Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
With credit in increasingly short supply, and the fine ribbon of profit stripping itself ever thinner in the cooling breeze, the time is right for a company to improve the efficiency of its supply chain.
Tight economic times, after all, turn the screws on the imperative for a business to enhance all elements of its operational processes, and to do so while resisting the temptation to pile on yet more disparate technology, thus manufacturing an even more tangled chain of supply.
The complexity of integrating many different e-business products to achieve a seamless portal environment can seem intimidating. But there are lots of reasons why overhauling a supply-chain strategy into a simple, lean system is clever. Here are six of them. (more…)
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Monday, October 23rd, 2006
By George Brown, Salesworks Systems Inc.
All businesses must deliver acceptable bottom line results to their owners or shareholders, or eventually perish. Most often, these bottom line results are sought in the form of lower input costs, better operational efficiency, more cost-effective overall business processes, automation, and the like. And all of this has an impact, up to a point. But what then? How much can costs be cut, realistically, before one starts hacking into the long term viability of the business? How much can one gain in increased operational efficiency, without eventually short-changing the customers who are the real source of long-term corporate success? In many cases, the answer is “not much”. (more…)
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News
In the wake of the chaos at Copenhagen, global enterprise applications firm IFS North America has published the results of a study that reveal much about how well prepared the business world is to participate in the makeover of the planet. And the news, on the face of it, is not so good.
