Tracing Food Quality and Safety, or We Are What We Eat, After All ...

... This product overlays other enterprise systems already in place and enables the ... anywhere along the supply chain nodes, upstream or downstream, and starting at ... blog.technologyevaluation.com/.../ - 45k - 2008-06-02

Netcommissions INC

... plans, "crunch" the numbers, and present the results back to you as reports via the NetCommissions information portal and as feeds for your downstream systems. ... http://www.technologyevaluation.com/showcases/technology-Directory/D/11746/NetCommissions-Inc.html - 32k - 2008-03-24

If There's One Thing CRM Tells Us: Don't Do PLM the Same Way

by David Smith ... Input/Output and integration tools to be able to communicate with the downstream systems. The first two, issue and revision control ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/PLM/2004/06/research_notes/MI_PL_XDS_06_21_04_1.asp - 22k - 2004-06-21 Summary: Product lifecycle management (PLM) doesn't work, but it should. Fundamentally, the idea that we can design better products and bring them to market more quickly by leveraging the knowledge and experience in our own value chain and our customers and suppliers, is a sound one. It's just that buying PLM doe

If There's One Thing CRM Tells Us: Don't Do PLM the Same Way

by David Smith ... Input/output and integration tools to be able to communicate with the downstream systems. The first two, issues and revision control ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/PLM/2005/11/research_notes/MI_PL_XDS_11_25_05_1.asp - 21k - 2005-11-25 Summary: Product lifecycle management (PLM) doesn't work, but it should. Industry's general approach and attitude to PLM mimics the early days of customer relationship management (CRM) adoption, and lessons from that experience should help when tackling the 'ifs' and 'hows' of PLM investment.

How One On Demand Vendor Addresses Its Unique Challenges and ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... a dedicated consulting resource for a two-week-long engagement to build and model plans, and to integrate with upstream and downstream systems, in order to ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/CRM/2007/05/news_analysis/NA_CR_PJ_04_14_07_1.asp - 19k - 2007-05-14 Summary: As the software-as-a-service market matures, and while it remains appealing to resource-constrained companies, organizations having up to 500 payees, and that are in need of complex compensation calculation and multitier compensation rules, should consider Centive Compel product suite.

Manual versus Information Technology Enabled Lean Manufacturing

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Monitoring systems can also be used to flag defect-related issues instantly, alert downstream workers and activities, and record information for later analysis ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2006/02/research_notes/TU_ER_PJ_02_16_06_1.asp - 28k - 2006-02-16 Summary: All good lean systems have both physical systems in the plant and near real time information technology backbones that centralize data. The primary advantage of enterprise systems is that they can handle considerably more information than can be accommodated manually.

IP Telephony 201: The Nuts and Bolts of VoIP » The TEC Blog

... your VoIP system components, including hardware (computers, phone systems, routers, switches ... 128 Kbps to 6 Mbps for sending data [“downstream”], and between ... blog.technologyevaluation.com/blog/2008/05/01/ip-telephony-201-the-nuts-and-bolts-of-voip/ - 36k - 2008-05-01

Plant-level Systems: Facing and Dealing with Obstacles

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... visibility into the upstream and downstream supply chains. Even large, well-equipped companies with modern supply chain management (SCM) systems suffer from ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2005/11/research_notes/TU_ER_PJ_11_22_05_1.asp - 13k - 2005-11-22 Summary: 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

The Importance of Plant-level Systems

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... data context and logic, and provide aggregated data in other systems (see research ... A company, for example, could inform downstream supply chain partners of the ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2005/11/research_notes/TU_ER_PJ_11_21_05_1.asp - 14k - 2005-11-21 Summary: 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.

Cincom Asserts Expertise In CRM For Complex Manufacturers Part 2 ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... eg ATP/CTP), these capabilities can be enabled during the implementation and ensuing custom integration with ERP and other downstream enterprise systems. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Crm/2002/11/news_analysis/NA_CR_PJ_11_27_02_1.asp - 13k - 2002-11-27 Summary: While Cincom's solutions, services, experience and results should resonate well with in the complex manufacturing segment, it competes against a slew of companies with stronger brand names (not impeded by Cincom s conservative tacit nature) and/or financial resources.