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Where Progressive Manufacturing Becomes Revenue

On-Demand Webcast - 01hr 10 min

Is "business as usual" holding you back? Many mid-size companies today have built-in barriers to turning products into revenue - orders to cash. The mindset of "that's the way we do things" often isolates departments, systems and processes, making it difficult to achieve the degree of business integration needed to realize important company goals.

How do you go from understanding the concept to embracing the results of change — including new product introduction success, reduced lead times to customers, improved perfect order metrics and lower inventory requirements?

This event will reveal how a company's processes and systems can work together for efficient delivery of the right product, at the right price, to the right destination, at the right time...all in order to maximize revenue and avoid unnecessary costs.

Manufacturing organizations can eliminate barriers and achieve the agility needed to rapidly respond to changing business requirements, new opportunities and customer demand. They can also gain visibility into business processes to better plan, forecast and collaborate with customers...in many instances a manufacturer can effectively become an extension of their customer's enterprise, in terms of demand sensing, inventory and delivery.

In this webcast, Managing Automation Editor-in-Chief, David Brousell, EXTOL VP of Product Management, Jim O'Leary and Steven Rosen, EXTOL VP of Marketing discuss the considerations, issues and options available to a mid size company in establishing the necessary collaboration between suppliers, the manufacturing process, distribution and customers.

Watch the webcast and learn where and how to:

• Establish process collaboration across corporate and departmental boundaries
• Provide visibility of up-to-date data, business activities and events
• Eliminate data inconsistencies between systems and departments
• Develop the agility to rapidly respond to market opportunities, business requirements and customer demands

View the webcast NOW and receive a free copy of the "Essential Integration for the Mid-Size Enterprise" whitepaper. This report offers a blueprint for identifying and resolving the issues preventing end-to-end collaboration across all the parts and functions of your organization.

Moderator

David R. Brousell Editor-in-Chief, Managing Automation David R. Brousell has been Editor-in-Chief of Managing Automation since 1998. Brousell started his career in technology journalism in 1978 at Electronic News. In 1985, he joined Datamation Magazine, and was named Editor-in-Chief in 1991. Brousell has covered numerous industry developments, technology shifts and major product introductions, including the mainframe era and the development of relational databases; the rise of the minicomputer; the advent of personal computing, client-server computing and the evolution of enterprise applications, and the dawn of the Internet and the worldwide web. Along the way, he has interviewed such notables as ENIAC inventor J. Presper Eckert, IBM's Thomas J. Watson Jr., Microsoft's Bill Gates, Oracle's Larry Ellison, Cincom's Tom Nies, Lotus's Mitchell Kapor, Netscape's James Barksdale, and Intel's Andrew Grove. Brousell has received numerous journalism awards, including two consecutive Jesse H. Neal Editorial Achievement Awards, the highest award for business journalism in the U.S. Under his leadership at MA, the magazine has been cited 9 times for editorial achievement.

Panelists

Jim O'Leary Vice President of Product Management James ("Jim") F. O'Leary joined EXTOL International, Inc. in 2002 with over 20 years of senior and executive management experience in the software industry. Prior to joining EXTOL International, Inc., O'Leary launched the B2B Product Marketing program at Mercator Software, where he held worldwide responsibility for planning, positioning, and delivery of B2B integration offerings. At Unidata/Ardent Software, O'Leary was responsible for worldwide Product Marketing and Strategic Marketing, where he led the integration of acquired product lines and Product Marketing organizations. Early in his career, O'Leary served in a succession of senior Product Management and Product Strategy positions at Software AG, during a period when the company enjoyed historic revenue growth and market success. O'Leary earned a BS from the University of Kansas in 1975. Stephen E. Rosen Vice President, Marketing Stephen E. Rosen joined EXTOL, Inc. as Vice President of Marketing in 2000. He has helped grow the company from an EDI product company to a business integration solutions provider. Prior to EXTOL, Mr. Rosen was Director of Marketing for Mercator Software (formerly TSI International) with responsibilities for both North American and Europe. He has held a number of marketing and communications responsibilities with Dun and Bradstreet's Software and Services Division prior to the leveraged buy out (LBO) of TSI Software in 1985. Mr. Rosen has managed ecommerce initiatives in the healthcare, motor and ocean freight industries, as well as programs for the SAP user community and IBM programs including System i solutions. Mr. Rosen served in the U.S. Navy as a Launch Operations Supervisor on a Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) Submarine. He received a B.A. in History and Economics from the University of Connecticut.

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