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| Title: Use CMMS to Improve PdM Performance |
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Companies that have moved from a highly reactive environment to a more planned one notice significant improvement. A computer maintenance management system (CMMS) or an enterprise asset management (EAM) is a useful tool to create a planned environment, help build accurate equipment history, and develop comprehensive analysis capability. Reprinted with permission from Plant Engineering and Maintenance magazine. |
| Publication Date:
Thu, 19 Feb 2004 |
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| Title: 3M Wraps Up HighJump, While Retalix Shops OMI International Part Three: Challenges and User Recommendations |
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Existing smaller customers of both acquired vendors should closely monitor any changes to determine whether they will continue to receive acceptable support and service from their providers within these new arrangements. |
| Publication Date:
Wed, 18 Feb 2004 |
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| Title: 3M Wraps Up HighJump, While Retalix Shops OMI International Part Two: Market Impact |
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Both HighJump's and OMI's customers should be pleased because these acquisitions should center their vendors' supply chain execution products inside a larger suite of complementary offerings and increase their vendors' financial viability and market visibility. |
| Publication Date:
Tue, 17 Feb 2004 |
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| Title: 3M Wraps Up HighJump, While Retalix Shops OMI International Part One: Recent Events |
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It appears that instead of a direct intra-market consolidation, some smaller, but profitable, undercapitalized, and undervalued warehouse management and supply chain execution vendors have lately found a shelter under wealthy, more visible parent companies with complementary products. |
| Publication Date:
Mon, 16 Feb 2004 |
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| Title: Usability |
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Poor usability leads to irritation and fatigue and it has an adverse impact on the usage experience. In an on-line shopping web site, it can lead to loss of revenues. Poor usability in business applications leads to increased help desk costs. On the other hand, better usability makes our usage experience more fun and can increase productivity. A highly usable on-line shopping web site tempts repeat visits, builds customer loyalty, and increases its revenue-earning potential. |
| Publication Date:
Sun, 15 Feb 2004 |
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| Title: Run your Business with no Software! |
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Picture your business today without software applications. It's hard to imagine, isn't it? But maybe you should try and not for the reason you may be thinking. Think about how hard it would be to run your business if your software applications weren't working and then build a plan to provide total application availability. |
| Publication Date:
Sat, 14 Feb 2004 |
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| Title: Justification of ERP Investments Part Four: Replacing or Re-implementing an ERP System |
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An investment analysis focusing on enterprise resource planning (ERP) benefits frequently applies to those firms initially justifying an ERP implementation. It can also be used to justify a 're-implementation' when the initial efforts have failed to produce desired results. Reprinted from Maximizing Your ERP System by Dr. Scott Hamilton. |
| Publication Date:
Fri, 13 Feb 2004 |
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| Title: The Store of the Future |
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The big hit of the National Retail Federation show was the Metro Group's Store of the Future. The budget for this extravaganza it appears to have been underwritten by some of the biggest technology firms in the world. |
| Publication Date:
Thu, 12 Feb 2004 |
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| Title: Supply Chain Portfolio 2004 |
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Here we are in the New Year. So, what should the going forward picture be of the Supply Chain portfolio? Something old, something new, something from a service provider, something blue. OK, enough of that. |
| Publication Date:
Thu, 12 Feb 2004 |
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| Title: Transenterprises The Emerging Business Model of the Twenty First Century |
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During the last two decades, many of the old vertically integrated enterprise/empires have splintered into numerous core-competency-focused firms, loosely bound into the so-called virtual extended enterprises. |
| Publication Date:
Thu, 12 Feb 2004 |
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