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Manufacturing companies that support Aerospace and Defense
(A&D) industries have always been a hybrid of driving IT
usage while still using very manual data collection and
reporting processes. Over 97% of A&D respondents to
Aberdeen's ERP survey that was conducted from June 2011 to
December 2011 use some form of ERP. That's as close to
universal as you get when you consider that the same survey
showed that overall manufacturing was around 85% ERP usage.
This sector insight takes the A&D respondents and
examines how A&D companies develop, implement, and
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The Washington State Transportation Improvement Board (TIB)
is an independent state agency that awards about US$80
million per year in grants to city and county street
projects. In order to track projects and business performance with greater accuracy and transparency, TIB built a performance management dashboard using Xcelsius® software from the SAP® BusinessObjects™ portfolio. Request Free! |
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In the most recent supply chain visibility survey, the
growing supply chain complexity was the top business pressure
(44%). This, in turn, has contributed to increased supply
chain management costs. It is not surprising that in the
situation of global economic turmoil that visibility is
taking center stage. This report focuses on gaining
visibility into critical elements across the end-to-end
logistics network for improving cost and service. But before
a company can reduce inventory or landed cost, it needs
visibility into them. Only then can it apply tools to agilely
adapt to the information it collects. Request Free! |
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Improving a company's supply chain operations is a complex
process. The SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference) model
provides a unique framework that links business processes,
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structure designed to improve supply chain management
effectiveness. Request Free! |
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Read this report to learn the answer to these three
questions: How Can You Better View Customer Demand and
Respond to Changes? How Can You Improve Supplier Lead Times
and Responsiveness? How Do You Manage Your Manufacturing
Network Outside of Your Own Four Walls? The report includes
three case studies from Colgate-Palmolive, Sauer-Danfoss and
Conair. Request Free! |
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Achieving the level of measurement and visibility required,
however, is a challenge in itself. Common obstacles such as
metric and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) definition,
cross-departmental alignment, and lack of end-to-end metric
definition can cause many measurement programs to fall short
of their charter. Using a standards based framework such as
the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR®) model from the
Supply Chain Council can help retailers avoid many of these
obstacles, with an industry accepted metric hierarchy that
spans departmental functions to enforce alignment with
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Each month the editors of Railway Age bring you
quality content on issues and emerging topics which are vital
to your success as a professional in the rail industry.
Railway Age serves companies who own, lease, operate,
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International Railway Journal, introduced in 1960 as
the first truly international railway trade publication,
covers the rapidly developing railway marketplace for railway
and rail transit managers and engineers, suppliers, and
consultants worldwide. IRJ's editorial coverage
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Supply & Demand Chain Executive provides
comprehensive coverage highlighting business strategies
trends and issues on supply chain management. The magazine
explores each area of the global enabled supply chain
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fulfillment, logistics, payment, CRM, consulting, information
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