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The What’s and How’s of ETL Architecture
This paper is basically a high level description of a highly technical subject - Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) Architecture. It is written for IT management and professionals to address and explain an area which often has been overlooked.

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Practical Considerations for Evaluating the Benefits of a Low Cost Country Sourcing Strategy
Is low cost country sourcing still a viable alternative for domestic companies that are looking to improve their bottom line? It is imperative for companies to consider all of the financial and risk management factors in determining the best source for new and existing parts and components.

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Managing Third Party Risk
Some sources of risk that may not be top-of-mind include your service providers, web hosting services, contractors, outsourcers, supply-chain nodes, consulting services, and travel services—any number of outside entities having custody of or access to your sensitive information. If your extended enterprise includes these third parties, you need a way to manage this risk.

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Effective Application Outsourcing: The Importance of Provider / Client Relationships
Success with the outsourcing of information technology to key service providers continues to elude some organizations. By examining commonalities found through multiple successful outsourcing engagements, conclusions about the definition of how the engagement is managed (governance) can be drawn and applied to future engagements.

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IT Asset Rationalization & Shared Services Management
Given the current global economic climate, companies are trying to run off the extra fat from everywhere. This includes IT budgets being squeezed and IT roles being switched to keep-the-lights running roles (operations instead of innovation). In this kind of ecosystem, it is no wonder that more and more IT initiatives are focused on bottom-line, and less focused on innovative top-line growth.

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Higher Education Disaster Readiness: Customizing Effective, Affordable Solutions
The increasing range and impact of threats to school systems today are driving the requirement for higher education institutions to provide more comprehensive and robust emergency readiness and response than has been expected of them in the past. There is much to be done to create emergency management programs that are effective.

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Organizational Alignment: Empowering The Business
The term Organizational Alignment brings to mind many different interpretations when spoken of in the context of an Information Technology (IT) organization. When applied to an organization as a whole, it addresses consistency of purpose and activity throughout the organization as a means to achieve organizational objectives. A similar context is true with respect to an IT organization except that an IT organization typically supports multiple parts of the organization, each of which each have their own strategies woven into a cohesive organizational strategy. When Organizational Alignment principles are applied within IT disciplines, resources create and deliver sustainable business value enabling business units to achieve their objectives.

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Business Impact Analysis: Foundation For Operational Risk Management
This white paper explains the relationship of BIA to each of the elements of operational risk management (ORM). It describes the components and process of BIA, and demonstrates how BIA can be leveraged to drive ORM programs and expenditures. The intended audience includes organizational senior managers, operational risk managers, and functional managers.

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Reducing the Excess: Using Vendor-Managed Inventory to Improve Productivity Without Sacrificing Customer Service
In this white paper, we discuss several aspects of vendor-managed inventory, including the business drivers behind its increasing popularity, risks associated with VMI, and implementation considerations. In addition, we provide a case study of a VMI system recently implemented at a major auto parts distribution company for use with its customers (auto dealers). After reading this white paper, you will have a greater understanding of the “what,” “why,” and “how” behind VMI, and will be able to determine if VMI is right for your organization.

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SAP Supply Chain Execution Solutions: IM, WM AND EWM - Which Solution is Right for You?
There are currently three options available for the SAP user who wants to optimize warehouse processes, including inventory management (IM), warehouse management (WM) and the latest development, extended warehouse management (EWM). This white paper describes those three options to help you determine which option best meets your organization needs.

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10 Things To Know About ITO: Determining if IT Operations Outsourcing is Right For You
This white paper offers 10 important things to know about IT operations outsourcing to help you understand the relevance of ITO outsourcing, determine if ITO outsourcing is right for your organization, evaluate outsourcing partners, and be aware of important factors that influence the success or failure of ITO outsourcing engagements.

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Business Intelligence Best Practices: Transforming Data into Information
The introduction of information technology systems decades ago helped organizations worldwide benefit from more efficient operations and greater productivity. Over the years, companies have acquired volumes of data in these applications, but much of this data is trapped in multiple, disparate systems which cannot easily communicate. As a result, firms must expend considerable effort to tap into the full potential of these data assets to strategically maneuver the business in a rapidly changing and competitive marketplace. The latest evolution in IT is “business intelligence,” which promises to help businesses better tap into and leverage their data assets. But what, exactly, is BI? How can it help? How is it implemented? And what can it do for your company? Essentially a primer on BI, this paper describes BI, how it can help you, and best practices to consider when launching or refining a business intelligence initiative.

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Achieving Best Practice Performance In Automotive Parts Distribution
Globalization and structural issues have caused the automotive market to become more competitive than ever, with pressure to deliver increasing levels of service at lower costs. The companies that establish themselves as dominant players in this market will have a streamlined supply chain that can deliver extraordinary customer service levels. Additionally, the flexibility to handle a variety of value added processes as easily as standard processes will be a requirement for success.

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Voice Beyond Selection Extending the ROI Benefits of Voice Technology
This white paper explores the reach of voice technology beyond its birthplace in selection and into all areas of the warehouse. From receiving to put-away, to replenishment and line loading, voice technology can provide the ability to streamline processes, improve operational performance, and rapidly deliver the most compelling ROI.

