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Manufacturing execs: Be a champion for midmarket technology use
For midsize manufacturers you will want to know where your company fits today in the context of global change and increasing complexity. Access this white paper now to learn about emerging trends that include new planning and performance scenarios, and deeper integration with product, enterprise, and plant operations systems.
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Take command of e-sales
A growing number of companies are finding a new type of multi-channel selling and fulfillment system streamlines coordination, overcomes complexity, and presents a “single face” to the customer.
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Protecting intellectual property across global supply chains
Learn how to safeguard your company’s most precious asset—it’s intellectual property—with digital rights management from Adobe.
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Overall labor effectiveness: Achieving a highly effective workforce
Many see OEE as an effective tool for operations management. However, OLE has the ability to measure cause and effect. Learn now how OLE shows how assets and employees come together to drive performance.
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Optimizing performance across your supply chain
Learn more detail about the balanced scorecard methodology and the business intelligence framework needed to support it in this white paper, sponsored by Information Builders.
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Upgrading ERP isn’t your only option
Understand the opportunities for information-based productivity gain before committing the time, effort, and money.
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A comprehensive approach to information management to unify your business
How can a midsize manufacturer use a comprehensive approach to information management? Learn how by accessing this series of white papers covering subjects including multi-dimensional project, intellectual property, customer, engineering, and business-process management.
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Understand the emerging requirements and opportunities for your business.
Current topics in information management for midsize companies. Access a series of whitepapers on lean enterprise, business process management, ERP, value-cycle management, and more.
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Learn the facts about IT-related downtime in manufacturing and supply chain operations
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Manufacturing Strategy: An Adaptive Perspective
Explore how SAP integrated solutions can help businesses compete effectively by enabling fast, flexible manufacturing processes that connect supply chains to factory processes, systems, and production equipment in a seamless, customer-centric network.
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A Strategy For Mastering Change And Efficiency In Manufacturing
See how SAP can help you use adaptive business networks as an effective strategy to introduce new products that meet customer needs, respond faster to supply chain signals, and optimize profit during order fulfillment.
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Pricing and Revenue Optimization: A Manufacturing Perspective
Discover how SAP can support you in cost-effectively managing pricing and revenue optimization as an end-to-end, closed-loop process monitored across three time-phased stages – strategic pricing, tactical pricing, and execution pricing.
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Adaptive Manufacturing: Enabling the Lean-Six Sigma Enterprise
Explore how to incorporate adaptive manufacturing processes in conjunction with Six Sigma Lean. The paper identifies the key processes and capabilities required for success and highlights SAP's capability in enabling these processes.
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Lean: the power of a single platform
Given a constant stream of real-time information, manufacturing systems produce masses of data. Synchronizing and reusing this knowledge reduces waste across manufacturing process domains and ensures the right data is available at the right time, contributing significantly to any company’s lean efforts. Here, Rolls-Royce and Alcatel Shanghai Bell discuss their use of digital tools and PLM to enforce lean processes.
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Configure, quote accurately—with speed and ease
Managing the configuration and quoting process for sale of complex products can be a cumbersome task. If nothing else, frequent updates to product features and pricing make it difficult to ensure all interested parties have the most current product specifications and price books. This challenge is compounded by the need for detailed data—typically dispersed among a variety of sources—to augment customer proposals.
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Moving from paper to digital Engineering Change Order management
The rise of global supply chains—which rely heavily on partner contributions to product designs—adds new challenges to the engineering change order process. Ideally, this process should be automated and standardized, with procedures that are easily understood—and easily executed—by everyone required to provide input into an engineering change. Creating an infrastructure that enables this type of seamless workflow is not particularly difficult. In most cases, it can be done by forging the right connections between a company’s existing engineering and business applications.
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Five big improvements in just five months
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Support collaborative business processes with IT tools
Adobe platform facilitates product innovation through anywhere, anytime collaboration. No one can dispute that manufacturers need to get innovative products to market quickly. Numerous surveys have shown that launching a product late—after customer demand has started to cool—significantly decreases that product’s chances of succeeding. That explains why manufacturers spent nearly $12 billion on product life-cycle management (PLM) software last year, according to Daratech, a Cambridge, Mass.-based technology research firm.
Cognizant methodology puts project on the fast track
Mitsubishi Polyester Film remakes its enterprise-to-production system, for quality, visibility, and real-time decision making. Not long ago, Mitsubishi realized its aging material-flow tracking system needed replacing. Located in Greer, S.C., the business had long relied on Hewlett-Packard hardware to track work in process through its sprawling production facility. Not only was the system increasingly expensive to maintain, but—given today’s dynamic business environment—there were urgent requirements that were difficult to support. Interfacing the system to more modern applications, for example, was a significant challenge.
A vision for the integrated manufacturing enterprise
The complexity of today’s manufacturing operations—in bringing supply and demand into ever-closer alignment—makes coordination and collaboration the central project of the manufacturing enterprise. Unfortunately, the IT and applications solutions that manufacturers use to manage their business, products, customers, and operations artificially set bounds on information sharing. Based on its work with a wide range of manufacturers, EDS has derived a set of best practices pertaining to integrated product development.
Bradrock Industries speeds design-review cycles 50 percent
Sharing product-design information at Bradrock Industries once meant taking 2D screenshots of 3D models before sending them to project teams, suppliers, and customers. Doing so was time consuming, potentially error-prone, and raised questions about the security of Bradrock intellectual property once designs left its immediate control.
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