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Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the process of planning, implementing, and controlling the operations of the supply chain with the purpose to satisfy customer requirements as efficiently as possible. Supply chain management spans all movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point-of-origin to point-of-consumption. The term supply chain management was coined by strategy consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton in 1982.

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Asserting Control, Seizing Opportunity in High Tech: 5 Critical Success Factors
By : Microsoft Published Date: Feb 09, 2006
Until recently, many high-tech manufacturers – especially small and medium-sized businesses – have been able to survive by applying 80% of their operational focus to 20% or less of their critical customers and suppliers. That was then. The new mandate from channel masters is for more intense, collaborative relationships with fewer suppliers.
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Accelerate Value Creation: The Virtuous Cycle of Using Technology to Maximize Business Value
By : SAP Published Date: Oct 15, 2008
Corporate IT spending continues to grow. Since 1994, the IT spending per worker has more than doubled, from US$3,500 to US$8,000 per worker. Annual productivity growth in U.S. companies roughly doubled in the same period, after experiencing 1.4% growth for 20 years (Harvard Business Review, July–August 2008). But in today’s economy, competitive advantage is short-lived, and leading companies recognize that continued investments in the virtuous cycle of technology are required to stay ahead.
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Build a Competitive Edge for Manufacturing Plant Operations
By : Microsoft Published Date: Jun 07, 2006
This white paper outlines ways that technology can help manufacturers meet these challenges, increase operational efficiency, and step ahead of competitors with more proactive planning, greater shared visibility, and more agile and more profitable responses to change.
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CA SiteMinder: Security for Enterprise Web Applications
By : CA Published Date: Dec 01, 2006
This technical white paper explains how CA SiteMinder provides all the essential security services required to meet the challenge of building and managing secure websites, while also including management features and technical capabilities that can reduce the total cost of ownership.
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Creating Competitive Advantage in Demanding Retail Environments
By : CommercialWare Published Date: Jan 09, 2007
This paper explores what cross-channel transparency looks like through the consumer's eyes, the costs retailers incur by maintaining the status quo, and key steps retailers need to consider as they undertake cross-channel initiatives.
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Demand Planning: Optimizing Operations Across the Supply Chain
By : Microsoft Published Date: Feb 24, 2006
Demand planning software packages can help manufacturers to: establish baseline sales forecasts, incorporating multiple inputs; perform sophisticated analysis that improves their use of human and capital resources; optimize pricing capabilities; and better understand their markets and customers.
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How Can Identity and Access Management Help Me To Improve Compliance and Drive Business Performance?
By : CA Published Date: Nov 08, 2007
CA Identity and Access Management automates the management of user identities and ensures that only properly authorized users can access critical IT resources from the Web to the mainframe. It empowers your organization to reduce IT costs, mitigate overall security risk, enable new business opportunities and deliver continuous regulatory compliance.
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How Lack of Identity Federation Leads to End-User Confusion and Increased Help Desk Calls
By : CA Published Date: Mar 25, 2008
Today’s enterprises rarely operate alone. Partnerships, outsourcing, external contractors and suppliers, and other cooperative agreements are all vital to today’s enterprises. These agreements generally require collaboration and interoperation, both organizationally and between their IT resources. They require the ability for users in one organization to easily work with resources provided by another.

