Archive for 'ERP' Category
Time to go for a boutique?
17 August 2007T’is time to go for a boutique? I’d like to draw your attention to this list of articles by Steve Banker of Arc Advisory Group:
Top SCM Boutique Consulting Firms: Part 1, The Logistics Boutiques
Leading SCM Boutiques - Part 2, Supply Chain Planning Vendors
10 Coolest SCM Boutique Consultants
Most of the firms listed in the lists […]
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Are metrics driving or killing your business?
1 March 2007Running down the path of metrics, I came across this take on the use of metrics in the business world. This article by Julie Fraser titled - Are metrics driving or killing your business? can be found at Manufacturing Business Technology.
The question is whether the behavior that most companies are rewarding actually helps performance, or […]
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Metrics in the firm - Inside and Outside
20 February 2007I have spent the last few days thinking further about metrics (supply chain metrics, financial metrics and all sorts of other metrics) but I haven’t hit upon a foundational idea (or a set of ideas) to order all my thoughts. So the rummaging continues and I took some of that rummaging online:
A thought process when […]
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Is an IBM and SAP Marriage in the Works?
13 February 2007SCDigest reports on strong rumors about merger talks between IBM and SAP.
These are just rumors, to be sure, and have been circulating at some level for almost a year.
SAP has strongly denied the rumors during that time, though chairman Hasso Plattner unintentionally put some fuel in the fire last May by saying to the German […]
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SAP Warns, Sending Shockwaves Through Enterprise Software
11 January 2007SeekingAlpha reports about the results that SAP AG reported today - SAP Warns, Sending Shockwaves Through Enterprise Software.
Eric Savitz of Barron’s reports,
Bad news for the enterprise software sector this afternoon, as SAP (SAP) just warned that fourth quarter software revenue growth came in short of previous guidance. This is a bit confusing, so bear with […]
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Differences between ERP and PLM - A White Paper
8 January 2007I was forwarded this whitepaper written by Chuck Cilamore, CTO of Omnify Software. The topic of the whitepaper is to delineate the roles of ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) in creating a successful collaborative environment. Omnify Software is a providers of PLM software for OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) and EMS (Electronic […]
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REA, a semantic model for Internet supply chain collaboration
13 November 2006REA (Resource-Event-Agent) is a semantic model for internet based Supply Chain collaboration developed by Dr. William McCarthy of Michigan State University. In this presentation for the ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2000), Dr. McCarthy and Robert Haugen, Logistical Software LLC outline a web-based semantic model for collaboration.
Before I dived into […]
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