Until recently, it was difficult for manufacturers to obtain a true picture of what was happening on the shop floor. Real-time, accurate data reflecting production activity, planned production schedules, quality checks, machine breakdowns, inventory levels or a shortage of materials made it a challenge for shop floor management to keep track.. 

Now that online shopping is a mainstream actitivity, the competition to win the e-commerce customer has never been fiercer. Today, the challenge is no longer getting customers to shop online but getting the existing base of online shoppers to spend more and exhibit brand loyalty. Learn how to win the battle of the brands in today's white paper. 

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. 

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 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. 

E-commerce has gone from fringe to foundation. Now, businesses must tailor their customer serivce approach to the more complex "anytime, anywhere" customer with mobile device in hand. This white paper from Oracle details the "commerce anywhere" approach. 

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. 

Smart information technology (IT) practices reduce the environmental impact of conducting business, and help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) reduce expenses. 

Minimising your physical infrastructure can significantly reduce operational costs, but it is often easier said than done.  This white paper reveals how one retail business accomplished this goal by deploying Windows Server 2008 Datacenter and Hyper-V technology to manage over 300,000 store-based endpoints. 

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. 

These days, janitorial supply company Edward Don & Company takes most of its orders online, making 24x7 customer availability for its ordering system extremely important. Read this paper to learn how the company integrated cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) with its SAP systems in order to ensure high availability of its online ordering. 

This white paper focuses on DPA of order management processes governing incoming documents, and more specifically on customer orders (incoming documents also include supplier invoices). 

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