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Overview: Creating Supply Chain Flexibility in the Flattening World
By Sandeep Kumar and Ashish Kumar Tewary, PhD
The ever flattening world is bringing with it supply chain risks. Are companies building flexibility to manage such risks? The authors probe the existing supply chain trends.
Opinion: Inventory Optimization: A Necessity Turning to Urgency
By Greg Scheuffele and Anupam Kulshreshtha, PhD
Greater variability and uncertainty across global supply chains have increased the complexity of manufacturing and distribution. Inventory optimization, backed by advanced technology, is the only way out, feel the authors.
Financial Supply Chains: Applying Classical SCM Techniques to Tap Savings
By Siva Padmanabhan and G V Ganesh
Drawing from their vast supply chain experience, the authors opine that financial supply chains are full of untapped savings opportunities. They believe that in an increasingly networked environment, systematic and proven techniques can help realize such opportunities.
Technology: Tackling Supply Chain through Grid Computing: Opportunities and Challenges
By Sumit Kumar Bose, PhD and Shubhashis Sengupta, PhD
Petrochemical industry is enswathed with challenges within the supply chain context. According to the authors, Grid technologies offer hope to tackle petrochem supply chain challenges.
Insight: Learning from Supply Chain - Mistakes and Experience
By Narayanan Sampath
The author draws from his vast implementation experience to point out common mistakes in global supply chain management and offers effective strategies to tackling the problems.
Planning: Global Trends in Supply Chain Planning in Semiconductor Industry
By Arnab Banerjee
The author tracks the supply chain eco-system in the semiconductor industry and evaluates supply chain planning scenarios in both the collaborative and non-collaborative systems.
Transportation: Can Transportation Costs Be Stemmed Even Before They Occur?
By Suresh Prahlad Bharadwaj, Sumesh George and Hariharan Noorani
Huge inbound transportation costs are largely due to lack of internal visibility of transportation needs. How does one reduce inbound transportation costs? The authors offer a unique perspective in the way they address this question by tackling the problem at its root.
Procurement: Managing Costs by Leveraging Procurement Information Intelligently
By Rajib Saha
In this research paper, the author contends that a 360° approach to looking at where enterprise spends are being made can help procurement departments manage costs better.
Perspective: Aligning Treasury Services Offerings to the Corporate Financial Supply Chain
By Sabitha Vuppala and Sujata Banerjee
Innovation is the key to surge ahead in a commoditized treasury business service. The authors probe the drivers of change and look at the emerging trends in the industry.
Framework: Management of Supplier Risks in Global Supply Chains
By V. S. Srividhya and Raj Jayaraman
Supplier risk management has, of late, gained prominence in the wake of low cost country outsourcing, geo-political instability and recurrent natural disasters. The authors propose a simple SRM framework to mitigate such risks.
Application: A Supply Chain Collaborative Solution using XQuery
By Bharani Shivaraja Govindasamy
What could be the best way to aggregate supply chain collaboration data that lies in disparate data sources? The author indicates at an application architecture using XQuery as a possible solution to counter data aggregation challenges in a CPFR scenario.
Integration: SOA Based Integration for Creation of Collaborative Supply Chain in Automotive Domain
By Krishnendu Kunti, Terance Dias and Ashwini Jeksani
In an agile world, traditional means of point-to-point integration of collaboration in automotive supply chain is not feasible. The authors make a case for SOA-based integration platform.
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