The manufacturing enterprise is driven by tight profit margins; a tough economy; escalating energy, material, labor, and operations costs. This paper describes the next wave of supply chain solutions. Read on to learn how technology plays a key role in a company’s ability to build and manage an effective supply chain. 

The key to achieving cost-effective savings in the supply chain is to exchange information accurately and quickly in real-time. 

Selecting a supplier for manufacturing ERP solutions is more important than ever before, due to the increasingly complex set of business processes involved.  Manufacturers now require the ability to share data in real time across all functional areas touching the manufacturing process. This paper takes a fresh look at manufacturing ERP options. 

View this interactive E-Book to learn how Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) systems provide your business with an unprecedented solution that is complete, open and integrated. 

This paper explains how a comprehensive integrated PLM program enables improved productivity, accuracy, and decision-making – and ultimately increases profitability. Continue reading to learn more about how balanced PLM programs drive profitable growth. 

The effective management of your warehouse and fulfillment/distribution operations is critical to the ongoing success of your business—but you’re unsure whether to select your ERP’s warehouse module or a best-of-breed warehouse management system (WMS). This paper will help determine which type of solution is the best fit for your business. 

Manufacturers are burdened with costly, cumbersome ERP software nobody wants to use. This paper can help by explaining six game-changing aspects delivered by Plex Online SaaS ERP. Continue reading to learn how in each case, the benefit is an improved and optimized manufacturing process to help the enterprise thrive in a challenging market. 

ERP on the Shop Floor is as critical to the viability of the enterprise as any component in the execution of manufacturing. High performing manufacturers have found that full integration of real-time operational data collected from the shop floor to the top floor is key to reducing costs, streamlining operations and improving customer satisfaction. 

Read this brief Bloomberg Businesweek case study to learn how The LEGO Group has leveraged organizational changes— including implementing loyalty management software from SAP that integrates with its SAP ERP and CRM platform— to achieve a high level of consumer interaction and improve its customer experience. 

Untamed costs can deplete the precious working capital that's critical to your ongoing operations and new expansions. By instituting efficient automated processes throughout your organization, you can reduce waste, unnecessary overtime, and a host of other cost factors. 

Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition (ASM/VE) is a unique and innovative data protection feature of the Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI SAN that enables fast online backups and quick restores of VMware virtual machines and VMFS file systems. 

An aging, proprietary enterprise resource planning (ERP) system at Kelly Tractor limited the company's ability to integrate information from separate departments and build new, innovative sales and services tools. Read how the company benefited from Dell and VMware virtualization.