Supply Chain
Business Intelligence: The IBM Solution: Data Warehousing and OLAP
Data warehousing and data mining allow decision-makers to leverage information and organizational knowledge to gain competitive advantage. These pages take a non-intimidating look at IBM's Business Intelligence Applications, in particular the Visual Warehouse and the OLAP Server.
The 1999 Manufacturing Enterprise Applications Comparison Guide CD-ROM for ERP, Supply Chain, Plant Floor Automation and CMMS
Users can find, compare and select ERP, supply chain, planning and scheduling, business and financial management, manufacturing management, plant floor automation and maintenance management applications. Over 500 systems and suppliers within over 70 application areas and 10,000+ functionalities are covered.
Supply Chain Management: The Basics and Beyond
Here is a concise and informative overview of Supply Chain Management. Learn how to gain strategic and competitive advantage from logistics, structure a supply chain capability, build a customer-focused supply chain, organize for effectiveness, analyze for excellence, and discover future trends and directions.
ERP: Tools, Techniques, and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain
ERP is distinguished from MRP in its use of relational databases, fourth-generation languages, integrated computer aided engineering tools, and open system portability to adjunct planning systems, finite scheduling systems, and manufacturing execution systems.
IBM San Francisco Developer's Guide
This programming book shows readers how to build real ERP applications for supply chain management, accounting, manufacturing, distribution, and inventory control.
Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies
The book provides a comprehensive overview of supply chain management, from network design and inventory considerations, to suppy chain integration and strategic alliances. Numerous case studies provide additional insight.
Advanced Supply Chain Management: How to Build a Sustained Competition
A winning formula for capitalizing on the supply chain to satisfy customers and build revenue.
E-Business: Roadmap for Success
The authors offer solid advice for designing interrelated strategies focused on customer relationships, resource planning, order management, and supply chains, and on evaluating investments needed to make them a reality.
Integrating ERP, CRM, Supply Chain Management, and Smart Materials
Organizations enjoy two kinds of strategic advantages. One is transitory: being in the right place with the right products at the right time. The other comes from having first class management and instituting processes that mobilize an organization, keeping in ahead of the competition. Which would you like to count on for your organization's success?
Enabling the Suppliers: Australian B2B Sell-side Applications Forecast, 2001-2006 (PDF download)
In this detailed report, IDC will size the Australian B2B sell- side applications market, and provide a four-year forecast for growth. The report will also investigate the key trends driving and inhibiting the forecast growth. IDC defines B2B sell-side as those applications that enable and support an organisation to make their products/services available for sale to business customers via the Internet. This includes both end-user businesses as well as distributors and resellers. In addition, the report will profile each of the major software vendors operating in Australia -- Baan, Blue Martini, HAHT Commerce, i2, IBM, Oracle, SAP and Siebel and position them against named criteria on the IDC Leadership Grid.
Lean Performance ERP Project Management: Implementing the Virtual Supply Chain
Business consultant Carroll outlines his methodology for "lean implementation" that starts with a company's existing work flows and develops process-performance improvements and measurements, determining what work must be completed in order to determine how best to do the work. Carroll notes that the reference is intended primarily for CEOs, COOS, and other business managers rather than IT professionals; "As fond of information and other technologies as I am," he writes, "I believe that the more complex and, therefore, more valuable (and costly) elements of business processes are tasks that are people-based." While the reference emphasizes manufacturing, the broader concepts apply to business processes regardless of service or industry.
Beyond Collaboration: How Supply Chains Meet Demand Chains
Offering insight into the evolving role of supply chain relationships, Beyond Collaboration: How Supply Chains Meet Demand Chains provides real-world examples of companies that have achieved a competitive advantage through collaboration. The author explores the economic evidence that defines collaboration, presents a method for measuring objective-driven business relationships, and unveils a framework for solving the profit equation between buyers and sellers. He covers the economics of collaboration in a clear, concise manner showing you how your organization can clear what many market analysts consider to be the next big hurdle to achieving profitability.
