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Double-take: Pragmatism underpins valve manufacturer's twin-strand ERP strategy

Concluding a three-year project, one of the world's leading valve manufacturers is standardizing on a common global business template for its manufacturing operations. In the process, the company also took a second look at the future of the Oracle enterprise application suite that underpins its sizeable European operations.
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Vendor consolidation: JDA's acquisition of i2 Technologies points to supply chain market shift

The pending acquisition of i2 Technologies by JDA Software is a signal that supply chain management—while still an extremely important strategic function—is no longer the highly specialized activity it was perceived to be just a few years ago.
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Unstructured mess: Firms still laying themselves open to risk due to improper information management

Many companies still fail to manage their unstructured information, which can comprise 80 percent of their total data, effectively.  A report from Butler Group contends that if organisations look beyond compliance to plan the implementation of DRM, they will derive cost efficiencies—especially when it comes to compliance.
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Eco-excellence: New international consortium targets environmental impact of materials

Emerson, Eurocopter, NASA, the National Physical Laboratory, and Rolls-Royce have joined forces in a new project focused on eco design and environmental regulations.
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SC optimization: Wincanton standardizes pan-European operations on Manhattan Associates

European supply chain services provider Wincanton will standardize its European logistics infrastructure on the Manhattan Associates supply chain solutions platform. The project plan will focus initially on deploying Manhattan's Warehouse Management for Open Systems solution across 15 sites in the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and the U.K.
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Research

Product Life-Cycle Management: Expediting Product Innovation

The highly competitive product manufacturing market makes true product life-cycle management (PLM) inevitable. PLM helps companies map product requirements to features, obtain control over product data, preserve product knowledge assets, and enter into the new paradigm of modular product development.
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