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- How OEM Consumer Electronics Companies Can Dramatically Improve Profits Through Downstream Supply Chain Collaboration Directly With Retailers
- With the nature of OEM Consumer Electronics manufacturers experiencing shrinking product lifecycles and the many business challenges impacting margins, there is no room for operational error or inefficiency. OEM Consumer Electronics companies are continually pressured to improve service levels, product margins, and grow revenue through their distribution channels and retail...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Electronics Company, Collaboration, Consumer Electronics Company, OEM, Engineering, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2008-02-01
Additional Resources
- Best Practices for Customer Support in Consumer Electronics
- The race for convergence has blurred the lines between traditional consumer electronics and high tech companies - resulting in increased competition, shrinking margins, and compressed product life cycles. Integrated and effective support delivery is critical to creating meaningful differentiation, increasing brand loyalty, and ultimately driving higher margins. This webcast explains...
- Tags: Siebel Systems Inc., Electronics, Best Practice, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Webcasts
- Amoi Electronics Wins Consumer Games With IBM Dynamic Infrastructure and SAP
- Amoi Electronics Company Limited manufactures an extensive range of consumer electronics and related products: from 3G telephones to LCD TVs and MP3 players. Success at Amoi Electronics was bringing its own challenges, with IT systems stretched to the limits. The company wished to find a better way to solve the...
- Tags: Game, SAP AG, IBM Corp., 3G, Monitors & Displays, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Strategy, Digital Music, Digital Media, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Components, Home Entertainment, Management
- Case studies 2007-08-15
- mySAP CRM Integrates With Back-Office Software to Support New Online Sales Channel
- Based in Long Beach, Calif., Pioneer Electronics (USA), Inc. (Pioneer) is the sales and marketing arm of the consumer electronics firm Pioneer North America. The company faced challenges wherein the consumer electronics environment was becoming increasingly competitive and price erosion was deteriorating profitability. Pioneer used the mySAP Customer Relationship Management...
- Tags: mySAP, Pioneer Electronics, Environment, Back-office, mySAP CRM, CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
- Case studies
- Supply Chain Collaboration Strategies for the Consumer Electronics Industry
- To succeed in today's competitive electronics marketplace, consumer electronics retailers and manufacturers must operate lean and disciplined supply chains. As the pace of promotional events and product introductions continues to increase, companies often find themselves caught between rapidly changing customer demands and relatively fixed production and logistics constraints. Collaborative planning...
- Tags: Electronics, Oracle Retail Value Chain Collaboration, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Supply Chain, Consumer Electronics, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Personal Technology
- White papers 2005-08-01
- A Pricing, Accounts and Inventory Solution for Consumer Electronics Stores
- F Group is a market-leading consumer electronics group based in Denmark. It planned to merge the 35-strong Fredgaard chain of stores with its Fona and Electric City brands but faced a huge challenge. All of the companies' different IT systems needed to be integrated so that they could communicate with...
- Tags: Electronics, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, F Group, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Case studies
- Maximizing Reuse in Product Communications
- Philips Consumer Electronics (PCE) is one of the world's top three consumer electronics companies, and the largest in Europe. The company wanted simultaneous launch of new products across all markets and reduce translation management overhead and translation costs. The challenge was to reduce 4 month lead time for content to...
- Tags: Web, Philips Consumer Electronics, EMC Corp., Channel Management, Storage, Marketing, Hardware
- Case studies
- The Untold RFID Story: Product Innovation in Electronics
- RFID offers increased efficiency and functionality not only of the supply chain and manufacturing processes, but of electronics products themselves. Information has long been at the top of the list of assets that are most important to customers-the smarter products are, and the more convenience they lend to the life...
- Tags: Innovation, Electronics, Information, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2004-11-05
- LG Electronics Maximizes Efficiency of Global Business With Centralized Oracle Platform
- With 66,000 employees in 76 subsidiaries across 39 countries, LG Electronics, Inc. is one of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world. LG realized that up-to-date business data will speed the decision-making process and help them respond swiftly to market changes. Greater visibility of management data will help promote...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., LG Electronics Inc., Manufacturing
- Case studies
- Ultimate Electronics Selects Marimba to Provide Automated Software Change Management
- Ultimate Electronics, headquartered in Colorado and operating 58 stores across 13 states, is a leading specialty retailer of home entertainment and consumer electronics. Prior to selecting Marimba, Ultimate Electronics performed software distribution projects manually, flying teams of technicians to each of its retail store locations. After evaluating several software management...
