Applying SOA to the Supply Chain – Logistics SOA Networks

from soanetworkarchitect.com

“This flexibility and responsiveness, in turn, can fuel sustainable growth,” IBM stated. “Companies can facilitate the creation of agile supply chains by establishing a blueprint that enables visibility of all aspects of their globally integrated supply chains. We believe service-oriented architecture can provide the foundation for that blueprint.”

The IBM study provides insights in to the best practices by multi-national processors and other manufacturers already dealing with issues relating to global sourcing, aggressive competition, combined with increasing customer demand.

Demand Planning: The first step in Supply Chain planning

from expresscomputeronline.com

Demand planning or sales forecasting is one of the most important aspects of any organization, be it in the services or the manufacturing sector. A services organization estimates demand for its services and thereby gears itself up to service demand. A manufacturing organization estimates demand for its manufactured goods and works towards activities such as the supply of raw materials, production capacity, distribution etc. Demand planning plays a strategic role in any organization as the planning for a lot of other activities depends on the accuracy and validity of this exercise.

Hokura Introduces TransparentCMS

from csrwire.com

Hokura LLC will introduce the TransparentCMS Compliance Management System for the retail supply chain at the Business for Social Responsibility (BSR, www.bsr.org) Conference, “Designing a Sustainable Future,” Oct. 23-27, at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco.

TransparentCMS automates the process of managing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) compliance and Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) security compliance in the global retail/manufacturing supply chain. The modular system offers five key components: Vendor Compliance Agreements, Vendor/Factory Profile Management, Vendor Self-Assessment Management and Factory Compliance Audit Management.

Revealing the Secrets to Effective Supply Chain Management

from technewsworld.com

Supply chain management (SCM) encompasses the many tasks of sourcing, routing, assembling and delivering a product or service to the right place at the right time in the right amount. SCM incorporates key business processes from across the entire organization, and successful SCM is an important factor in business performance.

As David Blanchard concisely explains in his book, Supply Chain Management Best Practices, “When you are out of stock, you’re out of business.” This simple, clear statement kept reverberating in my mind as Blanchard illustrated the successes and failures from real-life business scenarios in order to present various lessons and best practices for SCM.

Direct from dabbawallah – SUPPLY CHAIN SUCCESS

from telegraphindia.com

India’s supply chain management sensations — the Mumbai dabbawallahs — will share their success strategy with boardroom honchos and budding managers in Calcutta.

Icfai Business School (IBS), Calcutta, in association with The Telegraph, has invited two Mumbai dabbawallahs to recount their experiences and explain their strategies on October 27 at the Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre, in Salt Lake.

Plastral selects IBS Supply Chain Management Software

from ferret.com.au

IBS , International Business Systems, has recently signed an agreement with Plastral, an Australian-based importer, stockist and distributor of a wide range of specialty chemicals, rigid plastic sheet products, specialty polymers and plastic welding equipment.

Established in 1946, Plastral is a privately owned Australian company which merged in 1997 with another long-standing Australian business, Fidene Australia.

Plastral was looking to replace its existing system with a single integrated ERP solution that would best fit its supply chain operations.

In Building a Supply Chain Bridge, Don’t Ignore Foreign Business Cultures

from wral.com

You might ask, “Do I really need to think about an international bridge when I am importing products?” “I already know my market and am successful, so why should I worry about any foreign business culture?”

Supply chains have the ability to ‘cut across the grain’

from logisticsmgmt.com

The roles logistics and supply chains play in a corporate environment is one which cuts “across the grain” and ultimately plays a large role in customer satisfaction, which is the leading indicator of a company’s success, according to Carly Fiorina, former chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard.