Manufacturing Business Technology - January 1, 2005

Technology makes globalization possible: it's computerization that caused the cost of enterprise transactions to drop like a rock, so companies can outsource even manufacturing. Given telecommunications advances, there's no reason why outsourcing can't be to India or China. So today when IBM puts its PC business up for sale, it's reportedly selling a supply chain that for a $2,500 ...

• Applications and Services
• Culture wars
• Collaborative Coalition
• Microsoft and PLM vendors team up on collaborative blueprints
• Designs on SMB
• Can Autodesk take PLM mass market?
• IT in the China Shop
• Lenox refines IT support/plant-floor interaction
• Open Source
• Survey predicts Linux the next major ERP platform
• Outsourced Manufacturing
• Quality application focuses on product, not process
• Product Development Tools
• Rules promulgation said to be simplified with new technology
• The Price is Right
• Metreo adds enforcement to optimization; steers clear of ERP

• Business Performance
• Business performance in brief
• Motorola picks up operations award
• Get the ducks in a row, please
• Business Intelligence
• Hunt for more users leads to new, prepackaged BI solutions
• Electronic Commerce
• Can new GXS service revive the trading hub concept?
• Too Many Metrics
• Better to put the balance back in balanced scorecard

• Columnists
• Back Talk
• Oracle looks beyond acquisition
• Up Front
• I made Larry Ellison say, "I don't know."

• Infrastructure
• On-demand gets down to business
• In Brief
• Application Hosting
• SAP and HP team for midmarket hosting model
• Applications Support
• Third parties eye ERP vendors' golden goose: maintenance
• In Brief
• In Brief
• Supply Chain Security
• Forrester recommends corrective-action program to protect freight transportation
• Transportation and Logistics
• Hang on: we're in for a bumpy ride

• Integration
• Brewing a new kind of connection
• Business Process Outsourcing
• Procurement processes the next candidate for outsourcing's gains
• Case-In-Point
• Bombardier Transportation finds great value in having quality data
• Exchange Infranstructure
• SAP using NetWeaver to snare partnerships with shop-floor software vendors
• In Brief
• In brief

• Security Wireless
• Security/Wireless in brief
• Jump-start your RFID program
• Focus on the Future
• Symbol Technologies hopes to put past behind with RFID acquisition, new technology
• Inside the RFID Rush
• UHF Generation standard sparks RFID royalties suspension at Intermec
• Outside the Mandate
• Food manufacturer blends internal benefits with RFID compliance
• Port Operations Tracking
• Vendor initiative forges RFID-based processes for shipment tracking
• The Internet of Things
• Wireless device monitoring made possible through low-power, low-cost network capabilities

• Views From the Front
• Corporate
• Voice communication technologies gaining in-house control
• Globalization
• Is India the next manufacturing export powerhouse?
• Implementations
• Up and running
• Information Technology
• Gartner says growth in IT offshoring no cause for panic
• Not Just Marking Time
• Kronos adding functionality to help companies improve employee performance
• Operations
• 3PLs looking for fair shake in global trade
• Pack Expo 2004
• No touching! RFID and bar codes may be better apart
• RFID's Tipping Point
• Inevitable surge in RFID proves out in EPC memberships
• Social Responsibility
• Electronics industry institutes code of conduct
• Taxation
• CEOS expect bigger bite as two big tax breaks end