IT Integration

CIOs need to change their mindset and start considering the MES as a corporate-wide business application. A new report from IDC Manufacturing Insights analyzes the top global Manufacturing Execution System vendors in order to help you select the right application.

As a leading innovative company that produces products across diverse markets, 3M needed an operating system that allowed its employees to be productive, while at the same time tightening network security and reducing costs of PC management.

A new tool will help address the company's complex financial systems as well as its need to efficiently manage operations and customer service.

Historically,Land O' Lakes ran as a holding company with many separate entities. Over time,this resulted in an overly complex IT environment. In 2005,a strategic decision was made to move toward an operating company mode. Here, two company VPs give an exclusive update on Project Catalyst'sprogress.

Both retailers and suppliers see the value of data sharing, but there is still a long way to go before benefits are realized. Proving there are exceptions to this rule, Kraft Foods, Delhaize America and Bozzuto's gathered to lend real-world context to the findings of the first annual Shared Data Study. Learn about their winning data sharing programs here.

Mergers and acquisitions have caused Foster's to have a mix of enterprise resource planning systems and different methods for defining and processing key business data, such as information on customers and products.

By enabling accelerated product innovation and time-to-market, 3M aims to realize its strategic business objectives, augment production capacity, enhance global capabilities and rationalize costs.

The largest producer and distributor of sweetener products in North America deploys Virtustream Inc.'s xStream Cloud platform to optimize its entire infrastructure, which includes a multi-thousand seat SAP enterprise application system.