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0.9573 The Lean Challenge in Demand-Driven Value Chains - Supply Chain Leader
... Toyota's Success Pleases Proponents of 'Lean'" may have left some readers confused. On one hand, it attributes Toyota's success to lean manufacturing. On the other hand, it quotes survey results from management consulting firm Bain & Company stating that just 19 percent of companies that have tried ... in environments beyond simple make-to-replenish. Still, the concepts of lean manufacturing are fundamentally sound and pragmatic, and there is significant interest among industry professionals to use lean manufacturing to realize demand-driven order fulfillment. What is standing in the way of better ... in today's fast-moving, short-cycle manufacturing environment. There may be high employee turnover, eroding the knowledge base established over many years that fosters a systematic, "best-practice" approach to operations. Also, as manufacturing becomes less centralized and more distributed, it gets ... 		Web Page
0.9018 Cycle-Time Optimization - Column - Supply Chain Leader
... their traditional supply chains to include raw-materials suppliers and manufacturing organizations around the world. In this new model—which requires retailers to assume the risks associated with raw materials, manufacturing and inventory—retailers must view each supply chain process as an ... most cost-effective materials and manufacturing processes. Instead of being presented with final designs, and then scrambling to line up materials and manufacturing facilities, buyers become part of a fluid design process that considers materials and manufacturing costs up front. In addition, the ... of supplier costs and capacity constraints. Products are manufactured and brought to market faster, and profitability is enhanced through strategic supplier negotiations that make the most of purchasing investments. Integrated manufacturing planning. Private-label product teams can cut significant ... 		Web Page
0.9015 Private-Label Sourcing: What's Next After China? - Cover Story - Supply Chain Leader
Private-Label Sourcing: What's Next After China? It's easy to see why China has risen to become the global center for manufacturing private-label goods. By taking advantage of China's historically low wages, large workforce, strong infrastructure, positive currency exchange rates and relatively low ... announced a minimum salary increase of 10 percent in its capital city, Beijing, which will have an immediate impact on the profitability of manufacturing goods there. In addition, competitive pressures driving shorter lead and response times, coupled with the skyrocketing costs of fuel, are making ... tolerate retail price increases for most goods. But it is becoming increasingly clear that China is not a long-term, sustainable option for manufacturing private-label goods. The move away from Chinese sourcing of private-label goods will represent an enormous economic shift that is sure to affect ... 		Web Page
0.9012 What are the top priorities in supply chain management for your business? - Supply Chain Leader
... Vice President, Supply Chain Burt's Bees We are very comfortable with the progress we've made in the last few years implementing lean manufacturing and developing our employee-involvement culture. The next supply chain challenge is taking our philosophy of doing business upstream to our supply ... process streams—not only where our materials are coming from, but how they are made, how are they packaged and how much energy is used in their manufacture. Is it renewable energy? What is the waste? We look at all the elements involved. We have set a very aggressive goal as a company that by the ... at outsourcing manufacturing, and, because of our explosive growth (20 percent a year), we do use outsourced partners for some products to meet demand. But in general we want to make all of our own products. We feel there is a multitude of benefits to keeping our manufacturing in house. None of this ... 		Web Page
0.8909 How Do You Design a Supply Chain Organization to Achieve Maximum Value? - Opinion - Supply Chain Leader
... businesses that have acknowledged this concept are still viewing the supply chain organization as a mere cost center—responsible for sourcing, manufacturing and delivering products—that is separate from the higher-value activities associated with delighting customers and driving sales. Properly ... 		Web Page
0.8909 Planning at a Global Scale Pays off for VF Corp - Supply Chain Leader
... was in order to figure out ways to reduce costs and speed up processes, such as washing processes, for instance. Systems looked inside the manufacturing locations to optimize the reporting capability, to track the goods from A to B and to pay the people. Quality was important, and lead times were ... doing some sourcing of finished product. But because of the 807 program—giving U.S. companies tax breaks to manufacture in the Caribbean and Latin America—we started doing some manufacturing south of the border to augment our production. Since that time, we have done a 180-degree shift.We now own no ... 		Web Page
0.8792 What Impact Will Radio Frequency Id Have on Supply Chain Management? - Supply Chain Leader
... There are many ways to achieve this kind of resilience, from using modular product design to having multiple sources of supply, distributed manufacturing assets, late customization of products and collaborative agreements with suppliers, as well as information systems capable of monitoring demand in ... consider the potential for disruption in every major decision they make—decisions on what products to offer, where to source, where to locate manufacturing, how many suppliers to contract with, and how to qualify suppliers—because you are only as resilient as the weakest link in your supply chain ... table, with a full voice in how the business is run, for some time. At Helix (a division of Brooks), we were a pioneer in developing a manufacturing model that is very responsive to customers—a model that helps us deal with supply disruptions and unexpected demand in a very effective way. We did it ... 		Web Page
0.8790 Interview: Buying it Right at Sprint - Supply Chain Leader
