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Focus Is on Return on Assets, Inventory Turns and Revenue Growth

Retailers are making a fundamental shift in the way they do business by creating value networks that coordinate processes and technology to understand, shape and respond more efficiently to consumer demand. Leading supply chain organizations recognize the link between responsive networks and improved supply chain performance.

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Supply Chain Network Design: Architecting a Green Future

The focus on green network design allows companies to reach to the core of the green supply chain movement by optimizing resources and reducing waste.

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Global Recession, Obama's Policies to Affect Supply Chains

The election of Barack Obama in the United States, the repercussions of the global "financial bailout" and a potential increase in environmental regulations will affect supply chain operations at multiple levels. The ability to quickly monitor and absorb these changes in supply chain structures will be the main agenda for 2009.

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Strategies for Being Demand-Driven in a Globalized Economy

Supply chain executives in the process industry sector are primarily concerned with being able to drive volumes in accordance with previously established plans, as well as with maximizing utilization of assets. Asset-intensive manufacturing operations are a key common theme across process industries.

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Focus on Traceability Intensifies as Concerns for Food Origin, Safety Grow

As we become increasingly globalized, with more tiers and more hands touching the ingredients in our end-to-end food supply chain, the need for food traceability will only increase.

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Preventing Brand Damage: A New Bar Is Set for Food Safety Practices

To minimize potential liability and financial damage, organizations need to be proactive and have demonstrable systems in place to manage food safety risks across their supply chains.

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Responsive Trade Promotion Management: Creating a Single Version of the Truth

Aberdeen's research shows point-of-sale transaction data from retail locations is still a hurdle for 66 percent of manufacturers. The low levels of transaction data sharing cause increased complexities in tracking promotion effectiveness at the store or field level.

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Supply Chain Planning Trends for Consumer Goods Companies

Consumer products companies were early adopters of supply chain planning and supply chain execution. Most implementations are mature; yet in 2009, 24 percent of companies are considering switching supply chain planning vendors.

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Culture is Key: Sustaining the Business Eco-system

Corporate responsibility agendas revolve around a triple bottom line (TBL) framework geared to benefit: people, planet and profit. A great deal of business-focused, sustainability research emphasizes a transformation of business processes that support the goals of planet and profit and neglects the centrality of people in making it happen.

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Is BPM Driving Supply Chain Transformation?

Multi-party SCM processes for large enterprises cannot be enabled fully through a traditional packaged application approach. There is a need for a comprehensive business process layer that ties existing investments in ERP or APS systems with add-on business components that can fill gaps in capabilities.

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Wireless Helps Food & Beverage Sector Control Costs

Financial Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting in Uncertain Times

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