PRODUCT LITERATURE - Whether you are a wholesale distributor of furniture, machinery, chemicals, or food and beverages, your success depends on how quickly you adapt to demands from customers and suppliers. You must constantly differentiate your services from the competition while improving operating efficiencies and controlling costs.
Posted: October 30, 2009 | Published: March 10, 2009


Topics:  Distribution | Financial Reporting | Product Life Cycles | RFID | Sales Order Management | SAP (Product) | SMBs | Wholesale Trade Industry

WHITE PAPER - Returns management is an area that poses incredible challenges and opportunities for businesses. This paper will act as a guide to help you implement more effective returns management. Read on to learn more about the three pillars of effective returns management and how they can be used to drive significant costs out of returns lifecycle.
Posted: October 14, 2009 | Published: October 14, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Automation Software | Customer Loyalty | Customer Satisfaction | PLM | Product Life Cycles | Supply Chain Management | Supply Chain Software

WHITE PAPER - Leading-edge manufacturers are discovering that they can improve production efficiencies and manage MRO expenditures by integrating their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Enterprise Asset Management Software | ERP | ERP Software | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Systems | PLM | PLM Software | Product Life Cycles

ANALYST REPORT - Read this paper to learn about the five tips your company can implement to reduce waste in the supply chain and create a successful lean manufacturing program.
Posted: August 10, 2009 | Published: August 10, 2009


Topics:  Customer Loyalty | Customer Satisfaction | Customer Service | ERP | Lean Production | Order Management Systems | PLM | Product Life Cycles | Supply Chain Event Management | Supply Chain Execution | Supply Chain Management

WHITE PAPER - The product portfolio decisions you make today will determine whether your company is relevant tomorrow. To increase the chances of marketing a successful product, organizations must deliver products and services to the consumers they value the most, and they must provide those deliverables when their consumers want them. Read on to learn more.
Posted: July 24, 2009 | Published: June 23, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Processes | Portfolio Management (IT Management) | Product Development | Product Life Cycles | Product Management | Project Management | Project Portfolio Management

WHITE PAPER - This white paper will focus on the acquisition of Business Objects by SAP and the pain points caused by the uncertainty of SAP's product roadmaps and the difficulty of integrating their products. It will then outline some effective business intelligence strategies.
Posted: July 8, 2009 | Published: July 8, 2009


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Business Development | Business Intelligence | CIOs | Enterprise Architectures | Product Life Cycles | SAP (Product) | Surveys | TCO

WHITE PAPER - A recent worldwide survey listed business intelligence (BI) as CIOs' number one priority for 2008, the third consecutive year BI topped the list. From a business user perspective, this translates into more interactive and pervasive BI, both creating a richer user experience and reaching every place where work is done.
Posted: June 19, 2009 | Published: June 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Integration | Business Intelligence | Business Intelligence Software | Data Management | Enterprise Resource Management | Knowledge Management | Product Life Cycles | Productivity | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - Requirements engineering is about more than just analyzing documenting requirements. It is an important and multifaceted part of systems engineering that broadens the product development process. Companies that successfully introduce a new requirements engineering process don't just change their process and technology; they change their thinking.
Posted: May 13, 2009 | Published: March 31, 2009


Topics:  Collaboration | Collaborative Product Development | Communications Software | Product Design | Product Development | Product Life Cycles | Standards

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains how assessment, alignment, achievability, accessibility, agility and accountability, the six key concepts of value-driven product management, can be applied to create a repeatable process for developing successful products.
Posted: March 19, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Customer Satisfaction | Enterprise Resource Management | Enterprise Systems | Product Life Cycles | Product Management | Revenue Projections