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Business Network Transformation: Product and Service Leadership
sponsored by SAP America Inc
 | White Paper: | Posted: 21 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 21 Oct 2009 | |
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For manufacturers today, achieving strategic goals requires not only intimately understanding technology and markets but also overcoming higher hurdles that have been exacerbated by trends toward globalization and outsourcing. Read on to learn more about how your company can achieve product and service leadership.
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Continuous Innovation for Product and Service Leadership: An Approach Driven by Business Value
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 21 Oct 2009
| | Published: | 21 Oct 2009 | |
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The need to keep product and service offerings fresh is not a new concept in business today, but the new approach is involving a network of business partners and even customers in their quest to innovate. This process is called "continuous product and service innovation."
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The Fast-Payback SAP Projects for Saving Money in 2009: Detailed Data for Business Expense Projects
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 24 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 24 Jun 2009 | |
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This Report, which summarizes detailed data from a field study conducted exclusively for AMR Research SAP Peer Forum clients, was written to help business audiences looking for every opportunity to reduce the total business expenses of their huge, existing investments in SAP.
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Growth And Complexity: The Challenges Ahead For Midsize Manufacturers
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 08 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 02 Jun 2009 | |
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This is the first in a series of six reports addressing the opportunities and challenges faced by midsize manufacturers.
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Accurate Costing Is Key to Profitability - Dynamic Environments Expose Weaknesses in Traditional Approaches
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 05 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 01 Jun 2008 | |
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To maximize profitability, companies must know the true cost of making and delivering their products and services. Traditional cost accounting, devised in a simpler era, does not satisfy that need. This paper examines indirect and overhead costs, which are crucial to managing profitability.
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Early Lean Adopters Embrace Technology
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 04 Jun 2009
| | Published: | 02 Jun 2009 | |
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Results from Aberdeen Group report, The Lean Supply Chain, indicates that Aerospace and Defense (A&D) manufacturers are 40% more likely to be Best in Class performers - companies that are characterized by having an integrated Lean approach and solution with technology enablers - than their peers from other industries.
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Warehouse Management Today: Balancing Financial Pressures and Growing Demands
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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This paper explains why a warehouse management system (WMS) is one of the key technologies required to create a successful adaptive supply chain network. This system enables the extended warehouse to sense and respond to a variety of business requirements and meet complex and changing customer needs.
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Responding Quickly to Changing Markets: Anticipate, Adapt, Excel
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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This paper examines how to tap into the potential of your nimbler organization by instituting efficient operations. Learn how to predict and respond quickly to changing market trends and customer demands.
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Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies: How Top Process Industry Performers Take Radically Different Actions
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| Book: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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To avoid a 7.96% increase in logistics costs, companies should follow the roadmap of Best in Class companies, which have been able to reduce costs or keep them flat via supply chain transformation.
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Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence through Real-time Performance Management and Continuous Improvement
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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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.
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Best Practices in Complex Equipment Manufacturing, Sales, and Service
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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This paper gives a brief overview of the SAP® solutions used by manufacturers of complex products and equipment to differentiate themselves from the competition through superior-value products and services against low-cost global providers.
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Gaining ERP Value: Structured Implementation at Industrial Good Maker Hunter Manufacturing
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| Case Study: | Posted: 26 Jan 2009
| | Published: | 23 Jan 2009 | |
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Hunter Manufacturing is a good example of what a midsize company can accomplish with a disciplined approach to gaining ERP value, in concert with a vendor that has the functionality, technology and services to support the effort.
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Madness? Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 20 Oct 2008
| | Published: | 18 Oct 2008 | |
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This paper discusses why failure happens and how to prevent it by following the overriding best practice in successful acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures: preparedness.
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The Role of ERP in Globalization
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| Book: | Posted: 26 Sep 2008
| | Published: | 18 Sep 2008 | |
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This whitepaper examines the role of ERP in Globalization in detail, outlining steps to improve current strategies to meet the changing face of the global business of today ...and tomorrow.
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Supply Chain Collaboration: The Key to Success in a Global Economy
sponsored by SAP America Inc
| White Paper: | Posted: 06 Aug 2008
| | Published: | 01 Jan 2007 | |
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Learn how you can transform traditional supply chains from linear, sequential processes into adaptive supply chain networks.
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