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13 Dec 07

Elemica - overview

  • Elemica streamlines business processes to:

    Remove redundant inventory for improved forecasting
    Automate slow and manual processing of many routine transactions
    Optimize complex and simple logistics networks
    Manage unwieldy documentation flows
17 Aug 07

OpenPCD Shop

It is not expensive to get the hardware to get started with RFID hacking

shop.openpcd.org - Preview

Supply Chain Management Open source

OpenPCD: Open RFID reader

  • The intention of the OpenPCD project is to offer the users full hardware control of the RFID signal and to provide different output signals for screening the communication. With already existing Free Software from the OpenMRTD project for implementing the PCD side protocol stack of various RFID protocols, this project will happily extend the free toolchain around RFID verification.
08 Feb 06

IBM to Enhance Its Supply Chain BTO Offering - Manufacturing Business Technology

  • IBM ... supply chain optimization and management services through the acquisition of Viacore, Inc., a leading provider of business process integration solutions for real-time supply chain visibility.
19 Sep 05

IBM case study on Audi Hungaria Motor Kft., SAP

Marketing case study including makeing supply chaing management 'real-time'

www-306.ibm.com/...LMOS-677KYH - Preview

Supply chain software ERP Chain Management

  • End-to-End Supply Chain Management
    Customer forecast delivery schedule, detailed forecast delivery schedule, programme planning, MRP requirement calculation, forecast delivery schedule, notification, goods receipt, invoice verification, warehouse management, production supply, production backflush, packaging, warehousing, shipping and invoicing are all now possible in real time because the new system integrates all processes across companies.

Samuel (Sam) F. Fenimore

  • I have been involved in manufacturing and supply chain systems implementations for the past 20 years as an analyst, configurator and often the consulting team lead.

Jennifer Robinson: Semiconductor Capacity Modeling Bibliography

Extensive bibliography - worth dipping into, or seeking out the online searchable version.

www.jkrconsult.com/capbib.htm - Preview

Supply Chain Management

  • . In support of this goal, John Fowler and I gathered together a bibliography of approximately 250 articles related to capacity planning and capacity loss factors (with emphasis on wafer fabs), sorted into 38 categories.

Manufacturing Business Technology: On-demand gets down to business (Supply chain agility concepts, consulting engagements bring gains for NIBCO)

Interesting work, though somewhat attributed to secret 'intellectual property' at IBM Business Consulting Services

www.mbtmag.com/...infra1.asp - Preview

Supply chain software Chain Management

  • That work, however, also was integrated with the SAP environment. The consultants identified master data elements that needed to be adjusted in NIBCO's ERP system to support the inventory zone strategy. IBM also helped NIBCO apply the formulas to the BW data warehouse. The result, says Hall, is a range of powerful "what-if?" capabilities in BW that allow leaner operations and better customer service.
07 Jun 05

Smart Open Source ERP Software Solutions with integrated CRM Software Solutions - Compiere

Compiere for SMEs has a bit of a buzz around it. I will investigate.

www.compiere.org - Preview

Supply chain software

  • Streamline your order processing and Point-of-Sales (POS) customer commerce and care, manage your inventory, automate accounting, provide customer service, manage distribution networks and more.
04 Jun 05

Cardiff Business School - Lean Enterprise Research Centre - What is Lean Thinking

An brief introduction to the concepts of 'Lean' such as Kanban, Kaizen and Value Stream.

www.cf.ac.uk/...leanthinking.html - Preview

Supply Chain Management

  • A number of tools and techniques have been developed to support the lean philosophy, to enable organisations to apply the ideas and implement change. Many of these emerged from the Toyota Production System - hence the large number of Japanese terms in the Lean vocabulary
20 May 05

Journal of Manufacturing Systems: Heuristics-Based Integrated Decisions for Logistics Network Systems

  • Simulations were conducted on a practical example in an electronics manufacturing enterprise together with different sizes of problems. The results indicate that the two-layer decomposition method with heuristics is effective and provides a practical way to solve medium and large-scale integrated decision problems.

FindArticles in Journal of Manufacturing Systems

an interesting academic journal, and a useful search engine


www.findarticles.com/...mi_qa3685 - Preview

Supply chain software Blogs to watch

  • Journal of Manufacturing Systems
    Quarterly journal is published by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers,

    A Standard Test Protocol for Evaluation of Radio Frequency Identification Systems for Supply Chain Applications

    Heuristics-Based Integrated Decisions for Logistics Network Systems

Sainsbury's, Accenture and the £3bn IT flop | The Register

  • But Accenture was quick to distance itself from the problems, stressing the firm was not involved in Sainsbury's four automated (or not) distribution depots

BBC NEWS | Business | Q&A: Sir Peter Davis and Sainsbury's

  • The company is struggling against its competition but it is no basket case. Sainsbury's still makes an annual profit of £670m and has sales north of £15bn.
26 Apr 05

Ecademy Profile Text: steven healey

  • MANET TNG is a our manufacturing system for small to medium companies which covers
    all areas from raw materials to finished goods with quality control built in/

    VAMOSS is our latest venture , an SQL Server based distribution system with telesales,
    warehouse control from picking list to sales invoice..
25 Apr 05

RFID Tribe

  • Membership is free, but this is not a group of freeloaders. This is a group of active,
    productive industry experts and technology users. Members gain privileges and become
    RFID Warriors by giving to the Tribe...
19 Oct 04

IT write-off costs Sainsbury's £290m

Very interesting article - this sounds like a tough challenge for all involved

news.zdnet.co.uk/...0,39020654,39170616,00.htm - Preview

Consultants Logistics Supply chain software

  • Sainsbury's has put the brakes on new IT investment and is looking to renegotiate its £1.8bn IT outsourcing contract with Accenture

    A spokesman for Accenture said: "We are responsible for the overall transformation programme at Sainsbury's, including some of the supply chain systems. However, the IT automation systems within Sainsbury's four new automated depots are not, and never have been under the scope of the existing contract. We are not responsible for the strategy, development and operations of these systems"
10 Sep 04

ERP | Distribution | Inventory Management

  • Generate a stock rotation report which presents the information cardex-style, to facilitate Parts Management.

    The Inventory Management module offers you control over your stock based on internationally recognized standards, such as APICS and Gordon Graham.
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