IoT & Supply Chain
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Ring of Fire: Time for G2G Standards
Last week, German Chancellor, Angela Merkel seemed to echo the sentiments of John Donne when she said; “if the euro…
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EBICS – The Standard for Corporate-to-Bank Communication?
2010 is an exciting time in the world of B2B integration standards for the European banking sector. In this case,…
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Managing Transformative Insurance Reform
Earlier today, US President Barack Obama signed into law a healthcare reform bill that will mandate major fundamental change in…
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80% of Manufacturers Experience 1% or Greater Error Processing for Supply Chain Transactions
In 2009 we conducted a study on the inter-relationships of B2B e-commerce deployments and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects. One…
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Could Community Source be a Better Approach for Supply Chain Applications?
In my last post I described the relatively small number of B2B integration vendors which have embraced open source. I…
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Dr. Hau Lee’s Triple-A Supply Chain
One of the best strategy concepts that I have encountered in recent years is Dr. Hau Lee of Stanford University’s…
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Modernization vs. Innovation: Getting Ahead in the Era of the New Normal
For the past 18 months (or there about), analysts, journalists, bloggers and sometimes people who are all three rolled into…
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Ten Reasons the B2B e-Marketplaces Failed
After reading my earlier post on B2B e-Marketplaces, someone asked me – Why write about the B2B e-Marketplaces? It was…
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B2B e-Marketplaces – A Look Back Ten Years Later
Some call it the Golden Age of B2B e-Commerce. Others call it the height of insanity. Regardless of your perspective,…
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The Incredible HULFT – My Favorite B2B Network Protocol
Of all the various B2B Communications and Managed File Transfer (MFT) protocols in the market, HULFT is probably my favorite. …
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How B2B Outsourcing Can Help Keep ERP Projects on Schedule
In my previous blog entry I highlighted a number of business drivers that could lead a company to want to…
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What are some of the key drivers for integrating ERP and B2B systems?
In my previous blog entry relating to ERP I discussed how the automotive industry has become so reliant on these…
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Where Supplier Portals Went Wrong
There is no dispute that portals have changed supply chains forever. However, as with many disruptive technologies, not only has…
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Benefits of Supplier Portals
Portals were one of the innovative new technologies introduced during the dot com era. But unlike marketplaces, exchanges and other…
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Managing Cash–Visibility is Key
With Thanksgiving and Black Friday now behind us, the Holiday Season has officially kicked off in the States. For consumers,…
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It’s Not Easy—Green Banking Continues to Grow
“It’s not easy being green.” When this tune started floating around my head for this post, I thought Kermit the…
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What can Dominos Pizza Teach us About Supply Chain Visibility?
Last weekend we had some friends over to visit our house and rather than cooking we decided to place an…
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The Long Tail of B2B Standards
In July 2006 Chris Anderson published a book called The Long Tail which illustrated how new Internet business models from…
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