Managing the Aches and Pains of Long Cycle Times: Automating ...

... One of the biggest challenges (or business pain points) for pharmaceutical manufacturers (or life sciences companies) is the long cycles that are required ... blog.technologyevaluation.com/.../ - 36k - 2008-07-21

Project Lifecycle Management Implies Long Term Value; Forget the ...

by Michael Bittner ... market. Studies show that NPDI cycles are shrinking, indicating that collective PLM targeted processes and technology are paying off. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/PLM/2005/09/research_notes/MI_PL_XMB_09_28_05_1.asp - 13k Summary: Understanding the nature and specifics of your product development life cycles, and especially new product design and initiation, can help you realize tangible cost savings and will offset the total cost of ownership of a product lifecycle management system.

Benefits of a Single Database Solution: Improved Enterprise ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... in EnterpriseIQ can be updated as often as every fifteen seconds, and users can see how long a machine has been running, its total cycles, or whether is has ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2005/04/research_notes/PN_ER_PJ_04_07_05_1.asp - 19k Summary: IQMS appears to be raising the competitive bar for quality management among its ERP competition with a single database software solution and seamless ERP systems access.

Method to the (Expansion) Madness: Some Common Threads

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... This software license model generally resulted in lengthy sales cycles, significant integration and implementation challenges and expenses, and relatively ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/SCM/2006/11/research_notes/EN_SC_PJ_11_15_06_1.asp - 17k Summary: Click Commerce has been impressively active in its expansion efforts, and now offers quite a few solutions outside its traditional realm. While each of its solutions has a unique focus, the vendor's target market often requires solutions from several categories.

Has Consolidation Made the PLM Market More Agile? Part Three ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic & Jim Brown ... Most likely their foes will try to position themselves as providers of full-function, pre-integrated applications to manage product life cycles in conjunction ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/plm/2003/10/news_analysis/NA_PL_PJ_10_24_03_1.asp - 12k Summary: Even if Agile continues to deliver superior products, its competition against single-vendor, pre-integrated ERP suite products will force Agile to aggressively differentiate the depth of their PLM expertise and further drive industry specialization.

Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) Market - Dismal 1999, the New ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... to lower production costs, improve product performance and quality, increase responsiveness to customers and shorten product development and delivery cycles. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/BusinessApplications/1999/12/research_notes/MN_BA_PJ_01_00_1.asp - 49k Summary: The worsening plight of most ERP vendors, caused by the market slowdown, which started in the fourth quarter of 1998, continued in full force throughout 1999. The market size for 1999, with the 4th quarter yet to be reported, is estimated at $18.5B-$19.5B (12%-16% growth over 1998), with sales expected t

Exact e-Synergy

... the electronic management of internal and external business processes, e-Workflow helps organizations shorten customer service cycles, streamline processes and ... http://www.technologyevaluation.com/showcases/technology-Directory/D/12477/Exact-e-Synergy.html - 7k - 2008-09-01

Demand-driven Versus Traditional Materials Requirement Planning

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... To make things worse, with product life cycles decreasing, it means that manufacturing and distribution are increasing in complexity. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2005/08/research_notes/TU_ER_PJ_08_08_05_1.asp - 19k Summary: Material requirements planning is a system that strives to plan replenishment just before a withdrawal from stock, which does not work in some manufacturing environments.

A Case Study and Tutorial in Using IT Knowledge Based Tools Part 2 ...

by E. Robins ... On the vendor side, the challenge of educating the potential client of their offerings results in long sales cycles, meticulous and numerous RFI responses, and ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/TechnologySelections/2001/05/research_notes/CS_TS_ESR_05_31_01_1.asp - 30k Summary: This tutorial, part 2 of a two part series on Knowledge Based Selection, demonstrates the selection processes and capabilities of Knowledge Based Selection Methods and Tools. These tools, integrated with business decision making procedures, can arguably reduce selection risk and improve chances for succ

Let the (Excess) Inventory Flow!

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... techniques work on the premise of stock items being in their prime time, the focus here rather is on the tricky effect of product life cycles on inventory. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/SCM/2007/01/research_notes/VN_SC_PJ_01_26_07_1.asp - 16k Summary: Because companies focus primarily on new product development and promotion, the problem of excess and obsolete inventory, once addressed, often leads to both the inventory and dollars flying out the door. There should be smarter ways of handling this problem.