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Top 3 Survival Tips for Manufacturing
1. Have visibility into what is selling
2. Streamline your product offering based on sales
3. Customize your supply chain to your product offering and demand signal (Read as “educate the supply chain of the product based on sales”)
A manufacturing operation that is disconnected from sales is bound to have high inventory and poor capital utilization – both being extremely detrimental to profitability. continue reading »
How Fat is Your Supply Chain?
An overwhelming number of products today fit into one of these two categories: configurable products or products with a fixed bill of materials (BOM). Configurable products are also called Dynamic Configurations. Fixed bill of material products are also called Static Configurations (typically for off the shelf products like pencils, shampoo, etc).
Companies offer configurable products to allow customers the luxury of mixing and matching feature choices in order to customize the products they want to buy. continue reading »
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Why am I typing my Connections Again and Again ……
Do I have to do this all over again?
Didn’t I do it right the first time?
Do I have to do this all over again?
How many times do I have to enter the connections…?
Didn’t I? Didn’t I? continue reading »
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LivingSocial and Amazon – Connecting Social Commerce and Retail
Social commerce should connect with e-commerce and retail. We all know that. But here is a great example of how it’s done. Amazon has invested in LivingSocial. For those of you know who have not heard about LivingSocial, it’s like Groupon… they just make less noise. LivingSocial offer deals per day in multiple cities for restaurants, bars, spas, comedy clubs, sporting events, theaters, classes….etc. continue reading »
Pattern Based Strategy: A New Trend That Will Impact CFOs
When the Financial Times starts writing about a topic, you know it’s going main stream. The article in FT.com mentions Gartner’s major trends that will dramatically alter IT and drive economic change over the next ten years.
The first three trends are – cloud computing, context aware computing and social networks. These three trends are “pure” technology trends that have already been the subject of much discussion and debate continue reading »
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‘Search’ is ineffective for highly perishable content
Reposting a great blog article from blog.gabacus.com
Highly perishable content changes fast, really fast, … just as the term ‘highly perishable’ suggests. Search is based on a Q&A session, where the dialogue beings with the user having to state what they are looking for, with a few key words. This process can take time. It is a trial and error sort of dialogue… can also be quite frustrating….as most folks will tell you about their experience with Google. continue reading »
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