SCM in a New Flavor: Real Time and Demand Driven
Hans Mercx - October 14, 2005

Introduction

The current market is becoming more demand-driven and the need for real time decision support capabilities in the supply chain is inevitable. As a result, service oriented vendors are emerging. They are developing solutions through next generation applications with customization, workflow, extensible markup language (XML), and third-party integrated software that is embedded in their applications. These vendors have a greater, real time, demand-driven scope, and can better meet the new demands in the market...