2009 Articles
March 24, 2009
SDCE: Shawn Lane, VP, Product Marketing, Named 2009 Pro To Know
This year’s Pros to Know is a tribute to those who have seen the importance of Supply Chain – both on the Practitioner side and the Solution Provider side – and have quietly been working over the years to strengthen the supply chain at their own companies or at their clients.
2009, so far, has not offered many economic bright spots, either in the United States or abroad. It has been – to put it mildly – financial carnage on a colossal scale, with public and private wealth being destroyed at an alarming rate, and companies have been forced to shed parts of their businesses and countless workers just to stay afloat.
But despite all the doom and gloom being heralded from every sector, we’d like to put forward that this crisis is the very event that will put Supply Chain on the corporate map, so to speak, as senior management realizes the incredible power that an integrated, real-time supply chain can have on internal efficiency and costs savings, competitive advantage and brand building. Indeed, those companies that use these troubled times to polish up their supply chains – to invest in them – will not only stand a better chance of making it to the other side but will be poised to grow faster and gain market share when the business cycle turns upwards again, even as their competitors are still just getting back onto their feet.
So this year’s Pros to Know is a tribute to those who have seen the importance of Supply Chain – both on the Practitioner side and the Solution Provider side – and have quietly been working over the years to strengthen the supply chain at their own companies or at their clients.
Good business is not a matter of good luck, but rather of good knowledge that is applied in the proper way at the proper time. Therefore, we offer to you a look into the best practices of the 2009 Pros to Know in the hopes that you will be able to take these practical steps and apply them to your own supply and demand chain to fortify it through this crisis and prepare your company for the better days ahead. And we feel sure that, with Pros such as these at the helm, those better days will soon come.
Provider Pro-To-Know: Shawn Lane, Vice President, Product Marketing, Servigistics. Consider ways to turn after-the-sale service into a new product line – and revenue source – for your company.