... of "where and who" we ship to is quite diverse. What is the nature of the competitive environment? The global telecom market is forecasted to manufacture over 1 billion devices in 2008. It's a very competitive environment, with more than 80 percent saturation in the United States. The companies who ... forecasted to manufacture over 1 billion devices in 2008. It's a very competitive environment with over 80 percent saturation in the United States. What was your first challenge when you came to Sprint almost four years ago? When I joined Sprint, we needed to improve in our inventory forecasting and ... that they manufacture and deliver the goods when we need them.What we needed was more accuracy and more agility in our demand and supply modeling. What we don't want to have is our suppliers manufacturing the wrong quantities - too few or too many.We didn't want them manufacturing the wrong models ... 		Web Page
0.8789 Creating Greater Agility with Plan-Do-Check-Act - Supply Chain Leader
... to meet its own goals, without formal synchronization with the company's overarching goals. Plans across finance, sales, inventory, manufacturing and supply are largely disconnected and operating in silos. Also, at this lowest maturity level, planning and execution are disconnected, and postmortems ... Sales, Manufacturing and Supply are constraint-optimized and periodically synchronized. Conditions change, though, and these plans become invalid very rapidly when variances occur. For example: Sales and Manufacturing may have agreed to a plan, but, because of a supply shortage, Manufacturing might ... and this gap gives rise to gaming: Sales may overstate demand because it doesn't have confidence that Manufacturing will deliver all of what Sales requests. On the other hand, Manufacturing may start judging sales forecasts downward, since it expects that requests for orders will be padded or biased ... 		Web Page
0.8788 Dell 2.0: Becoming the Customers Trusted Adviser - Supply Chain Leader
... to retire. How does someone who has run manufacturing and supply chain operations for over 30 years translate those capabilities into call centers? Michael and I believe that there is an amount of rigor and discipline that we apply to manufacturing operations that can be applied to call centers. In ... of processes just as we have in manufacturing. And we have a very defined output—a customer who is not only satisfied but also very pleased with the experience she has just had. And all of these factors are highly measurable, just as in manufacturing. When you come down to it, both areas are really ... 		Web Page
0.8788 New Tools for a New Generation - Supply Chain Leader
... demand information to adjust manufacturing plans to fit changing conditions. Under previous generations, S&OP was typically a monthly, meeting-based process, where managers of different functional areas combined their information to determine adjustments to manufacturing plans. In some cases, this ... supply chain from actual customer demand instead of from sales forecasts. Traditionally, companies use sales forecasts or plans to determine manufacturing and purchasing requirements. But rarely does actual demand for each product conform to the forecast, leaving the company with excess inventory ... market acceptance, while offshore manufacturing increases the lead time required to react to changes. The ability to integrate actual customer demand, and even demand from a customer's customer or point-of-sale (POS) data, enables a company to continually adjust its supply chain. Instead of driving ... 		Web Page
0.8656 Recession-Resistant Demand Management Strategies and Tactics - Supply Chain Strategy - Supply Chain Leader
This is now: AMR Research's February report, “2009 Consumer Products Market Outlook: Anything but Business as Usual,” states unequivocally, “Never in our history have we experienced the level of demand volatility we'll see in 2009...85 percent of [consumer product companies interviewed] showed an increase in volatility at the end of 4Q.” For near-term forecasting, increase reliance on collaboration inputs from key customers. Escalate the most significant changes in demand patterns for manual ... 		Web Page
0.8655 Asian Paints enables growth through improved planning
... product SKUs and many made-to-order formulations, and operates about 80 sales offices to support its marketing and distribution efforts. "We manufacture products at five production locations owned by the company, and at several contract manufacturers who make specialty or low-end finishes for us ... manufacturing sites into a cohesive entity that enables us to deliver products to our customers without holding a large amount of inventory, while managing our cash cycle." This dynamic marketing and production environment requires a sophisticated and robust supply chain. In its search for a true ... and shop floor scheduling. Asian Paints applies advanced master planning technologies to decide which products should be produced at which manufacturing plants, incorporating variables such as cost and demand volume, capacity, current inventory levels, environmental requirements and other factors ... 		Web Page
0.8655 The Case for Knowledge Process Outsourcing - Supply Chain Leader
... ABC Semiconductor had manufacturing sites spread across five continents. Because of a siloed approach, oftentimes the different business units within ABC were talking to the same customers. Each business unit had its own relationship with one of ABC's manufacturing sites, creating massive ... units focus on sales, marketing and design. Manufacturing became a shared asset that was its own cost center focused on increasing efficiencies and getting the best return on capital investments. It didn't make sense to purchase manufacturing equipment that wasn't going to be in production often ... made the innovative (at the time) move of using a mixed strategy of internal and external manufacturing sites. In the quest to find cost-effective ways of doing things, it determined that in some cases it was smarter to use subcontractor resources, and in others it was best to keep production ... 		Web Page
0.8655 How do you initiate and sustain agility? - Supply Chain Leader
