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Bridging the Gap Between Planning And Execution

Supply-chain plans tend to collapse when demand spikes, supplier failures and other problems at the execution level radically change the underlying assumptions. But better planning techniques, event management tools and a new generation of web-based collaborative solutions can keep these plans on track.

European Grocery Supplier Shows How CPFR Really Works

Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment may have been born in the U.S.A, but it took a German grocery supplier doing business in Spain to demonstrate true collaboration among trading partners.

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Special Issue: Collaborative Commerce - Forecasting Tool Lowers Coke Bottler's Inventory

Enabling its field sales managers to collaborate on forecasts allowed Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated to slash inventories in half while absorbing 150 new products.

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Special Issue: Collaborative Commerce - Steel Industry Provides Fertile Ground for Virtual Distribution

Straightline Source is defying the e-business odds and growing legs as a virtual distributor of carbon and flat-rolled steel. Technology enabling order efficiency and waste reduction is part of the reason.

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TaylorMade Drives Supply-Chain Efficiency With 24-Hour Club

Customization is the centerpiece of a strategy that wakes up the big golf supplier and propels it ahead of the competition in terms of agility and innovation.

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At Cisco Systems, The Internet Is Both Business And Business Model

The market leader in networking hardware creates a single enterprise of channel partners, connected by the internet, with stunning results.

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Canadian Tire Keeps Stores Rolling With Replenishment Program

Canadian Tire is perhaps Canada's most widely recognized and well established retailer, but in the early 1990s the company realized its aging stores and out-of-date replenishment system were costing it business. A major renovation of stores and re-engineering of the supply chain yielded impressive results.

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U.K. Brewer Turns to Canada's Numetrix for Supply-Chain Help

A potent mix of changing consumer tastes and legislation that forced it to sell much of its pub business caused Bass Brewers to radically tighten up its supply chain. It called in Numetrix to provide the needed technology.

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