Supply Chain Technology Spending Outlook
By John Fontanella and Eric Klein -- Supply Chain Management Review, 4/1/2008
AMR Research's annual survey of the supply chain technology buying intentions of business managers and their IT counterparts is intended to accomplish two goals:
- give technology vendors an indication of what their end users plan to purchase, and
- create awareness among supply chain professionals about what their peers deem the most important technology investments for the upcoming year.
This year, our respondent base was made up of 336 line-of business and IT professionals from the U.S. and Europe, representing companies with revenue as small as $50 million and as large as $10 billion.
In constructing the questions for the AMR Research Supply Chain Management Spending Study for 2007-2008, we added a slightly different twist. In addition to asking what technologies our respondents would be buying and who they would be buying them from (an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or best-of-breed vendor), we also wanted to know if these technologies were new to the company or replacements for older applications. Quantitatively capturing this data gave us excellent insight into the rate of market penetration for emerging categories of supply chain technology such as inventory optimization and Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP).
We have also seen new momentum in the supply chain technology marketplace caused by
- established application vendors revamping their technology platforms and adding new functionality, and
- the corporate buyers' receptivity to replacing aging technology.
All of these questions help us determine how each company invests in order to foster competitive differentiation and increased productivity and efficiency.
>> Next: Why companies increase spending on supply chain technology
- The supply chain technology survey
- Companies increase spending on supply chain technology
- Spenders Seek Growth, Software Replacement
- Vendors To Boost Share and Penetration
- Companies to Swap Software
- Spending to Boost Low-Penetration Software
- Best of Breed vs. ERP—Both good canidates for replacement
- Market Share Winners and Losers
- Key Takeaways
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