Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company, has just published a new study benchmarked the supply chain application priorities and strategies of over 150 enterprises in October and November of 2010. The report, Enabling Supply Chain Visibility and Collaboration in the Cloud, reveals that top performing companies have experienced significant improvement when it comes to collaborative processes. However filtering the results based on those companies that have implemented Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for collaboration, reveals that these subset of companies have greater collaboration capabilities than lower performing companies. 

"Companies using SaaS are able to more effectively collaborate with customers. This ensures that they will continue moving towards integrated demand-supply networks. This trend is bolstered by the rising importance of this process for succeeding in the multi-enterprise supply chain, especially in difficult economic times. Integrating trading partner data is not an easy task -- it requires a foundation of electronic connectivity with the partners. Early adopters of visibility and collaboration technologies have been able to use these systems to gather and manage the supply chain partner data," explained Nari Viswanathan, Vice President and Principal Analyst of Supply Chain Management at Aberdeen.

 

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Chainalytics LLC, a supply chain consulting firm focused on enabling fact-based supply chain decisions, announced today a partnership with Oco, Inc, a leading Software-as-a-Service provider of business analytics solutions, to provide supply chain performance, customer analysis and product profitability analytics.
Chainalytics will utilize Oco’s solutions to help clients analyze customer performance and better manage their product portfolios. Oco’s solution will incorporate data from across the extended supply chain.
The combination of Oco’s insightful analytics and Chainalytics’ deep supply chain expertise will provide a comprehensive cost-to-serve solution that identifies unprofitable products and customers, provide visibility to the root causes of variances, and ultimately increase profitability.