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Improved service management boosts revenue from both service offerings and new product sales, while improved customer service
and enhanced offerings increase customer retention, and draw new service business, providing an additional, low risk and likely
repeated revenue stream over a long period of owner (...)
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Improved service management boosts revenue from both service offerings and new product sales, while improved customer service
and enhanced offerin...
Published:
2005-08-02
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Stockholm-based International Business Systems (IBS) announced it had acquired 90% of Finnish company, Progma OY. Progma
is a service provider offering facility management, application service providing (ASP), and Internet Hosting. (...)
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Stockholm-based International Business Systems (IBS) announced it had acquired 90% of Finnish company, Progma OY. Progma is
a service provider off...
Published:
2000-02-02
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Not many people know of WAM Systems, a privately held supply chain management vendor situated in a Philadelphia suburb.
Emboldened by growing interest and new venture capital, the company intends to make its presence known. (...)
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Not many people know of WAM Systems, a privately held supply chain management vendor situated in a Philadelphia suburb. Emboldened
by growing int...
Published:
2001-01-08
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With manufacturing now a global industry, moving product throughout complex supply chains remains a challenge for most organizations.
But transportation management systems are spearheading the way to help solve the dilemmas of today’s manufacturers, offering
functionality that eases the transfer of goo (...)
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With manufacturing now a global industry, moving product throughout complex supply chains remains a challenge for most organizations.
But transpor...
Published:
2009-08-31
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Optimizing supply chain management processes to work more closely with trading partners, requires enterprises to act together
as interdependent supply networks. The development of service oriented architecture will be crucial in achieving the necessary
flexibility characterizing such networked supply cha (...)
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Optimizing supply chain management processes to work more closely with trading partners, requires enterprises to act together
as interdependent su...
Published:
2005-11-07
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Symix Systems, Inc. recently announced an addition to its e-business application suite, eSyte Supply Chain. It offers multi-site
capacity and material planning capabilities that have been given new relevance with the advent of B2B collaboration. (...)
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Symix Systems, Inc. recently announced an addition to its e-business application suite, eSyte Supply Chain. It offers multi-site
capacity and mat...
Published:
2000-04-25
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Advanced planning and optimization makes supply chain systems cost effective. It is the brain of the supply chain because
it works on top of all other software tools that plan, monitor, and control supply chain activities and control them. (...)
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Advanced planning and optimization makes supply chain systems cost effective. It is the brain of the supply chain because
it works on top of all o...
Published:
2005-08-20
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Although Click Commerce is a thriving provider of on-demand supply chain management (SCM) solutions for a variety of worldwide
industries, it does have to face up to a variety of challenges, some of which are of its own making. (...)
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Although Click Commerce is a thriving provider of on-demand supply chain management (SCM) solutions for a variety of worldwide
industries, it does...
Published:
2006-11-16
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Changing business requirements have forced supply chain execution (SCE) vendors to expand via add-on modules. Seeing this
upward push from the SCE vendors, enterprise resource planning vendors are now pushing downward and including SCE modules
within their solutions. (...)
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Changing business requirements have forced supply chain execution (SCE) vendors to expand via add-on modules. Seeing this
upward push from the SCE...
Published:
2009-03-25
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Click Commerce has evolved beyond its roots, into a provider of much more comprehensive on-demand supply and demand chain
management software, consulting, hosting, and related services that should enable users throughout the world to collaborate
in near real time. (...)
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Click Commerce has evolved beyond its roots, into a provider of much more comprehensive on-demand supply and demand chain
management software, con...
Published:
2006-11-14
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The launch of irista mimics a trend among supply chain management vendors to achieve a higher profile for their products
amid a multitude of competitive offerings. (...)
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The launch of irista mimics a trend among supply chain management vendors to achieve a higher profile for their products amid
a multitude of compe...
Published:
2000-06-21
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The lack of effective game plans is typically cited as a leading cause of poor system implementation. The following guidelines
provide suggestions for improving the effectiveness of sales and operations planning (S&OP) game plans. (...)
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The lack of effective game plans is typically cited as a leading cause of poor system implementation. The following guidelines
provide suggestions...
Published:
2004-03-26
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Manufacturing operations are characterized by a need for factory transformation management. Via software that uses a "virtual
factory" approach to synchronize the supply chain, Pelion Systems is attempting to establish a new market category, manufacturing
process optimization, to satisfy this need. (...)
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Manufacturing operations are characterized by a need for factory transformation management. Via software that uses a "virtual
factory" approach to...
Published:
2006-01-31
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Moving to a performance-based service business model will have huge implications for the whole value chain. Its principle
is to manage for outcomes—procure performance rather than parts and people. It requires total business process reorientation
from services and maintenance through procurement techn (...)
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Moving to a performance-based service business model will have huge implications for the whole value chain. Its principle
is to manage for outcom...
Published:
2004-06-22
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PeopleSoft has once again proven the naysayers wrong about its ability to sell supply chain management. Its Accelerated
Supply Chain Management offering bundles core e-business functionality into a scaled down package for the mid market, a segment
that not even SCM market leader i2 has conquered. (...)
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PeopleSoft has once again proven the naysayers wrong about its ability to sell supply chain management. Its Accelerated Supply
Chain Management o...
Published:
2001-07-24
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Over past two decades, ROI Systems has shown the commitment to deliver solid discrete manufacturing functionality and superior
customer support, with modest growth and cautious new technology introduction as a consequence. Owing to its slow growth,
ROI has achieved a small market presence in general and (...)
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Over past two decades, ROI Systems has shown the commitment to deliver solid discrete manufacturing functionality and superior
customer support, w...
Published:
2000-06-22
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This article describes the unique challenges of the service supply chain, provides a framework for understanding the service
management decision hierarchy, and highlights the dramatic value proposition available to companies that deploy advanced service
strategies and decision-support tools to address th (...)
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This article describes the unique challenges of the service supply chain, provides a framework for understanding the service
management decision h...
Published:
2004-06-22
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Abstract:
Quality does not start at the receiving dock and end at the shipping dock. The focus on the supply chain demands that the
quality department be involved from the beginning to the end of the supply chain. (...)
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Quality does not start at the receiving dock and end at the shipping dock. The focus on the supply chain demands that the
quality department be in...
Published:
2006-01-20
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Like many of its peers, Symix Systems, one of the leading mid-market enterprise applications vendors, has been making a big
push into the e-commerce market. A new Symix subsidiary called Frontstep, which was formed in January 2000, has been actively
rounding out its e-business product and strategic consu (...)
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Like many of its peers, Symix Systems, one of the leading mid-market enterprise applications vendors, has been making a big
push into the e-commer...
Published:
2000-10-25
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Abstract:
Technology has advanced supply chain visibility beyond mere track and trace functions. Visibility can be used to manage supply
chain uncertainty, thereby preemptively troubleshooting problematic areas and reallocating resources to better meet the demands
of an enterprise. (...)
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Technology has advanced supply chain visibility beyond mere track and trace functions. Visibility can be used to manage supply
chain uncertainty, ...
Published:
2005-11-09