Manufacturing

The 2010 Top 20 ERP Vendor Report reveals: The Top 20 ERP software providers you should consider; Highlights of each vendor's strengths in accounting, manufacturing, supply chain management, and more; Vendor background and contact information to get you started; How the right ERP software can simplify processes and reduce production costs.

Profiles of the Leading Manufacturing Software Vendors.

Profiles of the Leading Supply Chain Management Software Vendors.

The Variable Rate Resource services approach to project or product development enables companies to jump over resource hurdles whenever and wherever they appear.

What are the key benefits of outsourcing? Is there a downside to outsourcing? Get your answer from this white paper.

The challenge facing OEMs (Original Equipment Manufactures) and Software Companies.

Manufacturing enterprises are focused and forward-looking in their preparations for a renewal of consumer demand. Challenges faced by the industry since the third quarter of 2008 have prompted the most comprehensive process reviews in decades; the search for solutions that will empower a leaner workforce, improve customer satisfaction and drive increased revenues has been propelled by shared and unavoidable forces.

Lean principles are well recognized for their ability to strip wastes out of manufacturing procedures, improving throughput and productivity while reducing costs.

Is your lean environment as lean as it can be? Has this operational philosophy permeated all aspects of your operations? Whether you're charged with quality or continuous improvement, these two questions comprise the bulk of your day-to-day challenges.

The Mechanical Analysis Division of Mentor Graphics (formerly Flomerics) provides the world's most advanced computational fluid dynamics products. Our simulation software and consultancy services eliminate mistakes, reduce costs, and accelerate and optimize designs involving heat transfer and fluid flow before physical prototypes are built.

Our manufacturing mobility guide features more than 150 pages that show you how to unleash the full power of mobility across multiple manufacturing segments — from high-tech and consumer packaged goods to automotive, pharmaceuticals and more. And our special Unified Voice and Data Architecture section shows how a unified voice and data network can reduce costs and improve overall business efficiency.

Learn how recent advances in pricing science and technology have enabled a breakthrough approach for B2B companies wanting to improve their pricing --- one that generates results in a fraction of the time, with far less organizational upheaval.

Learn how a $4.8B distributor overcame resistance-to-change by simply feeding optimized prices through the quoting tools their salespeople were already using --- achieving over 80% adoption and generating 12% more margin-dollars as a result.

Read this paper to learn how a $3.8B distributor generated 9% more margin-dollars in just 4 months by using a new technology that feeds optimized, deal-level prices into legacy quoting tools right when the quote is being created.

Read this paper to understand the opportunity for optimizing shipping fees and freight charges in B2B and learn how one $5.0B distributor used advanced pricing science and technology to generate 34% more margin-dollars on its shipping fees.

MOTOTRBO, a digital communications system with repeaters that are linked via Internet Protocol (IP). Leveraging the existing Internet infrastructure provided an economical way for Georgia Nut Company to meet their communication needs for today and tomorrow.

Read this paper to learn how one leading manufacturer overcame the challenges of pricing configured products by employing a powerful combination of normalization, scientific segmentation, and software technology.

Learn how downstream value-chain players scoop-up margin-dollars manufacturers leave on the table through sub-optimal pricing and discover how technology enables "leapfrogging" to the more-advanced pricing capabilities that can stop it from happening.

In white papers, there is no shortage of advice about what best practices can lead to success. But equally important is a thorough understanding of what worst practices are to be avoided during an implementation.

Understanding how to take responsibility for proper implementation and truly taking ownership of an enterprise application as a crucial business asset will go a long way to getting the full value out of your information technology investment.

This report reveals how Best-in-Class firms distinguish themselves from all others by routinely benchmarking and measuring their service performance; implementing effective measuring, monitoring and tracking systems; integrating service KPIs with company-wide CRM or ERP systems, wherever possible; and establishing a formal process for automatically collecting and disseminating data.

Mobile printing provides a series of quality improvements and timesaving benefits that are often overlooked in route automation, but can have a significant impact on the bottom line. This white paper will: • Describe uses for mobile printing in route accounting applications; •Provide return on investment calculation tools to measure the financial impact mobile printing can have; • Demonstrate how mobile printing processes can improve billing, distribution, and customer service operations; • Detail how on-demand thermal printing can reduce forms expenses; • Provide an overview of mobile printer and wireless communications options for route accounting systems. Read on to see how your route delivery and sales staff can make more stops and fewer errors each day by using mobile printing to support their work.

In this brief guide, we'll review a ten-step process that will help you select the right manufacturing software. Each of these steps include five critical tasks. If you follow this process, you'll be far more effective in your search for new software.

Revenue assurance analysts at a top-tier US-based carrier studied this every day. Primarily focused on detecting fraud, revenue sharing contract violations and incomplete revenue collections, they had the need to query and analyze call detail record (CDR) databases that grow by millions of new CDRs every day.

In a world of growing data volumes and shrinking IT budgets, it is critical to think differently about the efficiency of your database and storage infrastructure. The Vertica Analytic Database is a high-performance, scalable and cost-effective solution that can bring dramatic savings in hardware, storage and operational costs.