Brain Trust: Enabling the Confident Enterprise with Business Analytics

Growing amounts of data about materials, suppliers, processes and competitors does not necessarily translate into useful information for manufacturers – unless it can be analyzed for valuable insights that improve decision making. This special report, featuring analytics experts such as Jim Goodnight, Tom Davenport and Thornton May, is filled with extensive research and case studies regarding the impact business analytics has on how to solve complex business challenges with confidence. Read about organizations that are putting analytics in action to gain competitive advantage, improve performance, drive sustainable growth through innovation, anticipate change and balance risk.

Avoiding Industrial Hose Hazards. Think System. Not Components.

When selecting hose components, it’s beneficial to thinkof the entire system. Assemblies comprised of components from a singlemanufacturer prevent downtime, provide clear accountability for failure andminimize safety hazards. Download the white paper.

2011 Top Trends in ERP for 2011 and Beyond 0911(2)

 Enterpriseresource planning, or ERP, systems are intended to provide data to helpemployees make better decisions (and make them faster), to make your corebusiness processes more efficient, and to help reduce costs across your organization.

50+ FDA Acronyms That Matter to Your Business

If you manage a GxP compliant manufacturing facility, or oversee storage and distribution of regulated drugs and devices, this e-book is a convenient and comprehensive reference of definitions, helpful insights, and links to additional resources that will give you fundamental understanding FDA regulations and to achieving Good Manufacturing Practices and FDA compliance.

Best Practices: IT Management for Manufacturing

IT professionals working in the manufacturing sector must establish a secure, efficient and regulatorycompliantIT infrastructure. With disparate plants and locations, a complex underlying infrastructure, mission-critical applications andoperational flows spanning across suppliers, distributors, customers and retailers, your role is more challenging than ever before,so it’s mandatory to consolidate and leverage everypossible IT resource – including your staff.

2011 10 Tips to Optimize Your ERP Initiatives

Enterprise relationship planning, or ERP, is notoriously complex to implement. Horror stories abound about failed installations, unresponsive vendors, and wasted investments. As daunting as ERP can be, many organizations can’t operate without it — ERP brings together different aspects of the back office for greater efficiency and insight into business processes.

12 Criteria for Selecting the Best ERP System Replacement

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. The cornerstone of this effort is finding the right partner and specialist.

2011 Inside-ERP MRP Comparison Guide

August 2011

A New Dimension in the Nanometer Range

HEIDENHAIN’s LIF 481 1Dplus linear encoder provides high resolution for positioning to the nanometer for the semiconductor industry.

Best Practices in Demand and Inventory Planning for Chemical Companies

High quality demand planning requires accurate ERP product, formulation, inventory and sales data, which is why a highly integrated solution is critical in making smarter decisions about production and inventory levels.

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2nd Annual Benchmark Study: Product Portfolio Management

The results of a product portfolio management study conducted in late 2010 indicate that the recent recession is driving organizations to refine their product development process and seek tools that help them drive maximum value from their product pipelines. More than half of the 922 respondents reported feeling the pain of operating with too many projects or products for their resources, and find the greatest risk to be managing priorities as business conditions change.