Read this white paper to learn how to integrate the plant floor into your enterprise IT infrastructure to achieve more effective quality control with tips for evaluating your MES and best practices for creating tight MES-ERP integration. 

For years, Donnelly managed operations using an OS/2 operating system and various software packages. While Donnelly achieved much success using the OS/2 platform and manual scheduling, the company’s growth eventually began outpacing the system’s capacity. With EnterpriseIQ in place, Donnelly has seen improvements in every aspect of its business. 

This paper illustrates how IFS Applications support lean principles, particularly in the many manufacturing environments that require both rate-based and order-based shop floor execution. This hybrid approach lets you go lean step by step, as you are able, not because an inflexible system forces you to do so. 

View this brief video to learn how original equipment manufacturer (OEM) supplier Ralco Industries was able to reduce on-hand inventory by 15% and freight costs by over 20%, improve product quality and customer service, and create process consistency with an implementation of easy-to-use, online enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. 

Choosing the right ERP solution for your manufacturing operations is a very important decision, one that you will be forced to live with for years to come. Learn the key elements that need to be evaluated. 

This paper describes the warning signs that an ERP system is killing a business, and suggests how companies can thrive with a new approach to business systems. 

Your service desk should be the one stop shop for internal and external customers. But, in order for IT to be the orchestrator of knowledge and the service catalog, you need to provide excellent service and quick response times. Watch this webcast and discover the most current recommendations for service delivery and management best practices. 

As organizations begin implementing server virtualization, it is critical that they consider the fact that backup and data protection processes will need to be done differently and may become more complicated. This DCIG analyst report discusses methods of effectively protecting data in virtual environments and the different solutions available. 

Read this case study to learn how one growing Euopean retailer was able to migrate to an architecture that could support real-time delivery of shop data to the data center for processing and real-time communication of pricing events to its shops using open source integration software. 

In this brief white paper, Jeff Martin, Station Casinos’ director of business intelligence (BI), provides specific examples of the types of problems that the company wanted to solve, and offers insight into the specific job scheduling solution it selected to overcome its challenges. 

European consumers' growing use digital channels as part of their shopping experience is driving retailers’ focus on delivering efficient online, cross-border operations in Europe, this research report from Accenture reveals. 

By rolling out Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2 with Hyper-V™ and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager on Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers, Perkins & Company consolidated servers and provided employees with virtual desktops. Learn how these solutions helped save time for IT staff, improve productivity for employees, and much more!