- Tags: Software, Software Distribution, Marimba, Software Change Management, Electronics, Tools & Techniques, Retail, Management
- Case studies
- New Age Electronics, Inc. Streamlines Business Processes and Enhances Competitive Advantage
- New Age Electronics, Inc. is the nations leading retail partner delivering an unsurpassed supply chain model to consumer technology retailers and vendors. The company wanted to create an enterprise IT environment that can support the company's rapid growth. The challenge was to streamline business processes and improve operational efficiency and...
- Tags: Business Process, Oracle Corp., Competitive Advantage, Operational Planning, Business Operations
- Case studies
- Photos: Getting the THX thumbs-up
- George Lucas' theater sound certification company is developing technology to automatically adjust consumer electronics' playback settings.
- Tags: George Lucas, theater, consumer electronics, electronics, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-07-20
- MSDN Webcast: Development of Consumer Electronics Devices With Windows XP Embedded (Level 100)
- Windows XP Embedded is being used in a variety of applications, from gaming machines to test equipment to industrial controls. Its support for a variety of hardware and support for multimedia software makes Windows XP Embedded an ideal platform for set-top boxes, car computer, and home entertainment systems. This webcast...
- Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Consumer Electronics, Webcast, Electronics, Windows XP Embedded, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Home Entertainment, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology
- Webcasts 2008-02-21
- IBM Global Engineering Solutions: Consumer Electronics and Digital Media Solutions
- Today's consumer electronics and digital media companies need to differentiate their products with more and better features but at the same time reduce their product development costs. Toward this end, a growing number of businesses are partnering with the IBM Engineering & Technology Services (E&TS) group, which provides unprecedented access...
- Tags: partnership, intellectual property, collaboration, consumer electronics, digital media, electronics, IBM Corp., product design, product development
- White papers 2006-03-01
- IBM Mid-sized Electronics Executive Kit: Delivering innovative products in an ever-changing electronics industry
- In today's highly competitive global environment, successful companies have to anticipate customer needs so they can be first to market—and stay successful. This kit provides you with 5 key materials to help you create new value for the consumer—by developing rapid innovation processes that will keep you at the forefront....
- Tags: industry, IBM Corp., electronics, environment
- Resource centers
- Internet search meets the gadget
- Google co-founder Larry Page and Yahoo CEO Terry Semel will address the crowd at the Consumer Electronics Show, underscoring the convergence of consumer electronics and Internet markets. Many analysts say it's highly unlikely that two companies that have found high-growth and big profits in Internet search will stray into the...
- Tags: SEARCH, Internet
- Discussion threads 2006-01-04
- Philips Consumer Communications Enhances Its Ability to Deliver Highly Stable Software Using Rational Test RealTime
- Philips Consumer Communications (PCC) is a Business Group of Philips Consumer Electronics, a division of Royal Philips Electronics, which is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Philips PCC needed a way to manage, develop and test multiple layers of the same tele-communications software that was being developed by geographically dispersed teams....
- Tags: Software, Rational Test RealTime, IBM Corp., Philips Electronics N.V., Philips Consumer Communications, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Case studies
- Laser-etched laptops
- A new, by-appointment-only business personalizes consumer electronics for customers in New York.
- Tags: New York, electronics, laptop computer, laser, consumer electronics
- Image galleries 2006-12-12
- Electronics Giant Streamlines Collaboration With Adaptive Network Architecture
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in electronics components and a growing force in consumer markets, partnered with HP Services to develop and deploy a dynamic network management environment. They needed to avoid delays in connecting affiliates, partners and suppliers which hindered innovation. The complicated change management increases overhead...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Collaboration, Network, Electronics, Network Architecture, Network Management, HP ANA Environment, Networking, Network Administration
- Case studies
- Delta Electronics Improves Employee and IT Productivity With Unified Messaging Solution
- Delta Electronics is a major supplier of power systems, electronic components, visual displays, and networking products. Because Delta Electronics has research and production facilities, sales offices, and clients located around the world, the company depends primarily on e-mail for international communications. The company's IT department maintains 3,700 e-mail accounts using...
- Tags: Unified Messaging, Information Technology, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, Delta Electronics, E-mail Servers, Groupware, E-mail, VOIP, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Telecommunications, Networking
- Case studies
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