Manufacturing

WHITE PAPER: Every company in the automotive market has run up against an array of difficult challenges. However, such challenges are addressable. This paper will show how industry leaders are prospering and will outline five key factors that differentiate them from industry laggards.

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 04 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines the impact of using disparate systems versus an integrated ERP system on your manufacturing operations. The detailed charts on the following pages provide insight into how the inefficiencies associated with change management today can be easily and cost-effectively eliminated.

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 04 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: For many companies reverse logistics is the last frontier of waste in today's supply chain. To help identify where poorly managed returns may be affecting your bottom line, this paper takes a look at the six hidden costs of reverse logistics.

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper is designed to provide a blueprint for evaluating software solutions that have the potential to assist organizations in meeting their returns objectives. This model can also serve as a useful tool in objectively identifying compelling yet rudimentary products.

Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the impact of unreliable data on manufacturing companies. It then defines the requirements needed to guarantee data reliability in manufacturing and offers a practical approach to creating and governing that data.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this paper we demonstrate the concept of High Performance Computing in a cloud and show that HPC clouds can deliver the needed utilization and scalability on par with the current native HPC approach of designing dedicated systems for specific applications.

Posted: 02 Nov 2009 | Published: 02 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines how an integrated information technology solution can help you take advantage of economies of scale to boost manufacturing utilization, enhance service levels, and improve the efficiency of your sales and administrative activities.

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this report to learn the research findings of this study, which examined the challenges of managing Test/Dev environments and the opportunity for server virtualization and cloud computing to address them. This paper includes several graphs and an in-depth discussion of the advantages of private cloud computing.

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Published: 26 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the idea that to effectively compete today and into the next generation, high-tech manufacturers must rethink their customer relationship management (CRM) strategies. Read on to learn the three strategies high-tech manufacturers must do if they want to be profitable tomorrow and in the years to come.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper focuses on consumer products manufacturers and the strategy of customer-focused innovation, exploring NGM study questions and examines business areas where customer-focused innovation has potential to influence performance outcomes. Read on to learn how ways to effectively identify and satisfy customer demand.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the idea that to effectively compete today and into the next generation, F&B manufacturers must rethink their customer relationship management (CRM) strategies. Read on to learn the three strategies F&B manufacturers must do if they want to be profitable tomorrow and in the years to come.

Posted: 22 Oct 2009 | Published: 22 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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.

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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."

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper discusses the business case for data archiving as the first step in an SAP ILM strategy; strategies for Data Archiving, Retention Management and the Retention Warehouse strategy for legacy decommissioning in SAP; and Dolphin’s best?practices approach to an effective, long?term ILM strategy.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the fundamentals for successful demand-driven fulfillment manufacturing, including optimal channel and customer relationships, informed online buying and selling, flexible product configuration and order fulfillment and integrated operational infrastructures.

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the fundamentals for successful Lean manufacturing, including the establishment of optimal customer relationships, improved channel visibility, flexible product configuration, shortened cycle times, improved capacity utilization and integrated operational infrastructures.

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Leading-edge manufacturers are discovering that they can improve production efficiencies and manage MRO expenditures by integrating their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will discuss Catalyst XPS, a tool that can integrate information from all the major small parcel carriers into one view, fully integrated with SAP. Catalyst XPS can save customers money and improve customer service, without creating an additional maintenance burden on their internal IT team.

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will answer the question of whether or not these standards are necessary in project management by exploring what can happen in the absence of these regulations.

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 | Published: 28 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: Compiled by SearchManufacturingERP.com editors, this directory includes ERP software products for process and discrete manufacturers of all sizes, as well as all verticals. It includes software that is meant to be deployed on-premise as well as Software as a Service (SaaS) or on-demand software.

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Published: 14 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper presents an overview and introduction to reverse logistics and how to manage reverse logistics in the CPG industry in an efficient manner.

Posted: 27 Jul 2009 | Published: 27 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: From a manufacturing executive's perspective, focusing on an open and flexible Manufacturing Operations Management platform creates a competitive weapon. This research provides a roadmap for creating such a platform in a cost effective way that still delivers benefits, such as higher levels of profitability.

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This executive brief presents the six "Rules of the Road" that can help you cut costs, increase cash flow and become more responsive to changing market conditions in the manufacturing industry.

Posted: 25 Jun 2009 | Published: 25 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: 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.

Posted: 24 Jun 2009 | Published: 24 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how an organization can Survive poor economic conditions with strategic thinking and use of Project ERP by managing a downturn like a variance in a project.

Posted: 19 Jun 2009 | Published: 19 Jun 2009