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Lean Principles and IT Demand Management
IT spending level is typically based on historical or competitive benchmark levels. Given the current global economic climate many IT organizations face frozen budgets and cost-cutting efforts and this puts a squeeze on many innovative initiatives in the backlog. The only way for folks to get more done for less will be to plan and prioritize the IT portfolio based on strategic fit, business value, risk, and complexity.

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Practical Considerations for Evaluating the Benefits of a Low Cost Country Sourcing Strategy
Is low cost country sourcing still a viable alternative for domestic companies that are looking to improve their bottom line? It is imperative for companies to consider all of the financial and risk management factors in determining the best source for new and existing parts and components.

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Effective Application Outsourcing: The Importance of Provider / Client Relationships
Success with the outsourcing of information technology to key service providers continues to elude some organizations. By examining commonalities found through multiple successful outsourcing engagements, conclusions about the definition of how the engagement is managed (governance) can be drawn and applied to future engagements.

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Business Impact Analysis: Foundation For Operational Risk Management
This white paper explains the relationship of BIA to each of the elements of operational risk management (ORM). It describes the components and process of BIA, and demonstrates how BIA can be leveraged to drive ORM programs and expenditures. The intended audience includes organizational senior managers, operational risk managers, and functional managers.

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Reducing the Excess: Using Vendor-Managed Inventory to Improve Productivity Without Sacrificing Customer Service
In this white paper, we discuss several aspects of vendor-managed inventory, including the business drivers behind its increasing popularity, risks associated with VMI, and implementation considerations. In addition, we provide a case study of a VMI system recently implemented at a major auto parts distribution company for use with its customers (auto dealers). After reading this white paper, you will have a greater understanding of the “what,” “why,” and “how” behind VMI, and will be able to determine if VMI is right for your organization.

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SAP Supply Chain Execution Solutions: IM, WM AND EWM - Which Solution is Right for You?
There are currently three options available for the SAP user who wants to optimize warehouse processes, including inventory management (IM), warehouse management (WM) and the latest development, extended warehouse management (EWM). This white paper describes those three options to help you determine which option best meets your organization needs.

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Process Automation for the Procurement of Direct Materials
This paper will present an analysis of a plan-driven procurement process for direct materials. This analysis includes not only the activities and steps in such a process, but also the data sets associated with each activity. Automation of this process will be explored to highlight where an organization can find process improvements that lead to positive impact on the bottom line. Several recent studies are referenced to identify the benefits companies have obtained by automating the plan-driven direct procurement process. Purchasing executives can use this information to analyze their own direct material procurement processes to determine what benefits might be obtained.

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10 Things To Know About ITO: Determining if IT Operations Outsourcing is Right For You
This white paper offers 10 important things to know about IT operations outsourcing to help you understand the relevance of ITO outsourcing, determine if ITO outsourcing is right for your organization, evaluate outsourcing partners, and be aware of important factors that influence the success or failure of ITO outsourcing engagements.

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Achieving Best Practice Performance In Automotive Parts Distribution
Globalization and structural issues have caused the automotive market to become more competitive than ever, with pressure to deliver increasing levels of service at lower costs. The companies that establish themselves as dominant players in this market will have a streamlined supply chain that can deliver extraordinary customer service levels. Additionally, the flexibility to handle a variety of value added processes as easily as standard processes will be a requirement for success.

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Conquering the Challenge of Global SAP Implementations: SAP Rollout Strategies and Best Practices
Implementing SAP on a global scale presents many challenges and issues that require careful planning and preparation. This whitepaper provides strategies and best practices on how to proactively manage challenges that arise for an international SAP project. It also evaluates various approaches to template development plans and rollout strategies. This whitepaper is a hands-on guide, based on real-life lessons learned, that IT and business leaders can use to achieve successful international SAP implementations.

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Best-of-breed Warehouse Management Systems vs. ERP Applications: Is the Gap Narrowing?
This paper describes the strengths and weaknesses of best-of-breed and ERP providers and potential future trends in the WMS space. This paper provides the specific functionality, technology, and risk criteria you should consider to help you select the best WMS solution for your organization.

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The Five Key Ways Transportation Management Systems Can Rapidly Reduce Costs by up to 30 Percent
Maintaining competitive advantage in today's demanding business environment requires continual process improvement and cost reduction. Many companies focus on transportation in an effort to control supply chain costs and help ensure timely shipments. Recently, however, effective transportation management has become more complex due to several industry trends.

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in Supply Chain: Roadmap for the Future
RFID technology is one of the hottest topics for retailers, manufacturers, and other industries where added visibility and control over items in the supply chain can provide competitive advantage. In our white paper, we introduce the concept, explain how it works, and offer some ideas for how to put it to work in your organization.

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Selecting a Warehouse Management System: Strategies and Tactics
Learn how to leverage supply chain software to reduce costs, improve profitability and drive bottom-line results across your supply chain processes.

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Maximizing ROI and Getting More from Your JDA MMS
Join CIBER and our client (a major retailer), for our 60-minute webinar focusing on specific merchandise management challenges and best practices for meeting those challenges in order to achieve the greatest return from your investment in MMS.

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26 Feb 2010
CIBER Introduces Solution For Sophisticated Manufacturing Industry
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07 Jul 2009
CIBER Launches SAP® Business All-In-One Solution For Fabricated Metal Industry
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MOPAR CIBER implements vendor-managed inventory distribution model and establishes long-term support methodology for MOPAR, the aftermarket parts division of Chrysler.