... would have some unified authorization for global operations. But, no surprise: the systems approach alone did not work. Since each sales and manufacturing site had separate profit and loss accounts, everyone was concerned about the implications of financial transfers, and similar issues. Although ... resource management, resource operations, manufacturing, distribution and customer service.We have three types of operations at Samsung: assembly, semiconductor process and engineer-to-order network equipment.We tried to improve manufacturing lead time. So, with the assembly products—televisions ... in the time it takes to change the plant set-up to accommodate different models. We also changed our production process for semiconductor manufacturing.We used to put a lot of inventory on the floor so the machinery didn't run out of jobs. The result was that our work-in-process (WIP) inventory was ... 		Web Page
0.8512 Short Product Life Cycles Demand Innovation Throughout the Business - Supply Chain Leader
... with each new product, let alone of setting and achieving longterm strategic goals. They make enormous investments in design, tooling, manufacturing and inventory, often without a well-defined plan for maximizing profitability over the entire product life cycle. Often, the life cycle ends before the ... of launching new products much more frequently. In addition, supply chains have become increasingly complex, with raw materials suppliers and manufacturing facilities around the world contributing to the ultimate profitability of every product. Overwhelmed by the sheer volume of supply chain ... Material Cost Demand Volume Price Terms and Conditions Flex Capability Time Zone vs. Global: where to produce for which market for what device Manufacturing Model Demand vs. Capacity Inbound Outbound Conversion Cost Service/Returns Disposition Markdown Reuse Cannibalization Benchmark Life Cycle Cost ... 		Web Page
0.8512 A Holistic Approach to Forecast Optimization - Supply Chain Leader
... of the parameters, or levers, necessary to control the forecast error. Many of these levers may reside in other business processes, such as manufacturing, distribution, inventory, competitive intelligence, point-of-sale (POS) information and sales methodology. Forecast optimization, then, is a ... on risk, into the categories of Firm (forecast for which parts can be manufactured ahead of time), Flex (parts manufactured no earlier than three months in advance, based on market conditions) and Risk (parts manufactured only one month in advance, based on latest market intelligence). This ... 		Web Page
0.8511 How (and How Often) Do You Measure Supply Chain Results? - Supply Chain Leader
... into our metrics achievement throughout the supply chain, allowing team members to quickly review the performance of their product group or manufacturing site and, if necessary, to do a root-cause analysis and remediate issues. Speed is another key component to our success. There is significant ... differentiator for Fairchild Semiconductor. James Geesey Director of eSourcing,, Emerson Emerson has over 60 divisions with more than 270 manufacturing facilities all around the world. Raw materials are approximately 40 percent of our sales, so our procurement processes are very important to our ... 		Web Page
0.8511 Meeting and Exceeding Customer Expectations at Teich AG - Supply Chain Leader
... owned subsidiary of Constantia Flexibles, Austria-based Teich Aktiengesellschaft utilizes aluminum, paper and other prime raw materials to manufacture high-quality packaging for manufacturers in the dairy, confectionery, food, pharmaceutical and pet industries. To meet the exacting standards of ... advanced planning and manufacturing execution technologies to create a highavailability, real-time supply chain solution. The new rolling-foil facility would incorporate sophisticated management capabilities to manage scheduling and tools, material flow, manufacturing execution and shop-floor ... in the planning and control of the production of metals, paper and other industrial products. 4Production applied its unique knowledge of manufacturing production systems to deliver a solution that integrated its 4P MES production management system with i2 Factory Planner technology. This approach ... 		Web Page
0.8511 What's on the Horizon? - Supply Chain Leader
4. Rich data from smart devices will demand and empower new management practices 5. Supply chains will know what an individual consumer's needs are as the consumer does 7. Advanced simulation tools will accelerate a business's ability to reconfigure rapidly 		Web Page
0.8507 Supply Chain Leader - Issue 4 - Short Product Life Cycles Demand Innovation Throughout the Business
... States and Europe have certainly recognized the value of these Asia-Pacific countries for cost-effective outsourcing--with China known for manufacturing and India primarily for services-- only a few Western businesses have achieved any success in capturing the potential of these markets. As the ... domestic markets to a truly global business--with multiple manufacturing locations, a variety of transportation modes, diverse cost structures and highly differentiated markets. Decisions about where to source materials, where to manufacture and where to sell products are suddenly much more complex ... 		Web Page
0.8351 Four Megatrends That Will Change Supply Chain Management - Supply Chain Leader
... But each option adds complexity to the supply chains underneath it. This forces companies to deal with distributed procurement, fulfillment, manufacturing and distribution at an increasing velocity due to the increased segmentation and volatility in market demand signals. MEGATREND 2: Globalization ... commitments. The likely ramifications of globalization for supply chain management are: Concentration of supply In the new distributed manufacturing and distribution paradigm, organizations will have to become more agile in addition to remaining lean. They will have to establish greater ... 		Web Page
0.8351 Enabling Continuous Process Improvement as Never Before - Supply Chain Leader
