This white paper will enumerate the critical business challenges, as well as specific opportunities and benefits of working aggressively to achieve inbound supply integration. 

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. 

Every company in the automotive market has run up against an array of difficult challenges. However, such challenges are addressable. This paper will show how industry leaders are prospering and will outline five key factors that differentiate them from industry laggards. 

Companies do not always know what technologies or processes exist that can help them achieve their desired improvements. Read this paper to learn how Catalyst Logistics Assessment for SAP, makes it easy and affordable to identify specific areas where they can improve. 

Check out this page of links to learn what ILOG has to offer as it is now part of IBM. Read on for more information about IBM WebSphere ILOG BRMS, optimization, and visualization products. 

In this expert podcast, industry analyst Simon Jacobson discusses the best starting point for a quality improvement initiative within a manufacturing plant, explores what types of software and technology can be used for support, explains why the IT team plays a key role in its success, offers tips on how to reduce error rates, and more. 

ConAgra Foods, Inc. is one of North America's largest packaged food companies. With the help of SAP and SmartOps, the company was able to tackle its key challenges in making its supply chain more efficient. Read this case study to learn about the challenges ConAgra faced along with the benefits achieved from implementing SAP and SmartOps solutions. 

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. 

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

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. 

Supply chain operations play a vital role in the success of any consumer or high-tech original equipment manufacturer (OEM). This SAP Executive Insight examines how the adoption of industry best practices can add value to your organization. 

This paper explains why a warehouse management system (WMS) is one of the key technologies required to create a successful adaptive supply chain network. This system enables the extended warehouse to sense and respond to a variety of business requirements and meet complex and changing customer needs. 

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.