It's getting more and more difficult for SAP customers to contain the costs of supply chain management. This eBook looks at the technologies and techniques that SAP customers are using to optimize their sourcing processes and to make their supply chains as efficient as possible. 

This report provides a roadmap for the strategies and capabilities that Best-in-Class companies are employing to improve operational performance. 

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. 

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. 

A complete desktop management solution needs to be one that not only meets the standardization requirements of the computer, but simultaneously meets the personalized needs of the user. Desktop Authority 8 comprehensively manages the Windows desktop throughout the desktop lifecycle, reducing the total cost of desktop and application ownership. 

"Company ABC" is a successful enterprise with an annual storage growth rate of 70%, and a series of data management challenges. Check out this report to see what they uncovered by conducting a file system inventory -- and how they used that information to reduce costs and improve data management. 

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. 

This paper examines how you can gain reliable, accessible information from efficient, integrated IT systems – and use that information to make faster, smarter decisions. In turn, the right decisions will lead to better operations and a stronger competitive position. 

F5 Data Manager helps you understand your file storage environment. This trial version will perform an inventory of your environment and enable you to run detailed reports that analyze which file types are being created, who is creating them, how quickly they age, and which resources they consume. 

IT organizations with high VM deployment rates often experience performance and capacity utilization problems. Without visibility into capacity usage, VMware admins can not manage vm deployments to optimized CPU, memory and storage utilization. 

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. 

This paper discusses the fundamentals for successful Lean manufacturing, including the establishment of optimal customer relationships, improved channel visibility, flexible product configuration, shortened cycle times, improved capacity utilization and integrated operational infrastructures.