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Forklift Free Plants — Considerations For Success |
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Increasingly, companies are mandating the move to forklift free production floors on the basis of highly visible macro issues like safety improvements, reduced forklift lease and maintenance costs. However, there are many other less visible advantages with direct and secondary benefits that may play an important role in reducing costs and improving customer response.
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Improving Paint Booth Quality And Productivity With Water Jet Cleaning |
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Paint booth cleaning has evolved into a critical step in assuring customers of a high-quality finished product. Manufacturers must deliver this quality while meeting demanding production schedules and tight operating budgets. This has led to significant growth in the use of high-pressure water jetting as an alternative to the traditional methods of chemical stripping and incineration, or burn-off.
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Production Logistics Tools To Improve Productivity In The FMCG Industry |
| By : FlexLink |
Published Date: Sep 24, 2007 |
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The FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) industry is extremely competitive. Consumers have high demands on price and quality, and are increasingly disloyal to brands, quickly choosing a different product if the other offer appears better. Manufacturers must adapt and be able to produce products in smaller batch sizes to win the battle on the shelf.
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Push Versus Pull - Perception Versus Reality |
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Even if a chosen business model establishes some preference for one technique over another, at different points in the value chain, different techniques may be appropriate to plan and manage the demand, the production activities, the resources, and the supply of materials. Knowing when and where to apply each of the different techniques is critical.
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The OEE Deficit: Why It Can't Deliver The Results You Require |
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For complex manufacturing environments, OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) falls short when it comes to delivering improvements in productivity. That's because OEE tools were originally developed to measure the performance of stand-alone equipment or the total output of a particular line. Today's enterprises need more. This paper describes an evolution in thinking: focusing on product flow through the process.
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Anticipating and Resolving Resource Overloads |
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Most project resources perform work and include such entities as personnel, equipment and contractors. However, the concept of a resource (and the techniques of resource management presented in this paper) can also be applied to entities that do not perform work, but which must be available in order for work to be performed.
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Executive Guide to Understanding Business Requirements |
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This white paper is structured so that each page is its own "mini-white-paper" but each is also part of a total look at better structuring requirements documents, processes and content completeness. At the end of this paper is a one page "tear-out" summary which is both a shortened distillation of the content, and a diagnostic tool to start a peer discussion on your organization's performance.
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Enterprise Mobility: How to Unshackle Your Mission-Critical Applications |
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In this paper, two case studies illustrate different approaches to unlocking the value of existing investments through mobilization. Each case study provides an overview of an application we mobilized, identifies the characteristics that made the application a good candidate and explains the value realized by enabling access to these applications from mobile devices.
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Extending Reach and Ensuring Effectiveness of Leadership Development |
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Leadership is an important element of organizational success. So, it is not surprising that many companies look for ways to extend the benefits of leadership development to more employees. Technology-based learning approaches such as online courses, books and video programs can be used effectively to develop employees at all levels.
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Getting Business Requirements Right |
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The later in the system development life-cycle that major errors are discovered the more expensive it is to fix them. But the earliest stages of the systems development lifecycle (SDLC) are most often the least consistently executed. This paper describes a methodology that brings the early stages of the SDLC up to a high level of maturity: consistent, proven, and optimized for success.
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Gates Corporation Case Study |
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With over 13,000 employees and a large sales force spread around the world, the Gates Corporation is continuously evaluating the effectiveness of its technology services on employee productivity. In preparation for a strategic, company-wide technology initiative, the corporation's Worldwide IT Group found several issues related to mobile communications.
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George Mason Mortgage LLC Case Study |
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The mortgage banking business is ultra-competitive and rapidly changing. To compete in this environment requires a highly productive workforce with dependable, reliable and flexible communications so that employees can provide the best customer service possible. Read this case study to learn how George Mason Mortgage found a more robust and easy-to-manage mobility solution that helped the company accomplish its goals.
