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Supply Chain Cost-Cutting Strategies: How Top Process Industry Performers Take Radically Different Actions

whitepaper Companies in Process Industries (including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food & beverage, oil & gas, pulp & paper, and health & beauty aides) have had to cope with rising manufacturing and logistics costs over the past few years.

Tags: back-office

[15 May 2008]

Solutia Inc. Improves System Reliability and Availability With Advanced Data Infrastructure

whitepaper Solutia is a market-leading performance materials and specialty chemicals company. Solutia wanted to create a highly available and scalable data infrastructure to support the company's manufacturing, distribution, and human resources processes.

Tags: high availability

[14 May 2008]

Chemical Manufacturer Finds Formula for Greater Efficiency With Powerful ERP System

whitepaper EPI) specializes in developing and manufacturing high-quality chemicals used in metal plating and metal finishing. Founded in 1954, Electrochemical Products, Inc. The company wanted to streamline its business processes to accelerate market delivery...

Tags: erp

[06 May 2008]

TIBCO Powers AspenTech Manufacturing/Supply Chain and Engineering Platform

whitepaper Aspen Technology (AspenTech) is a leading supplier of software and services for process manufacturers of petroleum, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. TIBCO's business integration solution gives Aspen Technology critical functionality for its recently...

Tags: manufacturing, manufacturing, manufacturing industry, manufacturers

[10 Apr 2008]

SAP XMII Helps Chemicals Company Integrate Processes Across the Board

whitepaper NOVA Chemicals Corporation (NOVA) is moving toward increasing integration between the plant floor and executive suite. This move provides visibility for operators and manufacturing vice presidents alike by supplying role-based access to real-time...

Tags: erp

[19 Feb 2008]

Warwick International Builds Growing Business on Scalable, Flexible, Best-in-Class Functionality

whitepaper Leading European specialty chemicals provider Warwick International Limited manufactures and markets chemicals for a diverse range of industrial applications. Warwick International wanted to leverage best manufacturing technology advances to...

Tags: database management

[08 Feb 2008]

Cabot Forges Global Information Infrastructure

whitepaper Cabot Corporation is a global specialty chemicals company. These processes are supported by implementations of best-in-class application solutions for enterprise resource planning, manufacturing execution systems, supply chain management, quality...

Tags: business processes, resource, visibility, execution

[20 Sep 2007]

Cabot Forges Global Information Infrastructure

whitepaper Cabot Corporation is a global specialty chemicals company. These processes are supported by implementations of best-in-class application solutions for enterprise resource planning, manufacturing execution systems, supply chain management, quality...

Tags: business intelligence - data warehousing, chain, class, ebusiness

[20 Sep 2007]

NOVA Chemicals Estimates Cumulative Savings of U.S.$22 Million With Reliability Program Enabled by mySAP Product Lifecycle Management

whitepaper NOVA Chemicals' vision is to be the best commodity chemicals company in the world. Benefits include low-cost manufacturing, lower direct-maintenance costs, reduced inventories, cycle-time excellence, higher yields, increased capacity, and greater...

Tags: business management, chemicals, product lifecycle management, mysap

[14 Sep 2007]

HP's inkjet tech seeks to replace hypodermic needles

News Nicotine patches work by letting the skin absorb chemicals. The technology and equipment used to make the array of needles was adopted from HP's inkjet manufacturing, said Beyers. What else can inkjet technology be used for?

Tags: hp, inkjet, healthcare

[11 Sep 2007]

Ampac Fine Chemicals Improves Manufacturing Efficiency and Automates Core Financial Processes

whitepaper Ampac Fine Chemicals (AFC), a wholly owned subsidiary of American Pacific Corporation, manufactures active pharmaceutical ingredients and registered intermediates. The company wanted to implement a comprehensive, scalable application infrastructure...

Tags: scalability, implement, manufacturing, financial management

[05 Sep 2007]

Treatt Improves Business Agility to Boost Sales

whitepaper Treatt Plc, a world-leading supplier of ingredients which include essential oils and aroma chemicals to the flavor and fragrance industries, exports to more than 90 countries from its manufacturing sites in the United Kingdom and the U.S.

Tags: erp, chain, manufacturing, united kingdom

[05 Sep 2007]

The greening of IT: Why less is more

Comment Along with using toxic chemicals, the manufacturing process for one PC requires around two tonnes of raw materials and generates around 25 tonnes of CO2. Green technology must also mean a responsibility towards the extraction and dumping of...

Tags: pc makers, greenpeace, data centres, green it

[13 Aug 2007]

Spectrum Chemicals & Laboratory Products Revamps System for Worldwide Uniformity and Growth

whitepaper Founded in 1971 as a fine chemical manufacturer, Spectrum Chemicals & Laboratory Products, a division of Spectrum Chemical Mfg. Corp.has grown into a customer-focused global supplier of high quality chemicals, laboratory supplies, and equipment.

Tags: erp, enterprise resource planning, chemical, chemicals

[30 Jun 2007]

Hikal Powers Mission Critical ERP Project With Red Hat Enterprise Linux

whitepaper A technology driven company, Hikal began its operations in 1988 and established itself as a dependable partner for high quality fine chemicals, safety and environmental protection. The challenges faced by the company were to use technology to...

Tags: linux - open source, legacy, linux, hat

[18 Apr 2007]

Quality Manufacturing: A Blockbuster Opportunity for Pharmaceuticals

whitepaper Decades of regulatory and industry standard practice in manufacturing are being reworked to help push operating efficiency in pharma closer to other "Normal" industries such as semiconductors, industrial chemicals and even consumer packaged goods.

Tags: manufacturing, efficiency, goods, consumer

[08 Feb 2007]

Cabot Corporation Turns to Sage CRM SalesLogix for Single Customer View

whitepaper The company makes specialty chemicals such as carbon black that is used in industrial rubber products, inks, coatings, and plastics, and fumed metal oxides that are used in silicone rubber applications, cosmetics, and composites and adhesives.

Tags: database management, crm, america, regions

[22 Jan 2007]

NOVA Chemicals Estimates Cumulative Savings of U.S. $22 Million With Reliability Program Enabled by mySAP Product Lifecycle Management

whitepaper NOVA Chemicals' vision is to be the best commodity chemicals company in the world. Benefits include low-cost manufacturing, lower direct-maintenance costs, reduced inventories, cycle-time excellence, higher yields, increased capacity, and greater...

Tags: procurement - purchasing, chemicals, product lifecycle management, lifecycle

[02 Jun 2006]

Twenty Sites Four Countries - Enterprise-Wide Re-Engineering Across All Operations With SAP R3 for Millennium Chemicals

whitepaper Millennium Chemicals Inc. MCH) is a major international company with leading market positions in a broad range of commodity, industrial, performance and specialty chemicals. In order to integrate company operations across borders, Millennium...

Tags: sap, chemicals, scope, range

[26 Apr 2006]

Q&A: Peter Yip, CEO of CDC Software

Comment CDC Software is now headquartered in Atlanta and provides customer relations management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and human resources software for vertical industries such as financial and legal services, healthcare, manufacturing...

Tags: china

[12 Apr 2006]

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