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A New Study on Supply-Chain Risk

ImpactFactor recently completed a study on supply-chain risk, surveying managers of more than 100 companies. The results were not encouraging. According to managing director Bill McBeath, many companies don't consider proactive risk-management to be a strategic tool. He was "shocked" at how level their level of investment in that area was, with half reporting expenditures of $50,000 or less to audit and assess suppliers. "Not a single one spent more than $3m," he says. "Given the huge potential impact [of risk] on their shares, we believe companies are seriously under-investing."

HelpSTAR Releases 2012 Collaborative Workflow Service Desk

Graybar Simplifies Network Connections in Commercial Locations

Graybar, a distributor of electrical, communications and data-networking products for supply-chain management and logistics, has made possible an alternative method of enabling network connections in commercial facilities.

International Container Transport Managers Focus on Last Mile Visibility

Transportation Management Tech Advances Create BI, Enable Cross-Functional Integration

Analyst Insight: Shippers have made great advances in transportation management in the last decade by centralizing procurement and transportation planning organizations, as well as investing in TMS. The question now is: What's the next big thing? As the use of supply chain technology and information sharing grows, there is an increase in the meaningful use of information and integrating transportation with other functions. These areas have already demonstrated significant benefits for pioneering shippers and are clearly breakthroughs in transportation management. - Bill Loftis, principal, Tompkins International

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Supply Chain Execution Convergence: Exploiting a SCE Platform For Competitive Advantage

Analyst Insight: Most supply chain management organizations struggle with functional and application silos that make orchestrating and synchronizing business processes across their organization near impossible. Supply chain execution convergence is an emerging Gartner concept where SCE functional silos are broken down and business processes span, optimize and synchronize across traditional functional domains. - Dwight Klappich, vice president, Gartner Inc.

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The Quest for Cost Efficiencies in Warehouse Management Continues in 2012

Analyst Insight: Warehouse management system vendors have used the slower market demand of 2009 and 2010 to invest in improved architecture and functionality. Today, the WMS market has seen a robust return in upgrades and new solution selections. Leading WMS application providers - from integrated ERP solutions to best-of-breed suite applications - all tout upgrades in architecture, new user interfaces and robust operational support. - Kevin Hume, principal, Tompkins International

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Psion Issues New Version of Rugged Handheld Computer

Valogix Offers Upgrade of Supply-Chain Cloud Application

Risk Management: It's All About The Supply Chain

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Sales & Operations Planning... Business Management in Near Real Time?

Analyst Insight: The sales and operations planning process has evolved from manufacturing conflict resolution in the late 1980s to data- and visibility-enhanced strategic demand and supply balancing for retail executives today. This is a remarkable evolution for a concept. As visibility continues to increase, could S&OP become the primary tool for managing supply chains or, for some, complete businesses? - Ralph Cox, principal, Tompkins International

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Opportunities Driving Product Lifecycle Management Forward

Analyst Insight: For as long as we can remember, product lifecycle management technology has evolved in an incremental way, absorbing and exploiting new technologies as they've come along and steadily gaining in capability to meet the challenges of multi-organisation product development efforts and supply chains. Currently, the PLM solutions industry is being subjected to a looming confluence of pressures that represents both a major challenge to established approaches and a substantial opportunity for harnessing new technologies to drive further benefit. - Tony Christian, principal analyst, Cambashi

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