Manufacturing Business Technology - September 1, 2003
Cover Story
The right stuff, revisited
Given the level of enthusiasm executives and managers have demonstrated over the last 10 years for World-Class Manufacturing, its basic tenets should by now be well known and widely practiced. But are they? Data from "leanness studies"—spanning at least 15 years and more than 1,000 companies in 27 countries—gives rise to doubts.
- Columnists
- Corporate Project
- Applications Infrastructures
- Ross Systems releases Internet framework for process manufacturing
- Financial Perspectives
- Offshoot of TOC—throughput accounting—overcomes localized constraint optimization
- Going Offshore
- Outsourcing of software development here to stay
- Rules and Regulations
- Manufacturers seek traction for compliance with TREAD Act
- Cover Story
- Departments
- Hot Bytes
- Hot bytes
- The Politics of Productivity
- The politics of productivity
- Up and Running
- Up and running
- Information Technology
- Making the right connections
- 64-bit computing
- HP unveils new Itanium-based servers; promises industry revolution
- Data Storage
- EMC scooping up Legato, continuing its strategic shift
- Desktop Conferencing
- Sun and Oracle target MS Office users with new software solution
- In Brief
- In brief
- Killer Apps
- BI market shows decent growth; starts to consolidate
- New Market Development
- Sprint talks manufacturing, building networks, partnering with application vendors
- Small- to Mid-size Companies
- Have you outgrown your current applications?
- Operations
- Survive the shakeout
- Automated Replenishment
- Comergent partners with Profile Systems for VMI
- Case-in-point
- Lockheed Martin Aeronautics tackles e-work instructions
- Customer Management
- Can lean be applied to front-end concerns?
- Extended Enterprise
- SSA GT to acquire EXE Technologies
- In Brief
- In brief
- Metrics that Matter
- Cash-to-cash cycle time
- Supply Chain Execution
- WMS vendors lessen configuration woes
- Warehouse Management
- Why RFID is ready for the DC
- Views from the Front
- ISM & Forrester Research identify online direct-materials purchasing upsurge
- Corporate
- Tecnomatix snags USDATA
- E-commerce
- The language of e-Business: Microsoft partnership blends XML and EDI
- Industry Trends
- Insourcing is the latest wrinkle in outsourcing movement
- Information Technology
- Nothing in life is free—not even Linux
- Logistics Management
- Two years after 9/11, inventory impacts minimal
- Operations
- Dial goes with EDS in $110-million IT outsourcing deal
- Supplier Management
- Conference offers insight on Ford's sourcing direction
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