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Direct Digital Manufacturing Allows Quick Production of Custom Products
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1/5/2009 12:01:00 AM
Stratasys FDM systems saves ScriptPro 79% in part production costs and 98% in time savings. ScriptPro uses an FDM additive fabrication system to manufacture selected parts for the pill-dispensing systems. Automating the vial (i.e. pill bottle) filling process allows pharmacists to spend more time counseling patients. And prescription wait times are reduced, leading to greater customer satisfaction for the pharmacy. The FDM system paid for itself within months of purchase.
Paper contributed by Stratasys
Paystream Advisor's Imaging and Workflow Automation, Using Today's Imaging Technology to Improve Business Processes
Posted
1/5/2009 12:01:00 PM
This report is written for organizations actively exploring Imaging and Workflow Automation solutions. Beginning with an introduction to how IWA solutions work, it describes the most common forms that the solutions take, and highlights the benefits that they deliver. It will aid potential buyers in the AP space in their evaluation of AP solutions that reduce costs and improve performance.
Paper contributed by Hyland Software
How To Use Projects to Master Asset Management
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1/5/2009 12:01:00 PM
IFS Co-Founder Ulf Stern discusses how project management functionality that is tightly integrated with Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools is essential to executives of asset-intensive industries. Lacking this integration, valuable asset data is lost and asset utilization can not be maximized.
Paper contributed by IFS
Kiss and Make Up: Industrial Manufacturers Need to Patch Up Relationships with Their IT Organizations
Posted
12/30/2008 12:01:00 PM
The IT organization within manufacturing often finds itself caught between opposing imperatives, both encouraged to provide greater support to the business and ordered to cut costs. In response, some IT organizations have achieved a step change in performance, delivering higher value to the business with a cost structure approaching 1 percent of revenue.
Paper contributed by Booz & Company
Lawson for Lean Manufacturing
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12/30/2008 12:01:00 PM
Get leaner and stronger. Learn how Lawson solutions for lean manufacturing can help you trim "fat" from your processes to remain competitive.
Paper contributed by Lawson
Why CRM Has Failed the Customer -- and What to Do About It
Posted
12/23/2008 12:01:00 PM
As a consumer, how many times have your support requests resulted in a speedy, competent resolution versus a laborious, frustrating experience? Why do we have billion dollar CRM software markets, and still we receive consistently poor support experiences? This white paper offers insights into why CRM has fallen short in serving customers -- and it shows how to start getting CRM right.
Paper contributed by InQuira
Selecting an ERP solution: a guide
Posted
12/16/2008 12:01:00 AM
Looking for the right ERP package for your business can be a daunting task. This white paper can provide you with a good, simple strategy to evaluate and choose the right ERP package for your company.
Paper contributed by Infor
Global Asset Sustainability: Breakthrough lean best practice counters rising energy costs
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12/5/2008 12:01:00 PM
The benefits of Enterprise Asset Management are far-reaching. Improvements can be realized in asset availability, preventive maintenance, capital investment decisions, inventory management, energy control strategies and environmental compliance. EAM strengthens continuous improvement and lean initiatives by: minimizing production equipment total cost of ownership; streamlining asset management operations; allowing strategic energy-saving opportunities. Companies that incorporate this lean practice of optimal maintenance programs can maximize their asset productive life cycles and improve operating, financial, and environmental performance.
Paper contributed by Infor
The Value of a Performance Based Culture
Posted
12/5/2008 12:01:00 PM
Every workplace has a culture. TMSi Logistics, a top 100 3PL provider, has differentiated itself through a performance-based culture resulting in sustainable cost savings and improved service levels. By investing in people and counting on them to perform and innovate, TMSi Logistics has consistently built workplace cultures that improve service and reduce costs for clients.
Paper contributed by TMSi
Beyond the Supply Chain Plan
Posted
11/25/2008 12:01:00 PM
The high degree of volatility in the world economy over the past several years has undercut companies’ expectation that their demand and supply chain plans will remain intact. Supply Chain Planning does not stop with creating a plan; it also requires being ready to change it. Ventana Research proposes nine key questions to ask yourself to get a sense of the opportunity your company has for improving its supply chain planning process. Learn more!
