CASE STUDY: Epicor Midmarket Volume 2, October 15, 2007
Cold Jet Transforms Business Operations, Streamlines Communication and Improves Inventory Control with Epicor

 CASE STUDY: Organic Valley Midmarket Volume 2, October 15, 2007
Infor Helps Organic Valley Consolidate Multiple Systems Into a Single Enterprise Solution

 Epicor Software Corporation Midmarket Volume 2, October 15, 2007
Designed for the unique needs of key industries – manufacturing, distribution, retail, hospitality and services – Epicor provides the end-to-end, industry-leading solutions and the domain expertise needed to help businesses increase operational efficiency and drive competitive advantage.

 Gain Real-Time Control of Worldwide Operations Midmarket Volume 2, October 15, 2007
Navis is the global standard in asset visibility, control and optimization.

 Improving Performance With Supply Chain BI Midmarket Volume 2, October 15, 2007
Research shows that most companies aren’t taking full advantage of BI technologies to improve customer satisfaction, efficiency and effectiveness, decision making and more.
Colin Snow, Ventana Research

 Innovative Product Configuration Strategies Optimize Supply Chain Effectiveness Midmarket Volume 2, October 15, 2007
Price and margin erosion, high logistics cost, increasingly shorter life cycles, and the acceleration of product introductions, is driving change in supply chain management strategies. Innovative product configuration strategies better synchronize supply to demand activities for improved supply chain cost and performance across the globe.
John R. Kenney, Jr., ModusLink

 INTERVIEW: Rodney E. Winger Midmarket Volume 2, October 15, 2007
Rodney Winger joined Epicor Software in 2003 bringing over 20 years of marketing, consulting, sales and application development experience in the wholesale distribution industry to the company. Preceding his current role, Winger was responsible for worldwide sales and marketing of Epicor’s distribution and warehouse management enterprise solutions. Prior to joining Epicor, Winger was the founder and CEO of TDC Solutions Inc.

 Making the Case for Supply Chain Orders Midmarket Volume 2, October 15, 2007
Supply chain orders offer many benefits over material requirements planning, advanced planning and scheduling systems or lean manufacturing.
Andrew Dalziel, Lawson

 Multi-Warehouse Visibility Made Simple Midmarket Volume 2, October 15, 2007
Centralized visibility and control over purchasing, receiving, inventory management and fulfillment is core functionality in SmartTurn WMS.

 Profit-Driven Sales and Operational Planning Midmarket Volume 2, October 15, 2007
Midsize B-to-B manufacturers that sell low-margin goods are pioneering this emerging best practice.
Steve Banker, ARC Advistory Group

 Supply Chain Strategies for a Rapidly Evolving Marketplace Midmarket Volume 2, October 15, 2007
In an environment of rising international trade, population growth and a “need for speed” that requires delivering more goods to more customers more quickly, midmarket companies are responding by changing the way they configure their supply chains – fueling an increased demand for strategically located industrial real estate.

 Today’s Supply Chain Challenges Require Innovative Strategies and Partnerships Midmarket Volume 2, October 15, 2007
As challenges in the supply chain continue to mount, companies need to implement innovative strategies and leverage valuable partnerships, to improve supply chain cost and performance.

 Environmental Compliance: Executing a Strategy for Readiness Midmarket Volume 1, July 17, 2006
Environmental compliance is reshaping the entire life cycle of product development, from new requirements to end of life. For brand owners, the cost of noncompliance ranges from minor financial penalties to long-term brand exposure, and even jail time for negligent executives. Entire product lines are subject to redesign, and individual products can be barred from sale to specific geographies. Just ask Sony about how much that can hurt. In late 2001, the Netherlands halted sales of PlayStations because they contained too much cadmium. The result: $110M of lost revenue.
Eric Karofsky, AMR Research, Michael Burkett, AMR Research, Kevin O'Marah, AMR Research

 Innovate With Profitable Service Life Cycle Management Midmarket Volume 1, July 17, 2006
Aftermarket service is a business model: revenue focused and sold to an installed base to fix, maintain and optimize products. Perhaps most importantly, it is the piece of the operation that lets companies understand customer needs and exceed expectations. This ultimately influences brand and improves the chances of repeat business.
Eric Karofsky, AMR Research, Michael Burkett, AMR Research

 INTERVIEW: Charles Vianey Midmarket Volume 1, July 17, 2006
IBM’s Charles Vianey explains how a collaborative supply chain helps midsize companies leverage relationships with suppliers, partners and customers.

 RFID Makes Inroads With the Midsize Manufacturer Midmarket Volume 1, July 17, 2006
Though still in its relative infancy, radio frequency identification (RFID) has become a controversial topic among media, technology and business communities. Evangelists trumpet its capabilities and potential, while detractors attack it as being invasive and unable to deliver on its promised benefits. To find the right perspective with which to view it, AberdeenGroup, in conjunction with publication partners RFID Update and Modern Materials Handling, surveyed 250 industry executives and managers on how their companies view RFID as an enabling technology, both in its ability to deliver value today and in the future.
John Fontanella, AberdeenGroup, Gregory Belkin, AberdeenGroup

 RFID Technology: Changing Business Dramatically, Today and Tomorrow Midmarket Volume 1, July 17, 2006
April 10, 2007 - SAP provides RFID technology as both an easy starter package and a robust infrastructure that can handle the large amounts of data generated by RFID applications. With that infrastructure, you can use RFID to increase inventory visibility, perform exception-based reporting and event management, and automate transactions and processes. In the long run, comprehensive SAP® RFID technology will enable you to create new processes and new ways of doing business as well as achieve new levels of responsiveness and adaptation.
Bob Frey, SAP

 SMEs Overcome Obstacles to Achieve Value From PLM Midmarket Volume 1, July 17, 2006
Let’s eavesdrop on a typical day in the life of an engineer at a medium-size manufacturer. During a single workday he gets a material substitution request from a contract manufacturer in China, a meeting request from headquarters on compliance with new European Union environmental mandates, an email from Purchasing about an obsolete part, an invitation to a customer requirements review for a new product, an engineering change request from a design firm, a design review invitation from a supplier working on a new component and a memo from his boss saying she needs a proposal to reduce product cost by 4 percent.
Jim Brown, AberdeenGroup

 The Business Case Midmarket Volume 1, July 17, 2006
Midsize manufacturers, i.e., those with annual revenues between $50 million and $1 billion, must compete against the very largest manufacturing enterprises. Those same multibillion-dollar global enterprises often are the midsize manufacturer’s most important customers.
Dann Anthony Maurno, Manufacturing Business Technology Magazine