Manufacturing Business Technology - June 1, 2006

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