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Online Best Practices: Selling to research-driven customers
Learn how Future Electronics, a $4 billion international distributor of electronic components, has applied the best practices of retail ecommerce to the sourcing and research-driven world of B2B ecommerce. Duration: 45 minutes.
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Increasing sales and satisfaction on your B2B website
Learn how Software House International (SHI), a $3 billion distributor of computer products, greatly enhanced their user experience and increased revenues by re-designing their website to deliver more customized online catalogs for millions of products. Duration = 60 minutes.
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Evolving eBusiness through information access
Learn how RS Components, a $1.5 billion B2B catalog for Electrocomponents plc, centralized their product information technology for use by over 1.6 million engineers. Hear from CIO, Richard Boynett, discuss RS Components IT vision for supporting a customer-centric business strategy using advanced information access technologies. Duration: 30 minutes.
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Driving Revenue through Navigation, Search & Retrieval Technology
Learn how the advances in navigation, search & retrieval technology is allowing manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to increase online revenues and gain competitive advantage. Hear Fastenal -- one of America's largest industrial and construction distributors -- discuss how an investment in Product Information Management (PIM) and Master Data Management (MDM) initiatives can be best capitalized through the use of advanced information access technology.
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Discovering Warranty Exposure Before It's Too Late
High warranty costs and customer dissatisfaction with poor quality products are nightmares that manufacturing executives cannot ignore. Getting the information required to identify warranty issues before you’re at risk requires visibility across the entire supply chain, which most organizations to date have not achieved. Hear AMR Research Manufacturing Analyst, Simon Jacobson, discuss how unified information discovery provides everyone from engineers to warranty executives with new insight to improve product designs, sources, and processes.
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Driving Part Cost Reductions in the Supply Chain
As an AMR 2009 Supply Chain Excellence Award Winner, Harris designed and implemented a breakthrough supply chain strategy that revolutionized their new product development and sourcing processes, reducing their costs and directly impacting their supply chain benchmarks. Hear Harris Corporation's VP of Supply Chain Operations, Leon Shivamber, speak on how they provide internal visibility across a multitude of critical engineering and supply chain systems to improve decision making and directly impact results.
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Best Practice for Design Engineers: Rethinking How New Product Decisions are Made
Are you challenged with gaining the information visibility you need to make critical decisions that impact cost, performance and reliability of your new products? If so, you are not alone. Hear AMR Research PLM expert Mike Burkett and Vice President of Manufacturing of Endeca, David Caruso, talk about how to overcome this challenge by understanding best practices and industry trends and seeing how manufacturing leaders are leveraging a breakthrough in information visibility.
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Closing the Information Gap between Procurement, Engineering, and Manufacturing
Hear how Harris uses Endeca to span multiple divisions and unite information from systems that include Oracle Agile product lifecycle management; PartMiner component information, Dun & Bradstreet business information, and key supplier systems-as well as several custom applications-creating a massive index of more than 70 million records.
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Information Visibility: The New Competitive Advantage of Product Design & Sourcing
Does your company struggle to make the best product design and sourcing decisions due to lack of visibility to all the disparate data sources in your enterprise supply chain? Hear Endeca customer Raytheon discuss how they solved their data overload challenge facing their product designers and procurement managers.
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Reacting to Changing Economy: Three Ways to Address Strategic Sourcing's Vulnerability
Even if your business is booming, in today's changing economy your ability to keep competitive and stay ahead of supply chain challenges is tied to close contact and visibility of your key suppliers. Hear Mickey North Rizza of AMR Research as she presents an overview of the sourcing marketplace, and participates in an interactive discussion with Kevin Reale of Endeca.
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Information Visibility Challenges in Product Lifecycle Management
With information visibility needs of Design Engineers growing at exponential rates, the tools required to address these needs must extend the boundaries of current PLM offerings. Download this webinar to learn five "must haves" for best-in-class information visibility implementations.
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Finding the Next Level of Savings and Competitive Advantage from Sourcing
Every supply chain executive knows competitive cost advantage is getting hard to come by. Unfortunately, traditional sourcing and supplier rationalization approaches are coming up short for companies that need to drive next-level or second-wave savings in categories that they've already sourced strategically. Learn from customer examples just how these innovative organizations have used Endeca's Discovery applications to take their sourcing performance to the next level.
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