
Learn the proven strategies that can optimize your cost savings, revenue potential, and visibility while maximizing your B2B infrastructure ROI.
Organizations have made significant investments in B2B software and connectivity to automate business transactions with their trading partners. As it stands now, many businesses adhere to the 80/20 rule or Pareto Principle, electronically linking with only 20 percent of their partners, which represent as much as 80 percent of their transaction volumes and/or revenues. Companies are failing to automate transactions with the remaining 80 percent of their trading partners.
This white paper illustrates how Sterling Commerce drives greater efficiencies, and improves the return on your B2B infrastructure investment. It explores a straightforward approach to how Sterling Commerce identifies opportunities to automate more transactions with your existing electronic partners, and simplifies the assessment and onboarding of the remaining 80 percent of your manual trading partners.
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3D Scanning is emerging as a viable tool for design, reverse engineering, and manufacturing applications.
This white paper will assist in the evaluation of 3D scanning hardware solutions by describing the typical requirements for product design applications and addressing key application criteria.
Prepared by T.A. Grimm & Associates, Inc.; Sponsored by Z Corporation.
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Is a total-solution publication for quality assurance and control professionals, from top-level managers to those on the shop floor.
Each month, Quality Digest delivers news, columns and feature articles covering metrology, management, service quality, standards, Six Sigma, lean, software and more. The annual Quality Sourcebook offers buying resources in more than a dozen different categories.
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Lubes’n'Greases Europe-Middle East-Africa is the first independent regional business magazine for and about the lubricants industry in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Published six times a year, the magazine reports on automotive and industrial lubricants, greases, metalworking fluids, base oils, additives and packaging. It covers manufacturing, marketing and technology trends, regulations and OEM specifications, challenges faced by end users of lubes and greases and the solutions that meet their needs.
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Learn how this 2009 WMS RFP Template can empower you to objectively grade prospective vendors on the solutions they offer.
Created by leading supply chain consultants, this WMS RFP template is the end result of intensive research with hundreds of logistics professionals. Require all vendors to prove the value of their solutions BEFORE you make a buying decision. Download your FREE RFP Template.
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Learn the key performance criteria to distinguish Best-in-Class companies.
Amongst distribution centers today, there is a growing schism between the haves and the have-nots. These companies are separated by a series of underlying enablers that serve as a springboard for more efficient operational processes. This report examines the correlation among five key process capabilities, the underlying technology that enables them and improved performance in the distribution center.
Published by: Aberdeen Group; Presented by: Infor
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Learn how Adobe technology successfully addresses supply chain process interactions, saving time and money.
The company’s ERP system is running rock solid, automating everyday transactions such as order entry and materials replenishment, while the Product Life-cycle Management (PLM) system accurately stores design data. But there’s a glaring gap in streamlining supply chain processes: IT systems automate most transactions, but they fall short when it comes to speeding up complex interactions like Requests For Proposals (RFP) and other people-intensive processes. This white paper series describes how Adobe’s manufacturing solutions efficiently bridge the interaction gap.
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Learn how your organization can minimize or eliminate planned downtime and free up specific, measurable potential to support your productivity and profitability strategies.
Every manufacturer from heavy-duty industrial and automotive to consumer products and packaged goods faces one ongoing challenge: time.
Through relentless cost-cutting and deep investments in ERP, supply chain management and other technologies you’ve focused on achieving optimum performance, higher productivity and efficiencies to drive profit and value. But as you continue those strategies, shareholders want evidence of new value-producing opportunities. Meanwhile, an unprecedented wave of new regulations and the heightened awareness of corporate governance standards demand attention and investment.
This white paper explores how the power of an information availability solution can unlock the latent potential of your IT environment and deliver new value for your organization. It can enable your organization to immediately tap into the unused value—downtime—that exists within your IT infrastructure.
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Covering Control, Instrumentation, and Automation Systems for Southeast Asia.
Control Engineering Asia is the primary information source for the control, instrumentation, and automation marketplace in Southeast Asia, encompassing the design, implementation, operation and maintenance of control / instrumentation systems, components, and equipment in the process automation, hybrid and discrete manufacturing industries.
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Canadian Metalworking serves the metalworking manufacturing industry and maintenance and machine shops in non metalworking industries in Canada as well as non-manufacturing companies.
Canadian Metalworking helps readers make important purchasing decisions about machinery and services to improve their businesses. It provides readers with:
- technical information
- how-to articles
- technology updates
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