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Why Your Field Service Operation Needs to Implement a Dynamic Scheduling Engine
What is a Dynamic Scheduling Engine, and why does your field service management operation need one? Learn the ins and outs of this technology, which can help you adapt to rapidly changing priorities, schedule in real time, meet demanding service level agreements and more, all while reducing cost.

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Three Types of Field Service Scheduling Software
Learn the three distinctly different approaches to solving the puzzle of getting the right people to the right place at the right time. These three different strategies which are adopted to enable better field service scheduling plans to be made are described in this white paper. Which strategy is right for you?

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How Manufacturers Can Use Project ERP to Weather Tough Times
Use Project ERP to manage an economic downturn like a project variance, handling it like a variance in a project.

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DPAS Ratings and Selecting ERP for Aerospace and Defense
DPAS ratings are driven by regulation, but can be turned into a competitive advantage in the market for an aerospace and defense contractor or manufacturer running the right software. Selecting the right ERP, EAM and other enterprise software is a challenge, and this whitepaper contains tips for a successful selection.

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5 EAM Steps to RCM
This white paper outlines the five levels of asset-management development a company usually passes through leading to more advanced processes such as RCM to eventually achieve QAM. In describing these levels of development, it makes sense to use terminology we can already relate to, so we will compare it to a familiar analog — human development.

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FDA Regulations for Medical Device Manufacturers
Learn how IFS Applications is the perfect fit for a medical device manufacturing facility under regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), specifically regulations regarding electronic records, electronic signatures, and quality systems.

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Selecting and Implementing Secure Mobile ERP
Is Mobile ERP Security an oxymoron? With bring your own device (BYOD) comes the realization that data from enterprise applications like ERP will wind up on mobile devices. In this whitepaper, IFS CTO Rick Veague discusses technological, process-based and cultural ways to handle this change in how enterprise data is handled.

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10 Ways to Use ERP to Lean the Manufacturing Supply Chain
Four tips for lean supply chain improvements in manufacturing operations and six technology tools to automate these best practices

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3 Things Business Decision Makers Need to Know about SOA
This white paper cuts through the marketing hype surrounding Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and focuses what you really need to know.

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6 Steps To ERP Implementation Success
Implementing ERP is complicated. Here are six simple steps to take in order to manage that complexity.

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7 Tips for EAM Selection
Enterprise asset management (EAM) software is a mission-critical tool for asset-intensive industry. These tips from some of the world’s most prominent EAM experts will help you select the right EAM solution. The importance of usability, the ability to manage outside contractors and other important considerations are covered here.

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An Earned Value Management (EVM) Success Story
Learn how to get certified in earned value management (EVM) and compete for government aerospace and defense contracts.

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Are you ready for the Project Economy
Learn how industrial outsourcing and rapid change are forcing business and business technology to become more agile and adaptable.

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Asset Information Management
Select the right software for asset information management (AIM) by understanding the data lifecycle and key functionality to watch for.

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Blast Past Bottlenecks with Constraint Based Scheduling
Struggling with constrained resources? Learn the basics of constraint-based scheduling (CBS) including optimal, predictive and interactive scheduling.

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Components - A Prerequisite for SOA
SOA is the future, but SOA-based software will not deliver real advantages unless it is built on a large number of small software components.

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Databases and ERP Selection: Oracle vs SQL Server
How do Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database platforms compare on reliability, scalability and cost when run under enterprise software?

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Design, Operate and Maintain for the Utility Industry
Design, Operate, Maintain (DOM) – key concepts in asset management and maintenance, repair and operation. Utility facility designers and those who operate and maintain those facilities need to work together closely to improve plant efficiency and business profitability over time.

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Designed for Quality Assurance
Learn to use IFS Applications to achieve ISO/TS 16949, the global standard for quality control in the automotive industry.

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Document Management File Handling Architecture
This white paper explains the architecture of IFS Document Management (Docman) in IFS Applications 8. It shows the flow of data through the application, with a focus on how files are handled.

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eCommerce for ETO
Engineer to Order (ETO) companies can in fact use enterprise software to implement eCommerce strategies to improve customer service, reduce waste and increase profits. This whitepaper outlines the ways that enterprise resource planning (ERP) software can facilitate ETO eCommerce by opening portals to suppliers, project collaborators and customers.

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Enable Project-Based Manufacturing with Business Software
Learn to use technology to mitigate the risks of project-centric manufacturing, which involves outsourcing, short product lifecycles and lower volumes.

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ERP and Environmental Footprint Management for Manufacturers
Understand the hidden challenges of environmental footprint management in manufacturing, and learn the hard questions to ask green ERP vendors.

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ERP Can Be A Barrier To Agility in Electric Power Sector
In this whitepaper, we'll examine the different enterprise agility barriers reported by study respondents and discuss how energy industry executives can select software for enhanced enterprise agility and change readiness.

Looking for more information about IFS in the energy and utilities industry? Go to http://www.ifsworld.com/en-NA/Industries/Energy%20and%20Utilities.

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ERP for Green Supply Chain
How ERP with Green SCM tools can help manufacturers satisfy green supply chain requirements in order to satisfy customers and regulators.

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ERP vs Project-Based Solutions - Which is Right for You?
Are Project-Based Solutions (PBS) - a new type of ERP for complex, engineer-to-order companies facing rapid change - right for you?

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Fast Track ERP Implementation: Advice From The Field
Think ERP implementations take months or years? Learn how Colfax Corp. implemented IFS Applications in as little as nine weeks.

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Fire on All Cylinders in Oil & Gas
Unleashing the Value of Integrating Enterprise Planning with Project Execution (An Oracle – IFS Partner White Paper)

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Four Common ERP Implementation Mistakes
Here are four common mistakes an implementation group can make, and suggestions on how to avoid them.

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Front Office Lean - Taking Lean Manufacturing Beyond the Shop Floor
Learn how you can realize real efficiencies by bring lean manufacturing practices like kaizen and takt time to the front office

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Going Lean, Step By Step, with IFS Applications
Learn how IFS Applications can facilitate takt time and order-based shop floor execution, help forecast demand and allow for kaizen costing.

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How to Assure ERP Success: Taking Ownership
CarSound CFO Steve Ragow encourages you to take ownership of and master your ERP system to ensure your success.

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How to Use Projects to Master Asset Management
Why project management functionality tightly integrated with Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools is essential to executives of asset-intensive industries.

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IFS Applications 7.5 Architecture & Technology
With its service-oriented component architecture, IFS Applications accommodates change and agility through step by step implementation and upgrade.

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IFS Applications 7.5 Security
In IFS Applications, security is designed into the framework levels, and augmented with additional security services and tools.

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