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Enterprise Asset Management Strategies: Creating Social and Financial Value by Going Green. Download current Guides about
Enterprise Asset Management Strategies Progressive companies are discovering that they can optimize processes and assets to
make the best use of resources, reduce negative impact on th (...)
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Enterprise Asset Management Strategies: Creating Social and Financial Value by Going Green. Download current Guides about
Enterprise Asset Manageme...
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2010-03-11
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Most lean manufacturing deployments target production operations, but can also be extended to other supply chain processes.
To realize the multiplicative benefits of real time information and reduced inventory, companies must assess their production
environment and supply chain activities. (...)
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Most lean manufacturing deployments target production operations, but can also be extended to other supply chain processes.
To realize the multipl...
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2005-09-13
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In February, an enterprise application provider Intentia International announced the merger of Intentia's regional organizations
in Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific into one joint organization named Global Operations. (...)
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In February, an enterprise application provider Intentia International announced the merger of Intentia's regional organizations
in Europe, the Am...
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2000-03-27
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Intentia, Fujitsu Glovia, QAD, and SSA Global's solutions supporting lean manufacturing are examined. Which areas the extended
enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors excel in depends on their original ERP system's suitability for repetitive versus
to-order environments. (...)
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Intentia, Fujitsu Glovia, QAD, and SSA Global's solutions supporting lean manufacturing are examined. Which areas the
extended enterprise resource...
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2006-02-20
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Lean Manufacturing. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound.
For years, manufacturers have been driven by sales forecasts and the need to maximize production efficiency at every level
of operation. But in order to be successful, manufactu (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Lean Manufacturing. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound.
For years, manufac...
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2010-03-11
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Lean Supply Chain. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound.
When flexibility and speed are requisites for success, it’s the lean organization that leads the race. World-class manufacturing
organizations know the value of focusing on t (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Lean Supply Chain. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and
Time-Bound. When flexibility ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Assess Your Enterprise Agility. Download the newest White Papers for Enterprise Agility. While different business strategies
have been used to insulate firms from change, chief executive officers (CEOs) are beginning to see that their companies need
to become more agile in making changes to strategy, oper (...)
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Assess Your Enterprise Agility. Download the newest White Papers for Enterprise Agility. While different business strategies
have been used to insu...
Published:
2010-03-11
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When part of an enterprise software environment, business modeler software can reduce training costs, prevent errors, and
minimize non-value added work. And if properly integrated, it can be both a tool for senior management and for hands-on system
users. (...)
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creating the lean enterprise:
When part of an enterprise software environment, business modeler software can reduce training costs, prevent errors, and
minimize non-value added...
Published:
2009-01-07
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SSI's approach appeals to process manufacturers, as well as some discrete manufacturers with short lead times and high volumes,
where the traditional manufacturing resource planning (MRP) approach often shows many shortcomings (and can even be a recipe
for disaster). (...)
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SSI's approach appeals to process manufacturers, as well as some discrete manufacturers with short lead times and high
volumes, where the traditio...
Published:
2006-07-26
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Take advantage of expertise about lean manufacturing. With all the discussion, books, Web sites, and other materials on the
topic of lean manufacturing, it’s hard to know which resources are credible—much less understand the mounds of information.
The first part of this series breaks down the defi (...)
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Take advantage of expertise about lean manufacturing. With all the discussion, books, Web sites, and other materials on the
topic of lean manufactu...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Begin at the End: a Good Lean Strategy Starts with Defining Your Ultimate Goal. Read Current White Paper for a Good Lean Strategy
Starts with Defining Your Ultimate Goal. You know the statistics—lean can shorten your lead times, reduce inventories, cut
operating costs, free up resources, and more. But c (...)
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Begin at the End: a Good Lean Strategy Starts with Defining Your Ultimate Goal. Read Current White Paper for a Good Lean Strategy
Starts with Defin...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Lean manufacturing is a transformational exercise that requires an organization to cast aside long-held beliefs and business
processes. The five main steps to achieving lean transition are defining value, mapping the value stream, making the activities
flow, responding to customer demand, and continuous (...)
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Lean manufacturing is a transformational exercise that requires an organization to cast aside long-held beliefs and business
processes. The five m...
Published:
2006-02-15
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Supporting the Lean Value Stream with Technology Solutions. Read White Papers and Other Software for Your Implementation and
for Supporting the Lean Value Stream with Technology Solutions. In today’s manufacturing environment, suppliers and manufacturers
alike need to be highly selective when choosing a (...)
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Supporting the Lean Value Stream with Technology Solutions. Read White Papers and Other Software for Your Implementation and
for Supporting the Lea...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Lean manufacturing constructs have been incorporated into the Microsoft Dynamics AX package, enabling firms to support lean
and traditional manufacturing practices in a single system. This primer covers the constructs for supporting many of the variations
in lean practices. (...)
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creating the lean enterprise:
Lean manufacturing constructs have been incorporated into the Microsoft Dynamics AX package, enabling firms to support lean
and traditional manufa...
Published:
2007-08-27
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... “Basically, lean is [focused on] creating more value ...
enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other enterprise systems ... of
them can offer to your lean initiatives ...
Published:
2009-11-12
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Mid-market Manufacturers for Enterprise Resource Planning. Specific, Measurable,
Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound. The globalization of discrete manufacturing is forever changing the notion of what a
"small manufacturer" is. Even companies that are cons (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Mid-market Manufacturers for Enterprise Resource Planning. Specific,
Measurable, Achievable, Rele...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Lean IT Governance: The Most Realistic and Attainable Approach to IT Governance.Reports and Other Software to Use In Your
Complex System of Lean IT Governance. The most realistic and attainable approach to IT governance is a "lean" approach via
project portfolio management (PPM). The lean approach require (...)
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creating the lean enterprise:
Lean IT Governance: The Most Realistic and Attainable Approach to IT Governance. Reports and Other Software to Use In Your
Complex System of Lean IT...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Industrial equipment manufacturers have historically embraced shop floor improvements as a way of increasing efficiency and
maintaining profitability. But in today’s radically altered industrial environment, there is a clear imperative to look beyond
the shop floor. To hold down costs and compete again (...)
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Creating Innovation Breakthroughs in Industrial Equipment Manufacturing and Machine Assembly. Source: Microsoft.
Document Type: White ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Next R(E)volution of Lean. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant
and Time-Bound. By seeing a business as a "value system" for customers, companies can shift lean strategic priorities towards
growth-oriented targets instead of cost-cutting. Instead o (...)
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creating the lean enterprise:
Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Next R(E)volution of Lean. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant
and Time-Bound. By seeing...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Lean manufacturing emphasizes the minimization of the amount of all the resources (including time) used in the various activities
of the enterprise. The typical areas of hidden waste are over-production, waiting, transportation, over-processing, motion,
excessive inventory, and defective units. (...)
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creating the lean enterprise:
Lean manufacturing emphasizes the minimization of the amount of all the resources (including time) used in the various activities
of the enterpris...
Published:
2006-02-13