Manufacturing Business Technology - January 1, 2003

In an enterprise software world overcrowded with three-letter acronyms, the most important one is ROI, or return-on-investment, for without it, none of the others mean much at all. With the current economic climate and the demand for corporate accountability, ROI becomes a critical question that managers—both line-of-business and information technology (IT) managers alike—must answ...

• Columnists
• Back Talk
• Strange days
• Up Front
• Maturity calls for new approaches

• Departments
• News at the Front
• The inevitable conclusion
• Agilisys acquires BRAIN AG
• Wireless that works
• RFID's day is coming
• Wireless hits the shop floor
• Necessity as the mother of ascension?
• Geac reports revenue, acquisitions, and wins
• In Brief

• Features
• Enterprise Strategies
• Orchestrate performance
• Invest, Implement and Evolve
• The platform choice
• Plant Optimization
• Hook up with manufacturing intelligence
• Supply Chain Successes
• Take it to the next level