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Driving Operational Excellence and Profitable Growth

Overview Wholesale distributors work hard to build profitable growth while also contending with rising customer expectations and the often disruptive complexities of mergers and acquisitions. Many rightly see operational excellence as the key to meeting these challenges - but too often, fragmented IT landscapes make it difficult to improve processes, control costs, and create the efficiencies needed to succeed in a competitive industry. To make the most of today's enterprise systems, industry executives must understand how the technology has evolved to fit the needs of distributors and determine how it can help meet the needs of customers, streamline mergers and acquisitions, and then drive the implementation from a clear business perspective.

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Publisher	SAP	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2005	Downloads	27
Format	White Papers
Topics	Cost Control - Risk Mgmt.

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