What If Coke Bought Up Pepsi? The Enterprise Versus Best-of-Breed Debate in Supply Chain Management for Energy Delivery

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Energy Insights Opinion
• In This Report
• Situation Overview
  • Introduction
  • Table: Defining Enterprise Suite and Best-of-Breed Software Approaches
    • Why Look at Supply Chain Management and Procurement?
    • Figure: Key Energy Delivery Business Processes
    • Figure: Typical Business Process for Ordering Parts on Energy Delivery Work Orders
  • Management Challenges
    • Cumulating Reasons to Make a Change
    • Company Restructuring Provided a Catalyst for Change
  • Business Strategies
  • Figure: Software Overlay on Energy Delivery Procurement and Supply Chain Business Processes
    • Utility #1 Uses SAP for Everything ? Almost Everything
    • Utility #2 Standardizes Across Multiple Business Processes
    • Challenges for These Solutions
    • Figure: Procurement and Receiving Process: Before
    • Figure: Procurement and Receiving Process: After
    • Value and Lessons Learned
      • Companies Need to Factor in Outsourcing
• Future Outlook
• Essential Guidance
• Learn More
  • Related Research
  • Synopsis