Off-loading Some Green Compliance Burdens: Can Enterprise Applications Meet the Challenge? P.J. Jakovljevic
The European Union’s WEEE Directive requires electronics manufacturers of member states to manage and pay for electrical and electronics waste recycling. Yet some prospective business service providers are waiting for the legislation and market to mature before offering their solutions. 阅读文章
Preparing for Product Development in Process Manufacturing P.J. Jakovljevic
Combining process industry–oriented product lifecycle management capabilities with process manufacturing–oriented enterprise resource planning ones can help alleviate many of the challenges particular to the process manufacturers, especially in the areas of product development and regulatory compliance. 阅读文章
Can ERP Speak PLM? Jim Brown
Because product lifecycle management (PLM) offers a host of benefits to manufacturers, it has become one of the fastest growing categories of enterprise applications.
But a PLM system needs to work hand-in-hand with an enterprise resource planning system, so how can an organization integrate these two enterprise applications, which "speak" in different languages? 阅读文章