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Managing Your Supply Chain Using Microsoft Axapta: A Book ...

by Dr. Scott Hamilton ... The period allocation key, for example, could have percentages assigned to each month in a twelve month horizon, such as 5 percent for January, 9 percent in ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2004/03/research_notes/MI_SC_XSH_03_23_04_1.asp - 24k - 2004-03-23 Summary: Managing Your Supply Chain Using Microsoft Axapta provides an overall understanding of how the system fits together to run a manufacturing or distribution business. This book excerpt focuses on running the business from the top with sales and operations planning (S&OP). Variation in operations affect the

Sales and Operations Planning Part One: Identifying and ...

by Dr. Scott Hamilton ... An item's sales forecasts are defined on the first of each month; for example, a sales order consumes forecast within a given month based on the ship date. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2003/12/research_notes/TU_ER_XSH_12_11_03_1.asp - 17k - 2003-12-11 Summary: An effective sales and operations planning game plan results in fewer stock-outs, shorter delivery lead-times, higher on-time shipping percentages, a manageable amount of expediting, and improved customer service. Several guidelines are suggested to improve a firm's sales and operations planning process

Case Study: Community College Embarks on Financial Reporting ...

by Lyndsay Wise ... The month-end process took up to two weeks to complete after each month's close; it then took an additional week to print and distribute the reports to the ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2006/12/research_notes/EN_BA_LW_12_08_06_1.asp - 15k - 2006-12-08 Summary: The Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) implemented Business Objects to create a financial reporting system that would run in real time, as opposed to taking weeks to generate reports. However, the NSCC environment presented its own unique set of challenges.

Understanding the True Cost of Sourcing

by Bill McBeath and Colin Kessinger ... This article is from Parallax View, ChainLink Research's online magazine, read by over 150,000 supply chain and IT professionals each month. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2004/04/research_notes/TN_SC_XBM_04_23_04_1.asp - 20k - 2004-04-23 Summary: In today's twenty-first century, global outsourced business world, the traditional and somewhat simplistic approaches used to measure cost for sourcing decisions of direct materials fall short.

APICS 2009 Preview Webinar Series, Session 2: Job Search ...

... Each month at least 1.8 million new jobs get posted through various Web sites, and to filter through that enormous amount of data is the biggest challenge for ... blog.technologyevaluation.com/.../ - 43k - 2009-08-25

When Provider's Value Is Not In Synch With Customer's Value

by Ann Grackin ... This article is from Parallax View, ChainLink Research's on-line magazine, read by over 150,000 supply chain and IT professionals each month. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2004/11/research_notes/TN_SC_XAG_11_02_04_1.asp - 12k - 2004-11-02 Summary: Embedded knowledge exists in the supply chain to understand and unlock customer value. Integrating the chain is crucial to aligning the goals of customers and provider.

Managing Your Suppliers as a Resource

by Jonathan Byrnes ... This article is from Parallax View, ChainLink Research's on-line magazine, read by over 150,000 supply chain and IT professionals each month. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2004/07/research_notes/TU_SC_JB_07_31_04_1.asp - 17k - 2004-07-31 Summary: Suppliers are one of your most valuable resources. Unfortunately, Many companies have supplier relationships that are tacitly adversarial. This article discusses how to manage suppliers as a resource-- defining your needs and then engaging your best suppliers to have them suggest innovative ways to deve

N-Tier Demand Management

by Bill McBeath ... This article is from Parallax View, ChainLink Research's on-line magazine, read by over 150,000 supply chain and IT professionals each month. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2004/12/research_notes/TN_SC_XBM_12_23_04_1.asp - 13k - 2004-12-23 Summary: The classic bull-whip effect means that the further a supplier is removed from the end consumer, the worse are the fluctuations in demand that they see. This has led many to recommend an n-tier approach to demand management, where everyone gets visibility to the end-customer demand at the same time. In p

Identifying the ROI of a Software Application for SCM Part 1: We ...

by Mark Wells ... If the premium freight you have paid each month for the last several months is anything but negligible, there may be an opportunity to eliminate most of that ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2001/07/research_notes/MI_EV_XWM_07_13_01_1.asp - 21k - 2001-07-13 Summary: If you are not experiencing organizational stress in some of the areas where the benefits may occur, then perhaps a decision to invest in supply chain management software should be postponed. If you do have some pain in one or more of these areas, then you can follow the concepts in this article to unde

The Next Phase of Supplier Performance Management in the Retail ...

by Mark Jones ... This article is from Parallax View, ChainLink Research's on-line magazine, read by over 150,000 supply chain and IT professionals each month. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2005/03/research_notes/TN_SC_XMJ_03_18_05_1.asp - 12k - 2005-03-18 Summary: Supplier performance management in the mass merchandising market is undergoing a renaissance of sorts. Increasingly, retailers are deploying vendor scorecards as a means of better aligning their supplier network with their corporate direction. Suppliers need to consider the implications and begin prepari