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.
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IndustryWeek's "Manufacturing Market Forces" Podcast
Steve Hochman, Research Director, Supply Chain, AMR Research
Brad Kenney, Associate Editor, IndustryWeek
In today's dynamic and ultra-competitive global marketplace, a new trend, tool or even a new company can rise up overnight to become a force to be reckoned with. Here at IndustryWeek, we have made it our goal to keep you informed and aware of new developments as they happen.
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Response Management - Interview with Steve Hochman, AMR Research
Closed-loop planning and execution are being replaced by a new
generation of supply chain software as manufacturers turn to Response
Management solutions to gain competitive advantage. In this podcast,
Steve Hochman, Research Director for Supply Chain at AMR Research,
discusses the results of his recent research into Response Management,
who needs Response Management, and what types of benefits companies are
already seeing from using these solutions. Also, Randy Littleson with
Kinaxis talks about the growing adoption of Response Management
solutions.
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EMSNow Podcast: Randy Littleson, VP of Marketing, Kinaxis talks about RapidResponse™ 9
Following the launch of RapidResponse 9, Randy Littleson, VP of Marketing, Kinaxis talks about the new release.
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Better Process Podcast: Industry Report with Randy Littleson of Kinaxis
Host: Ken Rayment, Better Process Podcast
Randy Littleson, VP Marketing speaks to Ken Rayment of Better Process Podcast, about some of the key challenges facing manufacturers today including demand volatility, shrinking product lifecycles and global outsourcing and highlights the latest release of RapidResponse 9.
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VentanaCast: Visibility is Not Enough
By Colin Snow, Ventana Research
Sponsored by Kinaxis
Being able to 'see' variables in supply, capacity and product engineering by itself it has limited value. Synchronizing them and connecting them to cost targets, while responding to changes in customer demand, is valuable. E-mail and spreadsheets and traditional planning tools provide little help. Hear Colin Snow discuss new Operational Performance Management technologies that are available to help manage the gap between planning and execution. He explains how these new applications offer visibility and provide analytical capabilities for decision support and the means by which people can work together to reach decisions and implement actions.
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Better Process Podcast: Industry Report with John Sicard of Kinaxis
Host: Ken Rayment, Better Process Podcast
Better Process Podcast, a daily manufacturing news show, interviewed John Sicard, executive vice president of development and service operations, to discuss the urgent need for visibility and coordination to drive rapid response to ever-present changes in demand, supply and product. In the approximate 10-minute podcast, host, Ken Rayment speaks with Sicard about why traditional supply chain planning solutions and informal tools like Excel spreadsheets fail to adequately address the issue and how manufacturers, particularly those in the high-tech electronics market, can establish a company-wide competency in Response Management to drive an edge over the competition.
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