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PLM for Process Industries: Current state and future trends for recipe-driven companies
A co-presentation from AMR Research and Linx/AS

Presented: Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Amid challenging economic forecasts and escalating compliance concerns, product lifecycle management (PLM) strategies take on increasing importance in the success (and survival) in a tight market. Join Jeffrey Hojlo, analyst with AMR Research, and Linx/AS for an hour session to benchmark where companies are with PLM initiatives, the emerging trends in technology investment, and, for SAP customers, what technologies are available to support your PLM business processes.



Best Practices for SAP Environment, Health & Safety:
Establishing the Foundation for Compliance with Accelerated Product Safety

Presented: Thursday, October 16, 2008

Join Linx/AS for a presentation on SAP EH&S capabilities and how SAP Product Safety lays the foundation for complying with REACH and other regulations. In this one-hour session, Linx/AS will share its best practices, gleaned from over 10 years in the SAP EH&S arena, and demonstrate how to accelerate implementation by up to 35%.



SAP EH&S Success Story with MedImmune
"So, Who Ordered the Hexamethyl Death?"
(And Other Tales of Procurement from SAP EH&S)

Presented: Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Join Ron Clot, associate director of EHS at MedImmune, and SAP partner Linx/AS, for a presentation on integrating compliance into procurement with WorkSafe HAZCON™—an SAP NetWeaver-based solution that provides a web front end to Hazardous Substance Management functionality in SAP EH&S.



Global Specification Management in SAP
Unified product data & streamlined user interface

Presented: Thursday, May 1, 2008

The SAP Specification Database delivers robust functionality with the flexibility to configure and manage any number of spec types—from base substances and raw materials to the finished product and its packaging.

Couple this with SAP NetWeaver, and you can tailor portal views and data to specific business roles, such as formulators or packaging engineers.



WorkSafe EVENTS™ - Enterprise Compliance from First Report to Resolution

Presented: Thursday, April 24, 2008

Injuries on the job, hazardous substance spills, damage to equipment— whatever the event, consistent reporting and resolution processes with audit trails are critical to compliance for large organizations. This includes not only investigating and resolving the issue at hand, but also triggering risk assessments to actively manage and monitor workplace compliance threats.

WorkSafe EVENTS™ leverages standard SAP EH&S industrial hygiene and safety (IH&S) functionality, while using SAP Enterprise Portals and SAP NetWeaver to deliver a user interface with greater usability and enhanced workflow.



Compliance for the Global Workplace in SAP

Presented: Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Introduction to web-based WorkSafe Suite—the native SAP NetWeaver application that leverages SAP Environment, Health, & Safety (SAP EH&S) to strengthen and support organizational compliance procedures and reduce exposure to legal risk and brand damage.

SAP Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) has long been the backbone of compliance for businesses around the world. However, the barrier for some organizations is usability, especially as more and more applications of all types migrate to the familiar environment of the web. Learn how WorkSafe Suite from Linx/AS removes this barrier, using SAP NetWeaver technology to bring core SAP R/3 data and functionality to users in a standard web browser.



How Is Your Business Solving the Global Compliance Puzzle?

Presented: Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Get insight into two key pieces for SAP customers: SAP Environment, Health & Safety (SAP EH&S) and Atrion Compliance Suite for EH&S.

REACH, GHS, TSCA and ever-emerging regulations continuously shape the way global companies conduct business. Learn how SAP EH&S and the Atrion Compliance Suite for EH&S provide formula-based industries with a flexible foundation to adapt, comply, and succeed in this rapidly changing landscape.



Best Practices of Global Specification Management

Presented: Thursday, December 14, 2006

Are your specs scattered around the world in Word documents? Unable to recognize duplicate raw materials, unify your specifications, and identify opportunities for significant sourcing savings?

Linx/AS along with AMR Research discuss these and other GSM-related pains and how a well-designed approach to spec management can realize global efficiencies.



Top Five Myths of PLM Exposed

Presented: Thursday, November 9, 2006

A one-hour webcast and Q&A on demystifying Product Lifecycle Management for SAP customers. The presentation will help you sort out the current industry confusion and provide insight on developing a PLM strategy that leverages your investment in SAP technology.



NPDI Series: Fostering Innovation in Process Industries

Session 1: Linx/AS on NPDI and Collaboration
Presented: Wednesday, October 5, 2005

This kick-off session to the webinar series will introduce the strategic concept of New Product Development and Introduction, providing the business context for supporting technologies. Linx/AS will then offer its hands-on industry insight as well as mySAP PLM demonstrations surrounding collaborationˆ…a fundamental component for fostering product innovation and speed to market.

Collaboration, specifically surrounding cProject Suite and data import to the Specification Database, is a crucial starting point when discussing NPDI, as it helps organizations streamline internal business processes, supply-chain communication, idea generation, and data exchange.



Session 2: Formulation: Closing the Gaps in SAP for Process Industry
Presented: Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Satisfying the creative needs of R&D and structured requirements of manufacturing is a difficult task, especially in SAP-centric organizations. In session 2, Linx/AS unveils an integrated solution, DevEX for SAP, designed to bridge known gaps in mySAP PLM (particularly Recipe Management), while bringing added functionality that is sure to appeal to everyone, from chemists to the CIO.



Session 3: Going to Market with Momentum
Presented: Wednesday, November 16, 2005

A great concern for our clients is the smooth and fast transfer of approved lab formulas from a formulation system(s) to the production systemsˆ… a typical bottleneck in the process that adds unnecessary delays to market and in some cases causes loss of sales.

Session 3 will explore and demo the automation of transferring the R&D or lab formulas, materials and specifications to SAP, thus reducing or even eliminating the manual duplication of data between systems.



Session 4: Managing the Big Picture
Presented: Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Putting NPDI technology in place is vital, but how can executives effectively wield its power to make strategic business decisions? How do you evaluate new ideas, product portfolio, and project progress?

Session 4 moves to a management perspective, demonstrating tools such as xPD, xRPM, and Linx/AS IPM, which actively mine the enterprise to identify opportunity and benchmark performance.