Part Number

Can We Intelligently Use Part Numbers to Configure and Order the ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Thus, some meaningful part number schema has to be listed in catalogs instead. A customer, for example, can learn a defined part ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/CRM/2007/06/research_notes/TU_CR_PJ_06_20_07_1.asp - 18k - 2007-06-20 Summary: In the industrial automation industry, an overlooked, fatal flaw of sales configurator solutions is their inability to simultaneously configure part numbers and products. A greater concern is their inability to 'decipher' product specifications from part numbers—that is, in reverse.

Is There a Way to Avoid Lengthy Catalog Numbers?

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... will support intelligent part numbering, another practical limit is how large the intelligent part numbers can be, as most systems have part number limits. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/CRM/2007/06/research_notes/TU_CR_PJ_06_22_07_1.asp - 16k - 2007-06-22 Summary: A sales configurator needs to be able to 'decipher' products' specifications from a rule-based, constructed catalog number. Part number users should query vendors to determine whether their enterprise solutions cater to the needs of industrial automation manufacturers.

Continuous Data Quality Management: The Cornerstone of Zero ...

by Greg Leman, CEO, Metagenix, Inc. ... tables into Huntington's master table, it failed to include the system division number assigned to each division table in the new Huntington part number. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/DataWarehousing/2002/10/research_notes/MI_DW_XGL_10_18_02_1.asp - 18k - 2002-10-18 Summary: Most enterprises fight fires with axes, fire hoses, trucks, and hordes of firemen, but the CDQM approach is a smoke detector. It’s far less expensive to put a fire out when it’s just smoldering, rather than to extinguish a blazing house fire and then remodel the entire house.

The Sweet Spot of One Merging ERP Vendor

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... Within this master file, transaction set details are defined to trading partner specifications, while customer- and vendor-specific part number definitions are ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/ERP/2007/12/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_12_03_07_1.asp - 20k - 2007-12-03 Summary: CMS Software (now known as Solarsoft Business Systems) may not be a huge global player, but its enterprise resource planning solutions address a wide spectrum of supply chain management requirements, including customizable electronic data interchange functions, warehousing, distribution, and traceability

Supply Chain Management (SCM): Blueair core products by Blueair ...

... Tradeworks enables the identification of common parts despite disparate part number schemes across multiple internal divisions, sites, and external contract ... http:/.../software/624-23140/Supply-Chain-Management-SCM/Blueair-Networks-Inc-Blueair-core-products.html - 5k - 2009-11-18

Smaller Vendors Can Still Provide Relevant Business Systems Part ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... bulletins, etc.); maintenance parts lists (MPL) containing illustrations, part numbers, descriptions, quantities, notes, codes; and a part number and reference ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2005/01/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_01_27_05_1.asp - 15k - 2005-01-27 Summary: Service or spare parts have lately become both a blessing and a curse for many manufacturers.

CRM: What Is It and Why Do It? Part One: Historical Background

by Glen Petersen ... E-commerce and Self Help. These applications facilitate ordering, cross references (part number translation), and provide access to expertise on a 24x7 basis. ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Crm/2004/11/research_notes/MI_CR_XGP_11_08_04_1.asp - 18k - 2004-11-08 Summary: Many consultants, vendors, and analysts today define CRM in terms of being a customer-centric business strategy that is enabled by a set of applications that support customer-facing functions and management decision making. That may capture the essence of what CRM is, but it does not begin to capture why

SAP Bolsters NetWeaver's MDM Capabilities Part Three: Market ...

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... other words, it is likely to expand SAP's traditional focus on transaction-centric data management—ie, while typical master data like part number, price, and ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2004/12/news_analysis/NA_ER_PJ_12_03_04_1.asp - 22k - 2004-12-03 Summary: As business applications' scope continues to expand, so does a propagation of data sources across the businesses and IT systems. Achieving consistent understanding of this scattered data has become a major hurdle to improved business processes, with redundancy, waste and a plethora of lost opportunities

MRO and Spare Parts Management Considerations

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... bulletins, etc.), maintenance parts lists (MPL) containing illustrations, part numbers, descriptions, quantities, notes, codes, and a part number and reference ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2005/01/research_notes/TU_ER_PJ_01_11_05_1.asp - 19k - 2005-01-11 Summary: The need for better service parts management is finally gaining top-level management attention in many aerospace and defense (A&D) and like complex manufacturing companies, since excessive carrying costs and obsolescence losses are being recognized as an unexploited opportunity for savings and a better b

Made2Manage Affirms Its Technological Astuteness Part 2: Strategy

by P.J. Jakovljevic ... back-office system, the wealth of information such as shop-floor schedules, inventory levels, customer information, job, work center, part number, shipping info ... http:/.../Research/ResearchHighlights/Erp/2003/01/research_notes/EN_ER_PJ_01_21_03_1.asp - 22k - 2003-01-21 Summary: During the last few years, Made2Manage has evolved from a vendor of traditional MRP/ERP software to a provider of ‘one-stop-shop’ enterprise business applications.