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MAPICS hereby joins the raft of enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors that are making their way into the product lifecycle
management (PLM) market by bundling or partnering strategically to embed PLM functions within their suites. (...)
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... initial step into PLM might want to start initially from enabling design collaboration
during the NPDI process, where an urgent need for a PLM solution might ...
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2004-07-22
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Engineer-to-order (ETO) manufacturing needs a high level of integration between ERP and PLM systems. This article points
out that ERP and PLM solutions are moving toward each other to achieve more organic data and process connectivity. (...)
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Engineer-to-order (ETO) manufacturing needs a high level of integration between ERP and PLM systems. This article points out
that ERP and PLM solu...
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2009-11-27
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The former die-hard IBM AS/400-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) supplier to mid-market manufacturing companies, MAPICS,
seems to have found its soul after the recent acquisition of its former competitor Frontstep and Frontstep's extended-ERP
product line on a Microsoft .NET-based technology platf (...)
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... time, the vendor has continued with the painstaking process of producing ...
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution, from its longstanding partner—Ceimis ...
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2004-07-20
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To help fashion players achieve the most out of adopting PLM methodology and systems while respecting the uniqueness of fashion
products and business processes, the article introduces a two-layer model to facilitate the process of selecting a fashion
PLM solution. (...)
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... of PLM into the fashion industry is quite recent and fashion players are usually not
engineering-oriented, planning a PLM system both business-process-wise and ...
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2009-10-05
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Users increasingly look for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system designed for a specific business, since software
that combines industry-specific functionality with the flexibility to accommodate each company's unique processes goes a long
way toward improving the functional fit and the speed of (...)
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Users increasingly look for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system designed for a specific business, since software
that combines industry-s...
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2004-05-03
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Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) addresses the full lifecycle of a product. The focus of most of the current PLM solutions,
however, does not make the most of the value available from servicing products after they have been sold. Service Lifecycle
Management (SLM) promises valuable business benefits (...)
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... The value being offered from most of the current PLM solutions, however, is ...
vendors that offer products that support SLM, or Service Process Management (SPM ...
Published:
2003-06-11
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ETO-oriented (engineer-to-order) systems must facilitate the near real time transfer of information and complex product knowledge
for collaboration across the extended enterprise. It should especially be suited to organizations that seek to maintain complex
selling relationships, such as businesses whose (...)
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ETO-oriented (engineer-to-order) systems must facilitate the near real time transfer of information and complex product knowledge
for collaboratio...
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2004-05-04
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Companies that are project manufacturers, engineer-to-order (ETO), build-to-order, jobbing shops or contract manufacturers
should think carefully when selecting an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Given the maturity of the ERP market,
its ongoing consolidation, and that fact that competitive ad (...)
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Companies that are project manufacturers, engineer-to-order (ETO), build-to-order, jobbing shops or contract manufacturers
should think carefully ...
Published:
2004-05-05
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There is certainly room to ask the fundamental question of whether the traditional practice of RFI/RFP-based selection processes
has been adequate for the task of selecting complex systems. The record indicates there is much room for improvement. In essence,
for complex selections like in the case of ent (...)
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There is certainly room to ask the fundamental question of whether the traditional practice of RFI/RFP-based selection processes
has been adequate...
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2003-10-27
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In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the right solution provided a certain set of requirements. In this part of the article we review 3 vendors
who offer products to the PLM market - IDe, Thetis, and PDM (...)
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In PLM, there is no single vendor that can meet all of the requirements, and the market is still immature, so almost every
product can be the righ...
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2003-05-26
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Even if Agile continues to deliver superior products, its competition against single-vendor, pre-integrated ERP suite products
will force Agile to aggressively differentiate the depth of their PLM expertise and further drive industry specialization. (...)
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Even if Agile continues to deliver superior products, its competition against single-vendor, pre-integrated ERP suite products
will force Agile to...
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2003-10-24
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Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions have to work with many other systems, not just ERP, so integration is not a
new issue for PLM vendors. Most PLM vendors recognize the need for integration and have addressed the need in their toolkits.
The additional work comes from integrating the concepts a (...)
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Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions have to work with many other systems, not just ERP, so integration is not a new
issue for PLM vendors...
Published:
2003-08-02
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Six Sigma Quality is a popular approach to process improvement, particularly among technology driven companies such as Allied
Signal, General Electric, Kodak and Texas Instruments. Its objective is to reduce output variability through process improvement,
and/or to increase customer specification limits (...)
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... Six Sigma (6s) Quality is a popular approach to process improvement, particularly among
technology driven companies such as Allied Signal, General Electric ...
Published:
2000-06-13
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RFPs and selection tools typically focus on features and functions. The business process protagonists consider this focus
old fashioned. However, users want and need an inventory or check lists of the functions to understand if the business process
will work. One always has to start from somewhere, and t (...)
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RFPs and selection tools typically focus on features and functions. The business process protagonists consider this focus
old fashioned. However, ...
Published:
2003-10-28
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Fast-track ERP Implementation: Advice from the Field. Get Free Advice Linked to the Fast-track ERP Implementation. The common
perception is that top-tier enterprise software takes years to implement. This is true for more complex solutions. But other
applications, when combined with effective project mana (...)
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Fast-track ERP Implementation: Advice from the Field. Get Free Advice Linked to the Fast-track ERP Implementation. The common
perception is that to...
Published:
2010-03-11
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The advent and growth of vendors targeting the needs of discrete manufacturing industries proves that the PLM market in this
sector has been hot. Agile Software has made a name for itself by providing the tools that support the collaborative exchange
of product data, appealing to companies that rely on c (...)
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The advent and growth of vendors targeting the needs of discrete manufacturing industries proves that the PLM market in this
sector has been hot. ...
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2003-10-23
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E-business has prompted a lot of vendors to move towards creating electronic product lifecycle management (e-PLM) suites.
However, enterprise resource planning vendors with extensive e-commerce initiatives, development staffs, and renewed interest
in PLM, are as likely to lead the way. (...)
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E-business has prompted a lot of vendors to move towards creating electronic product lifecycle management (e-PLM) suites.
However, enterprise reso...
Published:
2005-10-21
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Product lifecycle management (PLM) doesn't work, but it should. Industry's general approach and attitude to PLM mimics the
early days of customer relationship management (CRM) adoption, and lessons from that experience should help when tackling
the "ifs" and "hows" of PLM investment. (...)
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Product lifecycle management (PLM) doesn't work, but it should. Industry's general approach and attitude to PLM mimics
the early days of customer ...
Published:
2005-11-25
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If you run one hundred batches, some will be great, some will be terrible. But what causes some to be great and some to be
terrible? Knowing the answer to that question can mean no more terrible batches, many more great ones, and making more money. (...)
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Process Manufacturers--Great Batch, Every Batch. Olin Thompson - August 30, 2004. Comments: 0. Read Comments
... Olin Thompson is a principal of Process ERP Partners ...
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2004-08-30
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There has been noise in the US public sector about a strong federal (Feds) interest in ERP applications. This, coupled with
the Feds customary huge purchasing appetite for goods and services ranging from consulting to purchasing military devices
and components, building, many businesses that have previou (...)
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There has been noise in the US public sector about a strong federal (Feds) interest in ERP applications. This, coupled with
the Feds customary hug...
Published:
2004-09-21