Manufacturing Business Technology - July 1, 2005
Cover Story
Beyond the buzzwords
Manufacturers operate in an environment that requires information exchange across every domain of the enterprise. Even more so in a global business climate that demands integrating operations and systems, collaboration must move beyond the buzzword and instead become a cornerstone. Remember that every process offers a link to real-time data for the enterprise as a whole.
- Business Performance
- Hands on the controls
- Brand-aware QMS vendor changes its name
- Application Management
- Finding the right solution for system performance problems
- Process Management
- Interface A standards could be the window to better chip-making processes
- Supplier Management
- Online engine said to boost odds of finding reliable suppliers
- Columnists
- Computing Infrastructure
- Many a conflicting priority
- Case-In-Point
- ClearOrbit improves Colorcon's inventory picture
- Hosted Software
- Customer management vendors in heated battle to meet user demand
- Online Sourcing
- Manufacturers finding deals on eBay
- Supply Chain Execution
- Manhattan Associates means more than warehouse management
- Wireless Networking
- New standard may send Bluetooth into the plant
- Enterprise/Supply Chain Apps
- Strategize at the source
- Acquisition and Competition
- Oracle and SAP battle for ERP dominance: from petty skirmishes to applistructure strategies
- Invoicing Systems
- Paper payment still reigns, but electronic solutions are gaining favor
- Multi-User Accounting
- Intuit makes bid as enterprise player for small manufacturers
- Supply Chain Management
- Webplan to Kinaxis: supply chain planning to "response management"
- Plant-Floor Ops
- GE Fanuc's upgrade to Proficy puts spotlight on MES
- Advanced Process Control
- Optimization technology evolves process-industry tool set into business solution
- Connectivity
- Brooks Software looks to enterprise interoperability
- Security Hardware
- Where to go for that all-in-one VPN/security device
- Product Innovation
- Construction project for the creative thinker
- E-Fulfillment
- Personalized Web pages lure customers, give sales staff instant feedback
- PLM Initiatives
- Microsoft, CoCreate say solutions act as umbrella for "perfect storm" in automotive
- Product Information Management
- You can't Google product data
- Product Life-Cycle Management
- Product quality is looking up, thanks to PLM adoption
- Services
- Amidst the outsourcing boom
- Application Support
- Oracle upgrades J.D. Edwards World; says it wants to keep those users
- Extending ERP
- Microsoft partner says "Axapta's just right" for verticals customization
- IT Project Management
- User may know best when it comes to reducing risk in enterprise systems projects
- Logistics
- Forward-thinking 3PL folds in lean Six Sigma
- Special Report
- 2005 Global 100
- Introduction to the 2005 Global 100
- Views From the Front
- Inaugural publication reveals secrets to success in China
- Corporate
- Software pricing preferences may be self-fulfilling prophecy
- DC Expo
- Speech technology boosts the business case for a voice-directed WMS
- Enterprise Systems
- Users on IQMS: not your typical ERP company
- Information Technology
- Too many "phish" in the corporate pool
- Interphex 2005
- Pharma expo puts stress on performance, security, and compliance
- Manufacturing Execution
- Siemens, SAP embrace ISA S95 standard to tie business and production processes
- Operations
- RFID just wants to be free—or at least open
- Profitability Report
- Revenue growth in 2004 seen as widespread across sectors
- Sapphire 2005
- SOA figures prominently in SAP transformation
- The Global Workforce
- Biggest offshoring wave set to break
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