Manufacturing Business Technology - November 1, 2003

When Champion Technologies looked to replace its amalgam of business applications in spring 2002 with one integrated ERP suite across multiple international sites, the Houston-based company compiled a list of midmarket vendors with solutions geared for its sector—the specialty chemicals industry.

• Columnists
• Back Talk
• Manufacturers play innovation card to combat China imports
• Up Front
• Is lean, taken broadly, too little?

• Corporate Project
• High-tech Darwinism
• Global Strategies
• Consultant Deloitte: "Manufacturers say one thing, do another"
• Inventory Strategies
• If haste makes waste, delay product differentiation

• Departments
• Hot Bytes
• Acquisition craze has a steady customer backbeat
• Metrics That Matter
• "The Perfect Order": How does your demand fulfillment stack up?
• The Politics of Productivity
• Haves and have-nots

• Information Technology
• Tune to a new frequency
• Case-In-Point
• Disciplined approach to data rationalization creates PLM success story
• Data Management
• Vendors slow the data explosion with application data management
• Data Translation/Transmission
• Services companies blend new technology into existing chemical manufacturing infrastructures
• In Brief
• In Brief
• Network Security
• These things really are contagious
• Tech Spending
• Gartner says drive toward e-business will keep ERP users coming back

• Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions
• Pressing requirements

• Operations
• Complexity in using UCCnet's registry?
• Tall order for spend analytics
• Case-In-Point
• Howmet manages outsourcing with Exemplary
• Consumer Packaged Goods
• Transora and Trigo partner to push data sync
• Enterprise Systems
• SSA Global aligns around "Coke & Pepsi" worlds
• In Brief
• In Brief
• In Brief
• Integrated Plant Systems
• Wonderware forms strategic integration unit
• Order Fulfillment Apps
• DOM market to top $13 billion by 2007
• Product Life-Cycle Management
• Aras bolsters PLM position with funding

• Views From the Front
• ILOG, SAP among recipients of APICS awards
• After-Product Revenues
• Solution manages service agreements through distribution channels
• Corporate
• Ellison less than fabulous as APICS keynote
• Implementations
• Up and running
• In Brief
• In Brief
• Industry Education
• Dell builds intellectual supply chain via new program
• Information Technology
• Enterprise integration unit leads the way at Progress Software
• Operations
• SoftBrands creates lean unit as part of shuffle
• Production Operations
• Systems sprout customer-focused plans for Hurricane Isabel's wallop
• Views from the Show Floor
• Downsized APICS in an upbeat mood