Mar 12, 2010
Industry Value Chain Strategies Service
BASF and DuPont Recognized for Leadership and Performance in Chemicals
Paul Lord
Chemical companies get little recognition in the supply chain world. Their products are feedstocks and ingredients, rather than models and brands, and they've been caricatured by images of smoke stacks and rail cars, if not worse. But for a different side of the story, here's a closer look at two industry leaders, BASF and DuPont, which were recognized in Fortune magazine's list of the world's most admired companies.
Mar 12, 2010
Industry Value Chain Strategies Service
Lenovo: The Journey of a Supply Chain Leader
Jane Barrett
Lenovo acquired IBM's Personal Computing Division in 2005 and since then has made tremendous progress in their supply chain operations. In this case study, we'll explore Lenovo's focus on customer value, which prepared the company to weather the storm of the 2009 recession.
Mar 11, 2010
Industry Value Chain Strategies Service
The Supply Chain Top 25: Don't Call My Baby Ugly!
Kevin O'Marah
The Top 25 has been successful as a vehicle for supply chain strategy development and communication. The key has been community ownership of the methodology that admittedly still has a few blemishes.
Mar 10, 2010
Industry Value Chain Strategies Service
Inventory Management: The Targets Are as Important as the Metrics
Paul Lord, David Aquino
Companies achieved significant inventory reductions in 2009, and the quest continues for many in 2010. How does a business know it has inventory under control? The answers lie in the details behind your inventory targets and your ability to manage to them.
Mar 10, 2010
Market Service: Global Business and Outsourcing Services
The Viability of Platform BPO and Supply Chain Services: A Discussion With Tata Consultancy Services' Abid Ali Neemuchwala
Dana Stiffler
Abid Ali Neemuchwala heads Tata Consultancy Services' global BPO business. He's been tasked with growing the business to $3B over the next five years. Our conversation focused on what's new and compelling in business process outsourcing (BPO), including platform-based BPO and other alternative delivery models, as well as the burgeoning supply chain BPO market.
Mar 8, 2010
Market Service: IT Management and SOA
SAP Finally Makes a Decisive Move in the B2B Market
Dennis Gaughan
SAP is finally taking a decisive step in the B2B market through its partnership with Crossgate. The move has great potential, but success hinges on how quickly SAP can convince its users that it is really committed to B2B.
Mar 4, 2010
Market Service: Supply Chain Planning and Execution
The Supply Chain Risk Leadership Council: Growing Influence, Growing Pains
Noha Tohamy
I recently spent a couple days in San Francisco at one of the many Genentech campuses. I was participating in the quarterly meeting of the Supply Chain Risk Leadership Council (SCRLC), an organization I've written about in the past. There are about 25 member companies in the SCRLC, with three new members: Intel, Applied Materials, and Edwards Lifesciences. Cisco is still doing the lion's share of the work, planning the meetings, maintaining the website, and producing the newsletter.
Mar 2, 2010
Enterprise Application Strategies
MDM Service Provider Profile: SEAL Consulting
Bill Swanton
SEAL Consulting's MDM practice is tightly focused on the needs of SAP manufacturing clients the company serves with its full service portfolio. Like most firms its size, SEAL's specialization in industries like high-tech and automotive, in addition to it being more cost-effective than larger firms, is appreciated by customers. This profile is a part of AMR Research's coverage of the MDM landscape.
Mar 1, 2010
Market Service: Supply Chain Planning and Execution
A Focus on Brazil: Avoiding Logistics and Distribution Pitfalls in Emerging Markets
Jeff Taylor
From 1997 through 2008, I worked to establish bonded warehousing operations in Brazil for various medical imaging companies to support their service-level spare parts operations. Working together with my Brazilian colleagues, I learned it does take time to establish a successful logistics footprint, but it's well worth the effort.
Feb 26, 2010
Industry Value Chain Strategies Service
Infrastructure and the Global Supply Chain: It's What You Don't See 'Til It Breaks
Kevin O'Marah
Our transportation infrastructure isn't keeping up with our growing, and changing, needs, and neither is our production infrastructure.