Archive for 'Tools' Category
The New Economics of Semiconductor Manufacturing - Part 3 (Final)
4 September 2008In this final part of my review of The New Economics of Semiconductor Manufacturing, an article that you can find at the IEEE Spectrum site, I mean to go over the capabilities of Fab PowerOps (FPO) and contrast it with the essence/framework that Toyota Production System (TPS) offers. In the earlier two parts, The New […]
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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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Free download of Six Sigma guide
9 July 2007Manufacturing Trends is making available a free download of an "experts" guide to Six Sigma . I quickly perused it and it looks fine but as always as far as statistical symbols go, a little due diligence is always a good measure. You have to register in order to obtain the download but I think […]
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ASDN Logistics Analysis Software
2 November 2006While surfing the web for logistics related software, I came across the site hosted by the International Centre for Innovation and Industrial Logistics (ICIIL).
ICIIL has some information about an open source logistics analysis software that is being developed University of Vaasa, Finland and ABB Corporate Research Center.
ASDN - “Agile Supply Demand Networks” is software for […]
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What should an ERP software possess? Part deux…
2 August 2006In an earlier post: What should an ERP software possess, I was in the process of running up a list of things that an ERP innovator ought to think about. Today, I sat through a presentation of SAP Business One (More information about SAP Business One), an ERP software that SAP targets at Small and […]
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What should an ERP software/tool possess?
25 July 2006The question that I ask myself today is not what particular features/functions an ERP must possess but what kind of experience must users as well as firms experience with an ERP software/tool? So, I decided to draw up a list of things that ERP software/tools must deliver in three broad experiential areas:
1. Understanding - A […]
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What maketh an ERP software?
24 July 2006What maketh an ERP software system? An innocent question like this could subject you to a lot of harassment (sarcasm overfloweth here) - the magnitude and kind of undue attention would vary depending on the source of the attention. For example, an ERP salesman could subject you to a 3 hour presentation (If you’re like […]
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