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- Manufacturing and the Microsoft infrastructure: manufacturing industry transformation addresses the realities of globalization.
- In response to the challenges and opportunities associated with globalization, manufacturing industries are restructuring. One aspect of this transformation is that manufacturers--to increase competitiveness and improve customer satisfaction-- In response to the challenges and opportunities associated with globalization,...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- Mastering Complexity In Global Manufacturing
- This article explains the trend of complexity in global manufacturing and new mandate for mastering value chain complexity. It takes into account drivers of global value chain dispersion and the impact of dispersion. The various steps that could be taken to avoid the complexity include synchronizing customer, product and supply...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Supply Chain Management: New Competitive Realities in the Automotive Value Chain - Results of an IBM and OSAT Study
- The automotive industry faces one of the most demanding phases of its recent evolution. Fierce competition means that some manufacturers and suppliers will face mergers or acquisitions, or ultimately exiting the business. Manufacturers' and suppliers' responses as they confront these obstacles will determine which companies will still be part of...
- White papers 2004-07-02
- Benchmarking Project Internationalising the Value Chain Successfully
- Studies from Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Consulting Company Droege & Comp. revealed that nearly every second industrial company in Germany will relocate partial or total production abroad during the next three years. 70% of all manufacturing companies enquired have already moved parts of their organisation during the last...
- White papers 2004-08-10
- RFID for Aerospace and Defense From IBM
- It is not unusual to have six or seven tiers between the systems integrator and the lowest member of a value chain. Most aerospace and defense companies lack the necessary infrastructure to seamlessly integrate the growing network of external partners and suppliers in their value chain. The key to integration...
- White papers
- Supply Chain Management: New Competitive Realities in the Automotive Value Chain
- The automotive industry faces one of the most demanding phases of its recent evolution. Fierce competition means that some manufacturers and suppliers face mergers or acquisitions, or ultimately exiting the business. Manufacturers' and suppliers' responses as they confront these obstacles will determine which companies will still be part of the...
- White papers 2004-07-13
- Suppliers Fly Up the Value Chain for Airplane Manufacturers
- Aerospace represents, more than any other industry, a very extensive outsourced supply chain - about 80 percent of the airplane is now outsourced. Aerospace firms do so little of their own manufacturing, in fact, that companies like Boeing think of themselves more as large-scale systems integrators than airplane manufacturers. This...
- White papers 2005-06-15
- Rising Oil Prices Eclipse Weak Solar Industry Fundamentals
- As crude oil futures cross the $72 a barrel mark, advocates of solar energy are trumpeting an industry turnaround across the photovoltaic supply chain. But judging from comments by chief executive Tom Zarrella of GT Solar, a supplier of fabrication equipment, a rebound in customer demand is unlikely to occur...
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
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- Value Chain Profiling
- This paper presents a framework for value chain profiling developed by researchers at Sintef and NTNU, within SMARTLOG, a research program funded by the Norwegian research council. The framework is a first step in an attempt to develop a value chain description scheme, and the purpose of the framework is...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- The Dynamic Value Chain: Quickly Reducing Complexity
- Dynamic value chain management increases responsiveness across organizational structures. Communication between functional areas improves overall supply chain effectiveness. Dynamic value chain management DVCM is a business methodology that helps companies manage marketplace variability and complexity and align company strategies with execution processes. DVCM helps transform a value chain into a...
- White papers 2002-05-16
- Now It's A Job For THE CEO.(top-level value-chain collaboration)
- New IW survey examines the benefits--and barriers--associated with top-level value-chain collaboration. THERE WAS A TIME WHEN TOP-RANKING executives in manufacturing tended to distance themselves from such operational details as supply-chain management or information sharing with upstream and downstream partners in the "value...
- Research articles 2000-03-20
- Moving a Slow-Clockspeed Business Into the Fast Lane: Strategic Sourcing Lessons From Value Chain Redesign in the Automotive Industry
- Stimulated by the creation of a global integrated organization for powertrain (engine, transmission, and controls) engineering and manufacturing at General Motors under the leadership of Arvin Mueller, a team of managers and analysts was created to perform a sweeping analysis of value chain strategy for the General Motors Powertrain organization...
- White papers 2001-12-01
- Mind Your Own Business: Supply Chain Integration And Feedback
- Feedback and supply chain integration are key instruments in a business. As feedback helps in analyzing the pulse of customers, similarly, supply chain integration also helps in judging the pulse of supply chain providers. Feedback is also important to make bottom-line decisions pertaining to marketing, design, sales, and manufacturing in...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- i2 and ON Semiconductor to Present Demand-Sensing and Demand-Shaping Techniques to Achieve Enterprise Profitability at the Electronics Supply & Manufacturing Global Supply Chain Summit
- DALLAS -- i2 Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:ITWO), today announced the company will co-present with ON Semiconductor at the upcoming Electronics Supply & Manufacturing Global Supply Chain Summit at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif., October 24 - 26, 2005. i2 is a corporate sponsor of the event which is aimed...
- Research articles 2005-10-20
- Oracle's Klaiss says SCM initiatives are the path to value.(MSI 20th Anniversary Coverage)
- Don Klaiss is senior VP, manufacturing and supply chain applications for enterprise suite vendor Oracle Corp. Prior to joining Oracle in 1990, Klaiss held executive positions at ASK Computer Systems, NCA Corp., and Hewlett Packard. Don Klaiss is senior VP, manufacturing and...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Managing Sustainable Value Chains
- In the period from the 1960s to the 1980s, Japanese industry taught the world a lot about managing value chains. Now that we have committed to more sustainable practices, these lessons have never been so important. By minutely managing every aspect of the value...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Flow Manufacturing is the Essential Component in Your Supply Chain Strategy
- The article tells that the industry has got a new ERP System to back bone the company's information management infrastructure. Now the industry is entering the new age of Supply Chain Management trying to tie all the nodes of the supply chain together so that materials flow seamlessly along a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Value-Chain Report -- Next Generation Manufacturing
- Although a great deal of attention related to supply-chain operations tends to be centered on e-Procurement, B2B marketplaces, real time visibility, and similar issues, manufacturing's potential contribution to supply-chain effectiveness is often overlooked. Manufacturing's role in the connected supply chain is gaining attention. Leading firms are recognizing that increasing flexibility...
- White papers 2001-10-09
- Does Your Value Proposition Make Sense?
- There are four basic value propositions that sales teams use to generate sales. Each value proposition requires a different market strategy, according to Michael Treacy, co-author of the bestseller "The Discipline of Market Leaders." To find out if your firm has the right strategy, click on the...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Value-Chain Report-Next Generation Manufacturing
- From the executive summary: ‘Although a great deal of attention related to supply chain operations tends to be centered on e-procurement, business-2-business marketplaces, real time visibility, and similar issues, manufacturing's potential contribution to supply chain effectiveness is often overlooked. Yet, for manufacturing firms and their trading partners, manufacturing operations can...
- White papers 2001-09-10
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