Is Fourth Shift Succeeding in Providing 'Complete Customer Care'?

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... products and services for e-commerce, including ... product configurator, online procurement, and order ... manufacturing companies can benchmark themselves against ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2000/08/news_analysis/NA_BA_PJ_08_14_00_1.asp - 14k - 2000-08-14 Summary: On July 25, Fourth Shift Corporation and SupplierMarket.com announced a partnership that will enable purchasing professionals to locate ideal trading partners, submit RFQs for new contracts, and receive the results of reverse auctions, all from their familiar Fourth Shift vendor operations, manufacturing

Logistics.com Might Prove An Internet Success Story After All ...

by P. Jakovljevic & L. Talarico ... OptiBid, an e-procurement solution for shippers; it has been devised to ... to analyze shipping proposals based on eg, service levels, benchmark transport rates ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2001/10/research_notes/EN_SC_LJT_10_29_01_1.asp - 21k - 2001-10-29 Summary: By being able to address the needs of all stakeholders across the board from shipper to transport provider, and with the marketplace/private trading exchange (PTX) tool in the middle, Logistics.com can connect trading partners at various levels.

Logistics.com Becomes The Newest Of Manhattan Associates Part 2 ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... OptiBid, an e-procurement solution for shippers; it has been devised to ... to analyze shipping proposals based on eg, service levels, benchmark transport rates ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2002/11/news_analysis/NA_SC_PJ_11_15_02_1.asp - 18k - 2002-11-15 Summary: Logistics.com needs to tie its execution modules into the plant/warehouse-level applications in order to give a customer a full solution. Manhattan cannot deliver the full fulfillment job without the transportation part. Tying their products together is what it will take to make this acquisition work.

JD Edwards' QUEST To End Its String Of Pyrrhic Victories Part 1 ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... JD Edwards OneWorld software with e-procurement, CRM and ... to reduce the complexity of their e-business infrastructures. ... users in a recent benchmark running JD ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2001/07/research_notes/EN_BA_PJ_07_03_01_1.asp - 19k - 2001-07-03 Summary: J.D. Edwards has been trying hard to reverse a continuing decline of license revenue, which is in a sharp contrast to its direct competitors upbeat postures. During this year's FOCUS conference for its QUEST User Group, J.D. Edwards demonstrated somewhat more galvanized strategy than the one it initi

Discovering and Creating Value in Procurement through Continuous ...

by Murali Krishnan Sundararajan and Rajib Saha ... Is benchmark data available, and has it been evaluated? ... an e-procurement platform that automates processes for indirect item procurement; ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/SCM/2006/07/research_notes/EN_SC_XMS_07_17_06_1.asp - 21k - 2006-07-17 Summary: Improvement is not simply an idea: it is a process. And processes without frameworks are recipes for underachievement, or worse, chaos. For this reason, value leakages in procurement functions must be resolved in a systematic, progressive, incremental, and formalized manner.

The Promise (and Complexities) of Private Labels

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Group's (RSAG) Sourcing and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Benchmark Study reported that ... of their solutions' Web-based sourcing and e-procurement (over the ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/SCM/2007/08/research_notes/TU_SC_PJ_08_13_07_1.asp - 25k - 2007-08-13 Summary: Recent studies have shown that retail winners (that is, companies that outperform their peers in year-over-year, comparable store sales) carry a significantly higher percentage of private label merchandise than their competitors do.

Fourth Shift Corporation: Working Overtime To Provide Complete ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Shift offers very competitive e-commerce ability ... product configurator, online procurement, and order ... manufacturing companies can benchmark themselves against ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/2000/10/research_notes/VN_BA_PJ_10_02_00_1.asp - 31k - 2000-10-02 Summary: Fourth Shift claims to have grasped the requirements of its target market (SMEs) that wish to acquire most of their business applications from a single source, even if they have to sacrifice some functionality. To that end, the company launched its Complete Care program. Complete Care is possibly the mos

Software as a Service's Functional Catch-up

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... would be the on demand collaborative e-procurement, sourcing, spend ... between B2C and B2B E-commerce), since ... Jabil Circuit, Raytheon, and Benchmark Electronics. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2007/01/research_notes/TN_ER_PJ_01_15_07_1.asp - 21k - 2007-01-15 Summary: Software-as-a-service solutions are emerging to address almost every business application need considered 'mission critical' including financials and accounting, asset management, and human capital management applications to supply chain management and channel management solutions.

Logistics.com Becomes The Newest Of Manhattan Associates

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... com's transportation execution and procurement solutions for ... during the market infatuation with e-strategies of ... quarter in nearly every benchmark, which even ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2002/11/news_analysis/NA_SC_PJ_11_14_02_1.asp - 13k - 2002-11-14 Summary: Will the acquisition of Logistics.com help outstanding Manhattan Associates round out what might not have been accomplished with its earlier acquisitions?

Baan Resurrects Multi-Dimensionally Part 1: Recent Announcements

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... iBaan E-Configuration Enterprise utilizes the ... strategy, product development, procurement, manufacturing execution ... market include MSL, Benchmark Electronics and ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2002/02/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_02_18_02_1.asp - 19k - 2002-02-18 Summary: Having stemmed the tide of losses and returned to profitability in 2001, will in 2002 market witness Baan's return to former ERP stardom given the company's recent product enhancements, new partnerships and customer base retention/expansion initiatives?