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Designed to Manage Lean Principles

Discover the true benefits of lean thinking for the entire enterprise. >>

DEX – The EDI Standard for Direct Store Delivery

DEX is the EDI standard for the grocery industry. All vendors involved in Direct Store Delivery need to know the ins and outs of this powerful tool. >>

Strategies to Run a Lean Supply Chain: How Principles of Lean Manufacturing Transfer Benefits to Operations

Explore the process of lean manufacturing and how it can be applied to supply chain management. >>

The 2008 ERP in Manufacturing Benchmark Report Summary

Learn how to reduce costs, improve accuracy of inventory and develop customer responsiveness through successful ERP implementations. >>

9 Ways to Recharge Your Six Sigma Program

Explore proven methods that will reform and revitalize your process improvement initiative. >>

How do Enterprising Manufacturers Stay Ahead of the Compliance Game?

Read these Best Practices and learn how to turn risk-based product compliance into a proactive process. >>

The Five Keys to World-Class Distribution

Learn the five keys to becoming a world-class distributor. >>

The Five Strategies Used by Successful Small Midsized Manufacturers

Learn how manufacturers can position themselves for more predictable success and business growth, without increasing staff by considering five strategies. >>

Dealing with Chaos: 4 Steps to Manufacturing Success

Find out how to balance your Lean manufacturing initiatives with the supply chain flexibility you'll need to succeed. >>

Improve Business Performance and Customer Loyalty in 5 Steps

Learn how to adopt and rethink your key business metrics, focus on continual innovation and improve quality and delivery performance. >>

Enterprise Asset Management: Maximizing Return on Assets (RoA) and Emerging Trends

Read this Aberdeen Group report which surveyed more than 160 manufacturing executives to understand the strategies and business capabilities adopted to maximize Return on Assets and reduce risk from failure of critical assets. >>

Global Asset Sustainability: Breakthrough Lean Best Practice Counters Rising Energy Costs

In this white paper get an insightful look at how companies that establish a strategy and global approach with a new lean practice improve operating, financial, and environmental performance. >>

Extending the Lean Enterprise

Learn what the Aberdeen Group has identified as the key strategies to extend the Lean enterprise, manage performance and leverage technology. >>

Achieving Order-to-Delivery Excellence: Demand Management in Discrete Industries

Find out why discrete manufacturers need to refocus their attention towards order-to-delivery excellence as a driver for demand management rather than just concentrating on traditional statistical forecasting. >>

Advanced Planning & Scheduling in the 21st Century

Do you know the 7 telltale signs that you need a new approach to production planning and scheduling? Read this white paper to discover new technologies that you can apply to meet today's complex production and supply chain challenges. >>

Technology Strategies for Closed Loop Inventory Management

Find out how best-in-class companies are using closed loop inventory management techniques to improve performance, processes and metrics. >>

Lifecycle Management Strategies: Designing Products for Sustainability and Profitability

Learn how Going Green is the answer for your company's future profitability and efficiency. >>

Using Technologies to Increase Perfect Order Metrics

Is your company focusing on the technologies which will provide better execution and productivity to create a greater competitive advantage? >>

Achieving Manufacturing Leadership with HP Mission Critical Service

Learn how one of the world's leading manufacturing companies employed a Mission Critical architecture to protect their most important systems. >>

Debunking the Top Eight Myths Surrounding Small-Business Warehouse Management Systems

Learn how mid-sized and small businesses are turning to best-of-breed warehouse management systems to reduce costs and streamline daily operations. >>

How to Successfully Build a Business Case for Automating Time and Attendance

Learn how to beak through typical management "roadblocks to yes" by demonstrating the objective value to the organization that an automated time and attendance solution can provide. >>

Business Intelligence for Process Industries: Actionable Insights for Business Decision Makers

The Retail sector was one of the first sectors to make significant investments in collecting and integrating customer data in data warehouses. >>

Productivity Unleashed - Top Technologies for the Warehouse of the Future, Today

Hear how companies that are leveraging new technologies to increase efficiency and accuracy dramatically in the warehouse today. >>

Warehouse Management Today: Balancing Financial Pressures and Growing Demand

Traditional linear supply chains with sequential processes are evolving into complex global ecosystems that are highly responsive to customer requirements. >>

What Is ISO 14001 And Should I Care?

ISO 14001 Certification is not only about the environment it's about profits, risk management, public perception and corporate responsibility. >>

What Is ISO 9000 And Should I Care?

A certified quality management system promotes, facilitates and enables consistency and improvements in a process or product. >>

What Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series (OHSAS 18001) and Should I Care?

Many organizations are implementing an Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) as part of their risk management strategy to address changing legislation and protect their workforces. >>

Legal Aspects of Incident Investigation

Explore the world of legality and how to avoid serious errors that impairs an organization's ability to defend its position when incidents lead to legal action. >>

The Five Sure-Fire Strategies for Gaining Management Approval for WMS Projects

Learn key strategies that significantly improve your chances of getting WMS projects approved. >>

Exposing the Hidden Costs of Supply Chain Execution and Warehouse Management Software

Uncover the Hidden Costs of WMS. >>

The Impact of Lean on Consumer Product Manufacturers

Learn the real dedication to Lean that requires a focus on change, the identification of areas of improvement across the enterprise and a commitment to monitor continuously. >>

Asserting Control, Seizing Opportunity in High Tech: Five Critical Success Factors

In today's competitive market, there's a growing need for business systems that can help you and your people capitalize on new opportunities rather than being consumed by day-to-day operations. >>

Industrial Equipment Manufacturing: Innovation and the Competitive Edge

Extending the business is really about giving an industrial equipment manufacturer enough flexibility to grow the business by pursuing new revenue opportunities. >>

Key Challenges Facing Consumer Packaged Goods Manufacturers and What They Must Do to Survive

How can the small-to-medium CPG manufacturer survive in the face of the same external pressures and fewer resources? >>

Microsoft Dynamics™ AX: Build a Competitive Edge for Manufacturing Plant Operations

This white paper addresses specific ways that Microsoft Dynamics® AX can help your manufacturing operations compete, grow, and succeed. >>

Demand Planning: Optimizing Operations Across the Supply Chain

Discover how to plan more proactively, frequently, and accurately across the entire supply chain. >>

Ten Insights for Success in an On-Demand World: An IBM Perspective for the Industrial Sector

Compete more effectively by acting as your own supply chain. >>

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