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In a challenging economy, many companies focus cost-cutting on direct materials and capital spending rather than maintenance,
repair, and operations (MRO) supplies (also known as indirect materials). But an alternate concept allows you to implement
lean processes to create a high-efficiency MRO outsource (...)
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Driving New Efficiencies in the Indirect Supply Chain: Procurement and Logistics Strategies for Maintenance,
Repair, and Operations Supplies. ...
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2010-03-11
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Companies are looking for more areas to squeeze savings out of operations. One such area that may be fertile ground to explore
is equipment maintenance. The class of software that can help to cultivate these savings is computerized maintenance management
systems (CMMS). This article discusses the basics (...)
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maintenance repair and operations supplies:
Companies are looking for more areas to squeeze savings out of operations. One such area that may be fertile ground to explore
is equipment mainte...
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2003-07-07
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maintenance repair and operations supplies:
... Indirect materials also include maintenance, repair, and operations
(MRO) supplies, or items used in support of general operations and maintenance
such as ...
Published:
2009-07-10
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This note discusses how ERP-driven e-business will have to extend well beyond providing business partners self-service portlets.
It will have to allow trading partners not only order status tracking but also the enterprise plans and conditions down to
plant level for more efficient two-way interaction an (...)
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maintenance repair and operations supplies:
This note discusses how ERP-driven e-business will have to extend well beyond providing business partners self-service portlets.
It will have to a...
Published:
2001-04-25
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Abstract:
This note discusses how ERP-driven e-business will have to extend well beyond providing business partners self-service portlets.
It will have to allow trading partners not only order status tracking but also the enterprise plans and conditions down to
plant level for more efficient two-way interaction an (...)
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maintenance repair and operations supplies:
This note discusses how ERP-driven e-business will have to extend well beyond providing business partners self-service portlets.
It will have to a...
Published:
2001-04-25
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If companies are to find value in radio frequency identification (RFID), they need to view this technology as more than eliminating
the scanning gun from the barcode equation. Companies considering implementing RFID must think beyond the confines of the
four walls of the plant and factory in order to tak (...)
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maintenance repair and operations supplies:
If companies are to find value in radio frequency identification (RFID), they need to view this technology as more than eliminating
the scanning g...
Published:
2004-06-29
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Lean Maintenance: Best Practices to Turn Asset Management into a Profit Center. Get Free White Papers Related To Lean Maintenance.
It’s common knowledge that asset downtime disrupts production and drives up both process and per-unit operating costs. However,
executives often lose sight of this because t (...)
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Lean Maintenance: Best Practices to Turn Asset Management into a Profit Center. Get Free White Papers Related To Lean Maintenance.
It’s common know...
Published:
2010-03-11
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PeopleSoft, once a high flyer owing to its congenial culture and slick ERP product, has unveiled a number of new, possibly
revolutionary enterprise applications that it hopes will help it end a protracted dry season and put it back on the ERP top
chart. The company has invested two years and over a half (...)
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maintenance repair and operations supplies:
PeopleSoft, once a high flyer owing to its congenial culture and slick ERP product, has unveiled a number of new, possibly
revolutionary enterpris...
Published:
2000-09-07
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Commerce One has announced a broad range of initiatives aimed at extending its E-procurement solutions and technology across
the supply chain. The company announced that this completes its procurement offerings; what will it do next? (...)
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Commerce One has announced a broad range of initiatives aimed at extending its E-procurement solutions and technology across
the supply chain. The...
Published:
2000-03-17
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Ariba, a leader in E-procurement software and market management, pays $1.86 billion in stock to acquire TRADEX, a vendor
of software that lets its customers build their own Internet marketplaces. (...)
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Ariba, a leader in E-procurement software and market management, pays $1.86 billion in stock to acquire TRADEX, a vendor of
software that lets its...
Published:
2000-01-14
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Agresso’s experience with people-centric services organizations has led the vendor to design a solution that effectively
address these businesses’ need for field services and asset maintenance management. Agresso’s melding of two solutions, and
the product’s underlying architecture, support chang (...)
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Agresso’s experience with people-centric services organizations has led the vendor to design a solution that effectively address
these businesses’...
Published:
2008-02-27
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Having traditionally done implementations via their product delivery organization, IFS and Intentia also have long exhibited
a focus on product quality and customer satisfaction, which manifests into a lasting relationship with each client. However
like other enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply (...)
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maintenance repair and operations supplies:
Having traditionally done implementations via their product delivery organization, IFS and Intentia also have long exhibited
a focus on product qu...
Published:
2004-03-17
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This is the transcript of an Audio Conference on e-procurement conducted by TEC during which brief case studies of how companies
have improved inventory turns and reduced procurement costs through Internet enabled collaboration with suppliers were presented. (...)
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maintenance repair and operations supplies:
This is the transcript of an Audio Conference on e-procurement conducted by TEC during which brief case studies of how companies
have improved inv...
Published:
2001-01-29
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Concur began as a vendor of shrink-wrapped travel and expense tracking software, but is now making a play to be a major provider
of self-service Internet-enabled applications, including offerings in E-purchasing and Human Resources. (...)
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Concur began as a vendor of shrink-wrapped travel and expense tracking software, but is now making a play to be a major provider
of self-service I...
Published:
2000-03-01
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Abstract:
Companies are looking for more areas to squeeze savings out of operations. One such area that may be fertile ground to explore
is equipment maintenance. The class of software that can help to cultivate these savings is computerized maintenance management
systems (CMMS). This article discusses the basics (...)
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maintenance repair and operations supplies:
Companies are looking for more areas to squeeze savings out of operations. One such area that may be fertile ground to explore
is equipment mainte...
Published:
2003-07-07
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Abstract:
Having traditionally done implementations via their product delivery organization, IFS and Intentia also have long exhibited
a focus on product quality and customer satisfaction, which manifests into a lasting relationship with each client. However
like other enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply (...)
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maintenance repair and operations supplies:
Having traditionally done implementations via their product delivery organization, IFS and Intentia also have long exhibited
a focus on product qu...
Published:
2004-03-17
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Improvement is not simply an idea: it is a process. And processes without frameworks are recipes for underachievement, or
worse, chaos. For this reason, value leakages in procurement functions must be resolved in a systematic, progressive, incremental,
and formalized manner. (...)
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maintenance repair and operations supplies:
Improvement is not simply an idea: it is a process. And processes without frameworks are recipes for underachievement, or
worse, chaos. For this r...
Published:
2006-07-17
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An overview of one of the central issues facing a deployment of e-procurement: Who controls the software? (...)
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An overview of one of the central issues facing a deployment of e-procurement: Who controls the software?
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2000-09-06
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... The company develops, supplies, and implements IFS ... enterprise asset
management (EAM), maintenance, repair, and overhaul ... a phase of focused
operations and good ...
Published:
2010-08-26
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Abstract:
CRM Success for Fast Growing Companies: What Every Small and Midsized Business Needs to Know. Get Solutions and Other Documents
to Delineate Your Tender In Relation To CRM Success for Fast Growing Companies. When creating a seamless value chain, it is
essential to focus on the customer. However, informati (...)
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CRM Success for Fast Growing Companies: What Every Small and Midsized Business Needs to Know. Get Solutions and Other Documents
to Delineate Your T...
Published:
2010-03-11