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Industrial Equipment Manufacturing: Innovation and the Competitive Edge
By : Microsoft Published Date: Mar 01, 2006
In this white paper we do not make specific recommendations for manufacturers to follow; rather, we present suggestions for competing effectively in a fast-paced industry. From adopting lean manufacturing practices to strengthening bidding and quoting processes, opportunities exist for companies to grow and thrive despite relentless cost pressures.
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Key Challenges Facing Consumer Packaged Goods Manufacturers and What They Must Do To Survive
By : Microsoft Published Date: Feb 28, 2006
The CPG manufacturing industry is large and thriving; however, margins are slim and competition is furious. There are hundreds of product categories, and to compete, firms must constantly innovate. How can the small-to-medium CPG manufacturer survive in the face of the same external pressures and fewer resources?
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM Enterprise Performance and Scalability
By : Microsoft Published Date: Jun 25, 2004
Read how demand planning software packages can help manufacturers to establish baseline sales forecasts, incorporating multiple inputs; perform sophisticated analysis that improves their use of human and capital resources; and better understand their markets and customers.
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Microsoft Dynamics Case Study: Best Buy for Business
By : Microsoft Published Date: Jun 27, 2007
Saddled with a home-grown business-management tool originally designed for its retail business, the Best Buy for Business sought a solution that would support its extensive outside sales force and would provide a commercial CRM solution it could sell to business customers. Best Buy for Business found both in Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
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Manage Your Operations for Greater Profitability with Retail Chain Manager for Microsoft Dynamics AX
By : Microsoft Published Date: Jun 27, 2007
By providing integrated, adaptable functionality within one scalable platform, Microsoft Dynamics AX helps midsize retailers improve their agility with an all-in-one solution based on an open technology platform. And it provides the ability for retailers to connect and interact with customers, partners, and employees around the world.
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Synchronizing Real-Time Product Movement to Improve Distribution Operation Productivity
By : Microsoft Published Date: Jun 26, 2007
This white paper addresses business and technical decision-makers for ambitious companies in which product distribution and transportation play key roles in daily operations and profitability. It describes how the comprehensive, integrated management solution represented by Supply Chain Execution for Microsoft Dynamics AX can help build an integrated logistics solution.
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Smarter Supply Chain Utilization for the Retailer
By : Microsoft Published Date: Mar 01, 2006
This paper introduces various supply chain concepts and explains their importance. It describes initiatives being undertaken by the largest retailers and reviews what small and mid-size firms need to do to compete.
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The Business Value of Identity Federation
By : CA Published Date: Jan 02, 2007
Today, the Internet, Internet technology and standards have matured to the point that effective coordination and mass integration between trading partners is now achievable and affordable. This white paper discusses these issues in depth and explains the role of federated identity in general.
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CA
Universal Federation Architecture: Enabling Unified Identity Federation & Web Services Security
By : CA Published Date: Dec 01, 2006
Effective identity federation benefits both users and enterprises. It provides the end-user with a seamless cross-domain Internet experience through single sign-on and it allows the enterprise to expose resources to a larger class of users not directly administered by the enterprise. Learn more in this white paper.

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Achieving Lean Success: A Holistic Approach
By : Infor Published Date: Jan 18, 2007
Over the past decade, the concept of lean manufacturing production has gone through a dramatic evolution from an obscure and isolated practice to a mainstream, extensively publicized methodology that is well known throughout the manufacturing and supply chain industry. Download white paper to learn more.
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Accounting for Lean Success: Overcoming the Barrier of Traditional Accounting in Lean Environments
By : Infor Published Date: Apr 25, 2007

Over the last three decades, lean principles have driven massive productivity improvements in manufacturing operations around the world. Download this insightful guide now and get a free Executive’s view on how accounting will play a larger role in lean by providing analysis, insight and direction that will support lean gains across all functions. 


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Accelerating Business Processes for Products That Are Sold, Engineered, or Manufactured to Order
By : RuleStream Published Date: Nov 01, 2005
Manufacturers of products with highly configurable and ever-changing customer requirements must confront specific challenges and operate far differently than traditional product development environments.
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RuleStream
American Dairy Brands Reduces Errors, Increases Forecast Accuracy and Increases Service Levels
By : Infor Published Date: Oct 05, 2005
American Dairy Brands, a $300M division of Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) which is the largest U.S. dairy cooperative marketing over 45 billion pounds of milk per year, has achieved substantial supply chain savings through Infor's Supply Chain solutions. Infor has given Dairy Farmers of America the ability to successfully manage the supply chain to drive service levels to greater than 99% for their Borden-brand cheese products.
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Achieving the Perfect Order: Improving Supply Chain Communication
By : Inovis Published Date: Feb 22, 2007

No enterprise is an island. Goods and services flow in from suppliers. When you include suppliers of wares for raw material extractors, along with recyclers that turn consumer and commercial waste into new raw materials and finished goods, it is a supply chain with no beginning and no end.


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Inovis
Aberdeen Lean Scheduling and Execution Benchmark Report
By : Infor Published Date: May 30, 2007
In this report, find out the operational performance benefits that Best-in-Class manufacturers attribute to the use of Lean Scheduling and Execution principles. Read about Lean Scheduling key metrics and get ready to implement them. Discover best practices in Lean implementations and how these help reduce overall manufacturing costs.
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Aberdeen Group: Advanced Sourcing & Negotiation Benchmark Report
By : SAP Published Date: Mar 14, 2007
In retrospect, the initial e-sourcing waves that began a decade ago resembled a corporate “crash diet,” leaving an immediate and noticeable impact on the enterprise, but also a daunting challenge to develop a new and different program that could sustain these benefits and keep the “weight” off. As the use of basic sourcing strategies has reached saturation levels with certain categories, enterprises must utilize advanced sourcing strategies across a wider range of categories to deliver the same results.
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Aberdeen Group: For Mid-Size Manufacturers the Issue is Visible
By : IBM Published Date: Aug 08, 2006
As manufacturing goes global, initiatives to standardize processes and key performance measurements across the enterprise to unite the greater supply chain are emerging. The main catalyst? Driving down costs in response to customer and market pressures. However, mid-size companies in particular are driving performance improvements with a more proactive, strategic vision for improving performance than reactively responding to cost pressure.
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