This executive brief presents the six "Rules of the Road" that can help you cut costs, increase cash flow and become more responsive to changing market conditions in the manufacturing industry. 

Read this brief to learn the "Rules of the Road" that can help you cut costs, increase cash flow and become more responsive to changing market conditions. Each of these "rules" can be accomplished with the implementation of an IT system for manufacturing operations excellence, also known as a Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) system. 

Take a look at how organizations are taking strides to align business strategy with actual initiatives, projects, and daily activities - in short, to close the gap between strategy and execution. 

Businesses, especially finance departments, are challenged to be more effective at acting upon key performance indicators (KPIs). Flexible, yet powerful analytical tools can increase visibility to operational drivers. Read this paper to learn about technology solutions that can remove the responsibility of powerful performance management from IT. 

This presentation transcript details an approach to optimize your virtualized infrastructure performance. Learn how to leverage key performance indicators and cross-domain analytics to plan for future capacity demands and improve service levels. Discover the secret to managing your VMware infrastructure performance for optimal resource utilization. 

To regularly monitor and measure performance, senior managers require a link between their company’s strategic and operational plans. Oracle Hyperion Performance Scorecard can help you define a methodology-neutral strategy and measure performance against goals, monitor progress on a regular basis, and communicate across your entire enterprise. 

The paper provides valuable evidence about the benefits of achieving aligned operational excellence. In it you'll discover why companies that build and align their operational capabilities for strategic advantage earn a distinct execution premium in their business performance. 

Organizations in all industries and of all sizes are turning to business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) technologies and services to either automate or support decision-making processes. 

Business process management provides a new management discipline, a new suite of software technologies and tools, and a new IT implementation style based on concrete links between strategy and execution. This white paper explains SAP's place in the BPM landscape and describes its new offering in that arena, NetWeaver BPM. 

The need for customer insight and responsiveness to that insight is the foundation and driving rationale for the emerging CRM concept of continuous customer dialogue through multi-channel touchpoints. 

Manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the transition to new IT technology all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise. 

Read how GED Integrated Solutions went through the process of identifying and implementing metrics to drive its business process improvement program in 2002 and has since learned many important lessons in how to track and leverage business metrics to improve operational performance. 

If stimulus plans around the world are effective, we will see a boon in industrial manufacturing jobs and production. This paper stresses the importance of an Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) system.