MacFarlane Packaging, the Glasgow-based plastics and packaging company, has signed a contract worth £3 million with the IBS UK, the enterprise software vendor, for its ERP (enterprise resource planning) system. Dean ...

“Manufacturers cannot afford to admit defeat and must look to ways of long-term survival. This may simply mean making sure that promises are fulfilled, customer service is improved and manufacturing operations are kept ...

You’re not going to generate extra sales through e-business: “research shows … any sales brought in through e-business channels just replaced those from other channels.” So says marketing director of manufacturing SME ...

Mid market enterprise software vendor JD Edwards has radically changed its approach to customer relationship management (CRM). The firm is to acquire privately held US CRM software developer YouCentric, sever links with ...

Bristol-based defence and nuclear engineering project management company, Strachan & Henshaw, will purchase £800,000 worth of UGS software to replace its existing 2D drafting, 3D modelling and PDM (product data ...

For engineers who develop complex products from start to finish, design software vendor Solidworks’ new Office suite can offer them a wide range of productivity and presentation tools to help them bring more ...

UK and European small to medium size businesses (SMEs – 10 to 499 employees in this case) are turning to the Internet ahead of their European counterparts to gain competitive edge and increase efficiency in difficult ...

Supply chain planning (SCP) and supply chain execution (SCE), historically quite separate applications, are becoming more compatible and coherent, according to analyst ARC. Brian Tinham

In its latest report on content management, industry analyst AMR Research advises that suppliers now need to invest in moving their product content online, if they haven’t already, even though the initial costs may be ...

Performance is officially up 50% on Hewlett-Packard’s Netserver lp1000r and lp2000r systems, equipped with the new Intel Pentium III/512 processors, according to the company today.