This paper discusses the fundamentals for successful demand-driven fulfillment manufacturing, including optimal channel and customer relationships, informed online buying and selling, flexible product configuration and order fulfillment and integrated operational infrastructures. 

Valero Energy Corporation selected SAP because of its ability to provide a central hub for managing all interfaces and Web services, power to serve as a single integration & development platform for nearly all of Valero's business, capability to integrate SAP and non-SAP software systems, and support for synchronous & asynchronous messaging. 

Download this white paper and explore new thinking on potential risk to global supply chains and how companies are adopting the statistical methods more commonly associated with finance and insurance. Learn how identifying and profiling risk variables, quantifying risk and using IT solutions can create higher resilience for supply chain management. 

Rapid changes within technology, new server and software deployments, and the evolving sophistication of attack methods used to infiltrate systems and steal data create the greatest set of challenges faced by security and IT administrators trying to keep their systems secure and within regulatory compliance. Interested in reducing security risk? 

This paper explores the reasons why data volumes are increasing and where bottlenecks most frequently occur. It then explains why adding more hardware isn’t a solution to these performance problems and delves into the various methods that can be used to break through the bottlenecks to speed applications. 

This white paper will explain what to look for in a complete integration platform and how to use BI technology in conjunction with BAM tools to achieve zero information latency and self-correcting processes. 

This paper examines how the stochastic multistage, multi-inventory model supports inventory optimization. It also looks at how the SAP® Enterprise Inventory Optimization application by SmartOps uses the model to help supply planners execute more effectively in a highly collaborative enterprise environment. 

When C&H Sugar decided to implement SAP console to further optimize their implementation of core SAP applications, they wanted an expert in radio frequency (RF) transactions. By partnering with Catalyst, they have achieved their goal of increasing visibility and accuracy. 

In this podcast, learn how to implement a cost-effective, efficient disaster recovery (DR) plan with virtualization. Discover 4 different DR methods that work with virtualization to help prevent future disasters. Learn how to plan for DR by defining requirements and assigning application inventory to service levels. 

As the application lifecycle evolves, components that drive efficiency and quality become more crucial. Organizations building centers of excellence (CoE) around performance testing find that the CoE centralizes resources and utilizes the full capabilities of today's robust automation products. Read on to learn more about the benefits of CoE. 

To improve inventory management and standardize procedures, Blue Bell turned to TAKE Supply Chain's Gemini Series™ for OPM mobile software solution. Read this case study to learn more about the benefits Blue Bell experienced from switching to TAKE Supply Chain’s Gemini Series™, and learn how your company can do the same. 

Read this paper to learn about a new approach to compliance that seeks to move beyond the short-term goal of passing an audit and to incorporate compliance into an organization's operations in a more proactive sense utilizing the Capability Maturity Model.