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Gain insights from leading industry analysts on the state of the marketplace for value chain solutions.
The Top 25 Supply Chains for 2005
Kevin O'Marah, AMR Research, November 8, 2005
For the second year in a row, Dell tops AMR Research’s Supply Chain Top 25, exemplifying the very best in
supply chain practices. Published today in the AMR Research Report “The AMR Research Supply Chain Top 25 for
2005,” the Top 25 identifies the manufacturers and retailers that exhibit superior supply chain capabilities and performance. With superior supply chains comes superior businesses.
Product Information Management Leaders Emerge
by Erica Rugullies, Forrester, December 6, 2004
Software in the emerging product information management (PIM) category offers widely varying feature sets — the products come from dissimilar vendors with backgrounds in various disciplines. Extensive analysis of 13 PIM vendors reveals that the top five products come from FullTilt Solutions, i2 Technologies, IBM, Global eXchange Services, and SAP. During the next five years, FullTilt will likely be acquired and Oracle will join the leaders' circle.
New Strategies for Transportation Management: How Transportation Management Practices Are Changing to Meet Today's Market Pressures
Beth Enslow, Aberdeen Group , September 2004
Accelerating customer demands, along with new market pressures such as
tightening freight capacity and rising fuel and other accessorial charges, are
forcing transportation executives to rethink how they deliver value to the
enterprise, how they plan transportation loads, and how they measure and
motivate performance.
Science- Based Optimization Engines Drive Next-Generation Retail Application Suites
Paula Rosenblum, AMR Research, January 7, 2004
The new year was welcomed in with a preview of i2 Technologies’ retail application roadmap: Lifecycle
Merchandise Optimization (LMO). LMO is i2’s overarching vision of a science-based retailing suite, using an
advanced math-based forecasting engine to optimize product assortments, markdowns, and allocation and
replenishment. The roadmap is ambitious, and while key pieces are already implemented at high-profile retail clients
Payless Shoe Source and Woolworth South Africa, the ultimate goal is to fully control product procurement,
placement, transportation, and pricing. While the roadmap highlights General Merchandise and Apparel (GMA) with
preseason, early season, and postseason timelines, we know that fast-moving consumer product retailers like
Woolworth are also benefiting from the technologies already in place. If i2 can fund and execute on its vision, it will
be well positioned to establish beachheads at Tier 1 retailers with its point products.
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