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Does Supply Chain Management Software Make Sense in Wholesale Distribution? ( Pages)
by Mark Wells
Sep 8, 2001 Abstract : This paper examines the steel service center segment of the wholesale distribution industry as a case in point of the challenges facing distributors and the relief offered through supply chain software.
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Does Supply Chain Management Software Make Sense in Wholesale Distribution? Part 2: The Critical Objectives ( Pages)
by Mark Wells
Sep 12, 2001 Abstract : There are critical objectives that Supply Chain Management Software must satisfy to meet the challenges faced by wholesale distributors.
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Does Supply Chain Management Software Make Sense in Wholesale Distribution? Part 3: Meeting the Objectives ( Pages)
by Mark Wells
Sep 14, 2001 Abstract : Because the technology has become easier to implement, use, and maintain, many of the challenges to achieving the benefits that supply chain management software applications can provide have been removed.
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Retail Market Dynamics for Software Vendors Part One: Software Requirements for Retail ( Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Sep 13, 2004 Abstract : Although the retail and wholesale customers have typically invested a low proportion of their total revenues in information technology, retail industry leaders have begun to demonstrate an ability to achieve market advantage through the effective use of specialized enterprise applications. As a result, the requirement for all retailers to increase their investment in IT and adopt best practices has thus grown.
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IFS Continues Its Reinvention Through Pruning Part Two: Background, Challenges, and Response ( Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Feb 8, 2005 Abstract : IFS could be an object case of how a great product (in terms of functionality scope and technological foundation) and knowledgeable employees are only part of the wholesale success in the finicky enterprise resource planning (ERP) market.
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JDA Portfolio: For the Retail Industry Part Five: Analysis of Market Impact ( Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Dec 31, 2004 Abstract : Given the competition for retail customers and wholesale orders is intense, retailers, including software vendors, must be able to meet consumer demand quickly, accurately and at the most competitive price. Despite its failed QRS acquisition, which promised to expand JDA's retail demand chain optimization applications, JDA Portfolio may be able to help retailers if it can overcome the challenges of servicing a fragmented sector and withstand the increasing competition.
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EXE Latest Vendor to Join IBM Supply Chain Club ( Pages)
by Steve McVey
Nov 17, 1999 Abstract : IBM and EXE Technologies today announced a global strategic relationship in which the two vendors will provide supply chain customers with integrated solutions that will help them transform into e-businesses. These solutions will be initially targeted to customers in the automotive, consumer packaged goods, electronics, retail and wholesale distribution industries. In addition, EXE and IBM announced that Pep Boys, a large automotive products retailer in the United States, and Metro Richelieu, one of Canada's largest grocers, are the first customers to take advantage of this relationship.
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Oracle to Enlist BPA Systems in its Mid-Market Quest ( Pages)
by Steve McVey
Oct 20, 1999 Abstract : AUSTIN, Texas -- BPA SYSTEMS (www.bpasystems.com), a leading developer of business process automation solutions for dynamic manufacturing and distribution companies, announced today that its flagship product BP LINK/SC will be integrated with Oracle's newest solution for mid-sized companies, FastForward(SM) Distribution(RPM) (Rapid Pre-configured Model). With integration from BP LINK/SC to help accelerate receiving, inventory and shipping transactions using bar code and data collection technology, Oracle's FastForward Distribution(RPM) is the only enterprise class solution for wholesale distributors available in a fixed-time, fixed-price,
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