Newer Cloud-based systems provide not just a better way for companies to buy and use sophisticated supply chain software quickly and economically, but they provide the only way companies can begin to orchestrate as collaborative networks.
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Paul Martyn is VP of Supply Strategy at BravoSolution, a provider of supply chain management software.
PeopleSoft worked its way up the ladder--always thrilling customers at each rung--and now sells mission-critical supply-chain software.
After graduation he began working with his brother writing code for enterprise software and built a business in supply-chain management software.
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As an interesting new book by Alan W. Brown, Enterprise Software Delivery: Bringing Agility and Efficiency to the Global Software Supply Chain (Addison Wesley, 2012), points out the consequent shift from software development to software delivery, combining constant innovation and control at the enterprise level.
Companies are trying to save money and increase innovation by integrating third party code, including free open source code, into their software supply chain.
As organizations prepare for this transition, we encourage them to look at the opportunities afforded by the supply chain and by deploying software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in the cloud.
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More third party code in the so-called software supply chain.
Throughout the apparel industry, manufacturers and distributors are starting to use supply-chain systems and enterprise software that were first adopted in industries with higher asset values and investment costs.
While today's global supply chain can be tough to manage, software now alerts companies to ordering or delivery problems.
The software allows traceability in the supply chain between farmers, manufacturing companies and wholesale trade.
Dell, with a history of managing a great supply chain and relatively little innovation in management or analysis software, has the longest road to travel to this new model.
Threats to the supply chain range from the installation of malicious code in either hardware or software to the installiation of counterfeit equipment and the disruption of the production of critical components.
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Mark Shoemaker, Executive Program Manager for Cloud Computing, HP Software, predicts that IT will have to become much more like a supply chain.
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