Why Outsourcing Your EDI Initiative is an Effective Strategy | Article
Are you considering how to revamp your supply chain to EDI? Outsourcing this function brings some surprising benefits — value far beyond the IT infrastructure.
Category: Supply chain management
April 1, 2003 | 0 comments | Read More
Outsourcing Helps Large Canadian Retailer Tie All Its Suppliers Together Online | Article
One of the largest retailers in Canada wanted to connect all its vendors electronically. Outsourcing made that daunting task possible. The reasonable price meant even the smallest vendors could afford to plug in.
February 1, 2003 | 0 comments | Read More
Decreasing Delivery Headaches | Article
Any company doing business on a global scale knows what a hassle supply chain management can be. Everything from procurement to receiving becomes a difficult task when multiple currencies, customs departments and logistics are considered. And it’s that difficulty that drove Hong Kong-based global logistics management company, United States Consolidation (USC), Ltd., to look to an outsourcing supplier to ease the pain of supply chain management (SCM).
September 1, 2001 | 0 comments | Read More
Twilight Time | Article
The rumormongers and journalists who quickly pen sensational bad-news headlines would have you believe that Exchanges and B2B Marketplaces (last year’s newest Internet darlings) all failed and died practically overnight. They pronounce judgments on why it happened: the hype made businesses adapt the model before it was proven; many companies were not willing or able yet to handle the internal processes that go with the technology of such an extended, networked enterprise; buyers didn’t venture beyond their already established list of suppliers, and even that the procurement folks didn’t coordinate with the planning/administrative folks in many companies.
April 1, 2001 | 0 comments | Read More
SRM Alliances | Article
Supply and demand. This mission-critical component of business has shifted from price and availability to collaboration. Meta Group predicts the SRM market will be $32 billion by 2003. SRM tools enable supply planning so that there is instant visibility across the extended supply chain, allowing companies to drive inventory out; with collaboration, order management becomes a match between demand and capacity.
April 1, 2001 | 0 comments | Read More
ASP in Brazil | Article
When Brasilia, Brazil’s capital, was built, one of the city architects suggested planting grass everywhere instead of paving sidewalks. People could walk wherever they wanted. Where natural paths emerged, the concrete would follow.
April 1, 2001 | 0 comments | Read More
High-Quality Impermanent Solutions | Article
Even a Fortune 500 company can fail. All it takes is a decision to invest dollars, time and people in the latest and greatest technological wonder. Sure, an Internet-driven world demands that executives quickly take advantage of innovations that technology promises will give them a competitive edge. But they can reap the benefits without incurring the risks or investment.
April 1, 2001 | 0 comments | Read More
Outsourcing Grows as Economy Slows | Article
With the threat of Y2K glitches, many companies delayed outsourcing commitments during the final half of 1999. But companies returned to outsourcing in 2000. Megadeals lit up the landscape, says Bob Pryor, vice president of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young (CGEY) and head of its Global Operate – Americas outsourcing business in the U.S…
January 1, 2001 | 0 comments | Read More
Sorting Through the Rubble | Article
New vendors around every corner. Mega deals. Dead dotcoms. And even some fallout from Y2K. They littered the year 2000 battlegrounds in the outsourcing arena. Gartner Dataquest’s Bruce Caldwell, senior analyst-outsourcing, recently completed reports and forecasts from his company’s surveys of end user wants and needs in the world of IT. He says the turmoil in the IT services marketplace this past year was a factor in a dip in the IT services revenue that had been forecasted for 2000.
January 1, 2001 | 0 comments | Read More
Project 10X | Article
How can companies get a 10 percent improvement in purchasing supply costs in the next 10 years? Phillip Carter, director of the Center for Advanced Purchasing Studies (CAPS) at Arizona State University in Tempe, will spend the next two years answering that question. Outsourcing, he predicts, will be a significant strategy for businesses to achieve cost savings of that magnitude…
March 1, 2000 | 0 comments | Read More
No Finish Line: A View of the Future for Purchasing and Supply | Article
Purchasing and supply management affect much more than material and service flow, and current trends cast their role and importance in sharper focus than ever.
December 1, 1999 | 0 comments | Read More
Teaming Up with Go-To-Market Partners | Article
While overall growth will continue throughout the outsourcing industry, functional outsourcing will play an even more dynamic role in reshaping the global marketplace, according to Scott Anderson, senior operating executive, Commercial Sector, MCI Systemhouse.
January 1, 1999 | 0 comments | Read More
