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Productivity is the relationship between production of an output and one, some, or all of the resource inputs used in accomplishing the assigned task. It is measured as a ratio of output per unit of input over time. It is a measure of efficiency and is usually considered as output per person-hour.

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11 Criteria For Selecting The Best ERP System Replacement
By : Epicor Published Date: Apr 19, 2006
An ERP system is your information backbone and reaches into all areas of your business and value-chain. Replacing it can open unlimited business opportunities. In this white paper are the 11 criteria that will allow you to identify and select the ERP system replacement solution that will meet these expectations.
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Epicor
4 Ways HP Productivity Tools Can Help Increase IT Availability
By : HP Published Date: Aug 07, 2007
So many IT projects, so little staff. That's the problem for an increasing number of IT teams as they work to meet the growing demand for their services – all too often without a corresponding increase in budget for staffing. This paper explores how HP resources such as device self-maintenance, Web-based printer management and consolidated print drivers can help take the pressure off.
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HP
5 Keys to Getting Started with Interactive Online Training
By : Citrix Online Published Date: Mar 01, 2008
In today's global business environment, organizations have no choice but to seek new ways to optimize their budgets, respond nimbly to change and improve productivity. Download the 1080 Group research brief, Five Keys to Getting Started with Interactive Online Training, to learn how leading trainers are leveraging online tools to extend their reach, deliver more training and lower their costs.
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Citrix Online
5 Ways ERP Can Help You Implement Lean
By : Epicor Published Date: Apr 19, 2006
Why is Lean so popular? Because it delivers what manufacturing companies truly need in today's highly competitive world: shorter lead times, improved quality, reduced cost, increased profit, improved productivity and enhanced customer service.
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Epicor
5S As An Integral Part of Six Sigma
By : Villanova Published Date: Jul 18, 2006
Based on the Japanese words Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu and Shitsuke, the 5S philosophy focuses on effective workplace organization and standardized work procedures. 5S simplifies your work environment, reduces waste and non-value activity while improving quality efficiency and safety. Once fully implemented, the 5S process can increase morale, create positive impressions on customers, and increase efficiency and organization.
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Villanova
6th Sense Analytics Interviews Rusty Weston of Global Services Magazine
By : 6th Sense Analytics Published Date: Sep 18, 2007
Jake Sorofman, Vice President of Marketing for 6th Sense Analytics interviews Rusty Weston, editor in chief of CMP Media’s Global Services magazine, a premier publication focusing on the trends of off-shoring and outsourcing. The discussion focuses on the trend of globally distributed software development.
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6th Sense Analytics
8 Strategies for Improving Supply Chain Management
By : Infor Published Date: Apr 26, 2007
External forces can knock your business off balance with no warning. To meet these external challenges, you need the capability to extend supply chain visibility, respond to changes in real time, and improve performance measurement across the entire chain.
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Infor
A Corporate Guide to Better Decisions through IT
By : SAP Published Date: Dec 01, 2007
Learn how to make better decisions through IT: Efficiency is at the heart of your business goals—whether it is efficient operations, customer interactions, financial transactions, or human resources support. If your company is operating efficiently, you make faster, smarter decisions, respond quickly to market changes, reduce costs, and consistently meet performance standards.
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SAP
A Juicy IT Story: How IT Outsourcing Helped Sunny Delight Beverages
By : OneNeck IT Services Published Date: Feb 06, 2007
When he joined SDBC in May of 2004, SunnyD's Chief Information Officer and Global Controller was faced with a classic build-or-buy decision, although the circumstances were less than typical. Despite the company just being carved out from Procter & Gamble with an experienced management team and a well-known brand name, it was missing a crucial operational element — an entire information technology infrastructure.
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OneNeck IT Services
A PDF Primer
By : PDF Tools Published Date: Oct 24, 2005
PDF files are prevalent in virtually all market segments worldwide. Most people know and use the term "PDF" but have misconceptions what it can and can't do. The purpose of this White Paper is to explain what PDF actually is and what it's strengths and limitations are.
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PDF Tools
Aberdeen Lean Scheduling and Execution Benchmark Report
By : Infor Published Date: May 30, 2007
In this report, find out the operational performance benefits that Best-in-Class manufacturers attribute to the use of Lean Scheduling and Execution principles. Read about Lean Scheduling key metrics and get ready to implement them. Discover best practices in Lean implementations and how these help reduce overall manufacturing costs.
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Infor
Accounting for Lean Success: Overcoming the Barrier of Traditional Accounting in Lean Environments
By : Infor Published Date: Apr 25, 2007

Over the last three decades, lean principles have driven massive productivity improvements in manufacturing operations around the world. Download this insightful guide now and get a free Executive’s view on how accounting will play a larger role in lean by providing analysis, insight and direction that will support lean gains across all functions. 


