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Enterprise Resource Planning for Services: Has Software as a Service Become Service-oriented Architecture for Small to Medium Businesses?
Neil Stolovitsky 9/7/2009 12:00:00 AM
In the past, enterprise resource planning (ERP) initiatives were far too costly for smaller organizations to consider. However, a trend has recently emerged where software vendors are now offering software-as-a-service business models for ERP implementation to even the smallest organizations.
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Product Lifecycle Management: Expediting Product Innovation
R. Nagarajan 9/2/2009 12:00:00 AM
The highly competitive product manufacturing market makes true product lifecycle management (PLM) inevitable. PLM helps companies map product requirements to features, obtain control over product data, preserve product knowledge assets, and enter into the new paradigm of modular product development.
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Product, Project, Process, and People: The Four Ps of PLM Analytics
Kurt (Yu) Chen 11/27/2009 12:00:00 AM
Product, project, process, and people represent the four areas of PLM analytics that may help PLM user organizations develop better products, improve the product development process, increase operational efficiency, and better measure employee performance, respectively.
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Transportation Management Systems: The Glue of the Supply Chain
David Bourque 8/31/2009 12:00:00 AM
With manufacturing now a global industry, moving product throughout complex supply chains remains a challenge for most organizations. But transportation management systems are spearheading the way to help solve the dilemmas of today’s manufacturers, offering functionality that eases the transfer of goods from place to place.
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Why Is In-transit Visibility (ITV) in the Supply Chain Important?
Khudsiya Quadri 8/31/2009 12:00:00 AM
ITV capabilities allows an organization to meet the challenges of rapidly increasing fuel prices, changes in regulatory requirements, and provides customers with premium services without increasing the total cost of operations. Find out more in this article!
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Using Demand to Modulate Consumer Packaged Goods Supply Networks
Subramanyam Venkataraman 8/26/2009 12:00:00 AM
Traditionally, the consumer packaged goods supply has been driven to market mostly by upstream manufacturers. But progressive companies are realizing the enduring value of being driven by the market, and they are starting to use demand as a guiding light.
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EAM versus CMMS: What's Right for Your Company
Joe Strub,P.J. Jakovljevic 8/24/2009 12:00:00 AM
This article looks at where computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) end and enterprise asset management (EAM) takes over, focusing on features and functionality of EAM software. It also compares CMMS and EAM software and explores the two key differentiators.
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A Guide to Selecting Process Enterprise Resource Planning Software
David Bourque 8/14/2009 12:00:00 AM
Today, the issue of regulatory compliance touches every enterprise, and process manufacturers are no exception. To answer the challenge of this new reality, vendors now offer enterprise resource planning systems with far more features and functionality than ever before. But how can an organization choose the right system to meet its business needs?
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Why Enterprise Application Search Is Crucial to Your ERP System
Dan Matthews 8/14/2009 12:00:00 AM
Enterprise applications become easier to use with the addition of powerful search capabilities. There is a distinction to be made, however, between stand-alone search tools and true enterprise application search that is built into and tightly integrated within an application.
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How the Mining Industry Benefits from ERP Systems
Leslie Satenstein 8/12/2009 12:00:00 AM
Integrated enterprise resource planning software normalizes the reporting requirements for a mining company’s various departments. This article loosely shows the parallels between the operations in a mining company and those of a manufacturer whose product is sold on store shelves.
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