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TEC SCM research analyst Phil Reney offers three critical considerations to help companies in search for an SCM solution.
SCM software selection is a tricky and painful activity for most companies. Why? Despite the plethora of solutions currently
available, it may be hard to find one that fits a company (...)
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TEC SCM research analyst Phil Reney offers three critical considerations to help companies in search for an SCM solution.
SCM software selection is...
Published:
2011-07-19
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The growing pressure for improving customer responsiveness and profits has lately changed the traditional role of supply
chain management (SCM) of spare and replacement parts. (...)
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The growing pressure for improving customer responsiveness and profits has lately changed the traditional role of supply chain
management (SCM) of...
Published:
2005-07-28
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The integration solutions market will be an interesting area of growth. IBS has an attractive offer for companies with complex
and expensive business software at the group and headquarters level, wanting to lower costs and quicken implementation in
their subsidiaries. (...)
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The integration solutions market will be an interesting area of growth. IBS has an attractive offer for companies with complex
and expensive busin...
Published:
2005-09-08
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The nature of the organized retailing market in India may present challenges for software providers, but the opportunity
to tap into and benefit from this market's huge (and growing) potential can yield sizable returns for supply chain management
software vendors. (...)
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The nature of the organized retailing market in India may present challenges for software providers, but the opportunity to
tap into and benefit f...
Published:
2009-07-27
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Although SAP’s recently announced tamed results for Q1 2002, which fit within the current market milieu, may add to some
challenges moving forward, particularly seen from sharply reduced license revenue, and while some may question SAP’s justification
of assimilating its two former subsidiaries, SAP (...)
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Although SAP’s recently announced tamed results for Q1 2002, which fit within the current market milieu, may add to some challenges
moving forward...
Published:
2002-06-06
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On January 24, SAP announced its preliminary year-end results and warned that the costs of its new employee stock option
plan and marketing and staff additions for its mySAP.com Internet software system would likely outpace sales in the first
quarter of 2000. (...)
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On January 24, SAP announced its preliminary year-end results and warned that the costs of its new employee stock option plan
and marketing and st...
Published:
2000-02-07
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While an increasing demand for services and incremental purchases of new extended-ERP functionality from existing client
base, with a modest ooze of new accounts and even a notable influx of new accounts for distinguished some, may not put the
revitalized former ERP losers back on top of the enterprise a (...)
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While an increasing demand for services and incremental purchases of new extended-ERP functionality from existing client base,
with a modest ooze ...
Published:
2003-03-20
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The merger looks like a positive move for both companies and their customers, since Epicor obtains a foothold in some complementary
geographic regions, and in certain discrete manufacturing and service industries it has not really penetrated in the past
by acquiring a reasonably run vendor without much e (...)
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The merger looks like a positive move for both companies and their customers, since Epicor obtains a foothold in some complementary
geographic reg...
Published:
2004-12-14
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Leading supply chain execution (SCE) vendor, Manhattan Associates has recently announced its acquisition of Evant, a supply
chain planning (SCP) company. Adjusting to a different type of supply chain application, gaining profitability, and maintaining
high levels of customer care are some challenges faci (...)
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Leading supply chain execution (SCE) vendor, Manhattan Associates has recently announced its acquisition of Evant, a supply
chain planning (SCP) c...
Published:
2005-09-01
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Although SAP’s recently announced tamed results for Q1 2002, which fit within the current market milieu, may add to some
challenges moving forward, particularly seen from sharply reduced license revenue, and while some may question SAP’s justification
of assimilating its two former subsidiaries, SAP (...)
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Although SAP’s recently announced tamed results for Q1 2002, which fit within the current market milieu, may add to some challenges
moving forward...
Published:
2002-06-06
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SMEs have recently begun to seek integration platforms that address the end-to-end business process management (BPM) rather
than the traditional pesky point-to-point interconnectivity solutions. IBM's strategy of selling WebSphere Express through
local VARs and of letting smaller enterprises deploy only (...)
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SMEs have recently begun to seek integration platforms that address the end-to-end business process management (BPM) rather
than the traditional p...
Published:
2003-08-05
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Leading supply chain execution (SCE) vendor, Manhattan Associates has recently announced its acquisition of Evant, a supply
chain planning (SCP) company. Adjusting to a different type of supply chain application, gaining profitability, and maintaining
high levels of customer care are some challenges faci (...)
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Leading supply chain execution (SCE) vendor, Manhattan Associates has recently announced its acquisition of Evant, a supply
chain planning (SCP) c...
Published:
2005-09-01
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Packaged solutions for the chemicals industry are available from SAP and selected partners. Still, given a number of other
viable solutions, prospective users will have to decide whether SAP would indeed be the best solution without the packaged
option. (...)
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Packaged solutions for the chemicals industry are available from SAP and selected partners. Still, given a number of other
viable solutions, prosp...
Published:
2006-05-30
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Although its PLM solutions will not likely be the "all things to all people" any time soon, Oracle might be showing us its
ability to develop its own applications in collaborative effort with its prominent customers. (...)
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... Recently, Oracle claims to have experienced a rebirth of interest in its supply chain management (SCM)
capabilities as the enterprise market sentiment have ...
Published:
2004-01-05
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For over a decade, SAP has offered industry-specific applications, starting with oil and gas and utilities solutions. Media,
insurance, chemicals, banking, and public sector offerings have followed, highlighting SAP's lesser-known side as a market-oriented
provider of industry-tailored solutions. (...)
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For over a decade, SAP has offered industry-specific applications, starting with oil and gas and utilities solutions. Media,
insurance, chemicals,...
Published:
2006-05-25
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There has been a hubbub in the public sector, with all major players fiercely competing and eventually winning important
new federal contracts, primarily for components of enterprise applications. This strong government interest in ERP applications
might explain a number of recent pundits’ retractions (...)
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There has been a hubbub in the public sector, with all major players fiercely competing and eventually winning important new
federal contracts, pr...
Published:
2001-06-21
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As manufacturing becomes a global process, advances in demand management software have given rise to attribute-based demand
management software. In the process manufacturing environment, this software can help manufacturers deal with complex manufacturing
processes and increase overall customer satisfact (...)
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As manufacturing becomes a global process, advances in demand management software have given rise to attribute-based demand
management software. I...
Published:
2008-12-24
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Centive's strategy is to form a limited number of strategic partnerships with leading management consulting firms to ensure
customers receive the highest levels of service and support. Pertinent alliances made include one offering sales performance
incentive funding formulas (SPIFFs). (...)
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Centive's strategy is to form a limited number of strategic partnerships with leading management consulting firms to ensure
customers receive the ...
Published:
2007-05-11
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Glovia International has launched the first full-fledged and versatile, manufacturing-oriented solution that is an on-demand,
enterprise resource planning software-as-a-service application. Its solution is good news for small and medium businesses
in more ways than one. (...)
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Glovia International has launched the first full-fledged and versatile, manufacturing-oriented solution that is an on-demand,
enterprise resource ...
Published:
2007-01-22
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I'm Dylan Persaud, senior analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers. Welcome to another in our ongoing series of enterprise
software Showdowns. Today's Showdown pits three of the top ERP - Distribution solutions against each other in a head-to-head
contest: Microsoft Dynamics vs.Retalix vs. Epicor Enterp (...)
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I'm Dylan Persaud, senior analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers. Welcome to another in our ongoing series of enterprise
software Showdowns. To...
Published:
2007-06-22