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Strategies to Run a Lean Supply Chain: How Principles of Lean Manufacturing Transfer Benefits to Operations

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

In the last several years, the manufacturing sector has moved from vertically organized structures to horizontal organizations; that is, a single company no longer controls its product from, let's say, the mine to the store shelf. Instead, today's companies control only pieces of the supply chain, and the companies and divisions controlling those various components may be located just about anywhere in the world.

This model enables companies to concentrate on what they do best, but as a result the supply chain has become longer and more complex. The blurring of the line between manufacturing and supply chain logistics provides the opportunity to move efficient manufacturing management concepts to supply chain management. One manufacturing concept stands out as most successful: the concept of lean.

This white paper was written by Ventana Research, Sponsored by Epicor Software.

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ERP in Manufacturing: Expanding Beyond Traditional Boundaries - Aberdeen Group

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

Pressures to reduce costs continue to outweigh all other business drivers impacting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in 2009. ERP has become more than a necessary infrastructure; it is also a strategic weapon in streamlining and accelerating business processes – while providing visibility to those processes throughout the enterprise. This year Aberdeen looks beyond their annual assessment of ERP usage by module and explore the preferences and decisions between point solutions and an end-to-end integrated suite and assess the overall business value ERP brings to manufacturing.

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Magic Quadrant for Midmarket and Tier 2-Oriented ERP for Product-Centric Companies - Gartner Report

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

The Magic Quadrant for Midmarket and Tier 2-Oriented ERP for Product-Centric Companies addresses the needs of product-centric companies or divisions of enterprises with between 100-999 employees, and with annual revenue between $50 million and $1 billion. These enterprises have limited IT resources and seek ERP systems that support their differentiating business processes well with deep functionality, but do not require significant overhead in the non-differentiating business areas (meaning the systems must minimize Total Cost of Ownership [TCO] and complexity). Although some see this market as large and mature, Gartner see this market as undergoing a "change of the guard," with older, established systems with deep functionality being displaced by more modern and agile systems.

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Key Strategies for IT Success in Today's Distribution Environment

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

The technology world around us is changing rapidly. Keeping up has become tougher for managers and supervisors. Today's economy has focused limited information technology resources on immediate results, not research or long term strategy. In this environment, an understanding of how to apply new technology for up-and-coming management is very worthwhile. This white paper provides high level definitions, opportunity identification, and future potentials for: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Anytime, Anywhere Availability, Mobile Devices, Web 2.0, and Report Cards or Balanced Scorecards as a Business Intelligence (BI) capability. It is a foundation for becoming more valuable to an organization by being able to generate a Return on Investment when applying the latest capabilities to the real world.

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A Guide to Selecting the Right ERP Partner

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:01 -0800

Although a challenging economy has caused many organizations to reduce overall IT spending, several continue to invest in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Such systems enable organizations to reduce costs, improve customer response time, become easier for customers to do business with and manage growth expectations.

As organizations determine their ERP strategy, they need to choose the right ERP vendor partner. This guide explores the "pros and cons" of the four types of ERP partners:

Partner ecosystems
Frameworks
Best-of-breed packages
End-to-end integrated solutions

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Taking Lean Six Sigma Beyond Manufacturing: The Journey to Business Improvement

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:50:00 -0800

Boost Financial Results
Gain Better Quality
Cut Process Defects

Combining Lean and Six Sigma serves to improve processes, eliminate defects, reduce cycle times and accelerate processes. To achieve a competitive position in today's turbulent economy, companies in all walks of life are pursuing a variety of different business improvement initiatives.

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The Supply Chain Executive's Agenda 2009: Weathering the Recession

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:50:00 -0800

Create Accurate Forecasts
Increase Perfect Order Delivery
Boost Perfect Order Received

The Supply Chain Organization needs to deliver cost reduction strategies and also not miss any business opportunities in today's economy. This report will examine strategies companies adopt to weather the recession while looking to better position themselves once the recession is over.

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Evaluating Logistics Outsourcing: Look Before You Leap!

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:50:00 -0800

Deliver More of Services
Improve Visibility using EDI
Boost On-Time Shipments

The need to contain supply chain costs is providing an opportunity to re-examine outsourcing supply chain functions. This report will look at companies that have enabled automated and collaborative transportation and warehouse processes to leverage logistics service providers.

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Waste Management World

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:50:01 -0800

Waste Management World delivers the latest news and global developments from across the industry. Articles report on international projects, best practices, technological developments, trends and legislation. Each issue covers biological waste treatment, collection and transport, recycling and waste minimization, sanitary landfill and thermal treatment of waste.

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Document Process Management: The Case for an Integrated Lifecycle Approach

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:20:00 -0800

IDC has found a direct correlation between effective document management and improved business performance. Yet recent research reveals that half of organizations rate their document process management processes as ineffective. This best-practices white paper gives you insight into how you can reduce costs, increase productivity, mitigate risk and enhance business performance through the strategic outsourcing of document lifecycle management.

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