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. 

To avoid a 7.96% increase in logistics costs, companies should follow the roadmap of Best in Class companies, which have been able to reduce costs or keep them flat via supply chain transformation. 

Welch's selected the TAKE Supply Chain Gemini™ for OPM mobile software solution and Compliance Label Manager (CLM), a barcode and radio-frequency identification (RFID) label management solution to improve the speed, visibility, accuracy and control of extended manufacturing and distribution supply chains. Read on to learn more. 

This white paper gives four tips to help you bring lean supply chain improvements to your manufacturing operation. Additionally, it discusses six technology tools that help automate these lean supply chain practices. 

This paper reviews multiple compelling issues of establishing and maintaining connectivity to manufacturing operations to achieve the Perfect Plant through an existing ERP system. 

ERP implementations don't have to take months or years. This white paper discusses how Colfax Corp. implemented IFS Applications in as little as nine weeks. It presents a case study of Colfax's complex but rapid rollout, and offers fast tracking tips from Colfax Business Analyst Jay Michael. 

This paper explains how a common platform can provide the basis for not only managing manufacturing operations, but also quality and inventory across global supplier networks. 

Atos Origin is one of the only IT services providers to combine a strong track record in the ERP space with extensive experience in the manufacturing industry and the technology specific to it, thereby adding real business value. Read on to learn more about how Atos Origin can ensure your company will excel in manufacturing in the 21st century. 

Read Aberdeen's study of those companies that have adopted a more holistic view of supply chain risks compared to lower-performing peers – and have made more progress in improving their supply chain processes and infrastructure in order to be better positioned to foresee, spot, and respond to potential disruptions. 

Returns management is an area that poses incredible challenges and opportunities for businesses. This paper will act as a guide to help you implement more effective returns management. Read on to learn more about the three pillars of effective returns management and how they can be used to drive significant costs out of returns lifecycle. 

The MMT initiative can help your company achieve this by enabling the integration of ERP, MES and other plant systems into a single source of company data. Read on to learn how Atos Origin has aligned with SAP's industry Business Units to jointly offer the MMT approach that will enable manufacturers to realize the vision of the Perfect Plant. 

This report focuses on the market events that impact demand. It explains the six market event categories that cannot be controlled but can be effectively managed if the right processes and technologies are in place. 

The objective of this paper is to present the buyside with a framework in which to understand the changes in the U.S. trading market, to offer a vision for the trading platforms that will support this new world and to explain why the future belongs to independent broker-neutral systems supplied by software firms rather than sellside brokers.