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Sales and Operations Planning: The Key to Continuous Demand Satisfaction SAP All companies use some form of sales and operations planning (S&OP) to synchronize market data with production output. But most practice a planning process based on logistics rather than strategy. Taking a more strategic approach, however, the S&OP process can be designed to bring together a company's marketing, finance, sales, and operations departments to continuously monitor—and meet—customer demand. Read more Fraenkel Company Increases Inventory Accuracy More than 85 percent VAI (Case study) Fraenkel Company is an employee-owned manufacturing distributor of household furniture and related products and services. The company created a sophisticated in-house ERP system in the early 1990s. However, homegrown software can be unwieldy to maintain and difficult to upgrade. In 2001, Fraenkel saw a solution that offered more advanced capabilities, and implemented VAI's S2K Enterprise Edition for Manufacturing. Read more Cadre Technologies Improves International Marketing Group's Warehouse Operation Cadre Technologies, Inc (Case study) International Marketing Group (IMG) was used to tall orders. And although fulfillment mistakes were rare for the third-party logistics company, any errors that did occur were extremely costly. In order to stay competitive, IMG realized that it would need to increase its fulfillment output. With its new warehouse management system (WMS), IMG's shipping time has gone from several days to mere hours. Read more What Is Your ERP Solution NOT Doing for Your Organization? Exact Software North America If your organization is still operating its first-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, it may not be realizing the capabilities and advantages that newer ERP systems can deliver. Before you look for upgrades, you should know what your current ERP system isn't doing—and if you need your upgrade to address those functionalities. Learn what the new generation of ERP solutions can do, and how you can benefit. Read more Executive Guide to Business and Software Requirements IAG Consulting The concept of getting business requirements right sounds straightforward. However, flawed requirements trigger 70 percent of project failures. The larger the number of stakeholder groups involved, and the more complex the processes, the more likely a project will fail. Success in large projects is not just about completeness, but also about getting complete requirements information early in the development process. Read more Managing Encryption Keys: Best Practices for Ensuring Data Recoverability CipherMax Heightened awareness of vulnerabilities in sensitive stored data has resulted in the increased application of encryption technology. To secure data at rest, a well-defined process for handling the keys used to encrypt data—as well as the keys used to safeguard the data encryption keys—is essential. With the proper key management controls in place, companies can ensure that data is effectively secured and recoverable. Read more |
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