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Evaluating Alternatives: Key Questions To Ask When Considering An Alternative ERP/MRP System (4 Pages)
by Ned Lilly
Jan 27, 2003 Abstract : Replacing an aging enterprise resource planning/manufacturing resource planning (ERP/MRP) system to stay competitive brings with it a host of questions.
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Freeware Vendor's Web Tracking Draws Curses (2 Pages)
by D. Geller
Nov 29, 1999 Abstract : The free cartoon character cursor provided by Comet Systems Inc. tracks and stores the web visits of millions of people. This potential privacy issue was discovered and announced by the same security consultant who discovered, in March of 1999, that Microsoft Windows was inserting unique serial numbers into many documents created within Office 97 programs like Word and Excel.
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Why Manufacturers Should Cash In On the Promise of Business Intelligence (1 Pages)
by Lyndsay Wise
Jul 11, 2007 Abstract : More manufacturers would implement a business intelligence (BI) solution if they understood the true value BI brings to the organization. In this podcast, TEC analyst Lyndsay Wise sits down with Robert Abate, RCG IT?s principal consultant, to discuss why manufacturers should turn to BI to boost efficiencies and return on investment (ROI), and how to optimize a BI implementation.
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Analysis of SAS Institute and IBM Intelligence Alliance (3 Pages)
by M. Reed
Jan 31, 2000 Abstract : The SAS Institute and International Business Machines announced a new business intelligence relationship on January 24, 2000. IBM has announced that it is refocusing its partnering efforts 'to provide world-class e-business applications.' The SAS Institute will provide BI expertise and leverage IBM's consultant force.
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INFIMACS Boasts MRP Relevant To MROs (3 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
May 9, 2002 Abstract : Through incrementally adding functionality tidbits that are crucial to its target market and that are not easily emulated by its competitors, Relevant continues to have a fair shot at delivering a viable solution to project-based discrete mid-market manufacturers such as aerospace contractors, contract manufacturers of electronic components, and MRO organizations.
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Pull vs Push: a Discussion of Lean, JIT, Flow, and Traditional MRP Part Two: Challenges and User Recommendations (4 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Jan 15, 2004 Abstract : While lean/flow leverages practices to stay ahead of actual demand, traditional approaches better coordinate secondary, back-office systems like accounting and HR. Moreover, flow should be a company-wide strategy that impacts more than manufacturing.
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Pull vs Push: a Discussion of Lean, JIT, Flow, and Traditional MRP Part 1: Tutorial (3 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic
Jan 14, 2004 Abstract : Flow manufacturing leverages techniques to help manufacturers create any product on any given day, in any given quantity including the 'quantity of one' (i.e., through the so-called mixed-model production), while keeping inventories to a minimum and shortening cycle times in order to quickly fill customer orders.
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Inventory Planning & Optimization: Extending Your ERP System Part Two: How It Works (5 Pages)
by D Hooiman
Apr 5, 2003 Abstract : Organizations today realize that although strategies focusing on outsourcing transportation, e-business and new distribution models are important, these are all secondary in relation to what lies at the heart of any supply chain: INVENTORY. Although firms have invested significantly in ERP and MRP systems in the last decade, overall inventory levels within the extended supply chain remain relatively unchanged.
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Inventory Planning & Optimization: Extending Your ERP System (2 Pages)
by Dirk Hooiman
Apr 4, 2003 Abstract : SCM vendors are adding best of breed solutions to ERP product suites and are aggressively marketing this new functionality. The SCM market has been growing so strongly that where SCM was once viewed as a means to gain competitive advantage, companies now see it as a necessary extension of an ERP system, especially Inventory Management and Optimization solutions.
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