IBM explores how the impact of innovative business models for "how to sell" are now as important as the innovative products themselves - CE manufacturers need to skillfully manage their mix of sales channels for future success. 

Producing the job tickets, component ID and product labels to provide this information is a growing challenge. This paper outlines the need to streamline the process with a proper printer and media. 

Inside this guide, you’ll find information about most of the major vendors that offer enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for manufacturers. 

More than simply serving a marketing role, a Web presence can boost internal efficiency, enhance customer service and increase sales. 

This expert e-guide highlights the need for a unified customer information hub to improve the quality, consistency and availability of customer data by detailing how one cement manufacturer implemented a successful customer experience initiative. Gain insight into the findings of a recent survey of top CRM challenges faced by today's businesses. 

Compiled by SearchManufacturingERP.com editors, this directory includes ERP software products for process and discrete manufacturers of all sizes, as well as all verticals. It includes software that is meant to be deployed on-premise as well as Software as a Service (SaaS) or on-demand software. 

As an organization’s workforce becomes increasingly mobile and dispersed, its ability to survive and thrive depends on effective employee communications. Learn about a collaboration platform that allows for improved employee communication and productivity. 

This e-book examines how some of today’s most successful reps approach social sales. Among others, you’ll meet a wine salesman with almost a million Twitter followers, a global manufacturer who is taking orders on Facebook, and a storage saleswoman who used Twitter and other tools to exceed her quota by 200%. 

This white paper offers a check list that manufacturers can use for evaluating and comparing alternative Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and Quality Management Systems (QMS). 

As an organization’s workforce becomes increasingly mobile and dispersed, its ability to survive and thrive depends on effective employee communications. Access this resource to learn about collaborative tools that enable increased productivity, business agility and competitive advantage. 

Read this paper to learn about one application that can integrate your dealer management systems (DMS) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications to optimize performance. By filtering these processes to distributors and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), you can maximize operation performance and leverage real time analytics. 

Information technology is ubiquitous in organizations, but what distinguishes top-notch IT from merely adequate IT? Read this article written by the Economist, to learn how leading companies enable IT to perform optimally. 

Automotive manufacturers and suppliers view China as the largest combination of automotive market and low-cost manufacturing and supply base to appear in decades.