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Courses / Tutorials (2)
Links (6)
- APQC - Best Practices
- ASCET - Achieving Supply Chain Excellence through Technology
- ASQ Six Sigma Forum
- Inc.com's Guide to Controlling Costs
- iSixSigma
- Isource Online (Supply and Demand-Chain Executive)
Articles (196)
- 19 Steps to Maintain an Accurate Inventory: What You Must Know About Your Inventory
- A Global Study of Supply Chain Leadership and Its Impact on Business Performance
- A Global Think Tank Targets the Factory
- A New Framework: For Manufacturing Management Quality
- A New Take on Business Process Redesign
- A Portfolio Approach to SCM
- A Tisket, A Tasket
- A Typology of Plants in Global Manufacturing Networks
- Achieving Supply Chain Productivity
- Alignment in Cross-Functional and Cross-Firm Supply Chain Planning
- Are There Limits to Total Quality Management?
- As Simple as Possible
- Assessment of Excellence in Procurement
- Asset Productivity: Converting Assets Into Profits
- Attacking Overhead Costs from Both Sides
- Automate or Die
- Avoiding China's Rip Tide: Navigating Volatile Supply Chains
- Avoiding the E-Commerce Trap
- Balanced Purchasing
- Balancing the Risks
- Beating the B2B Odds
- Best Practices for Benchmarking
- Best Practices: Back to Basics
- Beyond the Quality Revolution: Linking Quality to Corporate Strategy
- Beyond Utopia: The Realist's Guide to Internet-Enabled Supply Chain Management
- BI: Everything Must Go
- Borrowing from Nature: Manufacturing Lessons from the Biological Cell
- Break It Up
- Building the Advantaged Supply Network
- Business Processes: From Reengineering to Management
- Buying Into E-Procurement
- Call Centers Can Be Profit Centers
- Can E-tailers Find Fulfillment with Drop Shipping?
- Capturing the Value of Supply Chain Management
- Challenging the Bullwhip Effect with Advanced Information Sharing
- Clearing the Capacity Cobwebs
- Cost of Measuring
- Creating the Optimal Supply Chain
- Creating Value through Strategic Supply Management: The 2004 Assessment of Excellence in Procurement
- Dancing in the Dark
- Demand-based Flow Manufacturing for High Velocity Order-to-Delivery Performance (.pdf)
- Demand-driven Supply Networks for Small and Medium Business
- Designing the Factory Footprint for Competitive Advantage
- E-Commerce Will Transform Supply Chain Management
- E-Procurement: Problems Behind The Promise
- e-Supply Chain Management: Managing The Extended Enterprise (.pdf)
- Essential ERP - Current Market Trends - Part I
- Essential ERP - Current Market Trends - Part II
- Five New Year's Resolutions to Shape Up Supply Chains
- Five Ways to Achieve Better Forecasts
- Forging a Stronger Supply Chain
- Forging New Links: Enhancing Supply Chain Management
- Get a Grip on Assets
- Getting Control of Your Inventory
- Gilding the Supply Chain
- Global Sourcing: Another Critical Purchasing Skill
- Global sourcing: solution in search of a problem?
- Guide to Business Continuity Management: Frequently Asked Questions
- Half of Your R&D Is Wasted - But Which Half and on What? (.pdf)
- How an Order Views Your Company
- How BPM Strengthens The Supply Chain
- How does your process documentation measure up?
- How Many Supply Chains Do You Need? Matching Supply Chain Strategies to Products and Customers Products and Customers
- How Supply Chain Projects Morph Into Black Holes
- How to Attain Customer Loyalty
- How to Make After-Sales Services Pay Off
- How to Treat Customers Right: Winning the Channels Challenge
- If It's Broke, Fix It
- If These Shelves Could Talk
- Implementation Imperative
- Implementing Total Quality Management
- Improved Products Through Design-for-Environment Tools
- Increasing the Value of Your Enterprise Through Improved Supply Chain Decisions
- Introduction To Simulation
- Inventory Efficiency In The Supply Chain
- Is Forecasting a Waste of Time?
