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Graybar Opening Branches in Three Additional Locations

Graybar, a distributor of electrical, communications and data-networking products, as well as a provider of related supply-chain management and logistics services, is expanding operations to three additional locations in the U.S.

Infor Issues Implementation Accelerator for Fashion Industry

Infor has made generally available the Infor Implementation Accelerator for Fashion.

Webgistix Debuts SmartShip for E-Commerce Order Fulfillment

Webgistix Corp., a vendor of software and services for electronic-commerce order fulfillment, has introduced Webgistix SmartShip.

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ARC Advisory Group Releases Supplier Selection Guide

The ARC Advisory Group has released a Global Service Provider guide to supplier selection.

Aspen Technology Issues New Version of Process-Optimization Software

Aspen Technology Inc., a vendor of software and services for the process industries, has released an update to its aspenONE suite.

Big Data Is Becoming a Big Deal for Agile S&OP

Analyst Insight: Based on a survey of 160 supply chain leaders in a recent webinar conducted by Steelwedge, we found that companies captured a whopping 70 percent more data (product, supply, demand and finance) to manage their organizations in 2012. Yet, 77 percent of these businesses are not actually leveraging this data in their S&OP processes, thereby leaving "blind spots" in their decision making processes around critical supply/demand trade-offs. - Nari Viswanathan, Vice President of Product Management, Steelwedge

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Sales & Operations Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg

Analyst Insight: For the past 30 years, sales and operations planning (S&OP) has been espoused by the Oliver Wight organization based on its founder's concepts. It has manifested itself to include inventory (SIOP) and has morphed into integrated business planning (IBP). However, only within the last five years, has it been heralded and crossed the chasm to mainstream business practice. We think it may only be the tip of the iceberg though, not the core solution to step-change improved performance. - Rich Sherman, Supply Chain Discipline Expert at Trissential

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Future of Warehouse Automation

There are several overarching themes driving the push for more automation inside the four walls. Some relate to changing demographics in the labor force, others to how consumers are shopping today, and let's not overlook the constant striving for more efficiency, productivity and cost reduction.

China's Logistics Value to Develop 10 Percent in 2013

China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) made a preliminary estimation that China's social logistics value, the collective value of all logistics operations in the country, and the industry's added value, will be growing at a rate of 10 percent in 2013, and that there's little chance that the percentage logistics costs take up in the gross domestic product will drop.

Best-in-Class Capabilities Define the Difference in Sales & Operations Planning

Analyst Insight: Sales and operations planning (S&OP) still remains a challenge for many organizations. In Aberdeen Group's recent report, S&OP: A Critical Process for Superior Performance, we identified that more than half of the companies (56 percent) that are not best-in-class do not yet have a formalized S&OP process in place. The question becomes "Why and what are the differences between best-in-class and all others?" The answer can be found by examining differences between them for process and organizational capabilities. - Bryan Ball, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Aberdeen Supply Chain practice

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PrimeRevenue Issues New Version of OpenSCi Supplier Platform

PrimeRevenue Inc., creator of a hosted platform for global supply-chain finance, has released version 5.5 of its OpenSCi SCiSupplier platform.

Optimizing Inventory to Respond to Demand Variability

Analyst Insight: While much has been written about demand driven, daily demand variability drives operations crazy. Most current inventory planning and optimization applications are disconnected from daily reality resulting in operations relying on custom spreadsheets and tribal knowledge to reconcile the gaps between plan and actual. In addition, the inventory planning applications are often disconnected from the optimization applications (if implemented at all), further exacerbating the operations conundrum. - Rich Sherman, Supply Chain Discipline Expert at Trissential

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