文档介绍：2012
Supply Chain
Management
Buyer’s Guide
Technology
Evaluation Centers
Supply Chain Management: A Buyer’s Guide
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Table of Contents
4 Preface
By Material Handling & Logistics
6 2012 Supply Chain Management (SCM) Buyer’s Guide:
Adapting to Challenging Times and Circumstances
By Philippe Reney, Research Analyst, Technology Evaluation Centers
7 How Software Can Help Better Manage Supply Chains
9 Managing Supply plexity
12 Best Practices for Achieving Insight into the Supply Chain
15 Managing Collaboration through Workflow
18 SCM parisons
28 TEC Special Report
Global Trade Management: Dealing with plexity of a work
33 GTM parison
38 TEC Resources for Supply Chain Management
39 Casebook
40 Microsoft Dynamics AX Customer ess Story by Ignify
Microsoft Dynamics AX Helps Online pany Improve Efficiency
and Launch New Business Units
47 Sage Customer ess Story
Sage ERP X3 Is the Global ERP Solution for Satellite Industries
51 Sage ERP White Paper
Collaboration Drives Growth for Discrete Manufacturers
61 Epicor Customer ess Story
The WHITING Group of Canada Uses Epicor to Help Manage Its Multiple
Business Units
64 Thought Leadership by Epicor
Five Mistakes Distributors Make When Selecting an Enterprise Software Solution
68 Thought Leadership by Pronto Software
Total Cost of Goods Shipped: A Guide to Better Sourcing Decisions
76 Kinaxis Customer ess Story
Nikon: Focusing on a “Picture Perfect” Sales and Operations Planning Process
79 TEC Partners Resource Directory
80 Vendor Directory
Preface
Modern Supply Chain Technology Allows
You to Bust Out of the Boxes
Supply chain technology used to be about “boxes,” with such labels as enterprise resource
planning (ERP), transportation management system (TMS), and warehouse management
system (WMS). Those boxes typically appeared within a bigger box—pany—whose
idea of a system was a hierarchy o