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Protecting Your Supply Chain Against Financial Vulnerability

The global credit crunch is jeopardizing the financial health of our supply chains. In 2009, companies should reassess suppliers' financial stability and implement processes to spot operational red flags that are early warning signals of financial stress.

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Out of Chaos Ã¢â‚¬Â¦ Comes Innovation

If ever there was a year for financial and revenue management to come to the fore, then 2009 is that year. It's a year which will witness a vacillating, near schizophrenic, model of cost containment and revenue growth, driven by tentativeness, innovation and acquisition.

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Combining Finance, Supply Chain and Procurement During the Credit Crunch

When the competition is no longer among individual companies but among entire supply chains, every area of end-to-end cost reduction needs to be explored. Financial supply chain optimization has helped leading companies make their whole supply chain more competitive with the introduction of more advanced supply chain finance practices and automated transaction processing. Finance, supply chain, and procurement groups need to collaboratively explore how to use supply chain finance to reduce supply chain costs.

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Give the Supply Chain Some Credit

Increased linkage between material and financial flows requires supply chain managers to learn more about topics like working capital optimization, margin and asset utilization, valuation and risk, managerial accounting and cash flows, taxes and transfer prices.

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Aligning Business Goals with Supply Chain Strategies

The S&OP process should be complemented by a strong root cause analysis and execution framework that ensures that the S&OP plan is continuously tracked with respect to the financial goals set forth by the company. In other words, the S&OP lifecycle should precede the financial reporting lifecycle of a company and should be in lock-step.

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Supply Chain Experts View of ERP vs Best-of-Breed

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A Real World Look at Recall Technology in Action

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What Does Obama Mean to the Supply Chain World?

Certainly we expect the new president to favor legislation protecting consumers as well as incentives to reduce job losses to low-cost manufacturing countries. But it is not clear how much of an effect he will be able to have, at least in the short term. We do expect to see significant investments in infrastructure/public works projects and a continuation, for now, of recent defense spending levels.

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Risk Management Emerges from the Shadow of Compliance

With new crises seemingly emerging weekly, risk management has taken on a new urgency. Leading companies recognize the importance of a solid supply chain risk discipline, but grapple with scope, ownership, metrics, and ties to other types of strategic and operational risks facing the business.

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Aligning Your Enterprise's Practices With Today's Cash Reality

Using a global inventory approach to "fire your inventory" may be much less disruptive than other cost-savings options your company may be considering.

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Tight Credit Markets? It's Time to Liberate Your Cash

Working capital optimization has always been the least expensive and most readily available form of cash. With tightening credit markets the option of liberating cash from a company's operational processes has moved to the forefront. Inventory optimization presents the second-largest opportunity among the working capital components after trade receivables and ahead of trade payables.

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Supply Chains Evolve into Multi-Enterprise Business Networks

There is nearly unanimous recognition of the need for supply chain transformation driven by factors such as the globalization of supply, increasing competitive pressures, and dwindling product life cycles from companies. This transformation's initial state is the linear supply chains of the past and the final state is a dynamic multi-enterprise business network.

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