3rdwave Global Commerce Management:

Extending and Honing Your ERP Investment

• 3rdwave Secures Your Supply Chain
• 3rdwave's Design, Scope & Depth
• 3rdwave GCM: Extending and Honing Your ERP Investment

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Since the mid-1990's, companies have spent millions of dollars implementing ERP, SCM/SCE [Supply Chain Management/Supply Chain Execution], CRM [Customer Relationship Management] and SRM [Supplier Relationship Management] solutions. They were looking for the magic bullet that promised that their organization would have the ability to operate seamlessly and collaborate extensively with their external environment - on both the client and supply side.

Most ERP, SCM/SCE, CRM and SRM applications are not implemented effectively, are difficult and costly to maintain, and often fail to maintain integration over extended periods of time. The results have been disappointing. Profitabiliy has been compromised. Worse, cases show projects being shelved after only partially being implemented and promised returns were never realized.

The failure of the large ERP, SCM/SCE, CRM and SRM implementations are a result of their massive size, inflexibility and inability to provide or maintain tight integration and the necessary synchronization between the disparate solutions. The solutions are often too bloated, unwieldy and very costly in an effort to provide all potential capabilities within a package solution that meets the client's needs. These solutions were not created to deal with the challenges and intracacies inherent in the global supply chain.

3rdwave's Global Commerce Management suite has a long history of enabling our clients to be successful in how they leverage and profit from the global supply chain. Using a lean, agile and adaptive approach, 3rdwave meshes the supply with the demand side with a level of accuracy not available in any other solution available anywhere today.

Other solution providers may say their solution can add value to your organization. But if these same solutions have not clearly demonstrated improved profitability within months, not years, of a go live date, they are likely to compromise, or continue to compromise, the opportunities your company needs to compete well in the global marketplace.

Read the 3rdwave white paper, Creating Value From Global Commerce Management: People Processes and Enablers, to see how your organization's bottom line could improve by using 3rdwave GCM.