... Quality Management (TQM), followed shortly thereafter by other improvement methods, such as business process reengineering, Six Sigma, lean manufacturing and constraint theory. These continuousprocess methods shared a central characteristic. All were applied to refining processes that were already ... more revolutionary than evolutionary. Because the SCM environment has been more turbulent, and because it has been perceived as support for manufacturing rather than as a co-equal system component in its own right, changes to supply chains have been less deliberately planned and more reactive. And ... particularly computerization and automation) has driven a breakneck pace in manufacturing improvements, supply chain managers found themselves struggling to keep pace.What good is it to realize oneor two-day manufacturing cycle time if it takes eight weeks to obtain raw materials and three weeks to ... 		Web Page
0.8347 Can a Green Supply Chain Be an Efficient Supply Chain? - Opinion - Supply Chain Leader
Can a Green Supply Chain Be an Efficient Supply Chain? Kimberly Knickle Practice Director Emerging Agenda Manufacturing Insights Companies are finding motivation to become green for a variety of reasons. One specific catalyst is government regulations, and from this beachhead the movement expands ... be reduced, companies need to closely examine the entire value chain. For instance, a review could reveal that changing a sourcing policy or manufacturing closer to home would reduce overall transportation costs. Organizations that examine the issue holistically and start thinking about the entire ... 		Web Page
0.8347 Managing Dynamic Demand in Electronics - Supply Chain Leader
Managing Dynamic Demand in Electronics The revenues of a global leader in semiconductor manufacturing had stalled over the last decade. The company wanted to increase its market share, especially in the area of high-volume logic chips. One way to do this was by improving its ability to deliver chips ... built, and the locations where they were stocked. Adopting a postponement strategy The solution was to postpone the last stages of product manufacturing so that the company could delay making decisions about the final form of work-in-process products until demand trends were clearer. There are ... this manufacturer simulated different postponement and stocking strategies. This involved segmenting products in different ways—ranging from manufacturing constraints to demand profiles—until the company found an inventory management approach that optimized these factors. Mindful that any ... 		Web Page
0.8347 7 Principles of Supply Chain Agility - Supply Chain Leader
The following capabilities allow multiple enterprises and organizations within one company to act as one: Closed-loop plan management is made up of the following capabilities: Proactive monitoring and analysis of threats: Agile companies monitor sales data at their door and at the channel outlets on a frequent—often, daily—basis. 		Web Page
0.8342 i2 and the i2 User Group Announce Ken Sharma Awards of Excellence Finalists
i2 and the i2 User Group Announce Ken Sharma Awards of Excellence Finalists Companies from across the high tech, manufacturing, retail and consumer products industries were recently named finalists for the Ken Sharma Award of Excellence. Co-sponsored by i2 and the i2 User Group, the annual award ... inventory and order leads times, in addition to reducing response time for customer inquiries from 2-3 hours to 6 seconds. Lenovo develops, manufactures and markets high-quality, secure and easy-to-use technology products and services worldwide and dedicates itself to building the world's most ... supply chain information for enhanced and faster analysis. Maxim Integrated Products is a worldwide leader in the design, development and manufacture of the analog, mixed-signal, high-frequency and digital circuits. Through its implementation of i2 solutions, Maxim has achieved significant ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Incitec Pivot Fertilisers adds speed and accuracy to supply chain planning - Supply Chain Leader
... the important sales and operational planning process, and to fine tune production volumes to achieve peak efficiencies at the company's manufacturing plants. Like many organizations, this agricultural supplier had previously relied on a mixture of software systems, spreadsheets and human talent to ... Pivot Headquarters: Southbank, Australia Products/Services: Incitec Pivot Limited is a leading global chemicals company with nitrogen-based manufacturing at its core. The company is the number one supplier of fertilizers in Australia; the number one supplier of explosives products and services in ... Approximately 4,500 Operations: Extensive operations throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Australia, including more than 20 manufacturing plants, multiple distribution centers and well-established channels to market. Objectives: Reduce working capital requirements Optimize fertilizer ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Fuel for Thought: Strategies for Counteracting Soaring Oil Prices - Issue 6 - Supply Chain Leader
... for the carriers with whom they contract. Planning and control Driven largely by reduced manufacturing costs, companies have made dramatic moves during the past 25 years to low-cost country (LCC) manufacturing sources, particularly in China and the Asia-Pacific region (For more on this topic, see ... a percentage of total supply chain costs. Once oil reaches a certain threshold, companies may benefit by sourcing closer to home. Although the manufacturing unit costs may still be higher in many cases, those costs are offset by the increased shipping costs from offshore locations." ("What is the ... 		Web Page
0.8169 News Briefs - Supply Chain Leader
... Bees uses i2 solutions to more precisely manage key manufacturing variables, from work-center capacity and set-up times to material availability, labor availability, due dates and production policies. Built on the principles of lean manufacturing and constraint-based planning, i2 solutions enable ... through more effective working inventory, higher throughput, higher on-time delivery rates, improved customer service levels and lower manufacturing costs. Ken Sharma Award for Excellence Finalists Honored Ten i2 customers were recognized as Ken Sharma Award for Excellence finalists in a ceremony ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Changing the Way You Work and Think About Your Business - Supply Chain Leader
