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The Efficient Enterprise provides real ERP industry-specific system cases to capture and illustrate best development and implementation practices. It describes business processes and ERP industry solutions from a business perspective, with a focus on the business logic behind ERP systems. It includes a CD-ROM that contains 350 actual screen shots of real industry-specific systems, action notes, definitions, key ideas, and workflows by industry sector for self-study or instruction |
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Information Technology for Manufacturing: Reducing Costs and Expanding Capabilities presents a wide-ranging view of the benefits available through the intelligent use of manufacturing information systems. Readers benefit from the authors' collective experience in bringing new information technologies into manufacturing. Using examples of actual IT implementations, they provide a comprehensive picture of how to cut costs and add valuable new capabilities to companies. The book takes a comprehensive look at five major areas where IT systems can play a pivotal role in improving any company's manufacturing processes. Going beyond theory, the authors show readers how they can ensure that their IT investments bring a real payback to their companies. |
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Completely revised and updated, Carol A Ptak and Eli Schragenheim's second edition of ERP: Tools, Techniques, and Applications for Integrating the Supply Chain describes, from the perspective of a business manager, concepts and tools for enterprise planning, management, and execution. The Second Edition introduces many new topics, including supplier relationship management (SRM), strategic sourcing, throughput supply chain measures such as inventory dollar days and throughput dollar days, Product Life Cycle Management (PLM), technology architecture choices, and customer relationship management. This book can be used over and over, as a quick reference to obtain insight into ERP topics. |
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Integrating ERP, CRM, SCM, and Smart Materials Learn how to transition of ERP, CRM, and Web applications into integrative management tools. Discover the issues you'll encounter as you become a global provider of Internet-enabled solutions and explore business opportunities and cost savings. Dimitris Chorafas outlines why the wider application of off-the-shelf programming products, new answers to supply chain requirements, and the advent of smart materials, must be examined within the perspective of each company's business challenges. |
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Making Supply Chain Management Work: Design, Implementation, Partnerships, Technology, and Profits Any supply chain improvement project, even if well conceived, has a good chance of failing, unless the accompanying information technology enables the design. Being prepared, understanding the risks and how to reduce them, will give you the edge you need. Combining a technology focus with practical advice, Making Supply Chain Management Work: Design, Implementation, Partnerships, Technology, and Profits gives you the tools to not only design new supply chains, but to design them effectively. |
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Supply Chain Project Management: A Structured, Collaborative, and Measurable Approach explains a four-stage progression toward world-class supply chain project management. The author provides a template of the stages encountered when moving to competitive supply chains, delineates the processes that organizations must implement if they are to advance from one stage to the next, and describes best practices for how to get there. What's more, he supplies structured approaches supply chain analysis and documentation and illustrates the concepts with examples from the trenches. |
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Around the world, virtually every company is engaged in some form of effort intended to improve the processing that takes place across an end-to-end supply chain system as they work towards moving their organizations to the next level of performance. Supply chain, particularly when enhanced with collaboration and Internet technology, is uniquely suited to helping an organization increase profits and decrease costs. A comprehensive guide to adding value to supply chain efforts, Using Models to Improve the Supply Chain demonstrates how leading firms have successfully integrated their supply chains and how they plan further progress through supply chain evolution. |
Roadmap to the e-Factory describes the risks and the opportunities of transforming your factory into an e-factory into an e-factory. Learn which technologies you need to compete in this environment and how to design a road to the future.