 2011 CSCO Report is a collaboration between Dr. Hau Lee, the Thoma Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Chairman, SCM World, and Kevin O’Marah, Faculty Member, SCM World. It includes an executive summary by Pier Luigi Sigismondi, Chief Supply Chain Officer at Unilever. View Now »
Order Out of Chaos: The Case for Building a Supply Chain Control Tower

May 5, 2011 | E2open

The extended nature of today's trading partner networks requires a more agile, flexible control structure to provide a centralized view of supply chain operations while enabling faster response to frequent change.
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