September 07, 2006
NEWS Companies Failing to Address Supply Chain Dependency ThreatsAccording to a recent survey by Marsh non-Asian companies that have supply chain dependencies in Asia often lack awareness of regional risks and have not addressed these in business continuity plans. The Marsh survey found that 40 percent of respondents were not prepared for a terrorism attack, while only 28 percent were prepared for a natural disaster that could destroy their supply and business operations. Source: Continuity Central Hidden Supply Costs and the Importance of AgilitySupply managers received good news this week as oil and gas prices continued to decline, with oil slipping below $68 per barrel for the first time since June. Industry experts also downgraded earlier concerns that a dispute with Iran or hurricane damage would increase prices or disrupt fuel supplies. However, for many manufacturers, this good news has been overshadowed by supply constraints and price increases for critical raw materials.What can you do to counter rising prices and hidden supply costs? Here are a few approaches. Source: SupplyExcellence Avoiding the Cost of Inefficiency: Coordination and Collaboration in Supply Chain ManagementThe process of getting the right product to the right place at the right time at the right price -- the traditional touchstones of supply chain success -- remains a challenging and often elusive goal. According to experts from BCG and Wharton, two key supply chain elements that are often taken for granted -- coordination and collaboration -- can mean the difference between the merely functioning and the profitable when it comes to procuring goods and services from vendors around the world and delivering them to global consumers as fast and inexpensively as possible. Source: Knowledge@Wharton
WHITE PAPERS - Operational Planning After the Storm: Technology Helps Louisiana Hospitals Rise Above DisasterHurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm at 7 a.m. Monday, August 29, its deadly wrath reverberating throughout New Orleans and surrounding parishes. St. Tammany's 51-year-old campus upgraded in preparation for any type of natural disaster, provided the protection it needed to weather Katrina's fury. While the rest of the city went dark, redundant generator power kept Tammany alive with light, ensuring that computer operations, internal communication, and critical equipment including air conditioning and elevators never faltered. Soarian, Siemens intuitive workflow solution, supplied St. Tammany with critical information to safely care for its 152 patients registered at the time of the storm. Related Content Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Increases Storage Capacity, Cuts Costs and Increases Efficiency by Outsourcing to EDSBlue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has been adding new members at the rate of approximately 6 percent a year, and expects to have 3 million members by 2007. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts needed to significantly grow its storage capacity to keep up with increasing data needs, and to increase the performance and capacity of its disaster recovery infrastructure. To solve the problem, the company turned to EDS for an outsourced solution. EDS built a high-capacity, high-performing SAN-based storage infrastructure, based on EMC hardware, at reduced leasing costs compared to the previous solution. Related Content Inventing Possibilities LimitlessSoftnet Solutions production - de Smart School System is the state of the art solution, built to provide your school the technological edge to take School Management to the next level. It is a complete Enterprise Resource Planning Application and amongst one of the first of its kind for the educational industry. Architect and built on years of research, des would take care of all your school day to day management needs. Related Content
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