Pegasus Software, supplier of accounting, business and payroll software, has announced that bread slicing and bagging equipment manufacturer, Ibonhart, has selected its Opera 3 solution.
Manufacturing Software, ERP, MRP
Manufacturing software systems are important tools for the automation and management of production processes. A wide range of manufacturing companies covering many different vertical sectors rely on manufacturing software to better manage the sourcing and use of material or parts quantities, scheduled production timelines, inventory management and the planning for future order demand. One commonly deployed example of a manufacturing software system is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution, designed to better manage information concerning orders and materials, finance, Customer Relationship Management etc.over the whole organisation.
Pegasus Software supports business transformation for bread slicing and bagging equipment manufacturer
Apr 11, 2013
Piper Aircraft gains truer cost measurement with Infor LN
Apr 03, 2013
Infor, provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, has announced that Piper Aircraft has selected Infor LN to bolster capabilities within supply chain, engineering and accounting management.
ERP spreads its wings - ERP report March 2013
Mar 30, 2013
Manufacturing & Logistics IT spoke to a number of experts from the vendor community about recent shifts within the world of ERP – including those related to Mobility and the Cloud. We also consider what the main spurs for these developments have been, and what further ERP innovation could be headed our way in the near future.
Making the healthy choice: Orthomol deploys Infor M3
Mar 27, 2013
Infor has announced that Orthomol, a manufacturer of dietary foods for special medical purposes and food supplements, has implemented Infor M3.
CeBIT 2013 was a success for abas, triggering new business opportunities for manufacturing, distribution, and service companies
Mar 20, 2013
This year's CeBIT, the world's largest IT trade fair, was a complete success for abas. Cutting-edge ERP innovations, a new web client and 3rd generation mobile solutions attracted ERP customers, journalists and analysts from around the world.
Infor ION becomes Infor's top-selling and fastest growing product
Mar 14, 2013
Infor, provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, has announced strong momentum for Infor ION technology.
Crane Pump & Systems deploys LogiXML to improve manufacturing systems and processes
Mar 14, 2013
LogiXML has announced that Crane Pumps & Systems (CP&S) used Logi Info to provide integrated analytics to their operations and finance departments, streamlining the company's inventory management processes, reducing its IT burden, and improving its competitiveness in the market.
Salop Design and Engineering ensures health & safety compliance with Avigilon HD surveillance system
Mar 07, 2013
Avigilon has announced that Salop Design and Engineering Limited, one the UK's leading manufacturers of metal pressings and assemblies for the automotive, domestic appliances, and construction industries has deployed the Avigilon high-definition surveillance system to ensure health and safety compliance and protect its investment in equipment and materials.
Epicor brings mobile to latest version of the Human Capital Management Solution
Mar 07, 2013
Epicor Software Corporation, the business software solutions provider for manufacturing, distribution, retail and services organisations, has announced the general availability of its latest human capital management (HCM) solution, Epicor HCM version 5.7.1.
Koso Kent Introl opens the valve for growth with Infor
Feb 27, 2013
Infor, provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, has announced that specialist valve manufacturer Koso Kent Introl has invested in Infor LN as part of a radical business transformation programme.
Manufacturing software systems
Manufacturing software systems provide the automation and computational support for complex manufacturing processes. Manufacturing companies leverage manufacturing software systems to carefully manage the timing, types and quantities of materials they purchase in order to ensure that they are able to meet current and future customer demand while at the same time achieving the lowest possible cost and inventory accumulation.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems facilitate the flow of information between all business functions inside the boundaries of the organisation and manage the connections to outside stakeholders.
Manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) addresses operational planning in units, financial planning, and has a simulation capability to answer "what-if" questions and extension of closed-loop MRP.
CRM or Customer Relationship Management concerns the relationship between an organisation and its customers. The scope of CRM which can vary drastically as it can be used by management, salespeople, people providing service, and even customers could directly access information to find out information.
Cloud computing can be defined as the set of hardware, networks, storage, services, and interfaces that combine to deliver aspects of computing as a service. Cloud services include the delivery of software, infrastructure, and storage over the Internet and is based on user demand. Cloud Computing is the latest stage in the Internet's evolution, providing the means through which everything , from computing power to computing infrastructure, applications, business can be delivered to you as a service wherever and whenever you need.
Cloud computing has some essential characteristics: scalability depending on requirements, offers a way to increase capacity or add capabilities on the fly without investing in new infrastructure, eliminates the need for on-site personnel to maintain computer equipment. No up-front CAPEX (capital expenditure) required, as billing is a pay-as-you-go model, access to the very latest application programming interfaces (APIs).
SaaS (software as a service) is a type of cloud computing delivering a single application through the browser to thousands of customers using a multitenant architecture. On the customer side, it means no upfront investment in servers or software licensing; on the provider side, with just one app to maintain, costs are low compared to conventional hosting. SaaS is emerging to provide service to all aspects of an organisation`s activities in the areas of Manufacturing, ERP, Demand Forecasting, Advanced Planning, S&OP, Supply Chain, Warehousing, Transport Management and HR (human resource).
Business intelligence (BI) is a set of theories, processes and technologies that convert raw data into useful information for business purposes. BI can handle large amounts of information to help identify and develop new opportunities to gain market advantage over competitors. The amounts of data that are now being gathered as a result of because they are increasingly being gathered by a growing range of diverse and ubiquitous information-gathering devices.
These data sets become so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications. The trend to larger data sets is due to the additional information derivable from analysis of a single large set of related data, as compared to separate smaller sets with the same total amount of data. The current challenges of BIG DATA include the capture, storage, search and share capability, transfer, analysis, and visualisation. Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data — so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. This data comes from everywhere: sensors used to gather climate information, posts to social media sites, digital pictures and videos, purchase transaction records, and cell phone GPS signals to name a few. This data is big data.
It is estimated that the world's technological per-capita capacity to store information has roughly doubled every 40 months since the 1980s. The challenge for large enterprises is determining who should own big data initiatives that straddle the entire organisation and how this data can be used as a source of revenue and to gain competitive advantage.