... Can you give an example of these sorts of details? I'll give you an example of what happens in warehouses and other operations associated with manufacturing. There's a classic argument that occurs about how much customization needs to happen. Is your management team going to support a policy that ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Inside Supply Chain Globalization at GM - Supply Chain Leader
... from plants to dealers—seamlessly. GM has no boundaries—geographical, structural or organizational. And we want to use our entire supplier and manufacturing base to address global demand. So, our systems need to follow the same paradigm: global, seamless, cost-effective and scalable. What are your ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Customer-Centric Approach Drives Global Growth for Tata Steel - Supply Chain Leader
... Growth for Tata Steel The steel manufacturing industry has never been known for being particularly responsive to market needs. In fact, until recently, the industry has been plagued by extremely long lead-times, poor customer service and high levels of manufacturing inefficiencies. But there's a ... arrival with up-to-the-minute information. Prognosis The rapid pace of change in the steel industry—and, for that matter, in heavy industrial manufacturing in general—is not expected to slow down. Stoked by these results, Tata executives are optimistic. "We're shifting from being order-takers in a ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Taking Collaboration with Suppliers s Step Further - Supply Chain Leader
... an effort to manage the volatility of the marketplace— with new phone designs and innovative technologies emerging constantly—as well as long manufacturing lead times. In this atmosphere, accurate demand forecasts and ongoing supply chain visibility are critical to meeting commitments across the ... results for this business have included significantly improved customer-service levels, despite the long lead times associated with cell-phone manufacturing. The wireless provider can execute marketing-channel-specific promotions with a high degree of confidence that phones will be available, and ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Uncovering the True Costs of Global Sourcing - Supply Chain Leader
... use within a manufacturing or assembly plant. Increased costs of global sourcing When moving from a local to a global source of supply, part price comes down substantially, but supply chain costs go up considerably. For example, it takes just 1–2 hours to get parts from a manufacturing facility in ... plant in Lansing, Michigan. But it takes more than 24 days to get those same parts to the same assembly plant when they're coming from a manufacturing facility in China or Malaysia via a containerized ship through a U. S.West Coast port. In addition, despite having a lowcost country-based source for ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Supply Chain Study Shows Impact of Complexity - Supply Chain Leader
... 5 Supplier rationalization 58 6 Material/ component rationalization 38 7 Product portfolio rationalization 35 8 Offshore production 37 9 Lean manufacturing 44 10 Customer base segmentation 33 Importance of S&OP process Leading firms achieve a 17 percent lower total supply chain management cost ... its normalized levels of complexity across the following drivers: product portfolio, customer base, supply base, distribution and logistics, manufacturing and systems. The capability score for each company was based on the level of adoption of 13 business practices: Product life cycle management New ... base rationalization Offshoring production Outsourcing production Material/component rationalization IT portfolio management Lean manufacturing Cost complexity management Business process outsourcing The results shown here are excerpted from more extensive and detailed study results. The authors are ... 		Web Page
0.8169 Supplier Relationship Management - Multi-Tier Sourcing Practices for Commodities
... now finding competition for these resources, where previously supply was taken for granted. This is especially true with commodities used in manufacturing, such as base metals for aerospace, automotive, heavy equipment, and white goods (appliances), and precious metals used in the high-tech and ... if it is cheaper for the supplier to transport material to the buyer's warehouse, it will undertake this activity. Thus, based on the manufacturing location of the material and the buyer's location, the price for the same commodity may be different for different buyer locations, instead of being an ... are also collaborating closely with their suppliers for these strategic contracts, on both the demand and the supply side. The buyer may have manufacturing locations distributed globally, similar to the supplier, who in turn may have production facilities distributed globally. Instead of providing ... 		Web Page
0.8164 Training for the Future - Supply Chain Leader
... skilled in the art and science of supply chain management. Large companies are finding that it is not sufficient to assume that engineering, manufacturing or inventory managers will assimilate the skills needed to organize the agile and lean supply chains demanded by mass customization and ... business majors have their plates full with such subjects as economics, statistics, quantitative analysis, sales, marketing, finance, manufacturing and human resources. Others find that after one year of introductory courses, students are ready for a supply chain specialization, usually combining ... 		Web Page
0.8164 Creating Virtual Verticality in Horizontal Supply Chains - Supply Chain Leader
... drove supply chains toward the horizontal model. In the vertical supply chain that was the rule in the early 20th century, a typical manufacturing company owned the assets required for acquiring and processing raw material into a finished product. Most often, these firms delivered the finished ... on the docks. This single ownership created a vertical supply chain, lock-solid in its reliability for getting rubber to the factories. Once manufactured, the tires were sold through companyowned and operated stores. Because the manufacturer had its finger in every upstream and downstream activity ... the rubber plantation labor, the shipping firms, the warehouse and overland transportation— meant attention was diverted from designing and manufacturing tires as efficiently as possible. The shift from vertical to horizontal As the century progressed, most manufacturers divested themselves of ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Getting Greener Together
