Product Cycles

EBOOK: At the start of this year, PIM vendor, Akeneo, set out to understand the state of product information and product experience in 2020. To find out, they interviewed 1,600 professions involved in B2B commerce industries including consumer goods, food and drink, retail and more. Download a copy of this report to review their findings.

Posted: 10 Sep 2020 | Published: 10 Sep 2020

WHITE PAPER: This case study tells how one business adapted its IT infrastructure to keep up with business growth and better support business-critical applications.

Posted: 22 Apr 2014 | Published: 31 Dec 2012

BOOK: This first chapter of Better Business Practices Series, explores the many benefits of cycle counting. Chief among them is the elimination of an annual physical count of your inventory. While cycle counting is the preferred inventory counting process, many companies still conduct annual counts.

Posted: 13 Feb 2009 | Published: 13 Feb 2009

PRODUCT LITERATURE: Whether you are a wholesale distributor of furniture, machinery, chemicals, or food and beverages, your success depends on how quickly you adapt to demands from customers and suppliers. You must constantly differentiate your services from the competition while improving operating efficiencies and controlling costs.

Posted: 10 Mar 2009 | Published: 10 Mar 2009

WHITE PAPER: Manufacturers will continue to leverage technology to stay competitive. Read this paper to learn how with the Vantage fully integrated enterprise solution, you will be prepared to meet the challenges of today's market place-becoming lean to do so

Posted: 03 Sep 2008 | Published: 03 Sep 2008

WHITE PAPER: Delivering increasingly complex and smarter products in less time and at a lower cost requires new strategies and development techniques. Consult this insightful resource to learn how a "systems thinking" approach facilitates consideration of the functional dependencies and interconnections necessary to produce high quality, "smarter" products.

Posted: 06 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 May 2013

WHITE PAPER: In this resource, explore the various challenges facing many manufacturing companies (in particular the dairy industry) when it comes to supply chain management (SCM). Learn how these obstacles are key drivers for business process improvements in SCM, enterprise resource planning (ERP), order processing, and more.

Posted: 16 Sep 2013 | Published: 16 Sep 2013

EGUIDE: In this product lifecycle managment (PLM) e-guide, discover an overview of the basics of PLM tools, software selection and implementation tips from industry experts, the value of cloud PLM, 3D CAD imagery, and social media add-ons, and why− and how− PLM is branching out from discrete manufacturing into process manufacturing.

Posted: 16 Jan 2013 | Published: 08 Jan 2013

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this webcast transcript, Joe Barkai, practice director at IDC Manufacturing Insights, presents IDC's vision of a "global plant floor" that standardizes production and supply chains by using integrated ERP, product lifecycle management (PLM), manufacturing execution systems (MES), and other tools to reduce complexity and increase standardization.

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 | Published: 22 Mar 2011

WEBCAST: This webcast explores four key ways in which A&D companies can improve SE and looks at IBM Rational® solutions and approaches that can help organizations deliver quality products on time and within budget, while increasing efficiency and improving collaboration.

Posted: 13 Dec 2010 | Premiered: Dec 13, 2010