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Production and Distribution - 2005
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Profitable-to-promise: A New Exciting Era
Ashfaque Ahmed 11/24/2005 12:00:00 AM
Any manufacturing business is faced with promising accurate delivery dates for customer orders. At the same time, the manufacturer has to ensure that every order taken, is profitable. This article focuses on the issues related to order delivery date promising in view of profitability of orders to the manufacturer.
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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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Single Version of the Truth
Carla Reed 12/23/2005 12:00:00 AM
Today's enterprise is no longer a single, vertically integrated organization. Globalization, outsourcing, and off-shoring have created an environment where end-to-end supply chains include many players, with a shared need for accurate and timely information.
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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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A Unique Product Lifecycle Management Tool for Private Label Retail
Michael Bittner 12/16/2005 12:00:00 AM
The Worldwide Retail Exchange (WWRE) and the Global NetXchange (GNX) have merged their complementary Web-enabled product sets to form Agentrics LLC. One outcome is the ProductVine PLM solution, which is clearly designed for and targeted to private label retailers.
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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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Supply Chain Vendor Morphs into SCEM with Response Management Vision
Michael Bittner 12/9/2005 12:00:00 AM
Supply chain planning vendors have moved beyond enterprise planning to solutions that encompass the whole supply chain. Companies like Kinaxis are using enterprise response management to manage events and responses as they occur and align results at the point-of-action.
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Records Management Becoming More Important Due to Compliance Regulations
Hans Mercx 12/7/2005 12:00:00 AM
Electronic media and corporate governance have complicated records management for enterprises. Properly defining information as corporate records and using a record management system can help enterprises meet regulatory compliance and reduce liability.
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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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