Manufacturing Industry

Manufacturing Industry

Manufacturing companies are integrating their business processes with packaged software, implementing EDI to collaborate with trading partners, applying Web-procurement applications to streamline purchasing, and instituting online self-service systems to let partners complete transactions without intermediaries. Implementing these technologies is giving manufacturing companies an edge over competitors by reducing their costs, offering faster deliveries, and improving customer service.

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Below is a chart on the insurance industry's statistics gathered by Information Week Magazine since 1995. Click on the links to view Information Week's pdf* charts.

	1999	1998	1997	1996	1995
Rank
Company
Application Development
E-Business
Customer Management
Business Processes/ ERP
Data Access
Revenue
Income (Loss)
Revenue Change
Income Change
Total Employees
Revenue per Employee
IT Employees
IT Budget
% Outsourcing
% Internet
Selling on Web
Procurement on the Web
% Reengineer
% Client Server

Source: InformationWeek Online, InformationWeek 500 Industry Charts

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