Red Devil slashes MIS costs. (management information systems) From: Communications News | Date: May 1, 1993 | COPYRIGHT 1993 Nelson Publishing. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Red Devil has reduced its management information systems (MIS) budget by 1.8 percent of sales in three years. The company has also reduced inventory by $2 million. The company downsized to a client/server networking environment from the aged IBM 4361 VM/VSE mainframe that had been running its manufacturing operation. The company has updated its manufacturing operations and now uses an implementation of CIIM on Oracle from Avalon Software. The company's downsizing to an open Unix environment r...

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