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JDA Portfolio: For The Retail Industry Part Two: JDA Portfolio 2004.1 Components
P.J. Jakovljevic 12/28/2004 12:00:00 AM
The unveiled product set, JDA Portfolio 2004.1 should help retailers and their suppliers optimally plan and execute the selection, quantification, assortment, procurement and placement of finished goods at the point of sale (POS).
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Lean Asset Management--Is Preventive Maintenance Anti-Lean?
Olin Thompson 12/20/2004 12:00:00 AM
How can we determine the right maintenance strategy for a specific asset? To meet the objectives of lean, we need to evaluate the cost of failure in terms of both not meeting business objectives and any extra cost due to the need for unplanned or even emergency repairs.
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Automated Enterprise: Many High-ROI Opportunities
Tom Pisello 10/30/2004 12:00:00 AM
An automated data center promises to self-configure, self-optimize, and self-protect. When looking to implement an automated data center, one must consider best practices in user and resource provisioning, infrastructure availability, and user management. Doing so will allow automated data centers to expedite the automation processes in IT operations and administration; virtualization and provisioning; security; and availability.
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The Trap of Accountancy Systems; When to Move on to ERP
David Smith 9/25/2004 12:00:00 AM
The differences between ERP and accountancy solutions are huge. Accountancy solutions help with financial management and statutory reporting, but do little to streamline or control operational activities.
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SCM Software for Real World Manufacturing: A Case for Mission Critical Use
Ashfaque Ahmed 7/24/2004 12:00:00 AM
In an ideal world, we can have an exception free manufacturing operations. And for the most part, it will be a "management by exception" operations with no constraints or bottlenecks to worry about. But in reality manufacturing is all about managing constraints. A lot of constraints! This article discusses the impacts of constraints on manufacturing planning and execution and how a well implemented SCM software can help in overcoming these constraints.
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Microsoft to Add "Encore" Functionality to MBS Great Plains 8.0 Part Three: Challenges and User Recommendations
P.J. Jakovljevic 7/10/2004 12:00:00 AM
MBS' current strategy of letting extension functionality proliferate spontaneously largely resembles the current development practice of the open source community. This can be be considered ironic, because open sourcing is something Microsoft loves to hate.
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Microsoft to Add "Encore" Functionality to MBS Great Plains 8.0 Part Two: Market Impact
P.J. Jakovljevic 7/9/2004 12:00:00 AM
Microsoft's Encore acquisition should bring the two former partners' complementary product offerings even closer together and should widen opportunities within the public and nonprofit sectors under the Microsoft umbrella. The products' technologies are quite compatible and so their integration will not be terribly complex, if it is to be complex at all.
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Microsoft to Add "Encore" Functionality to MBS Great Plains 8.0 Part One: Event Summary
P.J. Jakovljevic 7/8/2004 12:00:00 AM
By adding nonprofit and public sector accounting capabilities to the forthcoming MBS Great Plains 8.0 release via acquiring a former independent software vendor (ISV) partner Encore Business Solutions, Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) may find a way to counteract its archrival Best Software's superiority in the target market.
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Nonprofits and Public Sector: The Latest Hot Market
P.J. Jakovljevic 6/26/2004 12:00:00 AM
Many recent circumstances have rendered the nonprofit and public sector accounting markets a land of both opportunity and challenges.
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Will Sage Group Cement Its SME Leadership with ACCPAC and Softline Acquisitions? Part Eight: More Challenges and User Recommendations
P.J. Jakovljevic 6/12/2004 12:00:00 AM
Best Software/Sage will remain a pragmatic company that delivers products based on a savvy understanding of its customers' needs and the competitive forces in the market, and on constant adaptability. It is still standing on top of the hill in many SME markets, and it is typically a much more difficult task for anyone to capture the hill than to defend it.
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