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Home > Enterprise Applications > Enterprise Resource Planning Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs) integrate (or attempt to integrate) all data and processes of an organization into a single unified system. A typical ERP system will use multiple components of computer software and hardware to achieve the integration. A key ingredient of most ERP systems is the use of a single, unified database to store data for the various system modules. Results 1 - 25 of 157 matches Sort Results By : Published Date | Title | Company name 10 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Midmarket ERP Solution By : InsideCRM.com Published Date: Jan 16, 2008 With any technology, the vendor's job is to try to sell you their product, and they may rely on promises, superlative language and sparkling product demos to try to sway you. And with the midmarket ERP landscape crowded with players vying for your business's dollar, the prospect of choosing the right solution can seem even more daunting. But armed with these 10 questions, you'll be able to see through the hype and narrow down a few vendors that can really deliver what you need. Download Now 11 Criteria For Selecting The Best ERP System Replacement By : Epicor Published Date: Apr 19, 2006 An ERP system is your information backbone and reaches into all areas of your business and value-chain. Replacing it can open unlimited business opportunities. In this white paper are the 11 criteria that will allow you to identify and select the ERP system replacement solution that will meet these expectations. Download Now 5 Big Improvements In Just 5 Months By : SAP Published Date: Aug 01, 2007 Enterprise system implementations can be invasive, disruptive, and even counter-productive, causing considerable expense, possibilities of wrenching business-process change, and gnawing uncertainty in the minds of employees. But while no magic pill guarantees an implementation will be quick, painless, and successful, there are steps manufacturers can take to secure ERP value without risk of catastrophic failure. Download Now 5 Common Project Management Challenges By : Metafuse Published Date: Sep 26, 2007 In speaking with project managers, directors of operations, vice presidents of professional services, chief financial offers, and other project team members every day, we hear familiar stories repeatedly and there are some trends, or commonalities. This document outlines five of the most common project management challenges. Download Now 5 Ways ERP Can Help You Implement Lean By : Epicor Published Date: Apr 19, 2006 Why is Lean so popular? Because it delivers what manufacturing companies truly need in today's highly competitive world: shorter lead times, improved quality, reduced cost, increased profit, improved productivity and enhanced customer service. Download Now 6 Keys to Smarter Cross Channel Integration By : Oco, Inc. Published Date: Aug 07, 2007 Need a retail intelligence system that doesn't require a significant up front investment, coordination of multiple software vendors and system integrators, or take months or years to implement? This guide will help you gain greater visibility of all your sales channels, products, distribution and suppliers to make timely and effective business decisions. Download Now 6 Steps for Linking Corporate Strategy to the Budget By : Infor Published Date: Sep 07, 2006 Budgeting is part of a larger, closed-loop process called "performance management." Performance management is a holistic approach to the way organizations direct and manage resources to achieve objectives. In the context of performance management, budgeting's central role is to support execution through the allocation of resources to the activities that drive value. Download Now 6 Ways HP Helps IT Support Environmental Initiatives By : HP Published Date: Aug 07, 2007 Many companies have been talking about being green lately, but HP's been quietly doing something about it for years. Read this paper to find out more about the company's 20-year commitment to manufacturing and retiring its products in an environmentally responsible manner. Download Now A Growing Demand for End-to-End Corporate Travel and Expense Management Solution By : Concur Published Date: Aug 31, 2006 A result of surveys with procurement, finance and travel executives from over 290 companies from an independent survey by Aberdeen Group, Inc. reveal that 26% of respondents plan on adopting an end-to-end travel booking and expense reporting solution within the next two years. Download a copy of the entire report from the Aberdeen Group now. Download Now A Juicy IT Story: How IT Outsourcing Helped Sunny Delight Beverages By : OneNeck IT Services Published Date: Feb 06, 2007 When he joined SDBC in May of 2004, SunnyD's Chief Information Officer and Global Controller was faced with a classic build-or-buy decision, although the circumstances were less than typical. Despite the company just being carved out from Procter & Gamble with an experienced management team and a well-known brand name, it was missing a crucial operational element — an entire information technology infrastructure. Download Now A Manufacturing Imperative: Enterprise SOA By : SAP Published Date: Sep 05, 2007 Read how Enterprise SOA goes beyond the fundamentals of a service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA is a distributed software model that uses independent Web services to support business processes as defined by SAP and its partners and customers. Download Now Aberdeen Group: Advanced Sourcing & Negotiation Benchmark Report By : SAP Published Date: Mar 14, 2007 In retrospect, the initial e-sourcing waves that began a decade ago resembled a corporate “crash diet,” leaving an immediate and noticeable impact on the enterprise, but also a daunting challenge to develop a new and different program that could sustain these benefits and keep the “weight” off. As the use of basic sourcing strategies has reached saturation levels with certain categories, enterprises must utilize advanced sourcing strategies across a wider range of categories to deliver the same results. Download Now Aberdeen Group: For Mid-Size Manufacturers