Month: August 2004

Bending Toward E-Spending

Old habits die hard, though, and it’s often a struggle to bring suppliers—not to mention your own employees—into the new purchasing order. Tom McBroom implemented

Waste Management: Waste Not

Kristine Schmidt plays a lot of roles depending on what the day has in store for her: project manager, logistics and operations analyst, information-systems expert,

Base Technologies 3

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital uses off-the-shelf software whenever it can. But patient-safety programs, such as those that check for prescription errors or track the status of

Siemens Medical: Invasive Surgery

When it rumbled into the health-care information technology market four years ago, Siemens Medical Solutions promised to redefine the way hospitals create and use information.

Gotcha! False Alarms

Automated systems have a tendency to fill the world with alerts: fire alarms, low-inventory warnings, squawking medical devices in a hospital, and collision alarms in

SAP: No Longer ‘Horrible’

SAP would win the “most improved award” among supplier-relationship management software makers. The company admits it was a latecomer to the SRM fiesta. Moreover, SAP’s