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WHITE PAPER - 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.
Posted: October 21, 2009 | Published: October 21, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | Business Processes | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Industry | Manufacturing Industry Organizations | PLM | Product Development | Product Life Cycles | Product Management

WHITE PAPER - 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."
Posted: October 21, 2009 | Published: October 21, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Management | Business Processes | ERP | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Industry | Manufacturing Industry Organizations | Manufacturing Systems | PLM | Product Life Cycles | Product Management

WHITE PAPER - This Report, which summarizes detailed data from a field study conducted exclusively for AMR Research SAP Peer Forum clients, was written to help business audiences looking for every opportunity to reduce the total business expenses of their huge, existing investments in SAP.
Posted: June 24, 2009 | Published: June 24, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Management | Enterprise Resource Management | ERP | Financial Metrics | Inventory Management | Manufacturing | SAP (Product) | Supply Chain Management

WHITE PAPER - This is the first in a series of six reports addressing the opportunities and challenges faced by midsize manufacturers.
Posted: June 8, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | Cost Benefit Analysis | Global Economy | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Industry | Pricing | Product Management | Productivity | Revenue Projections | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - To maximize profitability, companies must know the true cost of making and delivering their products and services. Traditional cost accounting, devised in a simpler era, does not satisfy that need. This paper examines indirect and overhead costs, which are crucial to managing profitability.
Posted: June 5, 2009 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Cost Benefit Analysis | ERP | Financial Management | Financial Reporting | Financial Services Industry | Financial Systems | Manufacturing | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - Results from Aberdeen Group report, The Lean Supply Chain, indicates that Aerospace and Defense (A&D) manufacturers are 40% more likely to be Best in Class performers - companies that are characterized by having an integrated Lean approach and solution with technology enablers - than their peers from other industries.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: June 2, 2009


Topics:  Enterprise Resource Management | ERP | Lean Production | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Industry | Manufacturing Software | Supply Chain Collaboration | Supply Chain Integration

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains why a warehouse management system (WMS) is one of the key technologies required to create a successful adaptive supply chain network. This system enables the extended warehouse to sense and respond to a variety of business requirements and meet complex and changing customer needs.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  CRM | Distribution Centers | ERP | Manufacturing | Shop Floor Control | Supply Chain Integration | Supply Chain Management | Warehouse Management | Warehouses

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines how to tap into the potential of your nimbler organization by instituting efficient operations. Learn how to predict and respond quickly to changing market trends and customer demands.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | ERP | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Execution Systems | SAP (Product) | Supply Chains

BOOK - To avoid a 7.96% increase in logistics costs, companies should follow the roadmap of Best in Class companies, which have been able to reduce costs or keep them flat via supply chain transformation.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Customer Service | ERP | Manufacturing | Supply Chains

WHITE PAPER - Manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the transition to new IT technology all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Business Systems | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Data Management | Databases | ERP | Manufacturing | Quality Control | Real-time Analytics | Supply Chain Management

WHITE PAPER - This paper gives a brief overview of the SAP® solutions used by manufacturers of complex products and equipment to differentiate themselves from the competition through superior-value products and services against low-cost global providers.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Customer Service | ERP | Inventory Management | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Software | Process Manufacturing Industry | SAP (Product) | Supply Chain Management

CASE STUDY - Hunter Manufacturing is a good example of what a midsize company can accomplish with a disciplined approach to gaining ERP value, in concert with a vendor that has the functionality, technology and services to support the effort.
Posted: January 26, 2009 | Published: January 23, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Change Management | Configuration Management | ERP | Manufacturing | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This paper discusses why failure happens and how to prevent it by following the overriding best practice in successful acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures: preparedness.
Posted: October 20, 2008 | Published: October 18, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Business IT Alignment | Business Process Management | CRM | ERP | Manufacturing | Mergers and Acquisitions | Supply Chains

BOOK - This whitepaper examines the role of ERP in Globalization in detail, outlining steps to improve current strategies to meet the changing face of the global business of today ...and tomorrow.
Posted: September 26, 2008 | Published: September 18, 2008


Topics:  ERP | Global Economy | Globalization | Localization | Manufacturing | Market Research | Offshore Outsourcing | SOA | Supply Chain Software | Supply Chains

WHITE PAPER - Learn how you can transform traditional supply chains from linear, sequential processes into adaptive supply chain networks.
Posted: August 6, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Collaboration | Globalization | Manufacturing | Outsourcing | Supply Chain Management