Sales and Operations Planning

Software Selection and Implementations

Sourcing Optimization

Warehouse Performance Audit

Network Optimization (PDF, 289KB)

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Solut... (PDF, 218KB)

Sales and Operations Planning (PDF, 382KB)

Software Selection and Implementations (PDF, 1.2MB)

Sourcing Optimization (PDF, 349KB)

Supply Chain Solutions (PDF, 695KB)

Supply Chain Transportation Solutions (PDF, 81KB)

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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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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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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Process Automation for the Procurement of Direct Materials
This paper will present an analysis of a plan-driven procurement process for direct materials. This analysis includes not only the activities and steps in such a process, but also the data sets associated with each activity. Automation of this process will be explored to highlight where an organization can find process improvements that lead to positive impact on the bottom line. Several recent studies are referenced to identify the benefits companies have obtained by automating the plan-driven direct procurement process. Purchasing executives can use this information to analyze their own direct material procurement processes to determine what benefits might be obtained.

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Turning Brown into Green: Achieving Effective Business Process Improvement Using CIBER’s Brown Paper Methodology
Businesses do not launch software and business improvement projects because they have nothing better to do. They undertake them with the objective of creating incremental business value. The objective may be increasing productivity, improving customer service, gaining competitive advantage, reducing costs, or all of the above. Improve and align business processes with the organization’s vision, goals, and objectives and the desired results will follow.

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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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RFID: An Introduction and Analysis of Gen 2 and SAP Auto ID Infrastructure
Implementing RFID systems presents many challenges and requires careful planning and understanding of several different technologies. This white paper introduces RFID systems, RFID components, and the new EPC™ Class 1 Gen 2 specification, and discusses advantages of Gen 2 over Gen 1 protocols. The final part of the paper discusses implementing RFID using SAP Auto ID Infrastructure (AII) and integrating RFID to the SAP R/3 back end.

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Warehouse Slotting Systems: Top 10 Most Frequently Asked Questions When Choosing a Slotting Package
As a supply chain systems integrator, CIBER is often asked about the benefits of warehouse slotting and slotting packages available (both integrated and stand alone) in the current marketplace. This white paper will address several of the most common questions posed regarding Warehouse Management System (WMS) slotting and slotting packages, and will provide answers based on CIBER’s 16+ years of implementing, integrating and supporting WMS and warehouse slotting packages.

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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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Using a Consultant in Warehouse Management Systems Software Selection: Prudent Choice or Waste of Money?
This white paper provides the business rationale for considering a consultant to help you with your WMS software selection. It also provides practical and tangible steps to develop a beneficial relationship with a consultant—from building a framework of responsibilities, to defining your costs, timelines, and deliverables to negotiating a contract and measuring results.

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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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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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PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal
This white paper is designed to provide an overall informational perspective of the implementation of PeopleSoft’s Enterprise Portal into an organization.

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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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25 Jun 2009
CIBER Completes Oracle Upgrade For MiraCosta College
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01 Dec 2008
CIBER Hires Anthony D’ambrosi as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for IT Outsourcing Division
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06 Oct 2008
CIBER and HighJump Software Enhance Warehouse Efficiency for Largest New York Wine and Spirits Distributor
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06 Aug 2008
CIBER and Llamasoft Announce Supply Chain Analytics Partnership
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28 Jul 2008
CIBER Mobile Supply Chain Solution Reduces Inventory Investments, Improves Patient Access for Northeast Georgia Health Systems
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09 Apr 2008
Tom Carter Joins CIBER Federal Government Division As Vice President For Federal Contracts
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27 Mar 2008
CIBER Completes ERP Project On Time and On Budget for Gramercy Alumina LLC and St. Ann Bauxite Ltd.
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24 Mar 2008
CIBER Wins $3.6 Million Oracle Implementation Contract with Azusa Pacific University
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19 Feb 2008
CIBER Completes Lawson Implementation for City of High Point, North Carolina
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17 Jan 2008
CIBER Wins $2.5 Million Implementation Contract For Leading Apparel Company
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CIBER has completed a seven-month mobile supply chain management (MSCM) project for Gainesville-based Northeast Georgia Health Systems (NGHS). The project links the healthcare facility’s Lawson enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to mobile devices used by personnel in the receiving department and on the clinical floors.

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Kiss Products, Inc. selected CIBER because of our extensive experience with SAP products as well as our knowledge of supply chain business processes, expertise with RFID technology, and top-tier relationships with major radio frequency (RF) hardware vendors. Also important was CIBER’s ability to offer "one-stop shopping" for the complete implementation of SAP, mobile computing, and wireless solutions.

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CIBER has been selected by Brooklyn-based Empire Merchants LLC - the largest wine and spirits distributor in metropolitan New York-to lead a supply chain cost reduction initiative for the firm’s two New York metro area distribution centers.

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CIBER and technical resources from Cessna worked together using CIBER’s Rapid Application Development environment (known as ICE-RADS™) to design, develop, and deploy an application that would allow information to be downloaded to a Windows NT server on a more frequent basis.

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Kiss Products, Inc.
CIBER Helps Support Kiss Products Rapid Expansion
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Major Brands Premium Beverage Distributors
CIBER Delivers Major Warehouse Efficiency Gains
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MOPAR
CIBER Implements Vendor-Managed Inventory Distribution Model and Establish Long-term Support Methodology for MOPAR
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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

“CIBER’s proposal was so comprehensive, yet at the same time it offered value-priced services and infrastructure that fit our budget. It was a tall order that they filled easily. Most importantly, their design saved us a great deal of money that would otherwise have been allocated to annual ERP system licensing fees.”

Bill Foley — Director of Materials Management, Northeast Georgia Health Systems

“CIBER was excellent to work with. They listened to our challenges, found creative solutions, and worked hard to accommodate our time constraints. The information they provided us on the licensing saved us a great deal of money. Working with CIBER helped us improve our costs while also improving patient care – this is a win/win situation for NGHS and our patients.”

Blanche Ettinger — Project Manager, IT, Northeast Georgia Health Systems

“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