Weekly Update: Implementation Strategy, Lean Manufacturing & more

SAP NetWeaver Wiki Project Collaborate with other experts & build a definitive reference guide Join today! ITtoolbox ERP-Decision-Makers Newsletter Your weekly connection to the new and most popular entries from the ERP community. About | Advertise     Sponsor Messages Most Popular Entries This Week -- October 09, 2007 Musings on Life, Time and the Thread  (+2 Blogs) The Media Cross Connect: Setting the...  (+4 White Papers) Lean Manufacturing  (+5 Groups) Open Financial Exchange  (Wiki) Product Manager Needed  (+4 Jobs) Will Baan help my career?  (Documents) Application Failure is Not an...  (+2 Events)    Infor 7 Secrets of Highly Successful Manufacturers How can your company become and remain world class?  In this report, find out the secrets of highly successful manufacturers. Each of the 7 keys is presented with a discussion and examples of its impact on a manufacturing organization and its competitiveness. Read More.  Esker Software Best-Practice SAP Solutions Analyze challenges faced by companies still using manual paper-driven processes, as well as the benefits of automating processes. This paper highlights innovative technologies for comprehensively automated invoice management to optimize the purchase-to-pay cycle. Click here to find out more.  Captaris Gain Control of your Documents As the volume of documents and communications within an organization increases rapidly, so does the struggle to effectively manage and control them. Learn how to better manage your documents.   Hot Topics in Storage Collaborate with peers on Storage: Ask & Answer Questions: EMC-L Discussion Group Share perspectives: Email archives Stay current: Storage Topics Learn More: Elements for Creating a Disaster Recovery Plan To ensure delivery of this newsletter, add ITtoolboxNewsletters@ITtoolbox.com to your approved senders list. Learn how Decision Maker Blogs Become a Blog author Most Popular New Blog Entry Musings on Life, Time and the Thread We don't always get clouds in Southern California, but sometimes we do. It all depends on which way the wind is blowing. If the wind blows from the deserts to the east, the sky is a clear blue crystal (outside of LA, of course),... More... posted by Odysseus Recent Blog Entries Are RFID key cards secure? More and more business, governments ond others are startig to use RFID cards as keys. This adds a lot of benefits like granting access only during business hours and keeping track of movements. But are theses keys really secure? Check out this video and send... More... posted by Mattias Wahlberg Alternative Perspectives on ERP Implementation Strategy Is the traditional ERP "design-build-implement" implementation strategy appropriate? A recent large ERP implementation instead implemented in iterations. More... posted by Eric Kimberling Top Wiki Top Contributor: Rakesh Jain Created: SAP Smart Forms Contents: "SAP Smart Forms is introduced in SAP Basis Release 4.6C as the tool for creating and maintaining forms..." ...Continued at ITtoolbox Wiki. Become a top contributor as you share and learn with the community at ITtoolbox Wiki. Decision Maker White Papers Submit Content Recent White Papers The Media Cross Connect: Setting the Stage for the Next Generation of Lab Management 10/5/2007 by MRV Communications Network equipment manufacturers, service providers, carriers and enterprises all face increasing competitive pressures to get products and services to market in shrinking timeframes. Learn how a physical layer cross connect switch can optimize your lab for responsiveness and best use of capital expenditure, taking test... More... 5 Key Steps to Calculating ROI for a Tape Library Consolidation Project 10/1/2007 by Phil Wandrei, Datalink This paper examines how to calculate ROI for a tape consolidation project, including areas such as hardware maintenance savings, off-site media savings, staff productivity savings, etc. Read about key areas that generate savings in a tape library consolidation project and examine the steps for... More... The Business Value of Vendor Management 9/26/2007 by ITM Software This case study of a company in the diversified financial services industry explores the drivers and business value of an enterprise-wide vendor management deployment. By creating a Vendor Management Office (VMO), this firm was able to streamline regulatory compliance processes, increase visibility into vendor... More... Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure for Enterprise Wireless LANs 9/26/2007 by APC This paper explains how to plan for NCPI while deploying indoor WLANs in small, medium or large enterprise, with emphasis on power and cooling. Simple, fast, reliable, and cost effective strategies for upgrading old facilities or building new facilities are described. More... Most Popular New White Paper Speeding ETL Processing in Data Warehouses 8/28/2007 by Syncsort Incorporated One of the primary factors affecting data warehouse performance is the underlying physical distribution of the data in the databases, which must be consolidated in various ways. A query may rely on tables built from multiple heterogeneous sources, involving a variety of transformations. More... Sign up to ERP White Paper Alerts Top Decision Maker Groups Join Groups Most Popular Thread Lean Manufacturing  Group: erp-select How lean are you? Most executives in food and beverage companies have taken some kind of steps in applying lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement initiatives. Yet, it occured to me that a large number of them have not made significant progress in leveraging their... More... Posted by Aurelia Wiest, member since 8/23/2007 Recent Threads How to enter on ERP Platform  Group: erp-career   Posted by vijaykumar605, member since 8/12/2006 How to go for a Functional Consulting certification for ERPs,Supply Chain Management.  Group: erp-career   Posted by Ameet Kamat, member since 10/6/2007 Dilemma in career path selection  Group: erp-career   Posted by devang1783, member since 10/5/2007 Sytline from Infor vs. Exact from Macola  Group: erp-select   Posted by rmorrison, member since 10/4/2007 Looking for milling industry software  Group: erp-select   Posted by Tony Murray, member since 1/25/2006 Top Decision Maker Wiki Create an entry Recent Wiki Contributions Open Financial Exchange Open Financial Exchange or OFX is a unified client server based specification for the electronic exchange of financial data between the financial institutions, business and consumers over the Web. The OFX was jointly developed by CheckFree, Intuit and Microsoft. The OFX supports a variety of... More... Last modified by aksbh Top New Blog: Memoirs of a LIMS Bunny Follow along with Rosalie Rothner as she chronicles her experiences on LIMS projects and provides tips on LIMS technical issues. Read more at ITtoolbox Blogs. Job Postings Post a Job Most Popular New Job Posting Product Manager Needed  Aspen Tech (Burlington, MA) Aspen Tech is seeking a Product Manager who has at least 6 years experience in a global technology company in product management, product marketing, business consulting, sales, consulting... More... Recent Job Postings Product Manager for Online Discussion Groups Needed  ITtoolbox (Scottsdale, AZ) ITtoolbox, a world leader in online communities, is seeking a product manager to oversee the growth of the ITtoolbox Groups product, consisting of 650 professional online discussion communities... More... Product Manager Needed  Aspen Tech (Cambridge, MA) Aspen Tech is seeking a Product Manager who has at least 8 years in a global technology company in a product management, product marketing, business consulting, sales, consulting... More... Product Manager Needed  Aspen Tech (Houston, TX) Aspen Tech is seeking a Product Manager who has a BS degree in an engineering discipline and 5+ years professional experience in chemical engineering, technical-economic, and software... More... Director of Product Marketing Needed  Aspen Tech (Cambridge, MA) Aspen Tech is seeking a Director of Product Marketing who has at least 10 years experience in the software industry - with deep domain knowledge of two or more... More... Top   More Jobs (North American candidates only) Post a Job   PEOPLESOFT / SAP / ORACLE / ERP TRAINEES / FRESHERS - NEEDED Decision Maker Popular Q&A Submit Content Most Popular New Popular Q&A Will Baan help my career? 10/5/2007 by ITtoolbox as adapted from Baan-Career Will experience with Baan help my career? Is it too outdated now that SAP is so popular, or will it still help? More... Top Upcoming Events & Webcasts Submit Event Application Failure is Not an Option. Achieving High Availability is - Through Application Virtualization 10/17/2007 11:00:00 AM by DataSynapse Hear from expert, Dan Kusnetzky, President and Principal Analyst from the Kusnetzky Group, as he explores real-customer issues surrounding business intelligence, data integration, and the solutions and benefits that application virtualization can bring to your enterprise. More... ISCEA Global Transportation & Supply Chain Conference 10/21/2007 by ISCEA Date: October 21-22, 2007 Location: Dubai, UAE Venue: Sheraton Dubai Creek Hotel & Towers This is your opportunity to learn and network with internationally recognized supply chain executives on global transportation! Some of the speakers will include: - Luke Ritter, Founder and CEO, Trident Global Partners -... More... Enterprise Architectures Conference 10/22/2007 by Shared Insights, IIR Date: October 22-26, 2007 Location: Las Vegas, NV Venue: Caesars Palace Year after year, the first and longest running EA event in the world has it all - the best speakers, the broadest topical coverage, the most opportunities to interact, and the best balance of... More... 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