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Currently Available White Papers:

Driving Revenue Growth Through Supply Chain Initiatives

Summary: Supply chain improvement initiatives traditionally focus on delivering cost reductions and improving utilization of working capital. By concentrating on these two levers, many organizations overlook opportunities to increase revenue as part of their supply chain initiative. This white paper discusses how companies can drive revenue growth through supply chain initiatives and presents several real-world examples of such projects.

An Introduction to Advanced Planning and Scheduling Systems

Summary: In leading supply chain companies, Advanced Planning and Scheduling systems provide the backbone for supply chain planning activities by providing powerful analytics and optimization to support business decision making. Whether from large enterprise software vendors such as SAP or Oracle or best-of-breed vendors like i2 Technologies, JDA/Manugistics, or Adexa these solutions provide a standard architecture of forecasting, network design, supply planning, scheduling, order promising, and collaboration applications. This white paper provides an introduction to these various modules and how they work together to optimize the end-to-end supply chain.