... JIT) inventory systems that typically require trucks for smaller, more frequent and more reliable deliveries. Meanwhile, many warehousing and manufacturing facilities have been relocated to suburban or rural areas, where cheaper land and labor are available, but which are often inaccessible by rail ... a greener corporate position, companies must look beyond the borders of their own enterprise. An expanded ecosystem Most large retail and manufacturing organizations rely on diverse and complex supply chains. Once they have wrung measurable new efficiencies out of their own network, the next logical ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Improving Supply Chain Responsiveness at Altera - Supply Chain Leader
... profitability, and the company needed an intelligent system in which it could input its production mix and drive the signal back to its manufacturing partners. "It's easy to simply cut orders when business takes a turn downward, but downturns are never completely across the board," Kantorik said ... builds and communicate order fulfillment issues early to our distributors and end customers. Planners are able to review each level of our manufacturing process from wafer starts to finished goods in order to make timely and accurate decisions affecting production builds." "i2 solutions were the ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Synchronizing Supply Chain Applications with Continuous Change - Issue 6 - Supply Chain Leader
... tune-ups result in up to 20 percent improvements in key metrics by realigning critical factors related to demand patterns, supply changes, manufacturing constraints, etc. Business changes and synchronization: Making changes after deployment has always been a challenge. However if designed well ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Departments - Supply Chain Leader
... Emerging Agenda, Manufacturing Insight Brittain Ladd, Logistics & Project Management Director, Dallas-based private equity firm Dr. Larry Lapide, Director, Demand Management, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics Kelly Thomas, Senior Vice President, Manufacturing Industries, i2 Technologies ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Overcoming the New Demand Uncertainty - Supply Chain Leader
... embrace a new mantra: Think globally--and also act globally. Instead of building a series of regional supply chains that serve each of their manufacturing locations, supply chain managers must take a truly global view. They need to aggregate demand across the global business, evaluate total supply ... port can be routed to Rotterdam instead of Houston at approximately the same delivery time and cost.While offshore and low-cost-country manufacturing have presented challenges, today's new global supply chain does offer significant advantages in terms of flexibility-- benefits that most supply chain ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Protecting Revenue Through Supply Chain Risk Management - Supply Chain Leader
... The biggest impact of the software is the ability to visualize and manage bottlenecks across the supply chain holistically, rather than by manufacturing silo or stage, or even business unit. We realized early that our flexibility levers are inventory and capacity, and without automation and modeling ... cycle time is understanding how the demand is moving through the network right now and how it is going to change over the next 2—3 years. Yes, manufacturing is moving to Asia. And yes, we're serving demand in Asia, so we have to look at having more visibility in Asia. But, how do you have an ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Unlocking The Future: The New Analytics - Supply Chain Leader
(The Forrester Wave:™ "BI Reporting and Analysis Platforms, Q1 2006," by Keith Gile, with Kyle McNabb, Connie Moore and Lucy Fossner, February 8, 2006.) It's time for a new generation of supply chain analytics. For more information, contact supply_chain_leader@i2.com. 		Web Page
0.7967 Taking an Optimized Approach to Inventory Management - Supply Chain Leader
... market conditions and supply chain constraints. These policies include what, where, when and how to carry inventories across the procurement, manufacturing and distribution networks of the enterprise. Here, we'll address some of the key actions that are critical to inventory optimization, including ... the best do), and have we aligned metrics and incentives to those inventory goals? How often and how quickly can our organization adjust its manufacturing and distribution model to meet changing customer or market demand? Do we understand, measure and consider not just the cost of inventory, but ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Bell Helicopter Redesigns Its SIOP Process - Supply Chain Leader
... but on a timetable that optimized both inventory efficiency and customer-delivery schedules. Bell recognized that it needed to improve manufacturing scheduling and planning, especially the management of constraint-based production planning, to maximize growth opportunities. Before it implemented ... 		Web Page
0.7967 Big is Beautiful at Panasonic - Supply Chain Leader
Can the user show home movies and still photographs on the screen? What's at the root of the fascination with big-screen displays? You can only fit 150 screens in a 53-foot semi, for example. 		Web Page
0.7967 Articles by Industry - Supply Chain Leader
... You Measure Supply Chain Results? Interviews with Fairchild Semiconductor, Emerson,Timken Steel Group, and MIT Supply Chain 2020 back to top Manufacturing Private-Label Sourcing - What's Next after China? by Gurdip Singh Managing Supply Chains in High-Growth Environments by Gaurang Pandya and Venky ... High-Growth Environments by Gaurang Pandya and Venky Nayar Can a Green Supply Chain Be an Efficient Supply Chain? by Guy Courtin back to top --- Quick Links Aerospace & Defense Automotive & Industrial Consumer Industries High Tech Manufacturing Metals Process Retail Transportation & Logistics 		Web Page
0.7967 i2 in the News - Supply Chain Leader
