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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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Sourcing & Procurement: Plenty of Procurement Programs, But Which Is Right for You?

Analyst Insight: Before investing in new programs for procurement or other functional areas, organizations must evaluate each program thoroughly as implementation can be a time-consuming and expensive process. However, in many cases the long-term benefits may compensate for the short-term pain.

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CPG: Consumer Products Companies, Are You Ready For 2010?

Analyst Insight: 2009 painfully taught organizations the value of having a flexible, modular, agile supply chain - from planning through to execution. Companies learned that being prepared for uncertainty with the right people, processes and technology can be the key to business survival. CPG companies that have maintained and developed their talent, redefined their processes and strengthened their supply chain capabilities can look forward to a rewarding, yet challenging, 2010.

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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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Product Lifecycle Management: Brand-Oriented Value Chains Find PLM Quite Relevant

Analyst Insight: PLM applications have grown up in engineering or technology-oriented value chains where product and technological complexity required a much firmer grasp of specifications and proactive lifecycle management, but a number of market trends suggest PLM applications might offer important capabilities to process manufacturers.

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Pharmaceutical/Bio-Tech: Defining Tomorrow's Industry

Analyst Insight: 2009 was filled with mergers and acquisitions led by mega mergers. During this time, the definition of "pharmaceutical company" evolved, as the big players began morphing into global health care providers. As the evolution continues, processes for integrating multinational supply chains, new product lines, and rationalizing LSP contracts will challenge even the most capable and visionary supply chain executives.

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RFID, Wireless Bar Code & Voice: Steady Growth, at Lower Cost, Seen for These Technologies

Analyst Insight: 2009 was a rocky year for some aspects of this market, but stellar for others. Retail continues to roll-out voice and other technologies to ensure customer service and efficiencies, but RFID has slowed, for now. Defense logistics still is on the move with requirements and deployment of both active and passive RFID. Expect more purchases of these technologies in 2010, with a broader application of these technologies in diverse markets.

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Inventory Planning & Optimization: Management Is Key to Unlocking Working Capital

Analyst Insight: Optimizing inventory safety-stock policies without considering capacity and material constraints is not enough. Inventory management should be viewed within the context of a supply and demand balancing process associated with S&OP. Rough-cut capacity planning within the S&OP process should be augmented with inventory analysis.

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