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What Zappos.com can Teach us About the Supply Chain
Over the holidays I read Tony Hseih’s excellent book Delivering Happiness. Tony, of course, is the CEO of the fast growing on-line footwear retailer Zappos.com….
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Four Examples of Industries Using Self-Billing
In a post earlier this week I outlined the reasons why suppliers should stop invoicing their customers in many circumstances. Instead, the buyer should self-generate the invoice based…
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Will AS4 Become the Communications Standard for Cloud Based Integration Services?
2010 has certainly been the year when Cloud Computing has started to get on to the agenda of many CIOs around the world. Nearly every…
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Common eDiscovery error #5: Blind dates
Often, you want to limit a search to a specified date range. Sounds easy enough. But like so much in e-discovery, it is often easier…
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The Great Thing about Standards is There are So Many to Choose From
Standards enjoy a unique challenge in private industry sectors. Standards require competitors to agree upon consistent approaches to technology implementations and business processes. However, in…
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Who has the Largest B2B Integration Network?
Since IBM’s acquisition of Sterling Commerce in May there has been a lot of discussion about the consolidation of B2B networks (and what it means…
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Creating a BIRT Report as a Calendar View
I encountered a forum qustion recently asking about creating a calendar view in a BIRT report to show a job number within a calendar view…
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Custom/Dynamic Page Breaking in BIRT
BIRT’s standard options for page breaking is to set a page break interval on a table, set a before/after page break on groups, and to…
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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 of the issues we explored…
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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 Triple-A Supply Chain. Dr. Lee…
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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 one have discussed the need…
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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 a long time ago and…
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