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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedPerformance management: don't build your own.
MSI, November, 2002 by Andersen, Alex
It's highly unlikely that anyone looking for an enterprise system today would elect to build one using internal development resources. The functionality, domain expertise, and technological ingenuity that reputable vendors spent a decade or two building into their systems is simply more than a single company can expect to match.
By the same token, says Stanford University's Dr. Hau Lee, don't even think about building your own supply chain performance management (SCPM) solution, even though the task--at least on the surface--doesn't seem nearly as Herculean. DaimlerChrysler Corp.'s Mopar Parts Group came to the same conclusion, and it led them to SeeChain[R], the SCPM solution from Palo Alto, Calif.-based SeeCommerce[R]. A rich set of key performance...
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