Andrew White

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Entries Categorized as 'Cost Optimization'


How do you get started with MDM?

by Andrew White  |  July 9, 2009  |  2 Comments

Why is there no simple, automated, or formalized, blue print for getting MDM going? I was talking with a sales person today who wanted help to initiate a dialog with a client that we knew had an MDM “issue”.  We explored several ways we could help the client with respect to MDM, and as a result of the [...]

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Category: Business Applications Business Drivers Business Intelligence Business to Business (B2B) Cost Optimization Data Migration ERP Implementation MDM Value from Information     Tags: ,

Coping with the Economic Down-Turn

by Andrew White  |  December 16, 2008  |  Comments Off

I wrote a short time ago about how MDM can help firms cope with the current economic down-turn.  Specifically, I talked about how MDM can help reduce business costs (lower inventory levels, and rationalize supplier spend) as well as help protect customer service and revenue.  It seems that many different areas of IT are also [...]

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Category: Cost Optimization Procurement MDM Supply Chain Planning     Tags: ,

“There is (information) gold in them there (data) hills”

by Andrew White  |  December 10, 2008  |  2 Comments

I was trolling my email “inbox” this morning and I read with interest an email from a vendor I met recently at a briefing.  In November, Panjiva updated me on their business: their offering is based on knowledge gleaned from perusing all the inbound manifests for goods arriving in the US.  By analyzing the data, [...]

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Category: Cost Optimization SCM Value from Information     Tags: ,