Andrew White

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Entries Tagged as 'Cost Optimization'

How do you get started with MDM?

July 9th, 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 conversation, [...]

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

Coping with the Economic Down-Turn

December 16th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Cost Optimization · Procurement MDM · Supply Chain Planning

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

December 10th, 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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Tags: Cost Optimization · SCM · Value from Information