- Is There a Driver On Your Supply Train?
- Is Your Metrics Program Measuring Up?
- Is Your Organization Built for the Consumer?
- Is Your Supply Chain Optimized for Global Trade?
- Just in Case: Balancing risk and return in global supply chains
- Keeping Score: Developing an Effective Strategy for Supply Chain Measurement
- Key Supply Strategies for Tomorrow
- Lean Asset Management--Is Preventive Maintenance Anti-Lean?
- Lean Manufacturing: A Primer
- Leaning Toward Utopia
- Making Logistics Alliances Work
- Manage Your Suppliers as a Resource
- Managing a Sprawling Service Business
- Managing Complexity: How To Capture Latent Value From Products, Customers, and Operations
- Managing Transportation
- Manufacturing Masters Its ABCs
- Manufacturing Myopia
- Marketing and Operations: Can This Marriage Be Saved?
- Mastering the Supply Chain
- Matching Demand and Supply: Boosting Profits from Remanufacturing
- Measuring the Success of International Logistics Partnerships
- Minimalist Manufacturing: Doing More, Better, with Less
- New and Improved! Managing Resources for Old and New Product Generations
- Nine Opportunities to Achieve Supply Chain Excellence in Asia
- Now Showing at Blockbuster: How Revenue-sharing Contracts Improve Supply Chain Performance
- Online Asset Disposition: Finding Value in Surplus Assets
- Outside-The-Box Manufacturing
- Perspectives on Business Innovation Special Edition: Adaptive Supply Chain
- Pinpoint Control
- Predictive Demand Supply
- Process improvement by poka-yoke
- Process Manufacturing Software: A Primer
- Programmers abroad: A primer on offshore software development
- Pull vs Push: a Discussion of Lean, JIT, Flow, and Traditional MRP
- Putting a Leash on Your Real Estate Lease: Leasing Tips
- Re-reengineering
- Recapturing Your Supply Chain Data
- Reducing Costs Across The Supply Chain
- Reflections on the Bullwhip Effect
- Reinforcing The Front Lines
- Reinventing Scale: How to Escape the Size Trap
- Renegotiate and Reduce Inefficiencies in Your Supply Chain
- Resilient Supply Chains: The Next Frontier
- Risk and Reward in Supply Chain Management
- Risky Business
- Rooting Out Supply-Chain Costs
- Rules of Response
- Service Management: Building Profits After the Sale
- Service Supply Chain Strategies to Increase Corporate Profitability
- Share and Share Alike
- Shifting Your Supply Chain into Reverse
- Ship It!
- Shopping For Savings
- Sick Sigma
- Six Sigma - The Structure of Management
- Slow To Sync
- Some Pros and Cons of Six Sigma
- Start with Demand
- Stop Thrashing Your Suppliers: Focus on value and profits, not just cost, in the sourcing process
- Success Through Shared Services: From Back-Office Functions to Strategic Drivers
- Supply Chain Champs
- Supply Chain Alchemy
- Supply Chain Innovations: Five Big, Bold Trends
- Supply Chain Management: Cracking The Bullwhip Effect (.pdf)
- Supply Chain Management: How to Build a Successful Global Operations Model
- Supply Chain Management: Plan to Succeed
- Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
- Supply Chain Strategy: Back to Basics
- Supply Chain: Dangerous Liaisons
- Supply Chains
- Supply On Demand
- Supply-Chain Survey
- Sustain the Gain of Change
- Systems, Modules or Components? New Light on Purchasing
- The ABCs of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning
- The Challenge of Customization: Bringing Operations and Marketing Together
- The Complexity Challenge: A Survey on Complexity Management Across the Supply Chain
- The Complexity of Managing Complexity
- The Death of Time and Distance
- The Essential ERP - It's Genesis and Future
- The Failure of Customization: Or Why People Don't Buy Jeans Online
- The Forecasting Canon: Nine Generalizations to Improve Forecast Accuracy
- The Four Phases of Continuous Sourcing
- The Hierarchy of Manufacturing
- The Line on Design: How to Reduce Material Cost by Eliminating Design Waste
- The Myth Of Disintermediation
- The New Thinking on KPIs: Why You May Be Working with the Wrong Measures
- The Next 50 Years
- The other end of the supply chain
- The Perfect Order--Inside-Out or Outside-In?
