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Overcoming Your Company''s Growing Pains
Remove obstacles to company growth and drive business success with Microsoft Dynamics [sponsored by Microsoft Dynamics ]

Welding Different Companies into a Business Powerhouse
Overcome merger and acquisition obstacles and drive business success with Microsoft Dynamics [sponsored by Microsoft Dynamics ]

Factory Automation: Monitor and Control on the Move
Explore the benefits of mobility on the factory floor and connect plant operators to real-time information. [sponsored by Motorola Enterprise Mobility ]

Improving Service in Volatile Markets
To get leaner and more cost-efficient, many automotive and industrial manufacturers are working to improve their systems and processes. But the industry market leaders are companies that excel at customer service. What sets these best-in-class performers apart, even in volatile markets? [sponsored by Microsoft Dynamics ]

Strategies to Run a Lean Supply Chain: How Principles of Lean Manufacturing Transfer Benefits to Operations
The blurring of the line between manufacturing and supply chain logistics provides the opportunity to move efficient manufacturing management concepts to supply chain management. One manufacturing concept stands out as most successful: the concept of lean. This paper describes lean manufacturing and how it can be applied to supply chain management. [sponsored by Epicor Software Corp. ]

Tuning ERP and the Supply Chain for Profitable Growth
The supply chain is, of course, the primary processing mechanism of every manufacturing company. But today, it is a multifaceted, multi-company, multinational structure that makes it the most complex management challenge found in any enterprise. [sponsored by Epicor Software Corp. ]

Designed to Manage Lean Principles
Lean manufacturing has been an evolving practice in manufacturing for nearly 20 years. As a result, consumers have enjoyed lower prices, higher quality and more involvement in the overall supply process. [sponsored by Epicor Software Corp. ]

Going Lean, Step by Step, with IFS Applications
This whitepaper explains how IFS Applications supports lean principles in the many manufacturing environments that require both rate-based (takt-driven) and order-based shop-floor execution. Learn how to support lean practices from forecasting demand, customer scheduling, and leveling production to setting line rates, Kaizen costing and pulling parts using Kanban signals at the pace of actual demand. [sponsored by IFS ]

Global Asset Sustainability: Breakthrough lean best practice counters rising energy costs
With this White Paper learn about specific actions that will allow your company to trim energy costs. [sponsored by Infor ]

Bringing Your Business Systems Up To Date
Modernizing your business processes with Microsoft Dynamics® to drive business success [sponsored by Microsoft Dynamics ]