... America, and John Diez, vice president of Field Finance, Ryder. Enabling a Decade of Supply Chain Success at Deutsche Edelstahlwerke Manufacturing & Logistics IT (UK) September 2009 This case study about steel manufacturer Deutsche Edelstahlwerke's implementation of i2 solutions was reprinted from ... 		Web Page
0.7961 The Supply Chain Leader Virtual Roundtable:Sales and Operations Planning
... Virtual Roundtable, thought leaders discuss the evolution and future of sales and operations planning (S&OP). Aamer Rehman, Vice President, Manufacturing Solutions, i2 Nari Viswanathan, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Supply Chain Planning Practice, Aberdeen Group Dan Gilmore, Editor, Supply ... and financial modeling. An absence of standardization and process integration across the company's complex global supply chain and manufacturing processes creates a significant challenge. And, many companies lack S&OP staff training. SCL: What specific impact does an S&OP process have on a company's ... 		Web Page
0.7961 Managing Supply Chain Disruption with Continuous Design - Supply Chain Leader
... such contingencies, businesses will need to define which inventories to carry, where, in what form and how much across the entire procurement, manufacturing, and distribution network. The transportation network, which may need to be reconfigured due to port closures, natural disasters or even ... 		Web Page
0.7961 Transportation Visibity at Masterbrand Cabinets - Supply Chain Leader
... that these potential solutions providers had to tackle. The cabinet manufacturer designs each truck shipment before the plant actually manufactures it. The plant then "builds" the truck, in load stop order. "Because we plan our trucks upfront, it's a different transportation model," Hedinger said ... data to ensure that all planned orders are on loads and that customers' expectations on delivery will be met. The final plan is then sent to manufacturing, which starts the production process, and is also confirmed within Transportation Manager to start the electronic tendering process. Loads are ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Supply Chain Leader
... below) Please choose from the solutions below: Supply Management Plan Management Retail Management Inventory Management Logistics Management Manufacturing Management Channel Management Consulting Services Reporting Management Infrastructure Management Other Please provide any additional comments or ... 		Web Page
0.7742 The Supply Chain Leader Virtual Roundtable: Transportation and Logistics
For more details, the report is available for free on our Web site: www.AmericanShipper.com/Procurement More granularly, successful organizations are doing this by establishing a commonality of approach that includes: Designing a holistic network view of routing and planning, instead of one that is based on location 		Web Page
0.7742 LG Sets Its Sights on Number One - Supply Chain Leader
... shipment from our factories to some of our customers is definitely something we are trying to implement. With North America, for example, we manufacture TVs in Mexico. For many customers, we are trying to deliver directly to the warehouse. Can you do that with international sources of supply, or do ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Customer-Centric Strategies for Assortment Management - Supply Chain Leader
... complex task of inventory management. How do retailers balance changing market conditions, financial risks, and global sourcing and manufacturing opportunities, all while accommodating fast-changing trends? How do retailers accurately forecast inventory positions for the upcoming holiday season when ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Preparing for the Re-Emergence of Demand
They are not just re-planning when deviations and exceptions occur, but also using these opportunities to capture information that will improve their future assumptions, risk management strategies, process playbooks, lever libraries and other plan components—as part of a closed-loop, ongoing process of discovery. Using microsegmentation practices, postponement and replenishment decisions can be automated for every product, based on that product's unique features—as well as the top-level ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Social Marketing and Supply Chain Management: The Next Consumer Data Challenge—and Opportunity
... the production of the clothing. Old Navy's executives can access this candid discussion and learn what their customers feel about sourcing and manufacturing strategies. Finally, once product is in the marketplace, companies can monitor public opinion via tools such as Twitter or consumer sites such ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Managing Supply Chain Disruption with Continuous Design - Supply Chain Leader
Ability to understand the impact of demand, supply and product mix decisions on revenue and margin through scenario creation and comparison A business content library is an electronic library that contains XML-based workflow definitions and process playbooks that can be stored, retrieved, modified and executed as needed Ability to provide a structured data management environment along with the flexibility of common spreadsheet applications, such Microsoft ® Excel 		Web Page
0.7742 The Supply Chain Opportunity in a Challenging Economy
... those challenges with technology that provides a quick return on investment and long-term savings. Technology implementations that streamline manufacturing operations, optimize inventory, and focus on increasing cash through improved asset utilization and enhanced transportation management can ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Old Navy Leverages Supply Chain Management Technology to Stay Lean and Green - Supply Chain Leader - i2
... Gap Inc. has long been at the forefront of social and environmental responsibility. And that brings its own challenges, because when you're manufacturing halfway around the world and you're involving casual workers at times, I'm sure it's hard to exert the level of control that you'd like to have ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Private-Label Sourcing: What's Next After China? - Cover Story - Supply Chain Leader
