Process manufacturers across Food & Beverage, Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Specialty Chemical and Life Sciences industries are facing significant challenges with respect to rising supply chain costs and customer service requests. This Aberdeen research report focuses on current demand management capabilities and examines how Process manufacturers must increase responsibilities to deal with demand fluctuations in unstable markets. Many Process manufacturers have concerns regarding the ability to drive volumes in accordance with previously established plans, as well as with maximizing the utilization of assets. Some strategic actions in response to these pressures include: Internal collaboration processes Customer level forecasting External collaboration Statistical forecasting Published by: Aberdeen Group; Presented by: Infor Request Free!
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Difficult times often prompt businesses to pull in their guns. They become inwardly focused, risk-averse and protective of their existing accounts. Faced with a business downturn, they shift their attention to conserving capital and minimizing risk. This reflexive reaction nearly always back fires. When the economy recovers, these companies find they have fallen behind their competitors and are in a poor position to catch up. Smart business executives have learned that investing in customer relationships and overall effectiveness pays big dividends when the rebound invariably occurs. A tight economy is a good time to try new tactics, educate your sales force and adopt metrics that yield insights about the effectiveness of your sales and marketing programs. Now is the time to embrace new ideas so that when business improves, you will have the edge on your competition. Start by investing in technology to support and drive these new ideas throughout your organization. Learn seven tips for leveraging customer relationship management (CRM) processes to turbo-charge your sales operation during lean economic times. Published by Oracle Corporation and IT Business Edge Request Free!
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This White Paper is based on a survey and packed with strategies you can use to sell more effectively in challenging times. Explore how companies are reacting to six basic strategy points because of the recession, and how most are missing opportunities as a result. Register for this White Paper to learn more about these successful sales strategies. Published by TheCustomerCollective Request Free!
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Advanced Imaging provides the latest information on the imaging hardware, software and peripherals that are used in capturing, displaying, manipulating and storing images. In addition details on how available imaging tools and techniques are being used by professionals at work and looks at the burgeoning industry the tools have fostered. Request Free!
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The pace of change in the securities industry is accelerating. For the investment professional, knowing where and when to make the next move is absolutely essential. The effects of globalization, consolidation, polarization, regulation and technology are ensuring that in the post trade environment, what is given today cannot be counted on tomorrow. ICFA is innovative, informative and uniquely positioned as the magazine dedicated to providing balanced global coverage of middle and back office issues. The ICFA team travels the globe conducting thorough face-to-face interviews with the service providers, depositories, regulators and authorities that matter, ensuring a comprehensive coverage of markets and in-depth analysis of the industry trends. Request Free!
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The XBRL standardization initiative requires that all terms in financial reports be submitted in an approved taxonomy so comparable terms are used across different companies. This paper discusses the pitfalls of using manual steps that are currently common for transposing financial documents into compatible XBRL files, looks at the advantages of substituting an automatic process using WebFOCUS, and illustrates that process. Request Free!
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The Intel® EP80579 Integrated Processor is an Intel architecture based System-on-a-chip (SoC) processor that is specifically designed to meet the challenging requirements of embedded markets.
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Despite the best efforts of security professionals, IT managers are extremely anxious about securing emails and internet downloads, curtailing hacker attempts and managing devices. Providing relief on these issues, equipment manufacturers are developing security routers that consolidate routing and multiple security functions and eliminate the need for several devices. These devices need to be low cost, easy to use and effective against many types of potential security breaches.
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This white paper provides a guideline for building a nettop platform for the worldwide sub-entry market segment using the Intel® Desktop Board D945GCLF with the Intel® Atom™ processor 200 series.
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