- Global Real Estate Update:China is the Star of Asia, While Other Countries Feel the Global Malaise.
As the U.S. economy, particularly the high-tech sector, has slowed down so have most of the economies of Asia. In China, however, business volumes for multi-national corporations are increasing due to strong growth in spending from the large and expanding consumer market.
- Manufacturing pays the bills, but shipping keeps the customers
HEADNOTE That's why Vanamatic Co. switched to a new ERP system: To ensure customers would get what exactly what they ordered. Many shops rely on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to help them run operations more efficiently and profitably. But sophisticated customers that practice supply-chain management are continually increasing their ......
- LIMS: the vital information link in the
laboratory.
Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) have long been considered important to laboratory management in maintaining control over sample processing and work order scheduling. Efficiency clearly is a goal in many laboratories, as is the need to insure regulatory compliance and high levels of reliability. As computer-based systems, LIMS are also ......
- McDonnell Douglas Systems Integration Co.;
Hansen's Software.
McDonnell Douglas Systems Integration Co. will market and sell Hansen Software's line of municipal infrastructure management applications. Hansen products, primarily utility and street management systems, enhance the capabilities of the McDonnell Douglas Graphics Design Systems (GDS) by providing cohesive, ready-to-use applications. Built around a relational database, the software complements GDS's ......
- Global information sharing at its best
HEADNOTE Although it has taken almost five years, FMCG manufacturing giant Diageo has implemented a global, 600-user PDM (product data management) system across its wines and spirits brands. Dean Palmer looks at the benefits the firm is seeing from this work The PDM [product data system has contributed significantly to ......
- Data hub gets global bearings group rolling
when automotive bearings firms Glacier Industrial Bearings, Glacier Vandervell and Garlock Bearings came together as GGB, the group found itself with 13 sites around the world, some manufacturing, some distribution, some sales offices - but all with different ERP and legacy systems and incompatible business processes and parts data. It ......
- LOCKHEED MARTIN AWARDED $102 MILLION
CONTRACT.
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a $102 million contract to operate, maintain and sustain the Defense Civilian Personnel Data System (DCPDS) for the Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian Personnel Management Service (CPMS). The system is used to process personnel transactions and maintain records on more than 800,000 DoD ......