SAP is helping midsize companies collaborate, innovate, and keep up with the rapidly changing needs of customers. To learn how, read these informative documents:
"Fabricated Metals: An Industry in Transition"
Examine typical midsize companies' business challenges in the fabricated metals industry and the SAP software that can support their profitability by helping the firms reduce operational costs, improve manufacturing and transportation efficiencies, support customers, and map profitable growth strategies.
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White Papers
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"Is There a Smarter Way to Handle Excess Active and Obsolete Inventory?"
Learn efficient ways to handle excess and obsolete inventory. Excess at-risk inventory ultimately impacts a company's bottom line. Tactics used to resolve inventory issues can be costly. Using private, on-line, competitive auction portals provides one way to manage excess inventory with low-overhead execution. (TEC, 2008)
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White Papers
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"Manage and Integrate Operations Across the Enterprise"
Learn how SAP and TietoEnator solutions help paper and forest companies perform diverse operational and logistical activities, from forest management to mill wood purchasing. Together, these solutions provide real-time operations management with planning, business operations, and production control functionality.
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Solution Briefs
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"Reading the Signals: Process Manufacturers and Customer Demand"
Are you on a path to demand-driven manufacturing? This white paper explores how respondents to an Economist Intelligence Unit survey are pursuing demand-driven agendas – linking them with efforts to boost operational efficiency and sustain growth. (Economist Intelligence Unit, 2008)
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White Papers
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"Reverse Auction Best Practices: Practical Approaches to Ensure Successful Electronic Reverse Auction Events"
Wondering if electronic reverse auctions (e-auctions) can help your procurement organization bring transparency to the sourcing process and deliver bottom-line results? Discover ways to sell the idea and strategies of e-auctions to both buyers and sellers – and ways to achieve double-digit price compression.
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White Papers
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"Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies"
Read why you should change your supply chain management to centralize key elements, work toward end-to-end data and process visibility, increase inventory policy reviews each year, improve your ability to sense changes in customer demand, and upgrade applications and move to a closed-loop planning and execution technology framework. (Aberdeen, 2007)
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Aberdeen Reports
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"The Impact of Technology on Cost in Business Process Outsourcing"
Gain insight into the true cost of business process outsourcing (BPO) beyond what is typically reflected in the BPO provider's service price (total contract value). Learn how technology, if chosen and implemented carefully, will have a major impact on driving down these costs, in both the short and long term.
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White Papers
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"Tightening the Chain – Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies"
Maintain operational efficiency while cutting supply chain costs with new approaches, technologies, and methodologies. Third party logistics providers, radio frequency identification rentals, and attribute-based demand planning can help you reduce supply chain costs and boost customer satisfaction. (TEC, 2008)
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White Papers
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"Turning a Profit in Packaging Begins with Integration"
See how top packaging firms succeed in spite of thin margins, fierce competition, and prohibitive distribution costs by leveraging applications from the SAP for Mill Products solution portfolio. These applications support the integration, automation, and flexibility that helps you cut costs and grow customer loyalty.
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Thought Leadership
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