SmartBiz IT Research Library

WHITE PAPER - SAP ERP applications can help you increase productivity, reduce costs, and gain strategic advantage. However, they touch every business process across your company and the risk for problems with implementation, management, and upgrades can be high. This paper identifies the most common SAP pitfalls and explains the best ways to resolve them.
Posted: October 19, 2009 | Published: October 19, 2009


Topics:  Business Intelligence Software | Business Management | Enterprise Asset Management Software | Enterprise Resource Management | ERP | ERP Software

CASE STUDY - Petmate enlisted the help of TAKE Supply Chain's X.PC to not only streamline the administration of contract manufacturing for Petmate. Read this case study to learn how X.PC transformed Petmate's manual approach to working with manufacturers through a Web-based collaborative environment that improved shared communications.
Posted: October 15, 2009 | Published: October 15, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Business Process Automation Software | Business Process Management | Business Processes | Collaboration | ERP | ERP Software | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Industry | Supply Chain Collaboration | Supply Chain Management

CASE STUDY - To improve inventory management and standardize procedures, Blue Bell turned to TAKE Supply Chain's Gemini Series™ for OPM mobile software solution. Read this case study to learn more about the benefits Blue Bell experienced from switching to TAKE Supply Chain’s Gemini Series™, and learn how your company can do the same.
Posted: October 14, 2009 | Published: October 14, 2009


Topics:  Business Process Automation | Data Collection | ERP | ERP Software | Inventory Management | Inventory Management Software | Manufacturing Execution Systems | Manufacturing Industry | Oracle (Product) | Supply Chain Management

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn how Gemini for SAP®, from TAKE Supply Chain, allows manufacturing and distribution personnel to perform complex transactions and data entry. Read on to learn how streamlining the collection of shipping, manufacturing, and warehouse data can greatly reduce errors and increase visibility and profitability.
Posted: October 14, 2009 | Published: October 14, 2009


Topics:  ERP | ERP Software | Manufacturing Execution Systems | Manufacturing Industry | Radio Frequency Data Communications | SAP (Product) | Supply Chain Management | Supply Chain Software | Warehouse Management | Warehouse Management Software

CASE STUDY - This paper presents 4 customer success stories of how a change to NetSuite improved efficentcy as well as the bottomline.
Posted: October 14, 2009 | Published: October 14, 2009


Topics:  Business Processes | ERP | ERP Software | Manufacturing | SAP (Product)

WHITE PAPER - This paper sets out a framework for evaluating a data center. It considers the special factors that apply to an on-demand infrastructure, many of which go well beyond the standards applicable to the average enterprise data center.
Posted: October 13, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  CIOs | Data Center Management | Data Centers | ERP | ERP Software | SaaS ERP | Software Architectures | Software Selection

CASE STUDY - This paper will give you an overview of how one company's business soared after applying AP processing to their company improved business.
Posted: October 13, 2009 | Published: October 13, 2009


Topics:  Accounting Software | ERP | ERP Software | Financial Management | Financial Reporting | Financial Services | Financial Systems | Financing | SAP (Product)

CASE STUDY - AP processing has changed the ways the businesses have been doing business. Read in this paper how ReadSoft’s doing that and so much more.
Posted: October 13, 2009 | Published: October 13, 2009


Topics:  Account Aggregation | Business Integration | Business Integration Software | ERP | ERP Software | Financial Management | Financial Reporting | Financial Services | Financial Systems | Financing | Product Development | Strategic Planning

WHITE PAPER - This paper examines solutions, both traditional software and Software as a Service models, with a proven track record in helping companies make the transition to 100% electronic AR invoicing.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 5, 2009


Topics:  Accounting | Accounting Software | Billing Software | Business Processes | ERP Software | SAP (Product) | Software as a Service

WHITE PAPER - This paper illustrates that solutions exist today, both as traditional software and Software as a Service, with a proven track record of success in helping companies make the transition to 100% electronic AR invoicing.
Posted: October 5, 2009 | Published: October 5, 2009


Topics:  Best Practices | Business Process Automation | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Cost Benefit Analysis | Electronic Marketplace | ERP | ERP Software

WHITE PAPER - Leading-edge manufacturers are discovering that they can improve production efficiencies and manage MRO expenditures by integrating their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems.
Posted: October 2, 2009 | Published: October 1, 2009


Topics:  Enterprise Asset Management Software | ERP | ERP Software | Manufacturing | Manufacturing Systems | PLM | PLM Software | Product Life Cycles

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses detailed best practices for deploying a 150-user, 250-GB, three-tiered SAP® Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) landscape.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: February 13, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | ERP | ERP Software | Server Appliances | Server Management | Server Provisioning | SMBs

WHITE PAPER - This Case Study examines how Culver Franchising Systems turned to the RedPrairie-Microsoft Business Intelligence solution to make better decisions and improve store operations, while vastly reducing reporting time. With the RedPrairie-Microsoft solution in place, Culver now gets early warning of underperforming stores.
Posted: September 18, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  Business Development | Business Intelligence | Business Management | Business Performance Management | Business Performance Management Software | Business Process Management | Business Process Management Software | ERP | ERP Software

WHITE PAPER - This white paper will enumerate the critical business challenges, as well as specific opportunities and benefits of working aggressively to achieve inbound supply integration.
Posted: September 14, 2009 | Published: September 1, 2009


Topics:  ERP | ERP Software | SOA | SOA Governance | Supply Chain Collaboration | Supply Chain Event Management | Supply Chain Event Management Software | Supply Chain Execution | Supply Chain Integration | Supply Chain Intelligence | Supply Chain Management | Supply Chain Software | Supply Chains

WHITE PAPER - There is no question that the successful implementation of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) relies on a careful and holistic approach to business planning. One of the most important tools in the evaluation, purchase, and ongoing use of SOA is this body of best practices that vendors, consultants, and customers have compiled.
Posted: September 9, 2009 | Published: April 3, 2008


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | Business Service Management | ERP | ERP Software | SOA | SOA Governance