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10 Ways To Use ERP To Lean The Manufacturing Supply Chain
sponsored by IFS
 | White Paper: | Posted: 19 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 19 Jun 2009 | |
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This white paper gives four tips to help you bring lean supply chain improvements to your manufacturing operation. Additionally, it discusses six technology tools that help automate these lean supply chain practices.
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6 Steps to Improving Manufacturing Performance:: Cut Costs and Increase Cash Flow
sponsored by Apriso Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 25 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 09 Apr 2009 | |
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This executive brief presents the six "Rules of the Road" that can help you cut costs, increase cash flow and become more responsive to changing market
conditions in the manufacturing industry.
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A Guide to the Value of Reliable Data in Manufacturing
sponsored by DataFlux Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 04 Nov 2009
| | Published: | 02 Nov 2009 | |
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This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on manufacturing companies. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in manufacturing and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data.
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A Platform Approach To Manufacturing Operations Management
sponsored by Apriso Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 25 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 06 Mar 2009 | |
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From a manufacturing executive's perspective, focusing on an open and flexible Manufacturing Operations Management platform creates a competitive weapon. This research provides a roadmap for creating such a platform in a cost effective way that still delivers benefits, such as higher levels of profitability.
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Accurate Costing Is Key to Profitability - Dynamic Environments Expose Weaknesses in Traditional Approaches
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jun 2008 | |
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To maximize profitability, companies must know the true cost of making and delivering their products and services. Traditional cost accounting, devised in a simpler era, does not satisfy that need. This paper examines indirect and overhead costs, which are crucial to managing profitability.
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Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence through Real-time Performance Management and Continuous Improvement
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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Manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the transition to new IT technology all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise.
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Achieving lean success - A Holistic Approach
sponsored by Infor
| White Paper: | Posted: 03 Apr 2009
| | Published: | 03 Apr 2009 | |
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Recently lean manufacturing has gone from an obscure and isolated practice to a mainstream, extensively publicized methodology that is well known throughout the manufacturing and supply chain industry. However, this does not mean it is entirely understood as a business practice, nor does it mean that it has been implemented to any large extent.
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Asset Management to Support Product Lifecycle Management
sponsored by IBM
| White Paper: | Posted: 02 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 01 Oct 2009 | |
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Leading-edge manufacturers are discovering that they can improve production efficiencies and manage MRO expenditures by integrating their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems.
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Best Practices in Complex Equipment Manufacturing, Sales, and Service
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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This paper gives a brief overview of the SAP® solutions used by manufacturers of complex products and equipment to differentiate themselves from the competition through superior-value products and services against low-cost global providers.
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Business Network Transformation: Product and Service Leadership
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 21 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 21 Oct 2009 | |
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For manufacturers today, achieving strategic goals requires not only intimately understanding technology and markets but also overcoming higher hurdles that have been exacerbated by trends toward globalization and outsourcing. Read on to learn more about how your company can achieve product and service leadership.
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Catalyst XPS - The Solution for Cross-Carrier Small Parcel Shipping From the SAP® Environment
sponsored by CDC Global Services - Catalyst
| White Paper: | Posted: 15 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 15 Sep 2009 | |
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This white paper will discuss Catalyst XPS, a tool that can integrate information from all the major small parcel carriers into one view, fully integrated with SAP. Catalyst XPS can save customers money and improve customer service, without creating an additional maintenance burden on their internal IT team.
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Continuous Innovation for Product and Service Leadership: An Approach Driven by Business Value
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 21 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 21 Oct 2009 | |
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The need to keep product and service offerings fresh is not a new concept in business today, but the new approach is involving a network of business partners and even customers in their quest to innovate. This process is called "continuous product and service innovation."
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DATA ARCHIVING The first Step toward Managing the Information Lifecycle
sponsored by Dolphin Corporation
| White Paper: | Posted: 19 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 19 Oct 2009 | |
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This whitepaper discusses the business case for data archiving as the first step in an SAP ILM strategy; strategies for Data Archiving, Retention Management and the Retention Warehouse strategy for legacy decommissioning in SAP; and Dolphin’s best?practices approach to an effective, long?term ILM strategy.
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Early Lean Adopters Embrace Technology
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 04 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 02 Jun 2009 | |
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Results from Aberdeen Group report, The Lean Supply Chain, indicates that Aerospace and Defense (A&D) manufacturers are 40% more likely to be Best in Class performers - companies that are characterized by having an integrated Lean approach and solution with technology enablers - than their peers from other industries.
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ERP Software for Manufacturers - SearchManufacturingERP.com Product Directory 2009 Edition
sponsored by SearchManufacturingERP
| White Paper: | Posted: 14 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 22 Jan 2009 | |
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Compiled by SearchManufacturingERP.com editors, this directory includes ERP software products for process and discrete manufacturers of all sizes, as well as all verticals. It includes software that is meant to be deployed on-premise as well as Software as a Service (SaaS) or on-demand software.
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