Paper contributed by Kinaxis
Cracking the Code: How to Make Policy Deployment Work for Your Company
Posted
11/7/2008 12:01:00 PM
Policy deployment is an execution tool for connecting daily management activities to achieving strategic objectives. This white paper from TBM Consulting Group reviews the best practices and hidden success factors that can make the policy deployment process work for any organization.
Paper contributed by TBM Consulting Group
Meeting the Challenges of Supply Chain Management
Posted
11/6/2008 12:01:00 PM
Optimizing the supply chain is a must in a global economy. However, if a traditional approach to supply-chain strategies is maintained, owners will be faced with idle inventory, excessive rework, lost sales and customers displeased with the overall experience. According to ModusLink's white paper, a supply chain designed to be lean and demand-driven mitigates the effects of risk due to inherent flexibility and readily deployable production options. To learn how to achieve a lean, demand-driven supply chain, read ModusLink's white paper, Meeting the Challenges of Supply Chain Management.
Paper contributed by ModusLink Corporation
The Supply Chain Management of Pharmaceutical Goods
Posted
11/6/2008 12:01:00 PM
Pharmaceutical companies rely on temperature-control systems, just-in-time delivery and specific warehousing needs to protect their products throughout the supply chain.
Agility's white paper offers insight to help the pharmaceutical industry meet its cold-chain requirements with direct-to-pharmacy delivery to minimize risk and loss of time.
Paper contributed by Agility
Sales and Operations Planning: Aligning Business Goals with Supply Chain Tactics
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10/30/2008 12:01:00 PM
Aberdeen recently published a new report entitled Sales and Operations Planning: Aligning Business Goals with Supply Chain Tactics. Because Kinaxis was a sponsor of this report, we're able to offer a complimentary copy of the report. The report had over 300 respondents across a variety of industries and company sizes. The goal of this year's report was to identify how the S&OP process helps corporate executives accomplish their overall business strategy, with the four broad strategies being: product differentiation, customer service differentiation, cost reduction and profitability.
Paper contributed by Kinaxis
Underpinnings of Service Excellence
Posted
10/31/2008 12:01:00 PM
Aiming for improved customer satisfaction and reduced service costs, service organizations are taking steps to tightly align service demand with resources. This benchmark study shows that forward-thinking companies have taken strategic actions to achieve service excellence by accurately forecasting service demand and effectively planning service resources to meet that demand.
Paper contributed by SAS
Why You Need to Re-evaluate Your Approach to Supply Chain Planning
Posted
10/30/2008 12:01:00 PM
The supply chain planning approach developed in the early 1990’s is failing under today’s market pressures. Today’s environment requires more collaboration than control; more coordination than optimization. Demand and supply chain planning, monitoring and response needs to be performed by many users, on an ad hoc basis, as events occur. A new supply chain planning paradigm is required.
Paper contributed by Kinaxis
Four Capabilities Required for 21st Century Sales and Operations Planning
Posted
10/30/2008 12:01:00 PM
As increasing supply chain complexity and unprecedented demand volatility challenge a company’s operations performance, the S&OP process needs to be reassessed and updated to take advantage of more modern technology concepts and capabilities for creating feasible plans, monitoring performance to the plan and responding to deviations as they occur.
Paper contributed by Kinaxis
Using Sourcing Intelligence to Combat Commodity Volatility
Posted
10/14/2008 12:01:00 PM
Commodity volatility is at or near the top of nearly every manufacturing executive's list of most difficult challenges. At no other time in recent history have we seen so many commodities rise and fall in such a compressed period of time. Learn how manufacturers of all sizes are using price indices to save money and reduce risk.
Paper contributed by Aptium Global
Still Making Costly ERP System Changes to Keep Up With Your Business?
Posted
8/20/2008 12:01:00 PM
If your business is running on a system configured 10 years ago, it most likely can’t keep up with your needs today without costly modifications. To stay competitive, you need immediate access to comprehensive and reliable data for managing your growing supply chain, serving customers, and building partner relationships.
Paper contributed by Crowe Chizek and Company LLC
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