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In today's tough economy, companies can't afford to wait to find out that a particular plant isn't producing work orders on time or that a certain supplier hasn't been reliable. Rather, today's businesses demand real-time visibility into their supply chain to manage day-to-day...

"The need for supply chain analytics is within the top three priorities for [companies]," said Nari Viswanathan, a principal analyst at research firm Aberdeen Group. "In fact, we have found a correlation between companies that are showing best-in-class behavior toward supply chain ...

The supply chain is the core of any business. Most people attribute the supply chain to that of a large corporation, but every business has a supply chain. You have suppliers, purchasing, production, distribution, and finally customers. The end result of every supply chain is always customers. ...

Twenty years ago it was pretty easy to hide a breakdown in the supply chain from your customers. You could make up for a slowdown in production by speeding up shipping or increasing your acceptable rate of failure on products to higher levels and making up for it on warranty exchanges. Customers i...

This telling case-study, the Global Part Supply Chain project at HP, was initially undertaken in 2006 but typically became bogged down by sheer scale and complexity. After some changes in management approach and governance, however, the project quickly became hugely successful.We learn how...

The whole notion of this coming about through mergers and acquisitions is very common in the marketplace. It's not unique just to HP.