Best Practices

Your goal is clear-produce high-quality goods while optimizing resources at every step of production. And in today's uncertain economy, cost-control efforts may never have been more important. Unscheduled downtime because of equipment failure can have a serious impact on your organization's bottom line. Download this white paper from IBM, and learn the basics of predictive maintenance, the benefits it provides manufacturing operations and the underlying technologies that make it possible. Predictive analytics helps you in a number of ways: identify when equipment is likely to fail or need maintenance and take action to maximize uptime and reduce future warranty claims costs; optimize allocated labor resources and spare part inventories, helping eliminate undue maintenance, prevent downtime and reduce inventory costs; and determine why certain production runs fail more often than others, identify the cause and analyze whether those runs warrant a recall.

This research is a continuation of our Visi-MAP Module-1. While we identified hot technologies, emerging manufacturing approaches and high growth enabling applications in Module-1 of the research, Module-2 will provide an industry case analysis for various end-user challenge scenarios and solution/technology approaches. The primary aim is to catalyze end-user adoption of these solutions and make them into common practices. Live case examples of each of the company are also discussed in detail to encapsulate the delivery model of solution providers.

Get the latest research on how the new lease accounting standard affects your company. Find out what 179 senior executives think about the new lease accounting standard and how it will impact their companies. Read this comprehensive analyst report to learn more.

While a business case is all about the numbers, knowing how and when to push the proposal through the approval process requires an understanding of the psychology behind how proposals are selected and funded. Learn the tools and strategies to develop a business case and gain approval.

Progressive retailers have shifted to integrated store lifecycle (SLM) systems enabled by Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) to provide a seamless integration of all phases of the entire real estate lifecycle process from market planning; through site selection, store design and construction; to day-to-day operations such as lease administration and facility management.

Download this white paper to understand how these changes create a need for new processes and systems to achieve compliance and drive the need for new and broader skills within financial and real estate personnel.

According to IDC - "Smart Building Energy Analytics solutions are the pivotal piece of intelligence from the end user's perspective because they bring heightened visibility into facility operations and maintenance to enable a new level of sophistication in building management." Learn more - download the study today.

View this on-demand webcast to learn the practical strategies, targeted initiatives and deployed technologies used by organizations that have "crossed the sustainability chasm", using findings from a wide-ranging survey of 130 sustainability-focused professionals.

For most corporations and federal agencies, buildings are the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and represent the best opportunity to cost-effectively reduce environmental impact and achieve sustainability. Investments in green building strategies consistently result in significant benefits for organizations today.

Download this white paper to learn the practical strategies, targeted initiatives and deployed technologies used by organizations that have "crossed the sustainability chasm", using findings from a wide-ranging survey of 130 sustainability-focused professionals.

Clay Nesler, of Johnson Controls, discusses how IBM asset management solutions enabled them to bring smart building solutions to the commercial and institutional marketplace - reducing energy use, improving productivity and reducing costs.

How can ERP with Green SCM tools help manufacturers satisfy green supply chain requirements in order to satisfy customers and regulators? Find out now

This whitepaper explores six fatal mistakes" in ERP implementations, along with methods that can be employed to avoid or, at worst, rectify them.

This white paper outlines how the five lean principles are all supported by comprehensive information control and the management tools that an end-to-end enterprise software suite delivers.

In this white paper are the 12 criteria that will allow you to identify and select the ERP system replacement solution that will meet these expectations.

This paper discusses some important considerations for A&D manufacturers in the context of enterprise information systems and how they can help in addressing five important areas of concern-compliance, control, communications, competitiveness, and cutting cost, waste and complexity.

"Adopting the Best Practices for Ongoing Data Management"

What are the key benefits of outsourcing? Is there a downside to outsourcing? Get your answer from this white paper.

Learn how recent advances in pricing science and technology have enabled a breakthrough approach for B2B companies wanting to improve their pricing --- one that generates results in a fraction of the time, with far less organizational upheaval.

Learn how a $4.8B distributor overcame resistance-to-change by simply feeding optimized prices through the quoting tools their salespeople were already using --- achieving over 80% adoption and generating 12% more margin-dollars as a result.

Read this paper to learn how a $3.8B distributor generated 9% more margin-dollars in just 4 months by using a new technology that feeds optimized, deal-level prices into legacy quoting tools right when the quote is being created.

Read this paper to understand the opportunity for optimizing shipping fees and freight charges in B2B and learn how one $5.0B distributor used advanced pricing science and technology to generate 34% more margin-dollars on its shipping fees.

MOTOTRBO, a digital communications system with repeaters that are linked via Internet Protocol (IP). Leveraging the existing Internet infrastructure provided an economical way for Georgia Nut Company to meet their communication needs for today and tomorrow.

Read this paper to learn how one leading manufacturer overcame the challenges of pricing configured products by employing a powerful combination of normalization, scientific segmentation, and software technology.

Learn how downstream value-chain players scoop-up margin-dollars manufacturers leave on the table through sub-optimal pricing and discover how technology enables "leapfrogging" to the more-advanced pricing capabilities that can stop it from happening.