AmSurg Selects SciQuest Eprocurement

from money.cnn.com

SciQuest, Inc., the global leader in helping academic and research-centric organizations realize the potential of strategic procurement, today announced that AmSurg, America’s largest publicly held operator of ambulatory surgery centers, has selected SciQuest’s eprocurement solution to automate purchasing across its 170 ambulatory surgery centers.

1st Pricing to be Awarded Building Information Model (BIM) Pricing Patent

from prweb.com

1st Pricing, a Southern California-based eCommerce and Technology Company, has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the Company a “Notice of Allowance” based on their automated pricing technology application for Computer Aided Drawing (CAD) programs. This automated pricing technology adds buy-it-now comparative pricing and supply chain capabilities to the building information model now known as 5D or the fifth dimension.

Demand and Supply Integration: A Key to Improved Firm Performance

from industryweek.com

By Dr. Theodore P. Stank and Dr. John T. Mentzer, University of Tenessee

Dec. 17, 2007 — Historically, companies have separated the processes used to plan for and manage demand and then supply of the resources and labor needed to meet that demand. The problem with this business model is that the companies using it are often unable to consistently ensure that supply meets demand. Too often, the right-hand (demand) and left-hand (supply) functions are not synchronized, resulting in a shortage of the products that customers actually want, and a surplus of products that are not wanted.