Product Development and Design

Today's production processes have become increasingly complex and multi-faced, leaving many manufacturers challenged to find methods for simplifying and streamlining their activities. Additionally, as competition continues to heat up in all industries, they must constantly find new ways to reduce production costs. Manufacturing software packages empower businesses to do just that - giving them the advanced technologies they need to maximize efficiency and minimize overhead. Read on to learn about the top 15 manufacturing software vendors revealed.

More and more, manufacturers realize, that for increased productivity, they need a fully integrated, job-based manufacturing software system that has functionality for quoting, scheduling, job tracking, costing, purchasing, performance metrics and customer relationship management to name a few. In this white paper, Business-Software.com profiles the leading discrete manufacturing software vendors.

With the advent of a new globally-based economy, process manufacturers face significant challenges. Rapidly shifting markets, more empowered buyers, increasing regulation, commodity volatility, and margin pressures, and the effects of a credit crunch bring a “new normal” of constant volatility, variability, and variety to today’s landscape. In order to survive, process manufacturers need to become far more flexible, risk aware, and responsive to generate healthy revenues and profits. But above all else, they need to understand the importance of finding the right software application to drive maximum return on their investment. Business-Software.com profiles the leading process manufacturing software vendors in this white paper, download it now!

SCM is a combination of science and software that encompasses all operations within the supply chain, including the sourcing, acquisition, and storage of raw materials; the scheduling and management of work-in process; and the warehousing and distribution of finished products. With SCM solutions, businesses can streamline and automate the planning, execution, and control of these key activities.

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Wireless bar code and radio frequency identification (RFID) label printing is widely recognized by major retailers globally as an essential technology for enhancing store operations. The pages that follow detail the far-ranging benefits of wireless bar code and RFID printing, and present innovative wireless printing solutions from Zebra.

This white paper outlines the requirements for kiosks - optimizing design, placement and component selection - in order to help you and your business meet specific use cases, various environments and goals.

Retailers face enormous pressure to gain ROI from their business processes. Achieve the most value with RFID technology by ensuring accuracy, while shrinking the reoccurring costs of label media. This document from Zebra Technologies discusses the benefits of item-level tagging, and how on-pitch printing and encoding solutions can boost RFID's value beyond the supply chain.

Field redesigns point the way to next-generation machines. This paper includes case studies showing how conversions from roller chain or gears to synchronous belt drives improved performance while saving maintenance and replacement costs.

How Pharmaceutical Companies Smartly Automate to Strengthen Profitability.

"Adopting the Best Practices for Ongoing Data Management"

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The challenge facing OEMs (Original Equipment Manufactures) and Software Companies.

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

The Variable Rate Resource services approach to project or product development enables companies to jump over resource hurdles whenever and wherever they appear.

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.

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.

Mobile printing provides a series of quality improvements and timesaving benefits that are often overlooked in route automation, but can have a significant impact on the bottom line. This white paper will: • Describe uses for mobile printing in route accounting applications; •Provide return on investment calculation tools to measure the financial impact mobile printing can have; • Demonstrate how mobile printing processes can improve billing, distribution, and customer service operations; • Detail how on-demand thermal printing can reduce forms expenses; • Provide an overview of mobile printer and wireless communications options for route accounting systems. Read on to see how your route delivery and sales staff can make more stops and fewer errors each day by using mobile printing to support their work.

This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption. Learn more today!

This whitepaper examines how changes to the R&D process can significantly benefit a manufacturer's environmental footprint and ability to make science a component of critical business decisions.

This whitepaper outlines the methodology, sources of value, and the results which clearly show that Pipeline Pilot customers see significant time and cost savings across industries.