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Next Generation Customer Focus: Strategies and Business Activities Necessary for World-Class Performance and Success
sponsored by Infor CRM
 | White Paper: | Posted: 23 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 23 Oct 2009 | |
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This paper focuses on consumer products manufacturers and the strategy of customer-focused innovation, exploring NGM study questions and examines business areas where customer-focused innovation has potential to influence performance outcomes. Read on to learn how ways to effectively identify and satisfy customer demand.
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Focusing on Food & Beverage Manufacturers: Three Strategies for Profitability Tomorrow and in Years to Come
sponsored by Infor CRM
| White Paper: | Posted: 22 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 22 Oct 2009 | |
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This paper explores the idea that to effectively compete today and into the next generation, F&B manufacturers must rethink their customer relationship management (CRM) strategies. Read on to learn the three strategies F&B manufacturers must do if they want to be profitable tomorrow and in the years to come.
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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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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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Case Study: Welch’s® Improves its Warehouse and Inventory Management Operations
sponsored by TAKE Supply Chain
| Case Study: | Posted: 15 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 15 Oct 2009 | |
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Welch's selected the TAKE Supply Chain Gemini™ for OPM mobile software solution and Compliance Label Manager (CLM), a barcode and radio-frequency identification (RFID) label management solution to improve the speed, visibility, accuracy and control of extended manufacturing and distribution supply chains. Read on to learn more.
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Improve Synchronization with Streamlined Order Management and Communication: Petmate® Case Study
sponsored by TAKE Supply Chain
| Case Study: | Posted: 15 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 15 Oct 2009 | |
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Petmate enlisted the help of TAKE Supply Chain's X.PC to not only streamline the administration of contract manufacturing for Petmate. Read this case study to learn how X.PC transformed Petmate's manual approach to working with manufacturers through a Web-based collaborative environment that improved shared communications.
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How 4 Companies Saved by Moving to the Cloud
sponsored by NetSuite
| Case Study: | Posted: 14 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 14 Oct 2009 | |
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This paper presents 4 customer success stories of how a change to NetSuite improved efficentcy as well as the bottomline.
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Leveraging A Demand-Driven Manufacturing Model To Enhance Profitability
sponsored by SYSPRO
| White Paper: | Posted: 09 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 09 Oct 2009 | |
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This paper discusses the fundamentals for successful demand-driven fulfillment manufacturing, including optimal channel and customer relationships, informed online buying and selling, flexible product configuration and order fulfillment and integrated operational infrastructures.
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How SYSPRO Leverages a Lean Manufacturing Model to Enhance Profitability
sponsored by SYSPRO
| White Paper: | Posted: 09 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 09 Oct 2009 | |
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This paper discusses the fundamentals for successful Lean manufacturing, including the establishment of optimal customer relationships, improved channel visibility, flexible product configuration, shortened cycle times, improved capacity utilization and integrated operational infrastructures.
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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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IBM Cognos Online Conference for Retailers and Manufactures
sponsored by IBM
 | Virtual Seminar: | Posted: 24 Sep 2009
| | Published: | 21 Oct 2009 | |
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This 2-hour complimentary virtual seminar on performance management (PM) takes place on October 21 and continues on November 4th — Join us to learn how PM can help you improve visibility into your manufacturing business so you can reduce costs, speed delivery and efficiency, satisfy customers and create innovative new products.
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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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What Is Formal Project Management and Who Needs It?
sponsored by Global Knowledge
| White Paper: | Posted: 28 Aug 2009
| | Published: | 27 Aug 2009 | |
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This white paper will answer the question of whether or not these standards are necessary in project management by exploring what can happen in the absence of these regulations.
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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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MORE SPECIFIC TOPICS:
Agile Manufacturing |
Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) |
Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) |
Contract Manufacturing Services |
Just-In-Time |
Lean Production |
MRP II