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How General Cable Reduces Over 50% of Time and Costs Associated with Purchasing |
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General Cable operates 28 manufacturing locations in 8 countries and is a leader in the development, design, manufacture, marketing and distribution of copper, aluminum and fiber optic wire and cable products. Their products are widely used in communications, energy, industrial and speciality markets. General Cable has nearly 300 suppliers of raw material for their US operations.
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Inventory Visibility |
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Supply chain-centric organizations face unique challenges in today’s rapidly-changing marketplace. A variety of macro-industry factors, combined with the dynamic nature of their business, have made operations increasingly complex. As a result, there is an urgent need for tools that enable complete visibility into and enhanced management of inventory and related events and activities.
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IDC: Business Agility as an Enabler for Growth |
| By : SAP |
Published Date: Aug 28, 2007 |
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It can take time and considerable energy for a growing business to finally put in place processes and procedures that really work. Of course, the solutions for today’s problems are not likely to be the right ones for tomorrow, never mind two or three years out. The key is to have an adaptable, flexible organization that anticipates change (or at least can accommodate it) rather than one that is disrupted and confounded by new developments.
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11 Criteria For Selecting The Best ERP System Replacement |
| By : Epicor |
Published Date: Apr 19, 2006 |
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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.
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Liberating the Inbox: How To Make Email Safe and Productive Again |
| By : Sophos |
Published Date: Oct 02, 2007 |
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With spam levels breaking records every day, the quintessential business tool – email – has simultaneously become a major liability. With inboxes overrun with more and more unwanted email that threatens business productivity, regulatory compliance, and network security, organizations are having to look at what is being mailed in, out and around their network, at the gateway, at the mail server and at the endpoint.
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MedPointe Pharmaceuticals Case Study |
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To stay competitive in the specialty pharmaceutical business, it is critical that a company's sales force, marketing team and executives have the business tools they need to keep them one step ahead of their rivals. Read this case study to learn how Good™ Mobile Messaging has helped the employees of MedPointe Pharmaceuticals stay connected to crucial information while they're on the road.
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5 Ways ERP Can Help You Implement Lean |
| By : Epicor |
Published Date: Apr 19, 2006 |
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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.
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Productivity and Efficiency Enhancements in a Solution Provider Network |
| By : SAP |
Published Date: Mar 19, 2008 |
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Are your IT investments worth it? Does enterprise software really make a difference to productivity and efficiency? Nearly every manufacturer has considered these questions, and this SAP white paper reveals definitive and quantifiable answers to them. In addition, it presents a value-driven strategy to increase productivity and efficiency, together with the specific performance enhancement tools you need to up the bottom line.
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Run Away to Join the New Circus - Sales 2.0 Whitepaper Part 1 |
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What sales is has not changed. How sales are accomplished is changing radically. In this first of a two-part whitepaper, we present an overview of the state of sales today, supported by metrics from our 2007 Sales Performance Optimization survey. The differences between S1.0 and S2.0 are represented in the comparison between old-style circus companies and the modern circus (think Ringling Bros. vs. Cirque du Soleil).
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The CIO Wish List: 7 Steps to Mission Critical IT Services |
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CIOs today are being called upon to interpret business strategy and priorities, then add value through information technology initiatives. At a time when “critical to the business” translates to “mission-critical IT”, how do you ensure end-to-end availability and reliability of the IT resources that enable your company’s essential business processes.
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Talent Supply Chain Management |
| By : SAP |
Published Date: Jul 16, 2007 |
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These survey findings will identify the industry-reshaping challenges that are compelling innovative professional services firms to improve the return on their investments in talent with a holistic, end-to-end, optimized process. From a recent independent survey of over 250 professional services firms this report highlights the outdated, internal processes professional services firms must modernize to make the most of their talent resources and grow their profits.
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The Impact of Work Force Agility on Business Performance |
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Agility is an issue that is becoming more and more prominent in businesses across industries. While it is a common goal, its meaning can be somewhat ambiguous. Depending on the context, agility can mean different things to different organizational units. But one common thread persists: the accelerating speed of change. Change is not only driving organizations to keep up and anticipate, but more so to be its catalyst in order to be competitively positioned.
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