The State of Manufacturing ERP Systems
Manufacturing Business Technology (MBT) recently surveyed its readers to understand their ERP usage and needs. This report looks at those results and includes industry insights and trends from ERP...
View ArticleIt’s Time to EVALUATE Your Workforce Management Solution
You’re trying to manage a rapidly evolving workforce with outdated tools. It drags down productivity, raises costs, and increases your risk of noncompliance. And — it’s making your job harder. It’s...
View ArticleBeyond Conflict Materials for High Tech Companies: Turn Compliance into a...
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Section 1502, requires organizations to disclose the use of conflict minerals in their products or in the materials used in their...
View ArticleODB++: The Most Effective Communications Format For Transferring PCB Design...
Competing in global markets requires OEMs and suppliers to continuously seek ways to more effectively communicate manufacturing requirements when bringing products to market. The collection of...
View ArticleLatest PCB Assembly Planning Tool Solves the High-Product-Mix Efficiency...
In this paper, we look into the real needs of surface mount manufacturing planning to discover the opportunities that exist to improve optimization and performance through better planning. View white...
View ArticleEight Steps for Ensuring PCB Assembly Success
Today, more than ever, as customer demand patterns become more volatile, performance and productivity is under threat, with rapidly increasing pressure on engineering and materials infrastructures....
View ArticleThe New IT infrastructure: Cloud deployment supports less-restrictive growth
Manufacturers today face an incredibly volatile environment that requires a highly agile and flexible IT infrastructure. As a result, many organizations are turning to cloud computing to streamline and...
View ArticleReshoring: How modern ERP solutions help manufacturers optimize plant...
As manufacturers struggle to find the appropriate balance between low cost suppliers and escalating customer expectations, outsourcing strategies are being reexamined. Public sentiment plus changing...
View ArticleManufacturing’s trifecta: Optimism, growth and investment
Manufacturers are hungry for growth. Following a debilitating recession and sluggish recovery period, many manufacturing leaders are ready to play for higher stakes, take bigger risks, go all the way...
View ArticleSecure Pharmaceutical intellectual property and production environments with...
According to the Identity Theft Resource Center 2014 data breach report, 42% of all reported breaches in 2014 have occurred in the healthcare category. The number represents reported breaches; however,...
View ArticleSecure Food Production and Delivery System Environments with Military Grade...
Technology has enabled a new generation of criminals to gain access to information assets. As the “farm-to-fork continuum” assesses potential cyber vulnerabilities in its critical infrastructure,...
View ArticleManufacturing CyberSecurity Guide
The transition of business processes to the cloud and proliferation of connected endpoints will increase the vulnerability of critical Intellectual Property to outside threats. IT managers must...
View ArticleRevolutionizing Manufacturing With 3D Printing: An Introduction
With traditional manufacturing methods, it's not practical to manufacture a single item or short run of products - it's simply too expensive. But what if there was a way to fill those needs for far...
View ArticleThe New Benchmarks for Pricing Excellence
While the economy continues to suffer from uncertainty about the future, there are two trends that leave little doubt... As the heroes of the downturn, procurement teams are being asked to aim for even...
View ArticlePricing Technology Myth vs. Reality
Pricing effectively in B2B has never been easy. But today, increases in pricing transparency, information access, and global competition are conspiring to make a difficult task even more challenging....
View ArticlePrice Optimization: How Best-In-Class Performers Add To Both The Top And...
Report Highlights- The number one business goal among sales leaders is now “higher margins.”- The leading reason why B2B sales deals are lost? Pricing.- Best-in-Class companies offer 30% more sales...
View Article5 BEST PRACTICES FOR ANALYZING PRICING DATA
You’ve worked for weeks to pull together the perfect presentation in your quarterly pricing review. You have mined data from a variety of systems and your analysis is spot-on. Then — the week before...
View ArticleThe new production norm in High Tech
The new production norm in High Tech. Forward-thinking high tech and electronics manufacturers are using ERP technology to perform more efficiently than ever before. They are rapidly setting new...
View ArticleHow agile ERP solutions can help high tech manufacturers connect with suppliers
Outsourcing continues to be a topic of debate among manufacturers, who struggle to find a balance between low cost suppliers and escalating customer expectations. Sentiments about outsourcing—and the...
View ArticleFive ways to get products to market faster than competitors
Five ways to get products to market faster than competitors. It pays to have good ideas for new products, especially if your company can turn its ideas into new products faster than the competition....
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