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Easy ERP: A Challenge to Conventional Thinking
Emmett Holt 12/27/2005 12:00:00 AM
There is a new paradigm when it comes to evaluating ERP systems. With little difference between industry players' solutions, the key is the longevity of the system, its usability, and total cost of ownership.
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Plant Intelligence as Glue for Dispersed Data?
P.J. Jakovljevic 12/20/2005 12:00:00 AM
Enterprises that have manufacturing or plant-level intelligence systems can be guided through the forking paths of exception-based decision-making. Not only will they be better prepared for unplanned events, but they will also know how their responses will impact the company.
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ERP Plus and Beyond
P.J. Jakovljevic 12/15/2005 12:00:00 AM
ERP Plus provides tools that metal fabricators need to streamline their quoting, order entry, inventory control, production, labor collection, shipping, and invoicing processes.
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The Strengths of a Vertically Centric Enterprise Software Provider
P.J. Jakovljevic 12/14/2005 12:00:00 AM
Verticent, a revitalized reincarnation of the languishing public mid-market enterprise applications vendor PowerCerv, seems to be thriving under a financially stable adopted parent, and it has found a defendable niche where it can exploit its competitors' functional "fatal flaws".
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The Exacting Needs of Metal Service Centers
P.J. Jakovljevic 11/30/2005 12:00:00 AM
General enterprise resource planning (ERP) providers that are viable companies with a solid product, typically do not meet the dimensional inventory, chemical, and physical properties requirements that are vital to the metal service industry and material converter businesses.
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Inventory Control Is Perhaps the Most Powerful Tool You Have for Containing Your Warehousing Costs
René Jones 11/26/2005 12:00:00 AM
Your company's success is not only dependent on sales, but also on your company's ability to say, "Yes we have that item in stock." The problem is, inventory control is usually an after thought.
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What Plant-level Systems Can Do for the Enterprise Market
P.J. Jakovljevic 11/23/2005 12:00:00 AM
To gain the competitive edge, enterprises are seeking tools to break information silos. Collaborative planning and manufacturing has given plant-level systems a whole new meaning.
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Plant-level Systems: Facing and Dealing with Obstacles
P.J. Jakovljevic 11/22/2005 12:00:00 AM
Production supervisors and plant managers are constantly fighting problems within a plant because they lack visibility in the supply chain and do not have an automated exception-based management system. However, a value-adding processing layer can create transparency and link information to unify company processes.
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The Importance of Plant-level Systems
P.J. Jakovljevic 11/21/2005 12:00:00 AM
The information technology (IT) environment in manufacturing is facing a dramatic change. Traditional systems must evolve to support near real time, collaborative business models. This is especially prudent at the plant-level.
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The Challenges of the Lawson-Intentia Merger
P.J. Jakovljevic 10/28/2005 12:00:00 AM
The new company forged from Lawson and Intentia will have to carefully blend their different corporate cultures, which has traditionally been proud of in-house development spawning a limiting "not invented here" attitude.
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