- The Right Mix in Product Line Design Increases Profits for the Firm
- The Secret Ingredient to Enterprise Decision Making
- The secret life of factory service centers
- The Supply Side of Design and Development
- The Triple-A Supply Chain
- The Unexpected Return of B2B
- The User's Guide to Reengineering
- Toward Effective Supplier Management: International Comparisons
- Transforming Field-Service Operations: Running Faster, Longer, Smarter In Customer-Delivery Services
- Ultimate Enterprise Value Creation Using Demand Based Management
- Understanding the True Cost of Sourcing
- Use these Fourteen Points to improve the quality of your data
- Use this architecture to structure your business intelligence solutions
- Virtual Purchasing: First Pencils, Now People
- Waiting Games People Play
- Want a More Flexible Supply Chain?
- Waste Not, Want Not: Analyzing the Value of Used Products
- What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
- What Went Wrong at Cisco
- What Works, What Doesn't: Lessons from Two Companies that Outsource Back-Office Tasks
- When Your Suppliers Talk... Listen
- Win-Win Sourcing
- With Billions of Bytes of Customer Data, How Can Retailers Be "Starved for Information"?
- Working on the Chain
- X-treme Business Reengineering
- Yanking Your Supply Chain: Is There Still Too Much Slack?
- You Bought It. Now You Want to Get Rid of It
- You Only Have One Supply Chain?
- Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements
- Your Inventory Wants to Talk to You
Cases (16)
- Balanced Sourcing the Honda Way
- Coordinating Disaster Logistics after El Salvador's Earthquakes using SUMA's Humanitarian Supply Management System
- Flextronics: Staying Real in a Virtual World
- From Vertical to Virtual: How Nortel's Supplier Alliances Extend the Enterprise
- Getting to Win-Win: How Toyota Creates and Sustains Best-Practice Supplier Relationships
- Living in Dell Time
- Managing Product Returns at Hewlett Packard
- Partnering for Results: A Case Study of Re-engineering, the Corning Way
- Process Re-engineering at GTE: Milestones on a Journey Not Yet Completed
- Rebuilding Lego, Brick by Brick
- Sainsbury's A: Transforming the Supply Chain and Sainsbury's B: Supply Chain Performance Measurement
- The Power of Synchronization: The Case of TAL Apparel Group
- The Scotts Company: (A) Transforming the European Supply Chain, (B) Developing a Supply Chain Balanced Scorecard
- What Can Go Wrong for $100 Million
- What FreshDirect Learned from Dell
- What Went Wrong at Cisco
Downloadable Files (3)
Market Research (27)
- Average Cost of a Truck Roll
- Call Center Stats
- E-Commerce Fulfillment Stats
- E-Procurement Could Save Trillions
- E-procurement ROI
- Firm-to-Firm Online Purchasing Grows (2000)
- Fulfillment Headaches
- Fulfillment software investments to climb $1.3 billion
- Greasing the Gears - Supply Chain Processes Spending
- Life-cycle Management Technology Market
- Logistics Management Business Market Worldwide
- Logistics Outsourcing
- Online Customer Service Stats
- Online Logistics Market (Europe)
- Online Procurement Regains Momentum
- Online Procurement Stats
- Overseas Call Center and BPO Market
- Reverse Logistics Costs
- RFID's Rapid Expansion
- Supply Chain Management (SCM) Market
- Telecom Bill Presentment Costs
- That's the Sound of the Man Workin' on Supply Chain
- Top Three US-based Company Expenses
- Total Telecom Opex Spending and Waste
- Web Development Breakdown Statistic
- Website Features That Are Typically Outsourced
- What Warranties Cost
