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Despite all of these great advances in our work environments the great majority of plants and industrial organizations continue
to operate in a reactive state of maintenance. Why is this so? Today the functionalities of CMMS, or the technology to manage
maintenance, have outstripped our abilities to do s (...)
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... Part Three will present a template for successful implementations of CMMS. ...
This has differing meaning in differing industry sectors. ...
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2003-03-31
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Using the SAP ERP Chemicals Packaged Solution may represent a significant advantage—but only if SAP is the right enterprise
resource planning system for the prospective user company, and if the prepackaged business processes are a suitable fit. (...)
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Using the SAP ERP Chemicals Packaged Solution may represent a significant advantage—but only if SAP is the right enterprise
resource planning syst...
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2006-06-01
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Quality Management. Search for White Papers and Other Software Related to Quality Management. In today’s global market, providing
quality products and services is essential for any manufacturer’s continued growth—but maintaining a competitive edge is not
always easy. For success, quality awareness m (...)
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Quality Management. Search for White Papers and Other Software Related to Quality Management. In today’s global market, providing
quality products ...
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2010-03-11
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No company today can afford to ignore the value of its customers' natural social networking behavior. The advantages that
these social networks can bring to a company's customer relationship management platform are powerful tools that can ultimately
improve its products. (...)
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No company today can afford to ignore the value of its customers' natural social networking behavior. The advantages that
these social networks ca...
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2007-05-28
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Relying on drop-shipping (sometimes called "virtual inventory") is neither as easy nor as profitable as it may appear to
be. Nothing has hurt the adoption of multichannel shopping more than orders which are delayed—or even cancelled—because of
stock-outs. (...)
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Relying on drop-shipping (sometimes called "virtual inventory") is neither as easy nor as profitable as it may appear
to be. Nothing has hurt the ...
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2006-08-21
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Data-driven, science-based price management is an emerging market. Therefore, vendors should be made to prove whether and
how they can enable a company to achieve and measure margin lift, or return on investment, of their price management applications. (...)
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Data-driven, science-based price management is an emerging market. Therefore, vendors should be made to prove whether and
how they can enable a co...
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2007-05-28
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Collaboration between Amdocs and SAS, if truly committed to by both, should make it possible to collect and analyze information
stored in these Amdocs' systems, and deliver the conclusions and recommendations to the operator's decision-makers in the
form of graphs and practical reports. (...)
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Collaboration between Amdocs and SAS, if truly committed to by both, should make it possible to collect and analyze information
stored in these Am...
Published:
2005-08-05
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SAP has a new marketing campaign. What does this mean for competitors, prospective buyers, and business-to-business marketing
professionals? This case study explains why it's important to dig deeper when a company of interest to you changes its marketing
campaign. (...)
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SAP has a new marketing campaign. What does this mean for competitors, prospective buyers, and business-to-business marketing
professionals? This ...
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2006-01-05
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Compliance with the market RFID mandate has unfortunately preceded the achievements of applied physics and computer science.
One of the main obstacles is the lack of integration, since there is a dearth of software tools from enterprise application
integration vendors to get data from RFID tags and reade (...)
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Compliance with the market RFID mandate has unfortunately preceded the achievements of applied physics and computer science.
One of the main obsta...
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2004-08-04
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It is all about a viable and innovative business value proposition, immaculate execution, low costs, and customer satisfaction,
and not about the company’s name or the nature of its operation (clicks vs. bricks) – should be the motto of the story of
the two pertinent giants Amazon and Kmart. (...)
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It is all about a viable and innovative business value proposition, immaculate execution, low costs, and customer satisfaction,
and not about the ...
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2002-02-07
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Using technologies that are intrinsically compatible should result in faster and less costly development. Thus, any application
suite rewritten in the Microsoft .NET managed code framework should not have to contend with inefficiencies resulting from
mixing or wrapping technologies. (...)
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Using technologies that are intrinsically compatible should result in faster and less costly development. Thus, any application
suite rewritten in...
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2006-10-04
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Function points (FPs) are the most popular unit of measure for measuring the size of software. But because FPs were developed
in the 1970s, are they not now outdated for today’s event-oriented programming and multi-tiered software architectures? (...)
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Function points (FPs) are the most popular unit of measure for measuring the size of software. But because FPs were developed
in the 1970s, are th...
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2008-12-15
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In today's competitive engineer-to-order (ETO) manufacturing environment, procuring components on time and within budget
is crucial. With rising fuel costs and increased international trade, supply chain management software can help ETO organizations
get—and stay—ahead of the competition. (...)
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In today's competitive engineer-to-order (ETO) manufacturing environment, procuring components on time and within budget
is crucial. With rising f...
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2008-07-18
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There are some indications that the main burden for RFID compliance will fall on suppliers, and not on retailers. Thus, these
companies should start evaluating RFID technology soon as to avoid paying exorbitant compliance costs, in the nick of time
or ensuing penalties due to their noncompliance after th (...)
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There are some indications that the main burden for RFID compliance will fall on suppliers, and not on retailers. Thus, these
companies should sta...
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2004-08-20
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Enterprises are becoming painfully aware of the need to clean up their structured data and unstructured content acts to capitalize
on more important efforts like regulatory compliance, globalization, demand aggregation, and supply chain streamlining. (...)
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Enterprises are becoming painfully aware of the need to clean up their structured data and unstructured content acts to capitalize
on more importa...
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2004-11-11
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It is feasible to create native, intuitive and graphical business applications using just available software in i/OS and
Open source Java. Using iSeries as an integrated business server is more than just a dream. (...)
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It is feasible to create native, intuitive and graphical business applications using just available software in i/OS and Open
source Java. Using i...
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2005-05-18
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Oracle does not have a history of major acquisitions, let alone experience with the subsequent integration efforts. Run by
a management team that has never maneuvered a company through a large takeover, will Oracle be capable of digesting PeopleSoft? (...)
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Oracle does not have a history of major acquisitions, let alone experience with the subsequent integration efforts. Run by
a management team that ...
Published:
2005-05-31
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Manufacturing 2007 Executive Summary. Papers and Other Package to Use In Your System for Manufacturing. For a decade, IndustryWeek
and the Manufacturing Performance Institute (MPI) Census of Manufacturers have provided data to US manufacturers. This year,
MPI fielded a similar survey in Canada, offering a (...)
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Manufacturing 2007 Executive Summary. Papers and Other Package to Use In Your System for Manufacturing. For a decade, IndustryWeek
and the Manufact...
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2010-03-11
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Microsoft's foray into the CRM arena has not been a bed of roses, despite its indisputably large marketing muscle and R&D
investment, its strong channel, traditionally attractive pricing policies, and the aura and experience within the market segment.
Microsoft CRM remains both a threat and an opportunit (...)
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Microsoft's foray into the CRM arena has not been a bed of roses, despite its indisputably large marketing muscle and
R&D investment, its strong c...
Published:
2003-08-29
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The battle between Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and IBM goes far beyond applications -- it goes right into the technology stack
or the enterprise infrastructure. As a result, these vendors are drilling down deeper to compete with each other. (...)
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The battle between Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and IBM goes far beyond applications -- it goes right into the technology stack
or the enterprise infra...
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2005-05-24