WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009
For manufacturers today, achieving strategic goals requires not only intimately understanding technology and markets but also overcoming higher hurdles that have been exacerbated by trends toward globalization and outsourcing. Read on to learn more about how your company can achieve product and service leadership.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009
The need to keep product and service offerings fresh is not a new concept in business today, but the new approach is involving a network of business partners and even customers in their quest to innovate. This process is called "continuous product and service innovation."
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Jun 2009
This Report, which summarizes detailed data from a field study conducted exclusively for AMR Research SAP Peer Forum clients, was written to help business audiences looking for every opportunity to reduce the total business expenses of their huge, existing investments in SAP.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 08 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009
This is the first in a series of six reports addressing the opportunities and challenges faced by midsize manufacturers.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
To maximize profitability, companies must know the true cost of making and delivering their products and services. Traditional cost accounting, devised in a simpler era, does not satisfy that need. This paper examines indirect and overhead costs, which are crucial to managing profitability.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009
Results from Aberdeen Group report, The Lean Supply Chain, indicates that Aerospace and Defense (A&D) manufacturers are 40% more likely to be Best in Class performers - companies that are characterized by having an integrated Lean approach and solution with technology enablers - than their peers from other industries.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009
This paper explains why a warehouse management system (WMS) is one of the key technologies required to create a successful adaptive supply chain network. This system enables the extended warehouse to sense and respond to a variety of business requirements and meet complex and changing customer needs.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009
This paper examines how to tap into the potential of your nimbler organization by instituting efficient operations. Learn how to predict and respond quickly to changing market trends and customer demands.
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BOOK:   Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009
To avoid a 7.96% increase in logistics costs, companies should follow the roadmap of Best in Class companies, which have been able to reduce costs or keep them flat via supply chain transformation.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009
Manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the transition to new IT technology all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009
This paper gives a brief overview of the SAP® solutions used by manufacturers of complex products and equipment to differentiate themselves from the competition through superior-value products and services against low-cost global providers.
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CASE STUDY:   Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009
Hunter Manufacturing is a good example of what a midsize company can accomplish with a disciplined approach to gaining ERP value, in concert with a vendor that has the functionality, technology and services to support the effort.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 20 Oct 2008 | Published: 18 Oct 2008
This paper discusses why failure happens and how to prevent it by following the overriding best practice in successful acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures: preparedness.
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BOOK:   Posted: 26 Sep 2008 | Published: 18 Sep 2008
This whitepaper examines the role of ERP in Globalization in detail, outlining steps to improve current strategies to meet the changing face of the global business of today ...and tomorrow.
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WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 06 Aug 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
Learn how you can transform traditional supply chains from linear, sequential processes into adaptive supply chain networks.
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