Manufacturing Business Technology - April 1, 2004

The hangover suffered after the dot-com bust is behind us, but not its legacy for the supply chain. Consumers—both private and corporate—now have a perception of supply chain capabilities that leads them to expect performance levels well beyond those of the early to mid-1990s. The major hurdle remains an inability to accurately forecast demand to allow sufficient time for economic ...

• Columnists
• Back Talk
• Should we be flattered, or frightened?
• Up Front
• Can enterprise software mature gracefully?

• Corporate Project
• Vendor consolidation expands user choice?
• In Brief
• Annals of Aeronautics
• Catia-based design of Boeing 777-200LR goes to factory floor
• Beyond JIT
• DoD's "adaptive" supply chain, jargon and all
• Leadership Training
• Indoctrination lives on in China, albeit Motorola style
• Manufacturing as Job One
• Congressional bill says it's smart to support U.S. manufacturers
• The Bottom Line
• Conference Board, PricewaterhouseCoopers project contrasting views of manufacturing outlook
• The Internet Age
• Cisco Systems, HP commit resources at information society summit

• Departments
• Hot Bytes
• When it comes to RFID, the proof is in the partnerships
• IT by the Numbers
• IT by the Numbers
• Metrics That Matter
• Value-added productivity (VAP)
• Politics of Productivity
• Politics of Productivity
• Solutions Spotlight
• Data collection and printing

• Information Technology
• In Brief
• In Brief
• Flying without wires
• Case-in-Point
• DuPont streamlines logistics and IT costs with centralized, Web-based system
• IT Consulting
• Can EDS make a comeback?
• National Manufacturing Week Report
• Sprint, Nextel, MCI push enterprise-class communication to manufacturers
• Network Infrastructure
• Are manufacturers finding VPN the "virtually perfect" network?
• PLM-to-ERP Integration
• Application vendors answer the call for packaged integration tools
• Project Management
• New class of applications can make IT organizations more efficient
• RFID Integration
• Blending technology with existing applications could prove costly

• Operations
• Sync, then swim
• Business Intelligence
• Performance management vendor Invistics lands CEO; takes "four-walls" focus
• Case-In-Point
• Wired for price optimization
• Efficiency Drivers
• BPM attracting a mixed crowd
• Lean Manufacturing
• e-kanban aims beyond equivalent of visual cue
• Multinational Operations
• Global ERP hinges on centralized planning, says vendor
• National Manufacturing Week Report
• Compliance blues prove boon to ERP, content management, other vendors
• Lean purists and technologists declare truce in light of U.S. manufacturing crisis

• Views From the Front
• AMR's Strategy 21 Conference
• Vendors face backlash over maintenance and upgrade costs
• Analyst says Microsoft CRM a boon to midmarket; potential threat to partners
• Corporate
• Software 2004 features always-interesting Ray Lane on industry's future
• Enterprise Software Trends
• Oracle seen as benefiting in process industry ERP shake-up
• Implementations
• Up and running
• Information Technology
• RFID in supply chain: the revised forecast
• Operations
• IBM adopts new trading hub
• Role Models
• Gender diversity linked to bottom-line performance
• State of the Software Industry
• CA's Kumar looks forward, looks back