BSI’s hosted applications, which are tailored to your externally purchased categories, product and service specifications, and geographies, provides needed information and allows market intelligence analysts and commodity managers to spend their time negotiating strategic supplier framework agreements. While most internal market intelligence groups manually assemble, integrate, analyze, and disseminate information, our hosted application reduces the workload of these precious resources.
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Suppliers, Prices and Forecasts
BSI’s "private-label" supply market intelligence portal provides access to the company’s library of research reports, and easy drill-down access to thousands of charts, tables, and graphs. The "Suppliers" section contains profiles of suppliers in every corner of the world, as well as historical and forecast price indices for hundreds of specialized purchased materials and services.
Analysis and News
BSI’s continuous stream of articles, news, and analyses, married with procurement decision tools, improves the accuracy and the timeliness of strategic sourcing decisions. The content is updated continuously with new research, supplier profiles, and benchmarks. A configurable databank allows real-time downloads of market data and forecasts, Online decision tools improve the consistency and accuracy of important decisions by helping with commodity-specific cost inflation calculators, supplier qualification tools, supplier audit templates, lifecycle cost calculators, contract Term optimizers, and hedging and options evaluators.
Benchmarking
Interaction with peers who have successfully implemented supply chain improvements, accelerates the realization of the full potential of market intelligence and strategic supply chain management. Connect with peers on topics of interest and importance.
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| Intermodal Integration: Responding to Market Needs
Global markets have no tolerance for delays, disconnects, or mistakes. Intermodal linkages are often examples of these problems because the problems and gaps between their different networks and approaches come together in high relief. For this reason, shining a spotlight on intermodal connections can reveal waste and inefficiencies that extend throughout the supply chain.
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| Visibility and the Role of Government in Container Security
Despite technological advancements, container security is still a critical area of vulnerability. In addition to explosion and contaimination, containers can be abused in other ways, for example to facilitate money laundering or schemes to dis-assemble and re-assemble components of prohibited and dangerous cargoes. What precautions should shippers take to keep your cargo safe and your company out of trouble? What regulations should government policy-makers enact to improve container security? This article examines the policy issues inherent in safeguarding the security of global shipments.
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| Logistics Outsourcing
The decision to hire a third party logistics company (3PL), should not be based on cost savings. 3PLs often increase capabilities, flexibility, and responsiveness, and they should be used to provide some strategic benefit. How can a 3PL generate strategic benefit for your organization?
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| Reduce Operations Costs Through Optimized Transportation
The high and volatile cost of fuel, labor shortages, capacity constraints have caused transport rates to increase — a pain point for most shippers. What can shippers do to minimize the effect on their budgets? Transportation optimization software is a relatively quick way to identify and embed long-term savings in a transportation network. But buyers need to choose the solutions and the providers carefully to ensure the return on investment and userfriendliness.
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The RFID Package includes 9 items:
Is There ROI in RFID?
On the Inevitability of RFID
Return on RFID
RFID Applications in Ground Handling
RFID and Better Baggage Handling
RFID and Building a Secure Supply Chain
RFID Comes of Age
RFID in Libraries
RFID: Mining Mega-Data for Enhanced Forecast Accuracy
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| RFID Comes of Age
RFID has generated both passion and skepticism. By many accounts, it will be one of the few technologies that really affects us all. Yet it is still a technological and economic challenge for most companies. Has RFID reached the tipping point? David Jacoby, President of Boston Strategies International, wrote this white paper, which examines the ins and outs of RFID, for the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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| On the Inevitability of RFID
RFID has been piloted in countless industries by now. It has shown positive return on investment in retail industries, automotive applications, pharmaceuticals, and baggage handling. Is RFID here to stay?
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Is There ROI in RFID?
| Is There ROI in RFID?
Radio frequency identification (RFID) has been one of the more polarizing topics in supply chain management over the past several years. Some say it will change our world, but if it's so great why are so few companies using it today? Learn the latest developments in RFID technology, the benefits of using RFID and the barriers to implementation.
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| RFID and Better Baggage Handling
"Wait and see" has been the dominant position of most airlines and airport service companies in the last few years regarding RFID. Only 10% have RFID in place so far, and 42% say they have no plans to implement RFID, according the 2007 Airport ID Trends Survey. Sure, fourteen percent say they will implement it in the next 1-2 years and nineteen percent say they will implement it in the next 3-4 years. But most are like Easyjet, which is waiting to see how the market shakes out, and British Airways, which said as late as June that it was waiting for IATA to define standards. This article provides specific updates on which airports, airlines, and solution providers are implementing RFID solutions, and with what success.
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Return on RFID
| Return on RFID
Radio frequency identification (RFID) has been one of the more polarizing topics in supply chain management over the past several years. Some say it will change our world, but if it's so great why are so few companies using it today? Learn the latest developments in RFID technology, the benefits of using RFID and the barriers to implementation.
Presented to NESCON, 2006.
Price: Included in RFID Package
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RFID Applications in Ground Handling
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Anti-terrorism, customer service, and asset utilization are driving RFID adoption in the airline and baggage handling industries. IATA's new technical standard should clear the way for implementation at large airlines and airports. This presentation will examine the various types of deployment in ground handling.
Presented to IQPC (Transport IQ), 2008.
Price: Included in RFID Package
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RFID: Mining Mega-Data for Enhanced Forecast Accuracy
| RFID: Mining Mega-Data for Enhanced Forecast Accuracy
RFID can reduce forecast error by reducing the need to forecast at all! As retailers and consumer goods companies work harder for their share of the consumer’s wallet, RFID could be the glue that bonds them together. This presentation will examine how RFID will change forecasting in consumer products and retailing.
Presented to Institute of Business Forecasting and Planning, 2006.
Price: Included in RFID Package
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| RFID and Building a Secure Supply Chain
RFID can improve supply chain security when paired with information management processes. Is RFID a necessary security application for your supply chain? This presentation will examine why heightened security is a necessity in today’s climate.
Presented to Vendor Compliance Federation, 2007.
Price: Included in RFID Package
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| RFID in Libraries
The use of RFID systems can raise issues of privacy and security. What’s the tradeoff? Are there hidden dangers for users? This presentation provides case studies of library implementations and presents a model for calculating the ROI of RFID in library applications.
Presented to CILIP, 2007.
Price: Included in RFID Package
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