Manufacturing Business Technology - June 1, 2006
Cover Story
Suddenly spin control
In the spring, a young man's fancy turns to—well, fixing his pickup truck. And as the nation's driveways and sidewalks get warmer, do-it-yourselfers of all kinds decide it's time to tackle those little maintenance chores they put off all winter. For Elgin, Ill.-based SKF Vehicle Service Market (SKF VSM), the aftermarket parts division of Swedish multinational SKF, all this ...
- Applications and Services
- Beyond pricing and procurement
- IFS Applications 7 tackles vertical industries, improves user interface
- ERP Market Consolidation
- Acquiring Intentia gives Lawson a story to tell manufacturers
- MES
- HighJump leverages Lean
- Midmarket ERP
- Intuitive rewrites solution using Microsoft .NET; gets acquisitive in the process
- Vertical ERP
- Microsoft documents industry-specific extensions to its enterprise systems
- Business Performance
- More than an afterthought
- Ask AberdeenGroup
- What in-house processes determine supply chain success?
- Business Intelligence
- Oracle's "hidden jewel" from Siebel acquisition bolsters intelligence offerings
- ERP Partnering
- Greater access to enterprise systems for occasional users goal of "Duet"
- Hardware Performance
- SSA joins IBM in delivering SOA-enabled solution on blades
- In Brief
- In brief
- Market Consolidation
- Users must do homework when choosing from shrinking supply chain market
- PLM Standards
- German Tier 1 autosupplier test-drives SOA data-exchange standards
- Workforce Management
- Labor management systems improve warehouse productivity, but users slow to adopt
- Columnists
- Back Talk
- Microsoft, UGS, and the PLM liberation
- Up Front
- SAP isn't afraid to be serious
- Integration and Infrastructure
- Intelligence useful for the masses
- Case-In-Point
- Mobile-device solution puts demand forecasting in the palm of a sales rep's hands
- Enterprise Application Integration
- webMethods partnership fuses on-demand applications with back-end systems
- In Brief
- In brief
- Online Content Management
- WebCollage lets manufacturers paint product portraits for retail sites
- RFID Roundup
- A diverse sampling of RFID product & services news…
- Regulatory Compliance
- Sarbox drives database-security solutions development, adoption
- System Maintenance
- NEC promises full protection, minus the downtime
- Special Report
- Industry Profile
- A fundamental shift
- CPG industry reformation at the starting blocks
- Views From the Front
- Corrections
- Corporate
- Infor-SSA deal marks new stage in ERP consolidation
- Customizing Software
- Prepare to enter the next generation of in-house software development
- ERP Upgrades
- Users should get ready now for next-generation Oracle and SAP upgrades
- Information Technology
- Microsoft recommends GXS Trading Grid for BizTalk
- Interoperability
- NIST uses standards forum to showcase "art of the possible"
- Low-Cost Country Operations
- Midwest-based CEOs remain cautious on China strategies
- Midmarket ERP
- SAP pursues midmarket with rapid ERP implementation program
- Operations
- Extranet use grows in spite of downside
- RFID In Manufacturing
- IBM automates semiconductor fab by linking RFID
- Supply Chain Visibility
- Dynamic logistics strategy shifts planning from local to global; advanced to adaptive
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