Today’s global supply chains are marked by lack of visibility and long decision-making times that make it difficult to plan and execute with the speed and precision required by today's volatile markets. This paper explains how to establish a highly collaborative, demand-driven planning process that will help you overcome these modern challenges. 

Read this presentation transcript for an explanation of today's extended supply chain, and explores technologies and strategies for improving visibility for better collaboration. 

Access this white paper to discover a smart approach to commerce. In this era of the empowered consumer, customer relationship management is a vital to your enterprises success. Discover a smarter commerce strategy that enables you to reduce, or avoid, the potential for unsatisfied customers. 

With global supply chains, volatile markets, growing volumes of "big data," and advancements in real-time analytics capabilities, technological enablement of sales and operations planning (S&OP) is gaining increasing importance for today's manufacturers. Read this IDC paper to learn more. 

Many procurement organizations struggle to meet savings goals with an overworked staff using time-consuming, manual processes or outdated systems. Read this paper to learn how to better collaborate with key stakeholders, qualify suppliers, ensure a competitive bidding process, and negotiate contract terms with suppliers. 

Read this paper to learn how AmerisourceBergen enlisted the help of SAP to replace its aging technology infrastructure and move to robust, scalable, integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform that has allowed the company to re-engineer its entire customer user experience to offer lightning-fast ordering and seamless fulfillment. 

Discover innovative commerce technologies designed to enable businesses to sell smarter and transform buyers into loyal, returning customers. Uncover the 6 key selling areas these strategies target, including cross-channel selling, payments and settlements, store solutions, distributed order management, and more. 

Workforces are aging, and there also is a critical shortage of talent in today's business pool, creating an imperative initiative for human resources. This paper explains the necessity to forecast the future through strategic workforce planning and also offers up six pitfalls to avoid when venturing down the recruitment and talent management path. 

This white paper discusses strategic workforce planning for a changing business environment and methods for improving your business strategy. 

Enterprise resource leader, SAP founded in 1972, is facing the slow death of traditional on-premise ERP. Customers with shrinking IT budgets are opting to outsource more of their core business systems. 

In this podcast, learn how to ensure high availability (HA) to meet end user needs. Discover how virtualization software helps ensure optimal HA and get tips to plan for your high availability requirements. Find out how to combine virtualization software with servers and planning time to reach high levels of availability. 

Companies are successfully leveraging IBM's Smart SOA™ Approach based on IBM's experience of working with more than 6550 customers worldwide. 

This white paper discusses how on-demand solutions are revolutionizing business-to-business collaboration and how you can create community within your business partner network.