 Manufacturing Business Technology - May 1, 2006
Cover Story
The ERP midmarket heats up
The midmarket is where the action is when it comes to ERP. In a spending report released last fall, Boston-based AMR Research found that more than one-third of companies under $500 million in annual revenue are installing new ERP systems, compared with one-fifth of companies $500 million or above.
- Applications and Services
- Defeat undetected downtime
- Brand Protection
- Counterfeiting challenges manufacturers both online and off
- Case-In-Point
- Engine Works saves time and money with subscription-based 3D design software
- Kinaxis resolution engine solves Adeptron's volatile demand problems
- Human Capital
- Higher pay makes procurement staffs more valuable
- Market Forecasting
- ERP by the numbers
- Plant-to-Enterprise Integration
- Wonderware connects with SAP NetWeaver
- Vertical ERP
- Microsoft Business Solutions turns to partners for industry-focused applications
- Business Performance
- In brief
- Agile more important than lean
- Rubbermaid Commercial achieves data quality; expects new synergies from master data management
- Ask AberdeenGroup
- Can midsize manufacturers effectively use PLM?
- Case-In-Point
- Midsize supplier to vehicle manufacturers likes EDI flexibility
- Manufacturing Execution Systems
- MESA to map metrics framework that links financial and operations performance
- Service Management
- To satisfy customers, learn how to measure performance
- Skills Management
- IBM tunes workforce planning to supply chain precepts
- Columnists
- Integration and Infrastructure
- Merck researching materials to lower RFID tag costs
- Chipless tags: the future of RFID
- Enterprise integration as business strategy
- Auto-ID
- RFID technology moves toward mass adoption as IT stakeholders get into the mix
- IT Service Management
- Squeezing the most value from IT may require learning the definition of ITIL
- RFID Roundup
- A sampling of developments, both promising and cautionary ....
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- Study says SOAs are flexible enough to enhance both the top and bottom line
- Spyware Defense
- Multi-vendor effort seeks easier way of eradicating rogue programs
- Wireless Mesh Networks
- Technology holds promise for tapping device-level data; vendors promise solutions later this year
- Special Report
- Inside Business
- Global is as global does
- Can two worlds combine?
- The Bigger Picture: Finance
- Accounting for a demand-driven model
- Views From the Front
- In brief
- Globalization of the printing function
- U.S.-China trade policy facts
- Business Intelligence
- Data explosion caused by enterprise deployments challenges BI vendors
- Business Process Management
- Supply Chain Council unveils model for developing products
- Corporate
- Black & Decker presents a retooled supply chain strategy
- Data On Demand
- IBM and Accenture invest in information management
- Design Standards
- German Tier 1 automotive supplier test-drives SOA data-exchange standards
- Information Technology
- Lax security stalling adoption of wireless computing
- Interphex 2006
- Pharma expo offers solutions suited for industry's emerging concerns
- Operations
- Outsourced logistics trends creates buyer/seller needs gap
- Pricing Management
- Vendors poised to help manufacturers regain pricing power
- Security Market
- Information security managers prove they know which vendors to get excited about
- Software 2006
- Intricacies of on-demand model for software distribution discussed at industry confab
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