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Supply Chain Company of the Year

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:54:52 GMT

Chainalytics is a professional services firm that enhances competitive advantage and shareholder value through optimized supply chain strategies. Chainalytics' fact-based decision making approach improves and innovates our clients' strategies and tactics with particular emphasis on supply chain design, transportation strategies, inventory strategies, and product and customer portfolio planning. Offered as both project-based and managed services, this approach is achieved via a unique combination of domain expertise, resilient methodologies, and exclusive research and content - all supported by the world's most advanced decision sciences tools and techniques. Chainalytics targets enterprises with a high degree of complexity created by their unique combinations of scale, change and geography. With offices in North America and Asia, Chainalytics serves companies globally in a borderless fashion. Learn more at www.chainalytics.com.

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Purchasing uses cross functional teams to source

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:56:55 GMT

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Cross-functional teams are not new: Purchasing operations at world-class companies have been leading teams of people representing different functions—human resources (HR), finance, engineering—to source direct and indirect spend categories for decades. But there are signs that cross-functional teams led by purchasing pros have come into their own and have become fully ingrained in the corporate culture. A few notable examples:

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Inventory planning and inventory optimization solution

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:46:16 GMT

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BOSTON, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Optiant, the premier provider of inventory planning and inventory optimization solutions, announces enhanced capabilities for the PowerChain software suite, now Version 6.2, that decrease the cost and time for deployment and increase performance. Other enhancements increase security by requiring authentication, improve configuration management with historical audit trails in order to associate users with changes, and improve administrative functions such as allowing system administrators to see who is currently logged in and using each module. Having the ability to determine who changed configuration settings and when they changed enhances user accountability and traceability, which are quickly becoming major requirements of supply chain systems.

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Supply Chain Top 25 for 2009

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:05:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.amrresearch.com

Since 1986 AMR Research has studied and fostered the revolution in supply chain as a professional discipline and as a competitive weapon for companies in the post-industrial economy. The governing principle of this emerging discipline is something we call demand driven, which means global supply chains built to serve customers with both operational and innovation excellence. Our annual Supply Chain Top 25 identifies those Fortune Global 500 companies that have best demonstrated leadership in applying this principle to drive business results.

2009 marks our fifth year publishing the Supply Chain Top 25. Since 2004 we have chronicled the emergence of new ideas, like the build-to-order model pioneered by Dell and the emergence of content-based value chains exemplified by Apple and Disney. Today we are experiencing a global recession of such depth that no company, however blue chip, can feel certain of its future.

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Supply Chain Top 25 for 2009

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:04:32 GMT

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Tags: scm, supplychain, value, valuechain

E-Invoicing And Supply Chain Finance Solution

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:01:05 GMT

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OB10, the market leading global e-Invoicing network, and PrimeRevenue, the leading global Supply Chain Finance (SCF) platform and services provider, joined forces to host a webinar titled E-Invoicing & Supply Chain Finance: The Intersection of Two Best Practices. By demonstrating how companies can shorten the procurement-to-pay cycle and reduce working capital requirements, the two companies offered participants an attractive solution for improving cash flow at a time when organizations are scrutinizing every dollar.

"Supply Chain Finance supports corporate working capital initiatives while at the same time improving cash flow and reducing costs throughout the supply chain," said Robert Kramer, Vice President of Working Capital Solutions, PrimeRevenue. "Given the current economic environment, working capital efficiency and cash flow are clearly top priorities among Global 2000 organizations."

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OB10, e-Invoicing network

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:57:32 GMT

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Clip Source: www.supplychainmarket.com

OB10 (www.OB10.com) is the leading global B2B e-Invoicing network. OB10 simplifies and streamlines the complex invoice-to-pay processes. Neither client organisations nor their suppliers are required to implement any hardware or software, and OB10 is independent of data file formats. OB10 can reduce the cost of paper invoice processing by typically 60 percent and can deliver an ROI in less than a year if the programme follows OB10's best practice guidelines. Operational across Europe, North America and Asia, OB10 is compliant with the requirements of VAT, tax and e-Invoicing legislation and receives invoices from suppliers in over 100 countries. To ensure unrivalled and rapid supplier enrolment, each new customer's suppliers are supported by an implementation services team responsible for getting them up and running on the OB10 network.

Green Your Supply Chain

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:07:39 GMT

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If you are thinking about ways to green your supply chain, you’re not alone. A Supply Chain Consortium survey showed that organizations of all sizes are implementing sustainability initiatives throughout the supply chain not only to achieve regulatory compliance, but also to improve brand image and customer satisfaction.

