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Gamo Outdoor USA Takes Aim at EDI Integration

The leading manufacturer of outdoor sporting goods targets a move to hosted EDI as part of a transition to SAP R/3

In A New Age of Supply Chain Uncertainty

supply chain risk management

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The 4PL: Partner for the Global Supply Chain

Fourth-party logistics providers offer expertise and manpower to enable world-class supply chain operations

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Make the Social Network Work for the Supply Chain

Social media offer new opportunities, as well as risks, for the supply chain – and supply chain executives

ERP – Family Edition

Report from the VAI user conference

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Government Procurement 2.0

The state of Georgia transforms its procurement function

Like Printing Money...

Addressing the challenges of print procurement

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Taking the Pain out of the Holiday Supply Chain

Companies like Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and Polar are taking steps to ensure their supply chains bring holiday cheer this year

Supply Chain Collaboration 2.0

Using Web 2.0 technologies to build a knowledge-sharing platform across the enterprise — and across the supply chain

The Integration Imperative

Yankee Group: Partner integration remains a priority in today's economy

If You Build It ...

A global electronics manufacturer needed an e-procurement system to aggregate spend and leverage purchasing power to reduce costs, but the real task was making sure its end users would log on with their spend.

Cover Story: Back to Basics - e-Business Finally Gets Real

Last year may have seen "pure-play" e-businesses retrenching or retreating, but brick-and-mortar companies continued to invest judiciously in solutions to streamline their operations as they grew their businesses. Where are savvy companies putting their IT budgets in 2002? In a desire to learn where e-business stands, iSource put that question to IT leaders at seven companies and got seven very different answers.

Information is Purchasing Power

You can strategically source all day long, but driving savings to your company's bottom line takes more than just finely honed negotiating skills. First you need to know what to source, and then you need to ensure compliance with your hard-won contracts. One purchasing director's advice: start with the data.

Digging Out from the Contract Clutter

You're an e-business pioneer: You use EDI and XML to automate links to your direct material suppliers. You have your indirect material suppliers plugged into a private e-marketplace. Your engineers collaborate online with your customers and contract manufacturers. So why are all those paper contracts cluttering up your desk and busting the seams of your filing cabinet? Automated online contract management could be just the tool you need to end the paper chase.

Needle in a Supply Chain Haystack

Manufacturers move toward JIT production with increased visibility. New wireless location systems are making it possible to pinpoint instantly that needle of a critical asset in your company's supply chain haystack.

i On the Market: IT Spend 2002: Plans for the Unplannable

Climate control systems from Carrier Corp. keep the heat at bay in locations as diverse as the Sistine Chapel and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. So it's no surprise that when an uncertain economy turns up the heat on information systems' budgets, Carrier's CIO, Jagdish Dalal, has kept his cool.

Enabling Creativity

An interview with Cliff Stockley, vice president of client services, Framework Technologies Corp.: One view on collaboration and the product development cycle.

Lights! Camera! Procure!

Behind every good movie are countless numbers of office supplies, MRO parts and printing jobs, among other things, that must be purchased. But for one major movie studio, choreographing its nearly 60,000 small to midsize suppliers was definitely a practice in movie magic.

Supply Chains: The Next Generation

It's crystal ball time. Here's a look at what the analysts, practitioners and solution providers are predicting for the supply chain in the years ahead, as well as their advice for building your own next-generation supply chain.