Manufacturing Business Technology - April 1, 2002

Deploying an enterprise resources planning (ERP) system put Laufen USA's ability to manage transactions and information on a whole new level. But managers at this Tulsa, Okla.-based manufacturer of pre-fired tile needed to find a way to extend that level of information management to Laufen's warehouse operations.

• Columnists
• Back Talk
• The second wave
• Issue Analysis
• The big picture for SCM focuses on integration
• Up Front
• Has IT forged a resilient economy?

• Departments
• New Products
• Logistics Planning offers production, sales, and inventory planner
• Baan targets industrial equipment sector
• IFS announces Packaged for Payback business software
• GlobalSpec releases component sourcing application for MatrixOne solutions
• J.D. Edwards enhances Web-based benchmarking
• News at the Front
• In Brief
• Jack meets journalists, and then some
• EAM slug-fest
• SAS acquires ABC Technologies, partners with Entigo
• International efficiencies
• Watch this space
• P&G purchases Intellution iHistorian

• Features
• Deliver
• Content upkeep
• Plan
• Real-time wisdom
• Source
• Single-tiered no more

• Special Report
• Think big, think governance