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Establishing Standards for Automotive Inventory Visibility and Interoperability by QAD
Abstract : As globalization, competition, and downward price pressures show no signs of easing, lean manufacturing—matching supply to demand, eliminating waste, and streamlining operations—still holds great promise for automotive suppliers to meet this challenges.
Type: White Paper
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| 62. |
Establishing Standards for Automotive Inventory Visibility and Interoperability by QAD
Abstract : As globalization, competition, and downward price pressures show no signs of easing, lean manufacturing—matching supply to demand, eliminating waste, and streamlining operations—still holds great promise for automotive suppliers to meet this challenges.
Type: White Paper
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| 63. |
Integrated Attribute Management: Process Manufacturing by Ross Systems
Abstract : Companies in virtually every industry today are striving to meet the ever-increasing demands of their customers. The issues of innovation, price, quality, and delivery have never been greater. Customers want what they want, when they want it, and how they want it. To give customers what they truly want, manufacturers need to have a deeper understanding of the detailed attributes of the products that meet customer needs. Winning companies, those who will prosper now and well into the future, will need to manage the use of this knowledge with advanced information technology as their key competitive strategy.
Type: White Paper
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| 64. |
Achieving Business Process Improvements: Strategies for Industrial Machinery by Made2Manage Systems
Abstract : One of the unforeseen ramifications of the competition among software suppliers for market leadership in the high volume automotive and electronics industries has been a lack of attention to the industrial and commercial machinery manufacturing sector. The bottom line is increasingly clear: manufacturers of industrial machinery must either transform their processes to become more efficient or get swallowed up by the larger technological transformation underway. Commercial manufacturers are turning to enterprise software to navigate increased price pressures and global competition and to gain the visibility needed to manage their business environments.
Type: White Paper
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| 65. |
New Dimensions in EC and SCM Part 3: E-Procurement Can Broaden the Supplier Pool (6 Pages)
by Scott A. Elliff
Feb 21, 2001 Abstract : From point-and-click ordering using Web-based catalogs of individual suppliers, to marketplaces that bring together in one place the products or services offered by multiple suppliers, to live auctions that determine the lowest-price bidder — there is a wide range of new e-procurement methods and tools to help businesses buy goods and services better, faster, and cheaper.
Type: Article
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| 66. |
New Dimensions in EC and SCM Part 1: The Benefits of E-Procurement (6 Pages)
by Scott A. Elliff
Feb 14, 2001 Abstract : From point-and-click ordering using Web-based catalogs of individual suppliers, to marketplaces that bring together in one place the products or services offered by multiple suppliers, to live auctions that determine the lowest-price bidder — there is a wide range of new e-procurement methods and tools to help businesses buy goods and services better, faster, and cheaper.
Type: Article
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| 67. |
Federal Procurement Essentials: Sealed Bidding (5 Pages)
by Pascal Perry
Jun 22, 2006 Abstract : Selling to the government can bring new life to contract winners, particularly small and medium businesses. In fact, organizations that understand and leverage federal acquisition methods and processes can grow from scratch to a profitable bottom line, whatever their size.
Type: Article
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| 68. |
Resilient Supply Chains: The Next Frontier (5 Pages)
by Bill McBeath
Apr 23, 2004 Abstract : Advances in leaner and faster supply chains have, in many cases, come at the price of increased brittleness. It is time to make supply chains more resilient, and deal with risk more intelligently to maintain the gains from lean strategies, and take performance to the next level.
Type: Article
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| 69. |
Inventory Planning & Optimization: Extending Your ERP System Part Three: Business Case for Inventory Optimization Solutions (2 Pages)
by D Hooiman
Apr 7, 2003 Abstract : Inventory Optimization software recognizes that different industries have different inventory profiles and requirements. Research has indicated that solutions are priced in a large range from tens of thousands of Dollars to millions of Dollars. In this niche market sector, price is definitely not an indicator of the quality of solution. ROI and usability are paramount.
Type: Article
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| 70. |
Fast-path Implementations - Are They Good or Bad? (4 Pages)
by P.J. Jakovljevic & Olin Thompson
Jul 5, 2002 Abstract : Over the last few years the market has seen a plethora of fixed-scope and fixed-price applications, pre-packaged vertical solutions with industry templates, limited education and training, implementation tools, attractive support programs and hosting services with catchy names, all aimed at making it faster, simpler and cheaper for enterprises well under $500 million to use them. Is this approach good or bad for the user?
Type: Article
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