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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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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for a Next R(E)volution of Lean. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant
and Time-Bound. By seeing...
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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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BigMachines differentiates itself in the quote-to-order (Q2O) sphere due to its solutions’ lean end-to-end, inquiry-to-order
focus. Although there are other vendors offering Q2O as a service, BigMachines product is arguably more flexible, as high
tech manufacturers may be noting. (...)
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BigMachines differentiates itself in the quote-to-order (Q2O) sphere due to its solutions’ lean end-to-end, inquiry-to-order
focus. Although there...
Published:
2008-08-22
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Explore enterprise resource planning (ERP) traceability fucntions, going beyond the hype. Find the software information you're
looking for. Frustrated with the empty promises of many enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors, today’s manufacturers
are looking for solutions that improve operations, cut (...)
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... to operational intelligence, enabling managers to make decisions based on real-time data, and enabling
continuous improvement and lean management." Source ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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CRM system can increase your profits and build customer loyalty by streamlining your processes and provide better quality
products and services. However, you first must be prepared to overcome lack of requirements, combat scope creep, and compensate
for lack of skills. (...)
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CRM system can increase your profits and build customer loyalty by streamlining your processes and provide better quality
products and services. H...
Published:
2005-02-15
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For a successful customer relationship management (CRM) implementation, the chief executive officer (CEO) must have an ongoing
role in the process. The project implementer must be aware of common CRM misconceptions, and communicate the nature of CRM
to c-level management. (...)
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For a successful customer relationship management (CRM) implementation, the chief executive officer (CEO) must have an ongoing
role in the process...
Published:
2006-11-23
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Aspen Technology, Inc. recently announced plans to leverage IBM resources to provide solutions for supply chain management
(SCM) customers in the chemicals, petroleum, plastics, paper, metals, pharmaceutical, and other process industries. (...)
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Aspen Technology, Inc. recently announced plans to leverage IBM resources to provide solutions for supply chain management
(SCM) customers in the ...
Published:
2000-07-27
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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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An effective business case must link CRM with achieving organizational objectives; but this step is just the beginning. Credibility
implies that the document clearly delineates assumptions regarding cause and effect plus the mechanism that will be used to
assess results and declare success. (...)
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An effective business case must link CRM with achieving organizational objectives; but this step is just the beginning. Credibility
implies that t...
Published:
2004-11-09
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An effective business case must link CRM with achieving organizational objectives; but this step is just the beginning. Credibility
implies that the document clearly delineates assumptions regarding cause and effect plus the mechanism that will be used to
assess results and declare success. (...)
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lean initiative and lean problem solving:
An effective business case must link CRM with achieving organizational objectives; but this step is just the beginning. Credibility
implies that t...
Published:
2004-11-09
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Most retailers might say that they are customer-centric, but what does that really mean? After all, there is a huge difference
between simply serving a customer and centering on a customer's specific needs and satisfaction. (...)
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Most retailers might say that they are customer-centric, but what does that really mean? After all, there is a huge difference
between simply serv...
Published:
2006-06-23
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Paragon Management Systems, now Adexa, is the latest niche supply chain management vendor to re-christen itself in the last
seven months. Since July, four small vendors have assumed new names and personas to better differentiate their offerings in
the marketplace. (...)
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Paragon Management Systems, now Adexa, is the latest niche supply chain management vendor to re-christen itself in the last
seven months. Since Ju...
Published:
2000-02-09
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In March, i2 Technologies announced it would acquire Aspect Development Corporation and a smaller vendor, Supplybase, Inc.
Though the record offer price – $8.6 billion in stock – raised some eyebrows, i2 will gain a mountain of potential in return. (...)
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In March, i2 Technologies announced it would acquire Aspect Development Corporation and a smaller vendor, Supplybase, Inc.
Though the record offe...
Published:
2000-04-13
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This article talks about recent and expected FDA regulations and how RFID can help meet those requirements while improving
supply chain performance. (...)
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This article talks about recent and expected FDA regulations and how RFID can help meet those requirements while improving
supply chain performance.
Published:
2004-10-20
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For the past 25 years, McHugh Software has quietly plied the supply chain execution trade. Its new DigitaLogistix suite
successfully marries traditional and next-generation applications, giving the company a reason to shout. (...)
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For the past 25 years, McHugh Software has quietly plied the supply chain execution trade. Its new DigitaLogistix suite successfully
marries trad...
Published:
2001-05-04
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Enterprises are becoming painfully aware of the need to clean up their structured data and unstructured content acts to capitalize
on more important efforts like regulatory compliance, globalization, demand aggregation, and supply chain streamlining. (...)
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Enterprises are becoming painfully aware of the need to clean up their structured data and unstructured content acts to capitalize
on more importa...
Published:
2004-11-11
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SAP’s viability and its business applications market’s leadership remains unscathed, as the company remains rock-solid and
will be the leader for a long time to come. While SAP has espoused one of the most compelling and promising collaborative-Commerce
vision to-date, the ideal enablers of collabor (...)
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SAP’s viability and its business applications market’s leadership remains unscathed, as the company remains rock-solid and
will be the leader for ...
Published:
2002-06-07
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A recent survey of chief executive officers has found that growth is again the number one priority, overtaking cost-cutting
as their previous top concern. Can enterprise application providers to take advantage of this new focus? (...)
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A recent survey of chief executive officers has found that growth is again the number one priority, overtaking cost-cutting
as their previous top ...
Published:
2005-04-21
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Peregrine entered into partnerships that improve its solutions for customers buying new goodies or disposing of old ones.
In addition, the company will develop packaged integration solutions between its own products and market leading ERP and CRM
solutions. (...)
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Peregrine entered into partnerships that improve its solutions for customers buying new goodies or disposing of old ones.
In addition, the compan...
Published:
2000-08-24
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On November 12, J.D. Edwards & Company, a leading provider of agile E-Business solutions, announced that more than 600 customers
around the world are using J.D. Edwards' OneWorld enterprise software suite. This milestone marks a more than 400% increase
over one year ago and proves that J.D. Edwards is de (...)
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On November 12, JD Edwards & Company, a leading provider of agile E-Business solutions, announced that more than 600 customers
around the world ...
Published:
1999-11-24