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Cadre Technologies, Zosel Associates Integrate Labor Management With WMS

Zoho Creates Single Sign-On Support for Its CRM Software Application

Where in the World Is Your Business Information Being Kept?

KPMG: Boise, Belfast and Brisbane Outsourcing Alternatives to China, India

Business World Discovers Benefits of Social Networking

Fate of Parts Makers Interconnected with Automakers' Supply Chains

A Diamond Is Forever. How About the Online Diamond Business?

Back to the Future for Shipper-Carrier Relations

Expect shipper-carrier relations in 2009 to take a more shipper-centric shape with the shippers dictating the terms. While this is probably not the best long-term strategy, short-term cost pressures will drive many shippers to behave as if this is 1999 and not 2009.

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In a Word, 2009 Will Be Uncertain

In June 2008, ARC Advisory Group conducted a web survey of 16 leading transportation management systems vendors to obtain their views on growth opportunities and market conditions. Almost 70 percent said their year-to-date sales and pipelines were larger than in 2007. This is not surprising when you consider the record fuel prices customers were dealing with at the start of the year (fuel prices had risen about 50 percent in less than a year). This led many companies to focus on transportation spend management, which led to continued investments in TMS. Then the economy stumbled.

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Using Software as a Service to Reduce Expenses

AMR Research expects shared services organizations and outsourcing delivery models to be a crucial vehicle for reducing sourcing and procurement overhead expenses. This will be enabled by a labor arbitrage, centralization of resources, tighter efficiencies in managed spend, improved process acumen and access to new technologies. These technologies, however, will see a shift from traditional license approaches to a more economical, integrated SaaS approach.

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Trends and IT Outlook For Integrated Supply Chain Applications

In 2009, expect most large WMS and WCS applications to remain dedicated applications tailored to a company's particular business rules, with SOA concepts appearing primarily in the integration interface.

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Give the Supply Chain Some Credit

Increased linkage between material and financial flows requires supply chain managers to learn more about topics like working capital optimization, margin and asset utilization, valuation and risk, managerial accounting and cash flows, taxes and transfer prices.

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