Supply & Demand Chain Executive

Major South American retailer’s productivity soars into the Cloud

Challenged with expansion mega supermarket chain SPSA required a mature, robust, and scalable system that could be implemented in 4 months. LogFire provided its cloud based WMS solution that offered the necessary flexibility for SPSA to extend its...

PDF • May 29th, 2012

Logility - American Italian Pasta Redefines Relationships

American Italian Pasta Company (AIPC) has redefined the relationships between Supply Chain Planning, Manufacturing, and Sales as part of an ongoing effort to improve its supply chain performance and better serve its customers.

PDF • September 13th, 2011

Spend Radar - Award-Winning Spend Analysis Project

Spend Radar was contacted by a leading Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) provider to support their multi-year agreement to provide strategic sourcing and spend management for a global 200 manufacturing company.

PDF • September 13th, 2011

Tradecard - Re-Defining Supply Chain Agility in 2011

Most retailers and brands today are experiencing a vice-grip effect in their supply chains: they’re being squeezed tightly by rising cost of goods and uncertain consumer demands.

PDF • September 13th, 2011

D. W. Morgan - Where Do You Lose Control of Your Manufacturing Supply Chain?

It was the worst-case scenario: A new transportation project in Asia was only weeks from startup when the local government announced a ban on all truck traffic along the only possible route for those goods.

PDF • September 13th, 2011

CombineNet - Schindler Group Masters Their Most Complex Spend Category with the CombineNet Sourcing Platform

CombineNet is the advanced sourcing technology company.

PDF • September 13th, 2011

Puridiom - P2P Results in Healthy Outcomes

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island is the state’s leading health insurer.

PDF • September 13th, 2011

Customer Success for the Supply Chain

Volatile. That’s perhaps the best word to describe today’s global marketplace.

PDF • August 2nd, 2011

DiCentral's EDI Management Solution for Retailers

Getting products into the hands of customers is becoming more difficult than ever. Shouldn’t you be able to dedicate more time and energy focusing on your core competencies than on increasingly complicated supply chains?

PDF • June 14th, 2011

JDA Software Recommends Three Critical Transportation Strategies

Companies are increasingly considering their transportation and logistics operations to be a competitive Differentiator.

PDF • June 14th, 2011

Logistically Speaking, Tomorrow's Not Just Another Day When Conducting Business in Brazil

Moving forward with the existing vendor was not an option to Juniper, where the corporate goal was both to gain competitive advantage and reside at the top of each of its global geographies.

PDF • June 14th, 2011

Best Practices to Reduce International Freight Costs: A Guide for Global Logistics Managers

The drive to capture the business benefits of low cost country sourcing has far out-paced the processes and systems needed to efficiently manage the global supply chain.

PDF • June 9th, 2011

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

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