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Accellos Issues Update of One Warehouse, Cloud-Managed Service for 3PLs

Accellos Inc. has developed version 6.4 of AccellosOne Warehouse, the vendor's warehouse-management system software.

Arkieva Software Implementation Helps Major Chemical Company Manage Recession

Challenge: A significant percentage of what this major chemical company manufactures is used in the automotive industry, and as a result they found demand dropping far below what any previous forecast could have predicted.

End-to-End Solution Cuts Costs, Adds Global Supply Chain Efficiencies

Challenge: A leading manufacturer of cell phone accessories was in a crisis. Issues with an overseas partner completely shut down their supply chain. They needed a provider to quickly step in and get shipments moving.

Conflict Resolution: A Critical Part of Global Supply Chains

There are good reasons why a formal process for conflict resolution is necessary in the context of supply chains, says Stewart L. Levine, founder of ResolutionWorks. The very nature of supply chains, with their panoply of internal and external partners, gives rise to conflict. What's needed, he says, "is a conversational process whereby you can teach people how to move through conflict."

Ariba Issues New Collaborative Platform; Teams With Microsoft

Ariba Inc. has developed an updated version of its collaborative commerce platform. The new Ariba Network will include a "consumer-like" buying interface which gives requisitioners real-time access to the data needed to making buying decisions, the vendor said.

Technology Changes the Game for Procurement, Survey Finds

According to a recent survey of more than 200 global finance executives, the use of business networks and the technologies underlying them is helping to transform procurement from a tactical function to a strategic contributor to company success. "Procurement has traditionally been recognized and rewarded solely on the basis of its cost-cutting ability," said Sam Knox, senior vice president and director of research at CFO Publishing. "But through the productive use of automated systems, the function has been able to move beyond simply meeting savings targets to help address larger, more-complex issues such as managing cash and capital, managing risks to business performance, and expanding into new markets or business lines."

Hughes Communications Tells How to Manage Supplier Risk

At Hughes Communications, managing risk means developing proactive resiliency. Building a satellite requires coordination between both internal efforts - where engineers design the satellite, aligning the beam patterns with the geography that needs to be covered - and external partners, which provide parts from around the world.

Analyzing Spend Analytics Applications

The first and most obvious reason most people want to analyze spend is to find savings opportunities; figure out how to spend less and spend more wisely.

Input Sought for Performance Study of Procurement Organizations

A newly-launched performance study from The Hackett Group Inc. is designed to help procurement organizations improve how they enable their companies' growth, in revenue and other areas. The open performance study should assist procurement leaders move beyond cost savings, and better understand the progress and strategies used in all facets of growth.

Mobile Telecommunications Company Builds True Collaborative Internal & Supplier Network

Challenge: Leading organisations understand that to succeed in a competitive global marketplace they need to build collaborative, value-creating relationships with their most strategic suppliers. The benefits include not only lower costs and more efficient supply chains, but also preferential access to resources, capacity and innovation, faster speed to market and - ultimately - higher revenues.

Fortune 500 CPG Company Enhances Supply Innovation Throughout E-Sourcing Process

Challenge: Our client is a Fortune 500 CPG company with a shared-services Procurement and Sourcing team that supports the sourcing activities of dozens of global brands and business units representing a large percentage of the company's spend. As the team increased its spend under management, they found that their existing ERP and procurement tools were not adequate to meet their e-sourcing needs. They required a solution that could more effectively support strategic spend areas with robust features, yet speed and simplify their workload.

Global Connectivity for B2B Made Easy

Challenge: Following a period of tremendous growth, our client made the decision to shift to an outsourced manufacturing model. But with hundreds of trading partners around the globe-each with unique systems and protocols-our client was unable to manage the growing number of external operations, or to keep pace with increasingly volatile demand signals.

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