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Dear Reader,
In this issue of Whiteboard, we provide you with insights into how companies like yours can optimise both physical and financial supply chain performance through improved business process integration. A European study has demonstrated how businesses are being held back from competing globally by a lack of process integration. This is where a services-oriented architecture (SOA) can help by delivering flexible IT solutions that leverage existing systems to support your current and future business needs, adapting and scaling as required.
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Yankee Group Report: Three Steps to Optimising Supply Chain Performance
For the last three decades organisations have made great strides in extending B2B communications beyond their own enterprises, to their suppliers and business partners. However, much of this information exchange has been transaction-based as opposed to the sort of true business process integration that enables value-added services, such as logistics tracking, demand forecasting and product data synchronisation.
Download this Yankee Group report to understand how your organisation can optimise supply chain performance through business process integration.
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White paper : Financial Insights on Impacts of the SEPA Payments Directive
Current payment systems have restricted trade and hampered the efficiency of corporations trading within the EU; they would really benefit from a more unified and harmonised payments infrastructure.
The European Commission estimates that the removal of the existing barriers through SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) could save the EU economy EUR 28 billion per year but some suggest that SEPA does not go far enough to ensure real gains. However, standardisation can only benefit the EU economy and if SEPA is only the first building block, at least it is a step in the right direction.
Download this Financial Insights white paper and learn how SEPA can act as a catalyst to broaden and solidify supply chain optimisation. Also, understand which issues remain unresolved around the SEPA framework and their impact, as well as the challenges corporations are facing when addressing their financial services provider.
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Research report: 50% of European IT managers recognise that lack of IT process integration is limiting their businesses. SOA is a solution.
At the Gartner Application Integration and Web Services (AIWS) Summit on 19th & 20th June in Rome, Sterling Commerce announced the results of a European survey of 374 IT managers in UK, France and Germany.
The survey, conducted by independent research company Vanson Bourne, found that almost half (44%) of IT managers believe that a lack of IT process integration is limiting their businesses’ ability to compete on a global level.
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White paper : Corporate Banking and the Supply Chain
Financial institutions worldwide are looking at the company
supply chain as a means of driving new revenues by increasing corporate customer wallet share. To drive growth, financial institutions must add value to company financial processes, such as accounts payable and receivable, triggered by supply chain events.
Download this Financial Insights white paper and learn about the issues, drivers, and entry points surrounding the corporate bank's quest to deliver integrated financial services to the customer supply chain. Gain an understanding of the opportunities that lie beneath the surface of traditional products, corporate relationships, and simple supply chain processes.
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Forrester Research Report : The State of Manufacturer and Retailer Collaboration
Increasingly, manufacturers and retailers must compete in a dynamic collaborative environment in which today’s collaborator becomes tomorrow’s competitor. To benchmark the state of industry collaboration, Forrester have partnered with Consumer Goods Technology magazine and RIS News for the second annual report on the state of manufacturer and retailer collaboration.
The resulting data and analysis cover key topics and trends, including demand planning and forecasting, collaborative product development, trade promotion management, marketing collaboration, supply chain execution, plus underlying technologies such as RFID and global data synchronisation (GDS).
Download this Forrester report to gain an insight into the degree of collaboration between manufacturers and retailers and how they work together, the technologies they use to support collaboration, and the benefits and challenges of relying more on trading partners.
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