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Export efficiencies: Dutch filter manufacturer automates export processes using enterprise-integrated documentation

Integrating QAD's MFG/PRO enterprise application with theTRAX i3 transportation system from Precision Software—a vendor recently acquired by QAD—looked much too good to pass up for Dutch filters manufacturer Filtrair. Turns out, says Filtrair Finance Manager Johan Langius, they were right.
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Broad brush: Primer reveals all things to consider when managing a global supply chain

Cheaper space and labour overseas mean goods and services can be supplied from abroad at a fraction of the price that could be achieved in the U.K. The financial benefits to be gained by tapping into low-cost production centres offshore indicate that global sourcing and manufacturing are becoming competitive necessities. Business software specialist Syscom offers a primer on identifying and managing the trade-offs.
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Five-day countdown: European Manufacturing Strategies Summit begins 6 October

This event promises to reveal best practices and technologies for effective supplier relationship management, lean manufacturing, operational excellence, and environmental protection.
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Central monitor: Licensing solution simplifies asset management in SAP, other software deployments

Acresso Software (formerly Macrovision) says its License Manager for the SAP Business Suite helps companies using SAP reduce their license requirements by 30 percent. That's a significant amount given that an enterprisewide SAP system represents the top one or two technology investments that an organization will make over a 10-year period, according to Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research.
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Supplier satisfaction: Confusion surrounds innovation in IT services

A new survey from Pierre Audoin Consultants, polling IT services buyers, finds innovation the key factor in their choice of supplier.
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Management Brief: Service-Level Agreements for Manufacturers and Software Vendors in the Supply Chain

Supply chains are very complex, as is discrete manufacturing and the software that addresses its needs. To ease the complexities, service-level agreements are developed so that all parties involved remain on the same page and product delivery is facilitated.
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