E-Supply Chain Fusion: e-Supply Chain 301 How do you create integrated supply chain structures? How do you migrate from existing nonintegrated supply chain models to…

In the simple sense, the supply chain is a “process umbrella” under which products are created and delivered to customers. From a structural standpoint, a…

Compared with even a decade ago, the ERP solutions that have become routine in corporate life today are pretty amazing. But have no doubt, they’re…

A combination of better products, time-to-market urgency, and thin in-house technical skills ensures that mainstream firms will embrace packaged ERP software. It’s important to note…

No doubt the success of the SAP R/3 ERP solution has been quite phenomenal. However, there is widespread misunderstanding that ERP equals production scheduling. This…

No doubt, ERP applications are defining the overall corporate architecture. An ERP application affects the whole corporation; therefore, the decision to build versus buy is…

Successful companies no longer just add value, they invent it. To invent value, managers must reverse the traditional value-chain thinking (inside-out-models) by which business define…

Providing end-to-end process integration is not as easy it looks. End-to-end process integration demands major application overhaul to develop an integrated back-end infrastructure that allows…

To create the future, a company must be capable of engineering the entire end-to-end value stream, which is not a radically new concept. Experienced managers…

If e-commerce innovation is the cause of a revolution in the rules of business, what is the effect? In short, structural transformation. The results are…