Jul 15, 2010
Supply Chain KPIs
Please join AMR Research Analysts, Debra Hofman and Jessica O'Brien, for this cross-industry teleconference, as we discuss Supply Chain KPI's.Have members modified their scorecards or emphasized different KPIs in today's economic climate? Has cash flow increased in importance? How are members using customer scorecards to gain an external view of performance? Which technologies are being used to identify root cause for derivation of KPI performance analytics? Are the causeeffect relationships between KPIs and the processes on which they execute documented and managed?
Jul 8, 2010
Financial Sustainability Metrics: Measuring Up
Sustainability has come a long way in a short time. Now that it's the norm in the marketplace and company landscape, are we closer to having access to a tool kit? After all, monetization is a critical step in the standardization of sustainability. We will look at current best practices, examine the extent to which they are or are not being employed by the corporate world, and offer some ideas as to the trends we are seeing in their evolution moving forward.
Jun 24, 2010
Incorporating Lifecycle Pricing to the Overall Merchandising Strategy
Retailers want-and need-more than the traditional linear, silo-based approach to merchandising. How does lifecycle pricing fit in to a holistic merchandising strategy? Who sets base price promotions and markdowns in your organization? What systems and processes are you using to set these prices?
Jun 23, 2010
Best Practices in Business Process Measurement and Metrics
This teleconference explores the following questions: How do you measure the performance of business processes and the financial implications? How do you tie it to the corporate goals or balanced scorecard? How do you decompose top-level goals as you work your way down the organization chart? How well is SAP supporting your end users with its BI products and content? How do you measure how different departments are utilizing the systems? What tools and techniques are members using to get hard data? What ERP system features and capabilities from the ERP, BPM, BI, and system monitoring vendors can be pressed into service?
Jun 8, 2010
Technologies for Demand Planning in an Oracle E-Business Suite Environment
The S&OP process is critical to overall profitability of the business. In this teleconference, Oracle EBS Peer Forum members, together with select Supply Chain Peer Forum members, will focus on the first piece of the S&OP puzzle, demand planning. We will discuss what technologies are best used for demand planning in an E-Business Suite environment,both for determining the statistical forecast, as well as accommodating multiple stakeholder input into the statistical demand forecast. Are the tools suitable from a statistical forecasting standpoint? Do demand planning technologies accommodate appropriate review and adjustment after the statistical forecast is generated? We will also discuss usability of demand planning technologies and how well they accommodate use by sales, marketing, and business unit managers for forecasting input.
Jun 2, 2010
Supply Chain Peer Forum US Spring Executive Summit
Save the Date: Supply Chain Peer Forum US Spring Executive Summit - June 2, 2010The Supply Chain Peer Forum US Spring Executive Summit is scheduled for Wednesday June 2nd, 2010, at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ. The summit will be held in conjunction with the AMR Spring Conference.Stay tuned ... more details to come.
Jun 2, 2010
AMR Research Supply Chain Executive Conference
"The Economy of Abundance: Rebuilding the Infrastructure of the Global Supply Chain for Sustainable Growth"The world financial crisis that froze business for most of 2009 has passed and growth appears ready to stage a comeback. But global business opportunities look radically different now as we enter the second decade of the 21st century. Infrastructure needed to tap emerging markets is being built just as an overhaul in our energy networks and manufacturing plants is beginning to accelerate. Supply chain executives are looking ahead to a smarter, more connected, and more sustainable physical and information infrastructure as they plan for 2010 and beyond. This means huge new business opportunities for industrial manufacturers as well as new challenges for consumer and retail leaders who must master a very different global supply network.
May 26, 2010
Improving the SAP User Interface to Increase Adoption
IT executives are striving to improve the overall adoption of SAP software within the enterprise, especially among the business users who are not constantly using the system. In this teleconference, AMR Research will highlight key UI design principles that companies have used to improve adoption of SAP, and then facilitate a discussion among Peer Forum members around what design techniques are most successful. Lastly, we will discuss the tools and technologies members use to support deploying SAP effectively to professional users as well as the role and future of SAP Enterprise Portal.
May 20, 2010
Successful Supply Management
Please join AMR Research Analysts, Jane Barrett and Paul Lord, for this cross-industry teleconference, as we discuss Successful Supply Management.While traditional supply chain processes focus on efficient transactions, value chain networks are built on effective relationships. The difference is not trivial, challenging deep-seated traditional supply chain paradigms. In fact, it has shaped winners and losers in the market today. How are companies shaping their supply relationships? What capabilities do they build in their own teams and how do they manage across important criteria like cost management, quality, and delivery?
May 13, 2010
The GHG Protocol and the new Scope III Initiative
The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol is the most widely used accounting tool for businesses to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions. The Protocol provides the accounting framework for nearly every GHG program in the world-from the ISO to the Carbon Disclosure Project to the California Climate Registry. It is used by hundreds of individual companies to prepare their GHG inventories. The new Scope III Initiative is trying to come up with a method to inventory the emissions across products' full lifecycles and corporate supply chains, taking into account impacts both upstream and downstream of the company's operations. How would a Scope III Protocol focused on supply chain emissions impact members? How would you build a business case for accounting for scope III emissions?