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It's Midnight. Do You Know What a Truss Costs You?
A few years ago, Building Components of Idaho didn't really know what it cost to build a truss. The building component manufacturer, which is based in Nampa, ID, had workers fill out paper time cards and key them into QuickBooks. The data became hard to track due to inaccurate punches and incomplete timecards. At the end of each month, this data was used for job cost analysis. Estimated costs versus actual costs didn't always balance out, though. |
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Strengthening Your Organization with Business Activity Monitoring
Today's companies need to be quicker, more agile, and more efficiently productive than ever in order to remain competitive regionally, nationally, and globally. Business Activity Monitoring, or BAM for short, allows organizations to monitor and react to key aspects of their business in real-time. This ability to anticipate the multitude of twists and turns that exist within modern business dynamics helps organizations reduce the latency period... |
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Working Together More Efficiently: Mapping out the Company’s Business Processes
The ways in which people in companies work together and the ways companies think and do business are undergoing radical and unavoidable changes. What was once a business approach based on guarded and proprietary information available only to a select few people within an organization has become a business approach based on the need to collaborate—both inside and outside the four walls of an enterprise. To embrace this collaborative enterprise, businesses will undergo a mind shift. |
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What is your ERP solution NOT doing for your organization?
Most organizations have already implemented ERP to streamline manufacturing, distribution, and financial processes. However, existing ERP technology has left them frustrated in their efforts to extend the same level of efficiency throughout the entire organization. While ERP does a fine job of tracking manufacturing, distribution and accounting processes, businesses need to understand the context behind these transactions to truly maximize efficiency and effectiveness. |
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Do More with Less: The 5 Strategies Used by Successful SMB Manufacturers
A common issue facing small and medium-sized business (SMB) manufacturers is how to increase revenue and grow their business without significantly adding staff.
Manufacturers can position themselves for more predictable success and business growth, without increasing staff by considering 5 strategic planning guidelines.
This Guide goes beyond theory to include Best Practices from actual SMB Manufacturing companies who've made it work.
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Key Elements of Vantage Workflow Management
The Epicor Vantage solution is designed to meet the needs of discrete mixed-mode manufacturing companies. The product is delivered ‘out-of-the-box’ with built in workflow processes that enable an enterprise to manage the entire order cycle: from Marketing and Sales, to Production and Planning, Sourcing and Procurement, Installation and Service through to Financial Recognition. |
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Designed To Manage Lean Principles
Manufacturers are widening the scope and focus of lean manufacturing to encompass all processes that contribute to the bottom line. Lean thinking is now increasingly being applied to all areas within the organization – from sales and marketing to engineering and production through to finance and post sale service. The true benefits of lean thinking will only be fully realized when the entire enterprise adopts lean ideology. Epicor Vantage enables enterprises to attain this goal. |
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Davis Controls: ISO 9000 compliance process
Exact e-Synergy® has provided Davis with a framework to manage their quality management that encompass areas such as proper record keeping, customer feedback, training and development, and continuous improvement. |
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Gamma Vacuum: ISO 9000 compliance
Through their use of Exact solutions, Gamma Vacuum has been able lower the overhead associated with their ISO certification, monitor proper calibration maintenanceand tracking, a major ISO issue for manufacturers, and enable the company to more efficiently track and manage several other key areas of ISO 9000 compliance, including documentation, policies and procedures, customer feedback and corrective & preventative action requests (CPAR’s). |
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Intelligently Manage Your ISO Certification
In the world of ISO certification, the entire organization becomes a fundamental stakeholder in continuous improvement and quality systems. Businesses going through this process need to ensure that the entire organization becomes a part of the ISO certification, without creatingseparate isolated and fragmented electronic and manual ISO manuals, policies and procedures. |
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Blast Past Bottlenecks with Constraint Based Scheduling
Lumpy demand due to seasonality or business cycles. Limited capacity in part of a plant. Skilled labor shortages. These and a number of other problems can be solved with constraint-based scheduling, also referred to as finite scheduling. Learn the basics of constraint-based scheduling including optimal, predictive and interactive scheduling. |
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6 Steps To ERP Implementation Success
Implementing an enterprise application like an enterprise resources planning (ERP) contact relationship management (CRM) or enterprise asset management (EAM) is almost as complex as undertaking a civil engineering or major construction project. Here are six simple steps to take in order to manage that complexity and achieve your corporate goals. |
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Litehouse Foods Implements Ross EPM to Help its Sales Force Make Faster, Better-Informed Decisions
Litehouse Foods is a leading manufacturer of refrigerated dressings, dips and sauces. Having successfully implemented Ross ERP in 1998 and Ross SCM in 2002—and propelled by an effort to transform the company from a sales-driven to a marketing-driven organization—Litehouse Foods now required a more practical, efficient way to leverage the sales and customer service data stored in its enterprise systems. |
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Catania-Spagna Earns “Preferred Supplier” Status with RedTail’s On-Demand Solution for EDI and GDS
Catania-Spagna Corporation (CSC) needed to find an easy way to meet its trading partners’ requirements for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Global Data Synchronization (GDS). The grocery and food industries aggressively leverage these business processes to reduce supply chain costs where margins are razor thin to begin with. They seek and value suppliers who can comply with these practices. |
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Automotive parts supplier leaves competitors in dust with part audit trail system with real-time OEE.
The incidence of improperly labeled parts has dropped dramatically, resulting in an improved supplier rating from their customers. The system also enables operators to continuously monitor their own performance, and managers can observe the overall picture in real-time to resolve production problems in a timely fashion. Additionally, machine setup personnel know exactly when a Job changeover will be needed, allowing them to plan for efficient Job change. |
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