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Annin Co.
CIBER Implements New ERP System for Annin, Largest Manufacturer of United States Flags
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Cessna
CIBER Designs, Develops and Deploys Decision Support Solution
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“CIBER had a proven track record of efficient project management and achieving results according to plan. They brought in talented, dynamic personnel that became partners in the design and execution of the project.”

Jerry Quell — Senior Manager of Inventory Planning, MOPAR

“The expansion of our efforts with CIBER is a logical progression of the long-term relationship between our companies. Leveraging CIBER’s attention to detail and understanding of our environment, we continue to improve customer service, deliver significant projects and strengthen our JSOX control environment.”

George Dramalis — Associate Vice President, Information Systems/CIO, Sharp Electronics Corporation

“Because of the joint efforts of the General Moly implementation team and CIBER, General Moly now has a functional ERP system that is providing us the opportunity to implement and refine our business processes. Our choice to use CIBER for implementation of the SAP solution, as well as the complete hosting and IT outsourcing services, allows us to have a single, integrated platform. We will continue to partner with CIBER and share our mining expertise to help them further refine their mining solution.”

Donna Peske — IT Manager, General Moly

“Partnering with CIBER will allow us to focus on developing the Mt. Hope project, and leave the management of our SAP implementation with a fully qualified implementation partner. Their extensive experience with the SAP Mining solution made them a natural choice to partner with for our operations.”

Lee Shumway — Director of Business Processes and Information Technology, General Moly

“We needed to replace our aging legacy systems, which worked well for us for many years, but which could not accommodate our changing needs. We needed a system to integrate data and simplify our business processes, and to provide us with support in terms of software upgrades.”

Lu McDonald — Vice President, Finance, Gramercy Alumina LLC

“CIBER really delivered. There were no surprises, no downtime, and we were shipping product on the very first day with the new system. The project went better than we could have imagined. We selected CIBER because they have a strong track record and could handle all technical and business aspects of the project—the upgrade, retrofitting modifications, business process assessment, testing, and support—so we didn’t have to manage a host of vendors. They proposed a very low-risk methodology for the project, and they followed it to the letter.”

Gordon Bentley — Chief Information Officer, Astro-Med

“The leadership team is excited about the benefits mySAP SRM will bring to our company. Enabling a closed loop process between us and our suppliers is important to our future and our suppliers’ productivity. CIBER’s successful mySAP SRM track record, combined with a company culture of following through on commitments, were key differentiators.”

John Bartho — CIO, NACCO Materials Handling Group

“Leveraging CIBER's technology and business experience maximizes our core intelligence offering, resulting in improved program cycle time and greater service to all of our customers. ”

Kelly Garcia — Manager, Application Development, R. L. Polk & Co.

For more information about our Manufacturing services & solutions, please contact:

303.267.3876
rcaputo@ciber.com

Robin Caputo
VP, Marketing

Our capabilities include project management, configuring the solution applications, technical and functional consulting, converting legacy data, and much more. We've partnered with such firms as Cessna, Ford Motor Company and Minolta to concept and execute the solutions that create the solid infrastructure that allows for growth into e-business.

CIBER understands the focus on common value chains for manufacturing and mining business units. Our experience has taught us that the way an enterprise faces its market drives business processes. Companies that have common value chains share common problems and a common terminology. At CIBER, we use our knowledge and experience across manufacturing and mining industry sectors to guide our clients to increased production through streamlined processes.

We help clients across a broad range of manufacturing sectors:

Aerospace & Defense — CIBER’s Aerospace and Defense solutions allows organizations to rapidly design technologically superior products in a collaborative environment. Our expertise in the industry ensures streamlined production processes ensuring all services and solutions meet the most stringent tolerances. The CIBER All-in-One Aerospace and Defense solution provides accurate forecasts of sales quotas and operating budgets. This supplies decision makers with the necessary information to correctly assess their organization’s capabilities.
Automotive — Since 1974 CIBER has been supporting the automotive manufacturers and suppliers with technology services and solutions that help them improve production and manage costs. Our expertise with planning, implementation, and effective use of emerging information technologies helps those in the automotive industry better meet their business requirements.
High Tech — Our technology clients choose us because they need a partner who understands their industry, their customers, and their employees. Our experience across the semiconductor, computer hardware and software, and electronic equipment industry has helped our clients harness advanced technologies to achieve explicit business outcomes.
Industrial Manufacturing — CIBER partners with companies in the industrial products, metals and construction sector to help them optimize business, meet business requirements, expand production and reallocate capital for reinvestment.
Mining — CIBER is a certified SAP for Mining partner and has successfully implemented Core Mining All-In-One Solution for some of the leading small and mid-sized mining companies across the globe.

“SAP and its partners offer midsize companies the solutions they need to help them weather the current economic storm and grow their businesses profitably. With the CIBER Fabricated Metal A1 Solution, a qualified SAP Business All-in-One partner solution, customers can leverage CIBER’s expertise in the fabricated metals industry toward achieving their objectives of improved growth, lower costs and better understanding of business processes.”

Tom Cooper — Senior Vice President, SME, SAP America, Inc.

CIBER provides the following services to our manufacturing clients:

Manufacturing Clients

Here are just a few of our Manufacturing clients:

Annin Co.
Alcoa
Boise Cascade
Cessna
Ford Motor Company
General Motors
Mercedes Benz
Minolta
Monsanto
Philips
Quick Pak
Westinghouse Corporation