Manufacturing Industry
The accelerated Value Chain: Supply chain management just got smarter, faster and more cost-effective, thanks to a groundbreaking alliance between Intel and i2 technologies.
Industry Week, April, 2002 by Harrington, Lisa
During the 1990s, manufacturer spent millions on information systems designed to make their factories run more efficiently. "Companies focused on optimizing operations at a single plant, between two plants, or within five plants," observes Keith Baranowski, vice president of sales consulting at Dallas-based software firm i2. "They spent millions, only to find out that these solutions still did not deliver a holistic view of the entire business.
In fact, many large companies ended up with multiple enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems that could not communicate effectively across all divisions. Nor could they communicate with outside suppliers or business partners." This meant, when it came to Visibility--across global production, into supplier inventories...
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