Entries Categorized as 'Cost Optimization'
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 [...]
Category: Business Applications Business Drivers Business Intelligence Business to Business (B2B) Cost Optimization Data Migration ERP Implementation MDM Value from Information Tags: Business Drivers, MDM
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 [...]
Category: Cost Optimization Procurement MDM Supply Chain Planning Tags: Procurement MDM, Supply Chain Planning
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, [...]
Category: Cost Optimization SCM Value from Information Tags: Cost Optimization, Value from Information