11 June 2002
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A new software suite has been launched to offer medium-sized companies a total enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. Platinum Software Corporation’s ERA (enterprise ready applications) includes financial, sales and marketing, customer service management, supply chain management, distribution and manufacturing modules.
UK electricity prices for industrial users are the fourth most expensive in the European Union, according to a survey of published tariffs by the Electricity Association.
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Suppliers to Nissan’s Sunderland plant may still lose out to the French despite Nissan’s announcement last week that the new Micra will be built in the UK. Nissan remains committed to a 30 per cent cost reduction programme by 2003 and up to 75 per cent of the Micra parts could be sourced within the euro-zone.
A National Audit office (NAO) report has suggested that IT orders placed by the Home Office to upgrade the probation service’s computer system may have been illegal.
IT managers have disputed the belief that there is a skills shortage for implementing business-to-business technology software, according to a study by software group BSOFTB. Of the 500 IT directors interviewed by BSOFTB, more than four-fifths said there was no shortage of skills.