This white paper explores how the power of an information availability solution can unlock the latent potential of your IT environment and deliver new value for your organization. 

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. 

Supply chain visibility ranks as one of the top two application focus areas for companies as part of their supply chain technology investment plans. Supply chain executives view visibility as the main goal for supply chain executives within supply chain initiatives. Read this paper for more. 

Maintain operational efficiency while cutting supply chain costs with new approaches, technologies, and methodologies. Third party logistics providers, radio frequency identification rentals, and attribute-based demand planning can help you reduce supply chain costs and boost customer satisfaction. 

Petmate enlisted the help of TAKE Supply Chain's X.PC to not only streamline the administration of contract manufacturing for Petmate. Read this case study to learn how X.PC transformed Petmate's manual approach to working with manufacturers through a Web-based collaborative environment that improved shared communications. 

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. 

This white paper is designed to give warehouse operations and IT managers an understanding of the capabilities of SAP's ERP Yard Management and Cross-Docking solutions. Introduced with Release 4.7 extension set 2.0, SAP continues to improve its Logistics offering, while minimizing the gap between Best-of-Breed software solutions. 

This 2-hour complimentary virtual seminar on performance management (PM) takes place on October 21 and continues on November 4th — Join us to learn how PM can help you improve visibility into your manufacturing business so you can reduce costs, speed delivery and efficiency, satisfy customers and create innovative new products. 

This white paper is designed to give warehouse operations managers and IT managers a useful framework for understanding SAP's newer Warehouse Management (WM) application functionality. It encompasses a look at both the core ERP Central Component (ECC) functionality in addition to the SCM Extended Warehouse Management product. 

From a manufacturing executive's perspective, focusing on an open and flexible Manufacturing Operations Management platform creates a competitive weapon. This research provides a roadmap for creating such a platform in a cost effective way that still delivers benefits, such as higher levels of profitability. 

Learn how you can transform traditional supply chains from linear, sequential processes into adaptive supply chain networks. 

Channel management is a pressing issue for high-tech manufacturers that sell through partners. IDC believes that companies that leverage channels partners should begin to integrate channel management into broader corporate infrastructure applications that include the supply chain and potentially PLM applications.