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The 7 Stages of Highly Effective Data Governance: Advanced Methodologies for Implementation
Data governance is gaining attention from companies involved in business intelligence and service-oriented architecture projects. There are many different levels of data governance maturity among firms, so this paper may be helpful for companies who want to learn more about data governance, who want to assess where they are in the data governance maturity model, and who want to identify what they must do to attain the next level of maturity and realize data governance benefits.

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Success Starts with The Vision
The companies with 20/20 vision at the start of the change journey are those that will travel well and arrive at the destination of successful, profitable benefit from the change. Addressing the “What, Why, When and Who” in strategic visioning, at the start of any organizational change initiative, is the required first step to acquire clear vision before the change journey. Well-executed strategic visioning mitigates the risks of initiating changes that sacrifice past experience, significant sunk costs, employee morale, and the company’s internal sense of identity.

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Conquering the Challenge of Global SAP Implementations: SAP Rollout Strategies and Best Practices
Implementing SAP on a global scale presents many challenges and issues that require careful planning and preparation. This whitepaper provides strategies and best practices on how to proactively manage challenges that arise for an international SAP project. It also evaluates various approaches to template development plans and rollout strategies. This whitepaper is a hands-on guide, based on real-life lessons learned, that IT and business leaders can use to achieve successful international SAP implementations.

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Best-of-breed Warehouse Management Systems vs. ERP Applications: Is the Gap Narrowing?
This paper describes the strengths and weaknesses of best-of-breed and ERP providers and potential future trends in the WMS space. This paper provides the specific functionality, technology, and risk criteria you should consider to help you select the best WMS solution for your organization.

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The Five Key Ways Transportation Management Systems Can Rapidly Reduce Costs by up to 30 Percent
Maintaining competitive advantage in today's demanding business environment requires continual process improvement and cost reduction. Many companies focus on transportation in an effort to control supply chain costs and help ensure timely shipments. Recently, however, effective transportation management has become more complex due to several industry trends.

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The Devil Is In The Details: A Change Management White Paper
This white paper provides an overview of a practical and executable change management program with successful techniques that removes the 'devil' from change management and change resistance.

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A Component-based Knowledge Management System
This white paper will define knowledge as ideas, information and the relationships between various ideas and information.

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in Supply Chain: Roadmap for the Future
RFID technology is one of the hottest topics for retailers, manufacturers, and other industries where added visibility and control over items in the supply chain can provide competitive advantage. In our white paper, we introduce the concept, explain how it works, and offer some ideas for how to put it to work in your organization.

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Selecting a Warehouse Management System: Strategies and Tactics
Learn how to leverage supply chain software to reduce costs, improve profitability and drive bottom-line results across your supply chain processes.

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A Best Practices Assessment
The Best Practices Assessment ensures that people know what management think is right, and they have a series of recommendations for improving their business processes to achieve what is right. This implies that once the Best Practices Assessment is complete that the Best Practices are made known to all involved persons. A Best Practices Knowledge portal on the company Intranet, along with training how to use it effectively, is in itself a Best Practice.

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Principle Express Pack™
Hear about how our Principle Express Pack™ (PEP) delivers a complete business solution – tailored specifically to the food and beverage industry.

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Unlock Your Legacy Assets Through Modernization
The decisions you make today couldn’t be more crucial. Not only are you challenged to cut costs and operate efficiently, you have to be equipped to get enhancements to market quickly.

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Uncork Your Distribution Bottlenecks: Best Practices in Wine and Spirits Distribution
Wine and spirits distributors face complex supply chain challenges. With the need to effectively manage seasonal variations in volume, shipments of all sizes, and high-volume replenishments driven by continued growth, maximizing distribution efficiency is critical.

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10 Sep 2007
CIBER Identifies Supply Chain Cost Savings Opportunities for Largest New York Wine and Spirits Distributor
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24 Apr 2006
CIBER Provides Food and Beverage Industry Expertise for New Oracle JD Edwards Release
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Dynamic Foods
CIBER Selected for an Integrated, Single ERP Solution
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Major Brands Premium Beverage Distributors
CIBER Delivers Major Warehouse Efficiency Gains
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“We chose CIBER as our implementation and integration partner based on their previous project experience with us and their history of significant implementations with other wine and spirits distributors. We’re thrilled with the success of the implementation in our Brooklyn facility and with the operational improvements we’ve seen with the HighJump system.”

Tony Magliocco — Chief Operating Officer, Empire Merchants

“Because of their experience in our industry, CIBER already had a deep understanding of our business, but they were also quick to learn the uniqueness of our situation. During the software selection process, CIBER’s demonstrated knowledge of the wine and spirits industry and supply chain software market assured us that CIBER was the right partner to lead the implementation as well.”

Anthony Magliocco — Chief Operating Officer, Empire Merchants

“CIBER brought the ability to assess our business requirements from a ‘big picture’ perspective. With their support, we were able to more clearly define how our requirements affected our system needs, and then design and implement the system accordingly. That was a major factor in the success of this project. From their strategic visioning services, to the development of a cost analysis program, to their ability to support us in all facets of the upgrade process, CIBER helped ensure that the project was successful, and that GOYA is well positioned for future initiatives.”

David Kinkela — Vice President of Information Technology, GOYA