Manufacturing Business Technology - August 1, 2006
Cover Story
Straw into gold
In fall 2004, David Krupp, enterprise manufacturing systems manager at what was then International Paper's Hamilton, Ohio-based mill, got his knuckles rapped when he went out and bought the production management module of GE Fanuc Automation's Proficy Plant Performance and Execution suite.
- Applications and Services
- Suite strategies for midmarket ERP
- Announcing OEM Edge
- Electronic Signatures
- Biometrics solve multiple-password entry problem
- Financial Controls
- Contract-management/ERP pairing putssavings back on the books
- Market Consolidation
- PLM vendors get busy, aim highon the M&A front
- Procurement Processes
- "Should-cost" metric leads to parts,materials savings
- Software As A Service
- Firepond rides Salesforce.com's coattails with SaaS framework
- Talking Tags
- Voice-enablement vendor sees synergies with RFID, distribution
- Business Performance
- Ask AberdeenGroup
- Catering to customer demand
- Case-In-Point
- Midsize Avocent calls mySAP "the right choice"
- Customer To Cash
- Study shows substantial waste in working capital in U.S. and European companies
- Information Access
- Fast changes: Execs weigh in on high-velocity business transformations
- Midmarket ERP
- Oracle trumpets win "over SAP"
- Columnists
- Integration and Infrastructure
- Another growth curve
- Composite Applications
- NOVA Chemicals seeks integration with SAP andPavilion for next-gen manufacturing intelligence
- IT Outsourcing
- Cultural fit should be top criterion for choosing an outsourcing partner
- RFID Roundup
- Standards at issue in RFID reports, new product development, technology agreements
- Strategic Sourcing
- Emerson finds multiple uses for procurement software
- Views From the Front
- Kodak sees bigger picture in digital business model
- In brief
- Auto-ID
- Symbol and Intermec resolve disputes
- Automation Summit
- Siemens user conference offers high-wire solutions for plant-floor/enterprise integration
- Corporate
- Consolidation seen in HCM markets
- ERP Customization
- Oracle releases PeopleTools upgrade
- Enterprise Application/Integration
- Gartner numbers show dramatic growth for Oracle Fusion middleware
- Extended ERP
- Global ERP users explore steadily "dependable, independent" QAD
- Information Sharing
- OPC Foundation extends standard for enterprise integration
- Information Technology
- A different way of measuring project success
- Operations
- EPCglobal offers help finding RFID value
- Product Life-Cycle Management
- Heady transformation leads UGS to innovative digital manufacturing solutions
- World-Class Manufacturing
- Dell plant exceeds first-year goals
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