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Sales & Operations Planning: Integrate the S&OP Process with Finance

Analyst Insight: Ideally, the output of the S&OP plan should drive companies' income statement and balance sheets. Companies should create internal projects and SWAT teams wherein the S&OP plan is mapped to the key financial documents with collaboration between finance and supply chain.

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Honeywell Extends Line of Dolphin Mobile Computers

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Customs Issues and Reshaping the Supply Chain

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Quality & Metrics: A Metrics Culture Drives Better Performance

Analyst Insight: Leading companies have a portfolio of true end-to-end supply chain metrics, use those metrics in key processes such as S&OP, supplement the metrics with customer and supplier dashboards, and have an open attitude and metrics culture that drives them through an upward spiral of increasingly higher levels of performance. Most importantly: they understand they cannot be good at everything, and they consciously manage tradeoffs.

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Supply Chain Security & Risk Management: Mitigating the Risks of Distributed Demand-Supply Networks

Analyst Insight: Today's supply chain managers operate in a distributed, networked environment, where multi-tier process visibility and effective partner collaboration are critical to success. In order to successfully balance the risks and rewards of this new environment, companies need to have much more transparent and responsive supply chains than in the past.

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CPG Logistics: Five Strategies to Help Mid-Sized Manufacturers Compete and Win

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RFID, Wireless, Bar Code & Voice: The Promise of Mobility in Order Fulfillment and Distribution

Analyst Insight: The performance benefits of mobile devices and voice technologies in order fulfillment are well-established, and their usage is a hallmark of Best-in-Class performance. RFID, however, is still maturing in this space. What it does provide, especially for manufacturing and transportation, is added traceability both inside and outside the warehouse.

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Service Parts Management: Delivering Value in a Topsy-Turvy Market

Analyst Insight: This software market, like most, took a hit in 2009, but we still like its long-term growth potential. We continue to see companies adopting service parts management software successfully, saving millions of dollars in inventory costs.

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LTL/Truckload Services: Win by Collaboration and Integration

Analyst Insight: The current advantaged freight rates in LTL/Truckload modes that most companies have secured during the down economy will not last. Tomorrow's leaders cannot rest and must begin to embrace collaboration tools and technology to support process improvements around the linkage of key partners both internally and externally and to embrace integration as the key to process improvement and transformation.

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