Smithfield Foods has selected Kewill to provide an Electronic Data Interchange system to help it process and fulfil customer orders
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.
Leading life sciences manufacturer implements QAD Customer Relationship Management
Oct 22, 2008
Nuclear Imaging Technology Innovator Digirad Chooses Strategic Information Group and QAD CRM to Secure Growth Objectives
Exact acts fast to help SMEs fight weak economy
Oct 09, 2008
Exact Software, a leading provider of integrated ERP solutions, has responded fast to what analysts are calling a widening global recession
ADA announces fully provisioned hosted ERP solution based on Microsoft Dynamics NAV
Oct 09, 2008
ADA Technology Services has launched a range of hosted 'pay monthly' options for businesses wishing to invest in ERP without upfront capital expenditure
Dassault Systemes announces Version 5 release 19 of its Product Lifecycle Management portfolio
Oct 09, 2008
Dassault Systmes has announced the availability of its PLM portfolio Version 5 Release 19, comprising the CATIA, DELMIA, SIMULIA, ENOVIA and 3DVIA brands
IFS grows footprint in F-35 fighter
Oct 07, 2008
IFS has announced that Lockheed Martin has decided to extend the use of IFS Applications in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Autonomic Logistics Information System
Making Aunt Bessie lean and mean
Oct 03, 2008
Looking at the brand logo you might think that the sturdy figure of Aunt Bessie suggests a liking for her own Yorkshire puddings, yet Aunt Bessie takes the concept of lean much more seriously for her manufacturing processes
Magellan: delivering real world global business process automation
Oct 03, 2008
A comprehensive solution touching multiple components of the manufacturing and distribution process
SYSPRO ERP helps healthcare products manufacturers meet strict compliance requirements
Oct 02, 2008
K3 Business Technology Group has announced that SYSPRO ERP offers the required functionalities to assist medical and healthcare products manufacturers in meeting stringent regulations
RFID tags from UPM Raflatac assure fast and accurate deliveries
Oct 02, 2008
Log house manufacturer Honkarakenne has gained substantial benefits since implementing RFID tags in its production
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.