Tags: green, supplychain, sustainability

Institute for Sustainable Communities

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:51:07 GMT

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Clip Source: www.iscvt.org

The Institute for Sustainable Communities is a nonprofit organization with nearly 20 years of experience in sustainable community development, institutional capacity building, and environmental management. ISC has managed 73 projects in 21 countries totaling $120 million. Its Climate and Environment program includes a strong focus on strategic interventions in the United States and China, the world’s two largest emitters of greenhouse gases. Flagship programs include the Climate Leadership Academy in the United States and the Guangdong Environmental Partnership in China. More information is available at www.iscvt.org.

Menlo Worldwide Logistics

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:54:34 GMT

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About Menlo Worldwide Logistics
Menlo Worldwide Logistics, LLC, is a US$1.4 billion global provider of logistics, transportation management and supply chain services with operations in five continents, including North America. As a third-party logistics provider, San Mateo, Calif.-based Menlo Worldwide Logistics’ services range from dedicated contract logistics to warehouse and distribution management, transportation management, supply chain reengineering and other value-added services including packaging, kitting, order fulfillment and light assembly through a strategic network of multi-client and dedicated facilities. With more than 16 million square feet of dedicated warehouse space in North America, the Asia Pacific, Europe and Latin America, and industry-leading technologies, Menlo Worldwide Logistics creates effective, integrated solutions for the transportation and distribution needs of leading businesses around the world.

CompuCom

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:51:41 GMT

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CompuCom, the leading IT outsourcing specialist, delivers the right combination of innovation, quality and exceptional value to address the challenges facing IT leaders today. With more than 20 years of IT experience, CompuCom’s outsourcing services include: infrastructure management, application development, architecture and governance services, and procurement, deployment, and maintenance of hardware and software. From the desktop to the data center, CompuCom’s IIMv3™ solution reduces costs, increases productivity and helps clients gain maximum value from information. To learn more, visit www.CompuCom.com.

SourceSolution, Inc

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:56:33 GMT

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SourceSolution, Inc. is a leader in Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) software for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. SourceSolution simplifies the strategic sourcing process for these companies by offering a suite of specialized S2RM Software-as-a-Service tools. SourceSolution allows users to create custom RFPs, collect and store responses online in a searchable format and manage projects with the Contract Manufacturing Organization or Contract Research Organization they choose. SourceSolution makes SRM accessible to all companies without the lengthy and costly implementation required with large enterprise systems. SourceSolution makes pharmaceutical and biotechnology outsourcing simple from start to finish. Visit www.sourcesolution.com for more information.

Foundation for Procurement Performance Management

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:20:15 GMT

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Organizations use a combination of tools, general ledger tracking, expense management systems, and business intelligence reporting - along with corporate procurement policies to track and manage costs. Analytic applications can bring this information together with context to provide greater insight, and spend analytics software is emerging as a tool for operational decision making to not only manage costs but also optimize procurement processes. Indeed, IDC estimates that the worldwide revenue for performance management analytic applications - a category that includes spend analytics - will have a compound annual growth rate of more than 10% from 2006 to 2012.

Kathleen Wilhide, research director of IDC’s Compliance and Business Performance Management Solutions program, answers a set of questions in this white paper relating to performance management analytic applications.

Tags: compliance, expense, intelligence

InvisibleCRM

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:08:26 GMT

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Clip Source: www.businesswire.com

InvisibleCRM is a technology provider of tools engineered to increase user adoption and ROI of enterprise applications by seamlessly integrating them into the way businesspeople work every day. These tools enable users to work with their customer and corporate information, without leaving their favorite applications – MS Outlook, Lotus Notes and Windows. InvisibleCRM was named Cool Vendor by Gartner and was an “Under the Radar” winner in 2007. InvisibleCRM has delivered 8 OEM major product lines to partners such as EMC Documentum, NetSuite, Amdocs and SugarCRM. InvisibleCRM also has a full suite of integration solutions for Salesforce.com that includes SalesDesktop, SaleFolder and SalesAlerts.

The Workplace of Tomorrow

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:47:02 GMT

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Clip Source: www.deloitte.com

The shrinking pool of skilled labor and an increase in employee demands for flexibility have led many organizations to embrace innovative workplace solutions. Some organizations, however, aren’t convinced that a more flexible and mobile workforce is necessarily a good idea. They worry that employees with too much freedom won’t get the work done. Which raises this question: should your company be moving toward enabling the workplace of tomorrow – or is business as usual the right choice for now? Here’s the debate:

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