Supply & Demand Chain Executive

Purchasing and Supply Management Salaries in 2011

The Purchasing & Supply Management Salaries in 2011 Report is provided to give you, the purchaser, insight into the compensation of your peers throughout the world.

PDF • June 2nd, 2011

Eleven Key Questions when Adding a Distribution Center

You've outgrown your distribution capacity and need to expand.

PDF • June 2nd, 2011

Special Paper - Supply Management & Country Risk

The increasing complexity of the global business environment and the speed at which it changes means that businesses will have to modify their view of risk mitigation in relation to supply chain risk.

PDF • June 2nd, 2011

How Organizations Can Realize Transparency, Control and Significant Cost Reduction

Patented Technology Delivers Hard-Dollar Savings Across Vertical Markets

PDF • April 28th, 2011

Managing the Risks- Every Organization Values Supply Chain Visibility but Sharing Information can be a Dangerous Proposition

Who can argue that achieving supply chain visibility is a worthwhile strategic goal?

PDF • March 9th, 2011

Reverse Logistics - From Black Hole to Untapped Revenue Stream

Recognizing that reverse logistics can drive real impact to the bottom line, this is an area of high priority for companies looking to reduce costs, add efficiencies, improve the customer experience and build sustainable supply chain practices.

PDF • March 9th, 2011

Supply Chain Partnerships: How to Keep Love Alive

If winning an RFP is like getting married...and the start-up is like the honeymoon...what happens when the "seven year itch" sets in?

PDF • March 4th, 2011

Sales and Operations Planning Maturity: What Does It Take to Get and Stay There?

Companies with mature S&OP processes testify to the predictability and transparency it brings to a business.

PDF • March 4th, 2011

Unilever Improves Short-Term Forecast Accuracy

With 400 brands spanning 14 categories of home, personal care and food products, Unilever is one of the world’s largest consumer products companies.

PDF • March 4th, 2011

Join the Global Trade Management (GTM) Revolution

International trade is presently a 12.5 trillion dollar industry experiencing an automation revolution comparable to the revolution of the 1970s and 1980s that automated corporate financial functions using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.

PDF • March 1st, 2011

How Organizations Can Realize Transparency, Control and Significant Cost Reduction

The pursuit of expense reduction has led many organizations to conclude that their traditionally effective strategies and tactics applied in the historically target-rich expense categories no longer seem to be enough.

PDF • March 1st, 2011

The Six Best Practices in Freight Audit & Payment

Like many other groups within the organization, transportation and logistics are feeling the pressure to get more done in an increasingly complicated environment, while simultaneously finding new ways to control expenses and manage the movement of...

PDF • March 1st, 2011

Capital Improvements Bolster the East Coast's Intermodal Rail Network

Looking ahead, supply chain professionals anticipate that the East Coast ports will gain market share of the nation's container traffic, at the expense of the West Coast ports.

PDF • January 5th, 2011

Beating complexity, achieving operational excellence

See what key findings IDC Manufacturing Insights' latest global study discovered.

PDF • December 14th, 2010

eProcurement: In the Cloud or Licensed?

A Comparison of Software Platforms

PDF • December 10th, 2010

Case Studies/White Papers

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