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The trend is clear—OEMs continue to outsource more functions, more often, to more geographically remote locations than ever before. While adding inventory to the supply chain may look like a quick-fix to the challenges created by remote supply solutions, it is not. In practice, it tends to make companies less responsive to market dynamics—not more. Read this paper to find out what other options exist. Surviving and Thriving in the Global Market
By Ann Grackin, Chainlink Research
True market leaders see change as a constant, and build a core competency in effectively responding to change into their value chain and technology enablers. This paper explores supply chain practices, making the case for a higher level approach—effective rapid response—as a key performance strategy for business, and what it takes to be a supply chain leader.Beyond Supply Chain Visibility: Response Management is the Key
By Nari Viswanathan, Aberdeen Group
Supply chain visibility ranks as one of the top two application focus areas for companies as part of their supply chain technology investment plans. The ability to respond to change rapidly is emerging as critical to a company's success. Just having visibility is not enough to manage this constant change. This research brief outlines the key characteristics of solutions that go beyond visibility toward enabling a flexible Response Management capability.Charting a New Course
By Charlie Barnhart, Technology ForecastersThe macro trends of the electronics industry are clear; lower prices, higher performance, mass customization and shorter life-cycles. All of which drives companies to outsource more activities, more often, to more regionally remote geographies than ever before. Doesn't matter if it's a consumer or a commercial product, large volume or small, a significant percentage of global outsourcing is being serviced from China today and will be from some even lower-cost region (India?) tomorrow. But does moving manufacturing to these low cost labor regions automatically mean a lower total cost of ownership?-
On the Road and in the Supply Chain, Rapid Response a Core Requirement for Rescue Vehicles by AMR Research
Manufacturers of highly complex and customized products continue to implement a combination of homegrown and best-of-breed applications to supplement their ERP systems. This case study of a rescue vehicle manufacturer illustrates this fact, with specific references to its implementation of tools to facilitate rapid response and decision making throughout the process, from quoting to supplier alerts…
Response Management: Next Wave of Supply Chain Innovation?
By AMR Research
Stephen Hochman,
Research Director, Supply Chain, AMR Research
In his
report on Response Management, Steve Hochman of AMR Research says "amongst demand-driven
leaders, the pursuit of perfectly optimized forecasts and supply plans can no
longer be the end game. In high-volatility, supply-constrained businesses,
the new basis of competition is the ability to peer faster than your competitors
into the black box of multiple planning and execution processes, running
offline scenarios that give collective, rapid visibility to financial and service
impact of a short list of viable decision alternatives."Research Alert: Kinaxis
by AMR Research
Bruce Richardson,
Chief Research Officer, AMR Research
Bruce has spent most of his 20 year career analyzing the software industry with a distinct emphasis on ERP and supply chain.
He spearheads new market research and contributes to AMR Research's analysis of leading market trends in areas such as: ERP,
supply chain management (SCM), service-oriented architectures, and software-as-a-service.