Supply Chain Leader: Issue 6 Opinion by Guy Courtin PDF (120K) Minimizing Risk: A Critical Component of SCM Implementations Risk Management by Ramesh Raghunathan, Ph.D and Jiten Sandu PDF (88K) Case Study: Increasing Profits and Service Levels at Cementos Argos by Lauren Bossers PDF (109K) i2 and the i2 User Group Announce Ken Sharma Awards of Excellence Inside i2 by Lauren Bossers PDF (139K) 		Web Page
0.7742 Lenovo's Online Buying Experience Leads to Competitive Advantage - Interview - Supply Chain Leader
... that looked to dramatically improve the experience end to end, all the way from the research (configuring and ordering) phase through manufacturing and fulfilment phase. We crafted a solution built on the i2 Agile Business Process Platform that allowed for such an experience from a customer ... 		Web Page
0.7742 i2 and the i2 User Group Announce Ken Sharma Awards of Excellence - Inside i2 - Supply Chain Leader
... web transformation project. This provides the synchronization of its web channels with various functional groups within Lenovo, including manufacturing and logistics. The program has significantly improved the web experience for Lenovo's web customers, especially in the United States and Canada ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Case Studies - Supply Chain Leader
... plants, test tracks and research and development centers. As a leading technology partner to the automotive industry, Continental develops and manufactures a broad product range that includes tires, brakes, chassis, airbags, powertrains and advanced electronics components that enable sophisticated ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Continental Tire Speeds Planning Cycles and Inventory Turns - Supply Chain Leader
... plants, test tracks and research and development centers. As a leading technology partner to the automotive industry, Continental develops and manufactures a broad product range that includes tires, brakes, chassis, airbags, powertrains and advanced electronics components that enable sophisticated ... 		Web Page
0.7742 How to Get Supply Chain Value Fast - Supply Chain Leader
How to Get Supply Chain Value Fast --- As Tom Meredith, Motorola's CFO, and former Dell CFO, once said, "Fortunes are won and lost in moments of transition." For more information, contact supply_chain_leader@i2.com. 		Web Page
0.7742 Supply Chain Leader - Issue 5 -Measuring Performance Across the Value Chain
... solutions have proven fairly easy to package and to duplicate. However, because of the incredibly complex way in which most companies source, manufacture and deliver products and services, SCPM methods and solutions are much more difficult to standardize. There will always be variations among supply ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Managing the Human Element - Supply Chain Leader
... as well as putting in place well-honed processes guided by such principles as Total Quality Management, Six Sigma, Just-In-Time and Lean Manufacturing. But even the best tools and the most innovative processes do not guarantee success. As companies strive to maximize supply chain performance, they ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Perspective: 20 Years of Innovation at i2 - Supply Chain Leader
... on hand to keep their delivery promises. Around this time - the 1970s - the Just-in-Time movement to create what became known as lean manufacturing became popular. Japanese manufacturers - especially in the automotive industry - were using mechanical techniques like kanban (use one, pull one) to ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Transportation Management: Getting Onboard with Collaborative Capacity Planning
... 3—12 month plans. At the tactical level, shippers and carriers can synchronize transportation planning with master planning cycles (in a manufacturing environment) or replenishment planning cycles (in a retail or distribution environment). The tactical transportation-capacity plan projects 1—13 ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Inside i2: Winners of the Ken Sharma Award for Excellence - Supply Chain Leader - Issue 2
... and reduced material inventories by nearly 30 percent as a result of using i2 solutions. It has synchronized material planning with capacity manufacturing, created more efficient production schedules and improved data management. In a statement read at the ceremony, Shailendra Bobhate, president ... 		Web Page
0.7742 The New Multiplex Theater for Supply Chain Management - Supply Chain Leader
... Companies base their entire optimization on certain policies and parameters, and these are used for different components. But maybe manufacturing yields go down, demand spikes in a certain area—any of a number of changes can take place. If you don't have a feedback loop built into the system, you ... 		Web Page
0.7742 5 Keys to Success in Advanced Retail Planning - Supply Chain Leader
... competitive global economy and the growing number of products and options, retailers typically outsource many aspects of their business, manufacture overseas, coordinate multiple channels— stores, catalogs, and the Web—and have to deal with rising expectations from fickle customers. Smart retailers ... 		Web Page
0.7742 Outsourcing Supply Chain Analytics Can Improve Business Results - Supply Chain Leader
... confidence in their expertise has grown—companies have begun to outsource increasingly sophisticated functions, such as specialty design and manufacturing. Now, a handful of forward-looking companies are off-shoring the analysis of supply chain data to help make better operating decisions. By ... 		Web Page
0.7742 i2 in the News - Supply Chain Leader
... discuss the release of version 6.3.1 of i2 Demand Manager. i2 Factory Planner improves user experience, increased planner productivity Manufacturing Business Technology October 2009 New features of the latest release of i2 Factory Planner are covered in this article. Logipi Brief — October 30, 2009 ... 		Web Page
0.7742 i2 in the News - Supply Chain Leader
... article, which addresses how i2 production planning and distribution planning solutions are helping Asian Paints to streamline procurement, manufacturing and distribution processes for its Decorative Paint business. i2 adds life cycle capabilities to planning software By William Atkinson Logistics ... 		Web Page