Manufacturing Business Technology - February 1, 2002

Enterprise commerce management (ECM) describes the next generation of collaborative business systems, which combine applications and services in an Internet technology environment that extends systems integration to customers, suppliers, and a wider range of employees than ever before. Devised by analyst firm AMR Research, the concept suggests guidelines for companies managing disparate i...

• Columnists
• Back Talk
• More than you know
• Up Front
• Strategy, integration, and applications

• Departments
• News at the Front
• Kronos acquires software business of SimplexGrinnell
• QAD customers report quick ERP payback
• More than a quick fix
• A toast to manufacturers
• In Brief
• At each other's throats

• Features
• Channel Management
• Power to the channel
• Collaborative Development
• Working in-concert
• Customer Relationship Management
• A new way of thinking
• Demand Management
• Events happen, but demand is always
• Fulfillment Management
• The new transactional backbone
• Performance/Event Management
• Tweak the supply chain
• Plant Information Management
• Finally getting some respect
• Supplier Management
• True supply chain management
• Supply Chain Planning
• Half the battle
• Warehouse Management
• It's still the one