the Issue is Visible By : IBM Published Date: Aug 08, 2006 As manufacturing goes global, initiatives to standardize processes and key performance measurements across the enterprise to unite the greater supply chain are emerging. The main catalyst? Driving down costs in response to customer and market pressures. However, mid-size companies in particular are driving performance improvements with a more proactive, strategic vision for improving performance than reactively responding to cost pressure. Download Now Aberdeen Group: The Technology Strategies for Integrated Business By : SAP Published Date: Aug 11, 2006 An Aberdeen survey between nearly 140 enterprises showed that S&OP has helped a majority of companies to improve forecast accuracy and cross-departmental communication. But most companies have failed to see improvements in profit-related metrics like gross margin and customer retention. Traditional S&OP processes are no longer sufficient, S&OP has evolved to become Integrated Business Planning. Download Now Aberdeen Lean Scheduling and Execution Benchmark Report By : Infor Published Date: May 30, 2007 In this report, find out the operational performance benefits that Best-in-Class manufacturers attribute to the use of Lean Scheduling and Execution principles. Read about Lean Scheduling key metrics and get ready to implement them. Discover best practices in Lean implementations and how these help reduce overall manufacturing costs. Download Now Accounting for Lean Success: Overcoming the Barrier of Traditional Accounting in Lean Environments By : Infor Published Date: Apr 25, 2007 Over the last three decades, lean principles have driven massive productivity improvements in manufacturing operations around the world. Download this insightful guide now and get a free Executive’s view on how accounting will play a larger role in lean by providing analysis, insight and direction that will support lean gains across all functions.  Download Now Acheiving Operational Excellence in an Attribute-Based Product Environment By : SAP Published Date: Apr 23, 2008 Learn how mill products companies are going through a period of intense economic change triggered by a variety of factors, such as globalization, industry consolidation, volatility in raw material and energy prices, fierce competition, and increasingly demanding customers. Discover what best practices improve operational excellence. Download Now Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence through Real-time Performance Management By : SAP Published Date: Sep 24, 2007 Consider how life sciences manufacturers can deal effectively with dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, and rapid product innovation. Addressing compliance management, integration, and data utilization will help improve responsiveness and performance. Download Now Achieving Lean Success: A Holistic Approach By : Infor Published Date: Jan 18, 2007 Over the past decade, the concept of lean manufacturing production has gone through a dramatic evolution from an obscure and isolated practice to a mainstream, extensively publicized methodology that is well known throughout the manufacturing and supply chain industry. Download white paper to learn more. Download Now Achieving Manufacturing Leadership with HP Mission Critical Service By : HP Published Date: Jul 21, 2008 This case study highlights how one of the world's leading manufacturing companies employed a Mission Critical architecture to protect their most important systems. Learn how this customer achieved 99.99% availability of their systems for 4 straight years. As a result of adopting a high availability strategy, this HP customer saved 97 million Euros, by avoiding lost downtime. Download Now Achieving the Perfect Order: Improving Supply Chain Communication By : Inovis Published Date: Feb 22, 2007 No enterprise is an island. Goods and services flow in from suppliers. When you include suppliers of wares for raw material extractors, along with recyclers that turn consumer and commercial waste into new raw materials and finished goods, it is a supply chain with no beginning and no end. Download Now Adopting Lean Manufacturing in Packaging and Printing: How an ERP System Can Help By : Radius Solutions Published Date: Apr 28, 2008 "Lean" is defined as a process to improve manufacturing and service operations, reduce waste, improve quality and drive down cost. While many packaging companies have embraced a number of Lean Manufacturing concepts, many have yet to fully realize the benefits of a fully-integrated Lean environment. Leveraging an ERP system that embraces "Lean" principles and incorporates industry specific best practices can facilitate and support the process. In this white paper, learn how lean manufacturing can apply to printing and packaging, and how an ERP system fits into the process. Download Now American Dairy Brands Reduces Errors, Increases Forecast Accuracy and Increases Service Levels By : Infor Published Date: Oct 05, 2005 American Dairy Brands, a $300M division of Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) which is the largest U.S. dairy cooperative marketing over 45 billion pounds of milk per year, has achieved substantial supply chain savings through Infor's Supply Chain solutions. Infor has given Dairy Farmers of America the ability to successfully manage the supply chain to drive service levels to greater than 99% for their Borden-brand cheese products. Download Now An Executive's Guide to Cutting HR Costs By : TriNet Published Date: Mar 12, 2007 Download this insightful Executive's Guide now and learn the four keys to minimizing human capital expenses which are vital to cutting HR costs. Download Now An Introduction to Product Information Management By : PTC Published Date: May 18, 2006 In today's complex global life sciences marketplace, the ability to manage product information is a daunting task. The ability to ensure greater control over this critical product information has led to the development of a standard for product information throughout the European Union. If your company as not begun to think about PIM, now is the time, download this white paper immediately. 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