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CIO August 15, 2002 Todd Datz	Strategic Alignment Your business processes can't enable superior customer service or an efficient supply chain without integrated systems. The four companies profiled here demonstrate the benefits of a strategic perspective and long-term commitment to integration.
CIO May 15, 2003 Lafe Low	Integration the Right Way, the Wrong Way Harvard's Marco Iansiti, who has studied the technology strategies of nearly 100 companies, says: Keep your integration expertise in-house.
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IndustryWeek January 1, 2007	Infrastructure Is Integral To Supply Chain Success A company's highest supply chain priorities are demand forecasting, supply planning, inventory management, and sales and operations planning.
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CIO November 15, 2003 Ben Worthen	Extreme ERP Makeover The grand ERP vision of one application and one database for everything your company does may finally be achievable. But does that mean you should rip out all your systems and replace them with a single instance? Here's how to decide.
InternetNews May 5, 2004 Clint Boulton	Easing Integration Pain a Big Blue Challenge Ratcheting up its battle with Microsoft in the mid-sized business space, IBM launched a new business integration server Wednesday geared to help smaller companies get business processes tapping in time with IT.
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HBS Working Knowledge March 7, 2005 Jonathan Byrnes	Achieving Supply Chain Productivity More than anything else, supply chain productivity requires that supply chain managers become experts at knowledge generation and change management.
Bank Systems & Technology January 1, 2007 Maria Bruno-Britz	Banks Starting to Embrace Concept of Financial Supply Chain Management Financial supply chain management represents a growing opportunity for banks.
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