20 Great Ideas to Steal

One Network customer Del Monte is featured in an Information Week article. From Information Week: “These Information Week 500 innovators are trying unique approaches to solve business problems. Could your company use a few extra bright ideas?” Read more: 20 Great Ideas to Steal “Del Monte worked with One Network Enterprises to create a software-as-a-service-based system that combines daily point-of-sale …

Deciding Whether to Buy Supply Chain Visibility Software

Choosing a solution for supply chain visibility really starts by defining the business problem and the kind of visibility that’s required. Many vendors tout supply chain visibility among the benefits of their solutions. But each comes at the visibility problem from a different angle, depending on what audience or specific industry it serves and depending on where the need for …

SaaS POS Boosts Data Analytics for Small Manufacturers

Small manufacturers, typically unable to afford the cost and manage the scale of a demand signal repository (DSR), are finding new options. Source: TechTarget.com “A lot of retailers are offering up data to manufacturers,” said Amy Drevna, senior vice president of marketing at One Network, which provides planning, execution and business-intelligence services on a federated cloud-computing platform. “We try to …

Quick Payback Supply Chain Visibility Projects

Solving the challenge of end-to-end visibility As manufacturers’ supply chains go global and become increasingly complex, getting end-to-end supply chain visibility across an extended value chain is a little bit like trying to keep pace on a treadmill. Therefore, experts suggest manufacturers take on the visibility challenge by narrowing the scope of their efforts to the primary pain point surrounding …

Retailers Help Del Monte See Future

Del Monte CIO Marc Brown shares strategies for improving demand-planning accuracy with Industry Week. A recent AMR Research report suggests the economic downturn should have served as a “wake-up call” for the importance of sales and operations planning (S&OP). An S&OP plan is typically characterized as a consensus process that involves stakeholders internally and externally throughout an organization, says Jane …