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Infor
Achieving Lean Success: A Holistic Approach
By : Infor Published Date: Jan 18, 2007
Over the past decade, the concept of lean manufacturing production has gone through a dramatic evolution from an obscure and isolated practice to a mainstream, extensively publicized methodology that is well known throughout the manufacturing and supply chain industry. Download white paper to learn more.
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Infor
Achieving the Perfect Order: Improving Supply Chain Communication
By : Inovis Published Date: Feb 22, 2007

No enterprise is an island. Goods and services flow in from suppliers. When you include suppliers of wares for raw material extractors, along with recyclers that turn consumer and commercial waste into new raw materials and finished goods, it is a supply chain with no beginning and no end.


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Inovis
Adaptive Discovery: Accelerating the Deployment and Adaptation of Automated Business Processes
By : Ultimus Published Date: Sep 13, 2006
By making process discovery easier and on-demand, Adaptive Discovery overcomes a major hurdle to success with BPM and shortens the time it takes organizations to capture the competitive advantages of BPM.
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Ultimus
Adaptive SOA: Enable Composite Applications with Real-Time Agility
By : Ultimus Published Date: Sep 13, 2006
By enabling Adaptive SOA, Ultimus Adaptive Discovery takes SOA to the highest level of rapid deployment and agility. It accomplishes this by enabling business processes to be developed rapidly, and to embrace change in real-time. More importantly, it empowers business professionals and analysts who own processes to discover and change processes with IT playing the supporting role to manage the infrastructure.
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Ultimus
Adopting Lean Manufacturing in Packaging and Printing: How an ERP System Can Help
By : Radius Solutions Published Date: Apr 28, 2008
"Lean" is defined as a process to improve manufacturing and service operations, reduce waste, improve quality and drive down cost. While many packaging companies have embraced a number of Lean Manufacturing concepts, many have yet to fully realize the benefits of a fully-integrated Lean environment. Leveraging an ERP system that embraces "Lean" principles and incorporates industry specific best practices can facilitate and support the process. In this white paper, learn how lean manufacturing can apply to printing and packaging, and how an ERP system fits into the process.
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Radius Solutions
Advancing Productivity Where Complexity and Urgency Collide
By : XOsoft Published Date: Dec 20, 2005
Creating business value is the ultimate goal of investing in new IT technologies. This paper offers recommendations for both IT users and vendors that are vital to ensure that this goal is met.
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XOsoft
AIC Reduces Costs and Boosts Productivity with VMware Infrastructure 3
By : VMware Published Date: Aug 16, 2007
AIC, Canada’s largest privately held mutual fund company, aimed to shrink their data center footprint and manage IT infrastructure more effectively. With the VMware Infrastructure 3 suite, AIC has been able to handily address its IT challenges and create a scalable, manageable IT infrastructure. Find out how much they saved, and how VMware impacted their organization's workload and productivity.
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VMware
Allen Boone Humphries Robinson Case Study
By : Motorola Good Technology Published Date: Nov 02, 2007
This case study details how Allen Boone Humphries Robinson improved efficiency and exceeded client expectations with help from Good™ Mobile Messaging.
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Motorola Good Technology
American Dairy Brands Reduces Errors, Increases Forecast Accuracy and Increases Service Levels
By : Infor Published Date: Oct 05, 2005
American Dairy Brands, a $300M division of Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) which is the largest U.S. dairy cooperative marketing over 45 billion pounds of milk per year, has achieved substantial supply chain savings through Infor's Supply Chain solutions. Infor has given Dairy Farmers of America the ability to successfully manage the supply chain to drive service levels to greater than 99% for their Borden-brand cheese products.
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Infor
An Evaluation of Buy Versus Build for Portal Solutions by IDC
By : IBM Published Date: Dec 20, 2007
Portals are becoming integral enablers of business and IT innovation for many organizations. From first-generation content aggregation portals to more sophisticated enterprise process portals, organizations have used portal solutions to improve productivity, streamline business processes, enable new Web-based product and service delivery models, and provide IT with a powerful platform for new and composite application development.
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IBM
An Introduction to BPM
By : Ultimus Published Date: Sep 14, 2006
In the coming years, we believe that BPM will become the most important technology-driven business initiative for most companies. It leads you toward a focus on using technology to support your business processes, rather than adapting your business processes to support your technologies. It provides strong, sustainable ROI and competitive advantage.
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Ultimus
An Opportunistic Entry Point into IT Process Automation
By : LANDesk Published Date: Nov 16, 2006
As IT departments work to transition from "firefighting mode" to becoming more proactive and responsive, a key step along the path is to implement labor-saving automation tools that allow more tasks to be done more rapidly, using fewer resources and with greater predictability and reliability.
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LANDesk
Asentria within the Service Provider Ecosystem
By : Asentria Corporation Published Date: Aug 30, 2007
Organizations today depend upon their networks to increase productivity and reduce network infrastructure and maintenance costs. Accordingly, these networks must be secure and perform reliably in order to accommodate geographically dispersed users. Unplanned remote site downtime due to equipment failure or adverse environmental conditions can severely impair network service.
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Asentria Corporation