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Our global study of small and medium-sized discrete manufacturers worldwide revealed the industry is struggling with increasing
complexity, global competition, rapidly changing business environments, and volatile raw materials prices. While manufacturers
worldwide face similar challenges, this study clar (...)
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2011-01-11
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Sustained Growth through Operational Excellence: Spotlight on Operations. Find IT Solutions and Other Applications for Your
Decision Associated with Operational Excellence. Embarking on an operational excellence strategy should not be undertaken
lightly. As with most company-wide initiatives, success requ (...)
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2010-03-11
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Operations executives are closest to the processes along the value chain, and as a result are best positioned to drive operational
excellence initiatives. Collaboration with other functions is essential, but ultimately, it is the operations function that
needs to be responsible for implementation. Find o (...)
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2010-12-23
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Operational excellence : Enabling Sustained Growth Spotlight on the Americas. Download Free IT Study Reports on Operational
excellence. Companies in the Americas should lead the world in growth through operational excellence—but they don’t.
A 2008 survey shows that less than half promote insight i (...)
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2010-03-11
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Deliverng Operational Excellence with Innovation. Read White Papers and Other Software for Your Assessment and for Deliverng
Operational Excellence. Changing business practices, especially those that consolidate business and IT functions, requires
careful research and decision making. For companies needin (...)
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2010-03-11
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Simple questions often have complex answers. Whether they are speaking with you on the phone or placing an order on a Web
storefront, your customers expect immediate gratification. They want to know when their order will ship the moment it is placed.
How do you respond? (...)
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2001-11-24
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Operational Excellence: The New Lever for Profitability and Competitive Advantage. Find Out Solutions and Other Applications
for Your Decision Related to Operational Excellence. Better. Faster. Cheaper. Every company is grappling with these concepts
today as economic uncertainty spreads. Though many are f (...)
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Operational Excellence: The New Lever for Profitability and Competitive Advantage. Find Out Solutions and Other Applications
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2010-03-11
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Enterprise Performance Management: Financial Excellence and Beyond. Find Software and Other Solutions for Your Decision Linked
to Enterprise Performance Management. Financial performance management—often categorized as one aspect of enterprise
performance management—can help chief financial of (...)
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2010-03-11
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The Financial Close: Optimizing Performance and Driving Financial Excellence. Find Free Proposal and Other Solutions to Define
Your Performance In Relation To Financial Excellence. “Financial close” is a company’s ability to complete accounting cycles
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2010-03-11
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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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Improvement is not simply an idea: it is a process. And processes without frameworks are recipes for underachievement, or
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2006-07-17
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Optimizing Financial Performance for a Competitive Edge. Find Free Strategy and Other Solutions to Define Your Financial Performance.
In addition to traditional duties like financial planning, reporting, and governance, chief financial officers (CFOs) and
financial managers are being tasked with more stra (...)
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2010-03-11
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Lawson Software, has gone past a successful IPO, and continues with new wins and with rounding up of its focused offering,
while also belonging to the elite of enterprise applications vendors that have seen license revenue growth and profit in recent
optimism-scant times. (...)
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Lawson Software, has gone past a successful IPO, and continues with new wins and with rounding up of its focused offering,
while also belonging to...
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2002-05-03
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Lawson Software, has gone past a successful IPO, and continues with new wins and with rounding up of its focused offering,
while also belonging to the elite of enterprise applications vendors that have seen license revenue growth and profit in recent
optimism-scant times. (...)
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Lawson Software, has gone past a successful IPO, and continues with new wins and with rounding up of its focused offering,
while also belonging to...
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2002-05-03
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SAP Business All-in-One Fast-start Program: Creating Affordable, Flexible Solutions for Faster Value. Find Reports, Case Studies,
and Other Resources Related to the SAP Business All-in-One Fast-start Program. Midsize companies engaged in manufacturing,
trade, or services need innovative solutions they can (...)
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SAP Business All-in-One Fast-start Program: Creating Affordable, Flexible Solutions for Faster Value. Find Reports, Case Studies,
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2010-03-11
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If you don't measure it, you can't improve it. For owners, the traditional measure is profit. For customer satisfaction, the
perfect order index is useful. Manufacturers and distributors must keep two groups satisfied—customers and owners. They are
connected—what improves the satisfaction of one group (...)
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If you don't measure it, you can't improve it. For owners, the traditional measure is profit. For customer satisfaction,
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2011-02-01
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The unveiled product set, JDA Portfolio 2004.1 should help retailers and their suppliers optimally plan and execute the selection,
quantification, assortment, procurement and placement of finished goods at the point of sale (POS). (...)
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The unveiled product set, JDA Portfolio 2004.1 should help retailers and their suppliers optimally plan and execute the selection,
quantification,...
Published:
2004-12-28
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Because companies focus primarily on new product development and promotion, the problem of excess and obsolete inventory,
once addressed, often leads to both the inventory and dollars flying out the door. There should be smarter ways of handling
this problem. (...)
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Because companies focus primarily on new product development and promotion, the problem of excess and obsolete inventory,
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2007-01-26
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The unveiled product set, JDA Portfolio 2004.1 should help retailers and their suppliers optimally plan and execute the selection,
quantification, assortment, procurement and placement of finished goods at the point of sale (POS). (...)
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The unveiled product set, JDA Portfolio 2004.1 should help retailers and their suppliers optimally plan and execute the selection,
quantification,...
Published:
2004-12-28
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While Made2Manage's decision to go private under a wealthy Battery Ventures' wing, which was supposedly committed to invest
in the acquired technology was prudent at the time of announcement; subsequent events might be showing us a different side
of the buyout medal. Although the draconic exodus of forme (...)
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While Made2Manage's decision to go private under a wealthy Battery Ventures' wing, which was supposedly committed
to invest in the acquired techno...
Published:
2003-09-13
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Given the competition for retail customers and wholesale orders is intense, retailers, including software vendors, must be
able to meet consumer demand quickly, accurately and at the most competitive price. Despite its failed QRS acquisition, which
promised to expand JDA's retail demand chain optimizatio (...)
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Given the competition for retail customers and wholesale orders is intense, retailers, including software vendors, must be
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2004-12-31