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Fresh slices: Irish bakery goes live with Lawson ERP; gets early notice of benefits

On the point of going live with a pre-configured food-industry variant of Lawson Software's M3 enterprise suite, Irwin's Bakery—Northern Ireland's largest independent baker—finds itself in the comfortable position of having highly specific expectations about the impact of its new software suite.
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Help wanted: Online job board is dedicated exclusively to PLM in manufacturing

One of the ways to satisfy users' high expectations for online search capabilities is to be able to refine the searches—and, therefore, the results. PLMjobs.com is doing just that. Launched May 17 and dedicated solely to product life-cycle management (PLM)-related positions, the Web site was created to help manufacturers quickly find qualified employees—and help workers find positions.
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Intelligent installations: Qualcomm connectivity services let OEMs build out smarter machines

OEMs for industrial and other type machines are beginning to appreciate the opportunity to differentiate their offerings in the market by embedding intelligence in their products, as well as the means to communicate over vast distances to enable greater product uptime and service.
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Plant-to-enterprise integration: Oracle says it will leapfrog competitors in manufacturing intelligence

By now it seems ancient history, but SAP's acquisition of Lighthammer in 2005 marked a sea change in attitudes toward integrating plant operations with the business enterprise.Lighthammer was one of the first software vendors to develop a solution for enterprise manufacturing intelligence, or EMI. Now SAP's arch-rival, Oracle Corp., says it will deliver its EMI product, called Oracle Manufacturing Hub, "sometime" in 2008. The hub will connect to plant-floor outputs either through historians or directly.
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Complex networks: Supply chain execution proves a rich niche for best-of-breed solutions

As manufacturing operations become more highly distributed, there will be ongoing demand for supply chain execution solutions that deliver visibility and accountability. And with any fundamentally new business process supported by emerging technology infrastructure, achieving productivity benefits is a change-management and human-capital management project that can be of significant duration.
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From Local to Hosted: The Story of One Company's Migration to On-demand ERP

Here's the inside story on how an international manufacturer using a traditional, local enterprise resources planning (ERP) solution shifted gears to end up with an on-demand, remotely hosted ERP system. It wasn't the change the company originally intended, but the benefits proved too overwhelming to resist.
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