Manufacturing Industry
Global ERP advances set stage for manufacturing operations orchestration.
Manufacturing Business Technology, May, 2007
By Staff How globalization is impacting enterprise systems deployment is one thing, but what are the implications of global ERP for manufacturing operations? 'Manufacturers have turned their attention to lowering ERP cost of ownership through standardization on the one hand, and seeking further ERP value by pursuing competitive differentiation on the basis of sophisticated analytics and manufacturing intelligence,' says Paul Loftus, a managing partner in the North American industrial sourcing practice of Accenture .
The work being done is based on a new generation of industry standards-for Internet, Web services, and service-oriented architecture (SOA)-that make possible heightened levels of plant-floor systems integration, process flexibility,...
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