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In 2006, Cascades began looking for a manufacturing execution system (MES) to manage and assess the overall equipment efficiency (OEE), downtime, and product quality performance of its paper machines. Much of the company’s data was still manually collected and entered. To achieve its competitive goals, Cascades bought an MES solution with configurable modules to improve quality and production management. Learn more.

CASCADES: Case Study: Cascades Tissue Group Case Study: Cascades Tissue Group Source: GE Fanuc Document Type: Case Study Description: In 2006, Cascades began looking for a manufacturing execution system (MES) to manage and assess the overall equipment efficiency (OEE), downtime, and product quality performance of its paper machines. Much of the company’s data was still manually collected and entered. To achieve its competitive goals, Cascades bought an MES solution with configurable modules to improve quality and
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Case Study: Cascades Tissue Group
Cascades Tissue Group—a division of the Quebec-based recycled paper and packaging company, Cascades—was struggling with business intelligence (BI)software that was neither flexible nor easy to use. Sales reports, for example, were sent by e-mail to managers. Learn how a new BI system helped Cascades reduce inventory levels, produce custom reports more easily and even improve efficiency and profitability in certain areas.

CASCADES: Case Study: Cascades Tissue Group Case Study: Cascades Tissue Group Source: Panorama Software Document Type: Case Study Description: Cascades Tissue Group—a division of the Quebec-based recycled paper and packaging company, Cascades—was struggling with business intelligence (BI)software that was neither flexible nor easy to use. Sales reports, for example, were sent by e-mail to managers. Learn how a new BI system helped Cascades reduce inventory levels, produce custom reports more easily and even
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Napster Cooks up Soup-to-Gnutella Network Management Challenges
Recent legal actions against online MP3 search services suggest U.S. businesses may be liable for not restricting programs like Napster and Gnutella on their networks

CASCADES: searches run via broadcast cascades on TCP port 6346. At a minimum, make sure you restrict firewall access to ports 6699 (Napster) and 6346 (Gnutella). Since these programs allow users to circulate potentially illegal copies of audio files, or pornography, they have no place on your network. Make sure your written desktop security policy prohibits users from installing unapproved applications. (If you can, this is another reason to lock down user desktops.) comments powered by Disqus The Pain and Gain
5/17/2000

Not Yet Sold on SaaS ERP in Manufacturing? Take a Hard Look at Plex Online – Part 2 » The TEC Blog
account executive (who then cascades the alerts upstream the supply chain), the distributor simply logs onto the Web portal of the manufacturer’s system and creates a problem report, including the serial number or bar code scan identifying the problem device. The problem ticket then triggers alerts inside the system, immediately notifying Quality & Compliance to investigate. The trouble ticket arrives with a complete traceability tree for the problem device, including all its components. Thereafter,

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15-06-2010

Five HR Technologies You Should Know
Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Next Generation HRO Technology. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound. Almost everything you know about human resources (HR) outsourcing is about to change. The future is about single-source integration, and there are key new technologies that herald this era: unified service for HR, time, payroll, and expense tracking; management dashboards; streamlined employee interfaces; synchronous data with a single database; and empowered reporting.

CASCADES: application, and the event cascades through payroll and approving final expense reports. 4. Synchronous Data With a Single Database Synchronous data makes real-time information available through the enterprise. That means if you update one system, instead of expecting a cascading update across the systems, instead, there is only one system so everything is updated instantaneously. An employee gets married and changes their name, and then their email account, their 401k accounts, and their W-4 are
3/20/2006 2:03:00 AM

Be Bold with Benefits but Subtle with Pains
While prospects often justify their purchases because you show them how your software solves their pain, they do not appreciate being told how bad they really operate. How can you be bold about your benefits and subtle about the prospects' pain.

CASCADES: of finding their shoes cascades into disastrous consequences on our schedule. So, beginning last month I instituted the tub . At every doorway into the house we now have a tub where they deposit their shoes when they walk in the door. With this simple change, I ve eliminated the I can t find my shoes problem. In your world the tub might be a better way to consolidate reporting so that your financial reports can be ready on the 5th of the month or improved accounts receivable collection tools that
11/3/2003

ERP Trivia - Every Why Should Have Its WhereforePart 2: ERP Key Success Factors
ERP systems, in fact, are devised to operate by codifying a set of business processes and employees have to learn the whys, wheres and whos of the business process (workflows) rather than hows of the software screens.

CASCADES: revealed and the attitude cascades down the hierarchy. The promise of helping everyone within the organization improve his or her objectives then degenerates into a software implementation trudge dominated by the IT department. Anyone who felt left out will, intentionally or not, demoralize the success of the project by simply going through the motions. Retaining Ownership Further, it is crucial that the use of consultants does not mean that the company loses ownership of the project. Very often the
8/29/2001

Thou Shalt Manage (and Cherish) Thy (Best) Suppliers
Read this in-depth report from TEC Analyst P.J. Jakovljevic to find out why supplier management is crucial. In its recent report, Shifting C-level Business Priorities as the Recovery Takes Hold, Saugatuck Technologies claims that top business priorities are returning to a pattern more consistent with a growth economy. Read this in-depth report from TEC Analyst P.J. Jakovljevic to find out why supplier management is crucial.

CASCADES: targets due to eroding cascades across the entire supply chain and the ensuing changes in requirements that many suppliers can’t meet. The company then must keep on taking hits in its costs of goods sold (COGS) or delivery to meet its goals, but it will continue to erode margins to the point of no sustainability. And yet, too many organizations continue to under-invest in the management of their suppliers and outsourcing service providers. Instead of a disciplined centralized approach with a holistic
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