Introduction to e-Supply Chain Management: Engaging Technology to Build Market-Winning Business Partnerships
In the quest to remove supply channel costs, streamline channel communications, and link customers to the value-added resources found along the supply chain continuum, Supply Chain Management (SCM) has emerged as a tactical operations tool. The first book to completely define the architecture of the merger of SCM and the Internet, Introduction to e-Supply Chain Management: Engaging Technology to Build Market-Winning Business Partnerships shows you how to exploit this merger and gain an unbeatable competitive advantage.The tightening of the economy and heavier restrictions and security measures placed on channel flows have rendered access to real-time, accurate supply chain information more critical than ever. . Introduction to e-Supply Chain Management explores the concepts, techniques, and vocabulary of the convergence of SCM and the Internet so that companies can move beyond merely surviving and thrive in today's competitive marketplace.
Supply Chain Networks and Business Process Orientation: Advanced Strategies and Best Practices
Demonstrates how companies can build successful supply chain networks. Based on exhaustive research of supply chains and new networked corporations across industries in the US and Europe.
Collaborative Manufacturing: Using Real-Time Information to Support the Supply Chain
Provides guidance and examples of how and why real-time events within the plant floor management infrastructure should be an integral on-line systems within the supply chain process. A guide to help end users understand the significant benefits of this technology and aid them in system design and implementation.
The Supply Chain Manager's Problem-Solver: Maximizing the Value of Collaboration and Technology
Explores the benefits of a full network approach and illustrates specific actions that lead to success. Author uses case studies to validate the concepts and solutions and provides an easy to understand and applied methodology.
Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) with Introduction to ERP, SCM, and CRM
This reference explains how companies can maximize the money spent on their enterprise resource/materials requirements planning by clarifying the role of each person involved in its implementation. The author offers a thorough explanation of the basics of manufacturing planning systems, providing readers with the framework for understanding the requirements of a well- functioning, integrated system.
Retail Information Systems Based on SAP Products
Concentration tendencies, globalization, increasing cost pressure and well-informed customers all make up the hard competition faced by today's businesses. The "right" products, a successful market image, a strong positioning between suppliers and customers, efficient logistics and optimum organization structures contribute to a company's survival. Achieving this goal requires flexible information and communication systems that are fully adaptable to the specific situation. Modern retail information systems are not bound by organization borders but support both business partner cooperation and electronic commerce. This book presents the architecture of retail information systems, as well as the functions of SAP Retail, and in so doing links modern retail management with the implementation strategies based on innovative software systems.
Logistics and the Out-Bound Supply Chain
Marketing Logistics: Customer Service & Supply Chain Strategy
This interface is being recognized by business organizations as a key priority for management, and both practitioners and academics alike have placed a greater emphasis on the need to view the supply chain as a whole as the vehicle by which competitive advantage is achieved. As well as drawing upon current research and the experience of firms worldwide, Marketing Logistics uses numerous 'mini-cases' and vignettes to illustrate the key messages in each chapter and bring the theory to life. This book is an invaluable resource for managers who seek to understand more about the way in which the supply chain should be managed to improve their organization's competitive position, as well as students undertaking degree-level courses in marketing, logistics and supply chain management.
Surviving Supply Chain Management
This book exposes the barriers companies face in trying to apply SCM and furnishes that reader with the tactics to avoid and overcome there barriers.
Managing the Supply Chain: The Definitive Guide for the Business Professional
In today's environment of tight budgets and even tighter turnarounds, effective supply-chain management has become a core business requirement. Managing the Supply Chain adapts the number one supply-chain book on the college market to examine how professionals can consistently turn supply-chain strategy into a competitive advantage. This results-based book examines the experiences of today's most accomplished companies to demonstrate supply-chain innovation at work in the marketplace.
Supply Chain Management, Second Edition
With extensive suggestions that managers can use in practice, this book explores the strategic role of the supply chain, key managerial concepts in supply chain management, and the tools and techniques for supply chain design and planning. For consultants in general and specifically those that are active in supply chain consulting.
Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment: How to Create a Supply Chain Advantage
The process known as Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR) is supply chain management taken to the extreme. The first book to document this cutting-edge technique that's been adapted by companies like Wal-Mart, Pillsbury, and Procter and Gamble, Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment collects case studies and contributions by the foremost experts in the field to give readers an insightful introduction to this revolutionary new supply chain method. The CPFR technique involves supply chain members sharing information in real time over the Internet, enhancing the collaborative dialogue between retailers and vendors. Based on groundbreaking research done at Harvard Business School, this book shows anyone involved in long-term strategic planning how CPFR can be implemented -- quickly, successfully, and in almost any setting.
Purchasing & Supply Chain Management
A revised and enlarged edition of this textbook. The authors take an integrated approach, drawing on the many disciplines - from ethics and human resources to supply, sourcing and strategy - that all contribute to a full knowledge of purchasing practice and techniques. Features include an increased international perspective with new chapters on global sourcing and transporting supplies. Greater emphasis is placed on supply chain management including a new chapter on logistics and supply chains and at the end of each chapter there are cases and discussion questions. An updated glossary gives quick reference.
Supply Chain Excellence: A Handbook for Dramatic Improvement Using the SCOR Model
The Supply Chain Council (SCC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing best practices in supply chain management. But until now, there have been no books available based on these preferred techniques. Supply Chain Excellence gives professionals implementing new supply chain projects a clear, step-by-step guide to adopting the accepted and proven methodologies developed by the SCC. This book uses the council's Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Model.
Logistics: An Introduction to Supply Chain Management
Logistics is an essential introduction for any business student studying logistics or supply chain management. It takes a broad view of logistics, exploring all the main concepts within a wide business context, with a strong focus on application and practical situations. This clear and well-written text gives a very up-to-date perspective on this fast moving field. It explores the management of logistics and its strategic role within an organization, while examining new developments in the field and providing an international dimension to the subject.
The E-Business Dictionary: EDI, Supply Chain, and E-Procurement Terminology
The E-Business Dictionary: EDI, Supply Chain, and E-Procurement Terminology is a quick reference for all business and computer professionals. It contains short, clear explanations of words that an average professional might use or encounter in a day-to- day work environment including buzzwords, jargon, slang, and foreign words. This book also includes quick-reference material for EDI transaction sets covering ANSI X12 and EDIFACT message types.
No Boundaries: Break Through to Supply Chain Excellence
Businesses must achieve Supply Chain Excellence to survive in today’s intensely competitive environment, but they cannot wish their way to success. In this book, leading Supply Chain consultant James A. Tompkins, Ph.D., explains the six stages that businesses and supply chains must pass through to achieve the pinnacle of success. The Six Levels of Supply Chain Excellence—from "Business as Usual" to "Velocity"—form a ladder that supply chains must climb to beat the competition. Here, Dr. Tompkins explains what characterizes each level, as well as the technology that is associated with each and prepares enterprises to move up to the next. As they move through the Six Levels, companies perfect their own operations, link with supply chain partners, and synthesize their supply chains to have No Boundaries and to focus on the only point that matters—the final customer.
Adapt or Die: Transforming Your Supply Chain into an Adaptive Business Network
This book introduces the adaptive business network, a new method of business interaction that offers the ability to respond swiftly to changing market conditions, increase revenue growth, and lower overall cost. In Adapt or Die, the experts from SAP provide a thought-provoking road map to a new business world in which companies are linked together by uniform business processes and standardized software (uniform business processes and standardized software leaves me the impression of being rigid and inflexible, which is contrary to what were trying to say in the book). An adaptive business network allows companies to more precisely control inventory, quickly add or drop trading partners, and produce products and services that mirror actual customer demand.
Essentials of Supply Chain Management
This practical guide describes how the supply chain operates and discusses the issues and techniques that are relevant for companies seeking to improve the management of their supply chains. Organized using the features of the Essentials series, this easy-to-use guide contains tips and techniques for maximizing supply chain innovation strategies, as well as real- world examples developed from working with companies such as Johnson Wax, Starbucks, Borg-Warner, and Premier Health Care. Supply chain expert Michael Hugos analyzes the components of a well designed and managed supply chain, explains the metrics involved in measuring performance, and presents a pragmatic approach to designing and building supply chain systems.
