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News Release from: American Technical Publishers | Subject: Putting the Internet to Work - book
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 June 2002
Looking at exactly what e-business is
all about
Business in Manufacturing: Putting the Internet to Work in the Industrial Enterprise takes a look at the convergence of business, communications and what they mean for manufacturing industries.
Business in Manufacturing: Putting the Internet to Work in the Industrial Enterprise takes a detailed look at the convergence of business, communications, and computing, and what they mean for the manufacturing industry The authors, Shari L
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 15 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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In order to survive and thrive in the electronic age, manufacturers must change the way they buy tools, parts, raw materials, and even services.
They must integrate the electronic world with the real world of materials, manufacturing processes, and fulfilment.
e-Business in Manufacturing provides real world suggestions and examples of how manufacturers can utilise the Internet to drive change in an efficient and electronically enabled way.
The authors provide manufacturers with practical user advice backed up by real case histories and give enough detail to start the reader down their own transformation path.
Some of the topics covered in this book include streamlining information delivery and customer service to improve customer support; automating and aggregating purchasing to cut handling and inventory costs; integrating the manufacturing process into the supply chain; and bringing distributors into e-commerce initiatives to preserve key customer relationships and support services.
Readers will learn how to integrate e-business into their manufacturing stream.
E-manufacturing covers a wide range of applications from product design and development to customer service to enterprise resource planning.
Using the Internet will help manufacturers minimize both time and costs by delivering information and products at incredible speeds.
e-Business is here to stay.
It is vital that manufacturers make the most of it.
e-Business in Manufacturing is available through American Technical Publishers www.ameritech.co.uk and sells for GBP 49.00.
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