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Extending Quality's Reach to Manage Quality in the Supply Chain

by Olin Thompson ... Traditionally, quality departments have focused their efforts within the four walls of the plant, but today's demands and technology are pushing quality ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ExecutiveView/2006/01/research_notes/MI_EV_XOT_01_20_06_1.asp - 13k - 2006-01-20 Summary: 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.

Can ERP Meet Your eBusiness Needs? Part Two: ERP is the Foundation

by Cindy M. Jutras ... Yet ERP was not conceived to look beyond the "four walls" of the enterprise, regardless of how expansive those walls became, simply because the concepts of MRP ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2003/04/research_notes/MI_ER_XCJ_04_29_03_1.asp - 19k - 2003-04-29 Summary: As a result of this push towards full eBusiness integration, businesses face challenges that force them to push the envelope of business information systems. ERP grew from its predecessors of MRP and MRP II, constantly expanding its solution footprint to address more and more of the needs of the enterpr

Warehousing Management: Yard Management, Competitive Analysis, and ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... The seamless integration of YMS with WMS, thereby extends the WMS' functionality beyond the four walls of the warehouse into the yard. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2005/08/research_notes/TU_ER_PJ_08_31_05_1.asp - 13k - 2005-08-31 Summary: The business remains challenging to even the most established vendors, since an intensifying product architecture rejuvenation and functional enhancements cycle, the pressure from the ERP intruders, and continued market consolidation exert fiscal pressure across the sector.

Measuring the Supply Chain Outside your Enterprise

by Sree Hameed ... a simple process framework to understand the broader perspective), we highlight the growing importance of looking outside your four walls when thinking about ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2005/05/research_notes/TN_SC_XSH_05_20_05_1.asp - 18k - 2005-05-20 Summary: Since supply chains, by definition, are about the end-to-end inter-enterprise process, we highlight the growing importance of looking outside your four walls when thinking about supply chain performance management. If you are overwhelmed by the number of supply chain measures you are tracking, it’s bet

SSA GT to EXE-cute (Yet) Another Acquisition Part Two: EXE

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... EXceed Fulfill manages the activity within and around the four walls of the distribution center. In addition to best-of-breed WMS ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2003/09/news_analysis/NA_SC_PJ_09_27_03_1.asp - 27k - 2003-09-27 Summary: Like the previous few SSA GT acquisitions, this merger too seems aimed at enlarging SSA GT's customer base, market share, and more importantly, its predictably recurring support revenue and consequently larger R&D pool. Both companies have notable customer bases with a wide geographic spread (particularl

Comparison of ERP and CRM Markets' Life cycle Snapshots

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Today's enterprise applications are required, as a matter of course, to address more than the processes taking place within the walls of an enterprise. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Crm/2004/01/research_notes/TU_CR_PJ_01_31_04_1.asp - 30k - 2004-01-31 Summary: Today's enterprise applications are required as a matter of course to address more than the processes taking place within the walls of an enterprise. Almost all traditional ERP vendors (small and big alike) had to experience a wake-up call and have long been trying to expand their product offering in tu

Provia Proves Its Way To Success Part Two: Market Impact

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... storefronts and exchanges of the late 1990s, have lately also benefited from breaking away from these formerly insulated spheres of a four-walls nitty-gritty ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2003/04/research_notes/EN_SC_PJ_04_09_03_1.asp - 24k - 2003-04-09 Summary: From the moment an order is created, Provia Software’s ViaWare and ViaView suites aim at helping managers track orders in real time and make orders visible throughout the entire delivery process, which is the core of its value proposition.

Provia Tackles RFID in a Twofold Manner Part Seven: WMS Market ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Generally speaking, WMS applications traditionally automate activities falling within the four walls of a warehouse, such as receiving, put-away, serialization ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Scm/2004/08/research_notes/EN_SC_PJ_08_19_04_1.asp - 18k - 2004-08-19 Summary: Since the warehouse is no longer merely a static storage facility, it now has to use real time data to closely match supply to demand, eliminate the need to hold excess inventory, and increase the flow of goods throughout the supply chain.

Food and Beverage Industry: Overview of Software Requirements

by Joseph J. Strub ... However, because of a tight integration with the other modules, the software should not only provide a view from inside the four walls of the plant but also ... http:/.../ResearchHighlights/TechnologySelections/2009/10/research_notes/RN_TS_JS_10_02_09_1.asp - 24k - 2009-10-02 Summary: The food and beverage industries have very special needs, many of which are externally regulated. Read on to discover some of the unique challenges and software requirements for these industries.

HP's Remarkable Collaboration Journey: Sree Hameed Interviews HP's ...

by Sree Hameed ... to have two separate but tightly integrated environments, because you are in fact decoupling a process that used to be entirely inside the four walls of the ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/SCM/2006/02/research_notes/TU_SC_XSH_02_23_06_1.asp - 18k - 2006-02-23 Summary: HP's transformation from a vertically integrated enterprise to a virtual business network was about structural change. Insights into control, exception management, risk sharing, and architectures for information management can be gained from this supply chain success story.