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The business of transporting goods is risky, complex, and effort-intensive. Despite the continuing rise in fuel prices, employee
salaries, and other overhead costs, transporters often face the prospect of providing their services at lower rates. How can
transporters survive in such a difficult business c (...)
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The business of transporting goods is risky, complex, and effort-intensive. Despite the continuing rise in fuel prices, employee
salaries, and oth...
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2008-02-06
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The main cause of lean maintenance failure is that companies fail to focus on asset reliability. The reliability approach
to capacity, which includes risk prioritization analyses of assets, can help a company achieve lean success. (...)
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Lessons Learned and Best Practices. ... maintenance activities through
total productive maintenance (TPM) practices. ... with no focus on the business
impact of the ...
Published:
2005-07-12
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Very few companies really run standard software applications as "standard" products, since every business changes constantly.
In fact, these companies have found that the agility they wish to attain is in direct conflict with the rigidity of their
enterprise systems. (...)
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Very few companies really run standard software applications as "standard" products, since every business changes
constantly. In fact, these compa...
Published:
2007-03-26
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Aligning information technology (IT) with corporate strategy is key to maximizing the business impact of IT investments.
Tree Top's structured process of reviewing proposed IT investments will allow an enterprise to understand this alignment,
and prioritize investments. (...)
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Aligning information technology (IT) with corporate strategy is key to maximizing the business impact of IT investments. Tree
Top's structured pro...
Published:
2006-04-05
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The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) hosts quarterly World Conferences to help organizations involved in data warehousing,
business intelligence, and performance management. These conferences supply a wealth of information aimed at improving organizational
decision-making, optimizing performance, and ac (...)
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... TDWI collects and promotes best practices research to educate technical
and business professionals about new BI technologies, concepts, and the approaches that ...
Published:
2006-10-25
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TEC product certification report: Oracle E-Business Suite (12.1) for process ERP systems is now available. Read free white
paper. Oracle E-Business Suite (12.1) is now TEC Certified for online comparison of process manufacturing enterprise resource
planning (ERP) systems in TEC's Evaluation Centers. The c (...)
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TEC product certification report: Oracle E-Business Suite (12.1) for process ERP systems is now available. Read free white
paper. Oracle E-Business...
Published:
2010-05-13
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Though most companies know about the benefits of enterprise resource planning (ERP), many lack awareness about how to evaluate
products or when the time is right to upgrade change solutions. Moreover, they may not be up to date with the latest ERP features,
market trends, and other essential information. (...)
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ERP Systems Market Primer. Source: Focus Research. ... and sales executives. Download <strong>ERP
Systems Market Primer</strong>. Comments: ...
Published:
2010-09-16
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Manufacturing operations are characterized by a need for factory transformation management. Via software that uses a "virtual
factory" approach to synchronize the supply chain, Pelion Systems is attempting to establish a new market category, manufacturing
process optimization, to satisfy this need. (...)
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Manufacturing operations are characterized by a need for factory transformation management. Via software that uses a "virtual
factory" approach to...
Published:
2006-01-31
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Make up your own mind on Stemming the Loss of Knowledge Capital.It won't cost you anything to find out.Free whitepaper! The
clock is ticking for Canadian manufacturers to come up with a solution to the ongoing loss of knowledge capital. Natural employee
attrition, such as departures or layoffs, inevitable (...)
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... Practice of KM, TEC KM Best Practices, ITIL Knowledge ...
Their best hope lies in introducing knowledge management ... and do not keep pace with changes
in business. ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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The dot-com revolution has left few impressions as significant as the hosted software phenomenon. In fact, its success has
caused many organizations with reservations about hosted solutions to think twice. So what exactly are its advantages and
disadvantages? (...)
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The dot-com revolution has left few impressions as significant as the hosted software phenomenon. In fact, its success has
caused many organizatio...
Published:
2006-07-07
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One reason to look at small specialist providers is the ongoing success of Sweden-based Jeeves Information Systems AB. Even
the largest players acknowledge the challenges and the driving forces coming from the focused and innovative likes of Jeeves. (...)
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One reason to look at small specialist providers is the ongoing success of Sweden-based Jeeves Information Systems AB. Even
the largest players ac...
Published:
2006-03-29
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ROI System is definitely a "user's vendor" that should raise the bar for customer care best practices amongst its competitors. (...)
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ROI System is definitely a "user's vendor" that should raise the bar for customer care best practices amongst
its competitors.
Published:
2003-06-04
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... as a “best vendor”: each business has different ...
with a crash course on our best-practices methodology for ... Companies
with dated legacy systems can gain some ...
Published:
2010-06-04
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Service or spare parts have lately become both a blessing and a curse for many manufacturers. (...)
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Smaller Vendors Can Still Provide Relevant Business Systems Part Four: MRO and Spare Parts
Management. PJ Jakovljevic - January 27 ...
Published:
2005-01-27
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For a vendor, focus is good, as it often results with more value to its targeted customers. A highly focused vendor can
also remain profitable even in difficult economic times. One example of a vendor delivering more by covering less is Ross
Systems. (...)
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... companies with consistently applied best practices and quality ...
Ross Systems is back with a vengeance as ... competitor in an enterprise business
applications market ...
Published:
2002-04-10
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SAP has been delivering on its chemicals industry strategy by expanding its capabilities for manufacturing and supply chain
management, broadening its composite package applications in areas such as emissions management, pricing management, and manufacturing
dashboards, and focusing on mid-market compani (...)
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SAP has been delivering on its chemicals industry strategy by expanding its capabilities for manufacturing and supply chain
management, broadening...
Published:
2006-05-31
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Business processes must be enabled across the artificial boundaries of disparate applications that must work together to
support these business processes. To that end, business process management (BPM) could assist in compliance issues, can reduce
training requirements, and increase the overall efficienc (...)
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... how much will existing IT systems have to ... best
practices, unique practices, or "next" best practices.
... increasingly realizing that their business processes are ...
Published:
2004-05-18
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Customer relationship management is a sophisticated set of customer-facing tools; however, its technology has outpaced the
management strategy used to implement it. Moreover, murky definitions and objectives have caused varying degrees of success
and failure to emerge from the same initiative. Clearly de (...)
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Customer relationship management is a sophisticated set of customer-facing tools; however, its technology has outpaced the
management strategy use...
Published:
2004-10-21
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Business changes constantly in small ways and large. It is rare to find an application product that can change once it is
implemented. This gap is a reality leading to dissatisfaction and the application being a drag on the business. This gap,
the lack of the ability to change, costs the business dearly. (...)
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Business changes constantly in small ways and large. It is rare to find an application product that can change once it is
implemented. This gap is...
Published:
2004-05-31
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While Ramco System’s combination of experienced offshore application developers, the best practices of component-based applications
development and code generation, and strategic partnerships is possibly a unique value proposition, it will still take some
doing for a full-blown expansion worldwide. (...)
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While Ramco System’s combination of experienced offshore application developers, the best practices of component-based applications
development an...
Published:
2001-12-13