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Silicon Valley -- Companies trying to build a private supply chain hub to connect trading partners may want to brace for a wild ride-it's not as easy as it seems. […]

Silicon Valley -- When distributor Future Electronics Inc. hit some bumps late last year rolling out software from i2 Technologies Inc., i2 engineers, along with a team from Sun Microsystems […]

While many jaded procurement executives have grown frustrated by the unfulfilled promises of e-procurement, not all have lost faith. One notable exception is Hewlett-Packard Co. The company, which is likely […]

Silicon Valley -- For many years, Sparton Corp.'s system of choice for sending out requests for quotes (RFQs) was EDI. But with customers demanding quotes back quicker and more efficiently, […]

Silicon Valley -- While many high-tech companies are talking about putting vendor-managed inventory programs in place, Sun Microsystems Inc. has figured out how to pull it off. After more than […]

Flextronics International Ltd. is working to overcome the bane of the electronics supply chain: inaccurate forecasting. As a step in that direction, the Singapore-based top-tier EMS provider is implementing Web-based […]

Three years ago, when the DAC Group was considering how to get a start in e-business, it had a couple of major objectives. The Wilmington, Mass., distributor of interconnect products […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. is looking at some of its procurement processes in a new way. The Palo Alto, Calif., OEM is putting in motion a model similar to what's used by […]

To replace a multiple-step process that required its regional offices to cut purchase orders from a local system, route them to corporate's planning office, and fax the factory production requirements, […]

Andre Kuper, a program manager at Hewlett-Packard Co. in Palo Alto, Calif., recently went looking for a supply chain tool to help improve forecasting and planning visibility and help meet […]

While PDA maker Handspring Inc. leaves many of its supply chain responsibilities in its partners' hands, it still wants to monitor what's happening in the pipeline. Like others, though, Handspring's […]

With the dawn of the Internet and the need to globally track products and shipments on a real-time basis, the patchwork quilt of systems, logistics carriers, access passwords, and accounts […]

Most supply chain executives know the headaches associated with part number matching. The way a part is described may change several times as it moves from component makers to distributors […]

Imagine faxes and e-mails of spreadsheets as the main method for sending and receiving quotes for 100,000 to 200,000 part numbers or more a month. It sounds highly inefficient, but […]

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. is taking to heart what happened not long ago in the business-to-consumer online industry. The hard lesson learned is that glitzy applications designed to dazzle customers mean […]

Plexus Corp. decided two years ago to use the quoting software from PolyDyne Software Inc. to convert its arduous, time-consuming manual quoting process to an electronic one. Having now met […]

Two years ago, Maxtor Corp. knew that if it wanted to improve its back-end supply-chain functions and have its business units operate on a common platform, it needed to replace […]

Even after 75 years in business, Dukane Corp. knows it still has a distance to travel before it can be considered a supply-chain guru. The St. Charles, Ill., company, like […]

Silicon Valley- Y2K. Supply-chain management. While most people may not say the two in the same breath, Zilog Inc. has a different take. For a while, the two were closely […]

Silicon Valley- Many executives at high-tech companies operating on a just-in-time delivery model probably dream about a situation like this: An order comes in for a particular part, along with […]

Silicon Valley- While Sonic Manufacturing Technologies Inc. may be a small contract electronics manufacturer by today's standards, the $25 million company is feeling the same growing pains as its larger […]

Silicon Valley- K.K. Ang remembers the days of typing bill-of-material information into an Excel spreadsheet, faxing requests for quotations (RFQs) to distributors and suppliers, and manually consolidating responses. And "those […]

Silicon Valley- While information-technology infrastructure is quickly becoming a key element in improving supply-chain communications, laying the formidable networking foundation is something Acer Inc. would rather shy away from. Rather […]

Silicon Valley- Supply chain and e-commerce initiatives rely on a finely tuned orchestra of systems, information technology, and processes, and any small glitch in the IT implementation process can cause […]

Silicon Valley- Prescribing to the collaborative supply-chain management approach, EMC Corp. has implemented a process that enables the company to increase visibility and improve relationships through its pipeline. The $4 […]

Silicon Valley- As electronics companies try to take some of the complexity out of the supply chain, more often than not system infrastructure is one of the first functions they […]