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Vol 30 - No 02 - March 2004 Editorial: Get Value from your SCM Systems There are very significant potential benefits to companies from integrated supply chain management (SCM) systems and from judiciously deployed e-Business software. While this is clearly a true statement the potential is often not realised. One encounters cautionary comments such as – “for new ‘best of breed’ software the cost of integration into the company’s existing systems may be 9 times the cost of the new software” or “by the time the planners have assessed the optimised APS schedule it can be out of date and needs adjusting”. Hopefully most companies avoid such extremes. Page number: 4 Word count: 1000 Related Topics: Computer systems Enterprise resource planning Material requirements planning Supply chain
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