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Success by Creativity

It is good to see companies making progress in creativity, despite the overall air of commercial trepidation still hanging around.

I would like to bring your attention to two fantastic "ideas" that are now being commercialized. The first is a new design by Tony Pike of Flat Technologies, who like the rest of us was rather annoyed at sitti

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Added by Mark Oldfield on July 28, 2010 at 12:58am — No Comments

Storage Optimisation for SMBs

I found small operators often get stuck regards their warehouse, they are in that situation of being too big for where they are but not quite big enough to justify going to where they would like to be.

I found a good alternative to hiring expensive ‘specialists’ or attempting to do it solo is to get the help of racking and goods handling vendors. It is in their own interest to review your situation and present a viable plan. Obviously they will have a commercial interest which should n… Continue

Added by Mark Oldfield on June 28, 2010 at 3:18pm — No Comments

Operations Reporting 101

I am interested to know, how many people have designed their own reports and struggle with obtaining data and/or formatting it into Excel. Or do they get others to do the setup for them. Do you have any ideas you have used to help facilitate the process?

The reason I ask is, I have often heard people talk about how difficult it is to put reports together – in Excel. Some of the reasons are that the information is not readily availabl

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Added by Mark Oldfield on May 30, 2010 at 10:34pm — No Comments

Hospital Inventory

Hospitals have now, not only the opportunity but also the incentive to reduce their capital tied up in inventory. By reassessing their supply agreements the hospitals can also improve the supply of stock. I have written more at http://newpaddockenterprises.com/ ; (see entry 06 May 2010).
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Added by Mark Oldfield on May 10, 2010 at 12:30am — No Comments

The M's of 21st century business

We've all heard of the 4Ms : Men, Money, Material and Machines. These are all 20th century concepts ! The 21st century beckons us to these additional and less recognised Ms and more importantly the changes that these have undergone - these M's will control our destiny : Manufacturing : Manufacturing processes have undergone a sea change. From the old 20th century concepts of "made to order" and "made to stock" we have moved to new concepts of manufacturing like "just-in-time (JIT)" , m… Continue

Added by Krishna Kumar on August 5, 2009 at 11:06pm — No Comments

Is it Logistics or is it Supply Chain? That is the question

As a first post I though I might ask the obvious but yet not so obvious question. Is it Logistics or is it Supply Chain? That is the question. Can anyone tell me the difference? Is there a definition for each? And is there another emerging word/ terminology that I am aware of? Personally I would of thought it was called Demand Chain. After all Supply can only follow the demand- that the comsumer generates. Or is that already another concept altogether. ...any comments? Continue

Added by Joene Baker on July 13, 2009 at 10:06am — 3 Comments

Effective and Efficient Supply Chain

Good morning folks ! Is your Supply Chain effective and efficient ? If you are groaning with pain right now, I empathise with you. Because sadly the bulk of the worlds supply chains are still grossly complicated, lengthy and not delivering what they are meant to. Yes there are the well known exceptions - the Wall Marts, the Macdonalds, Amazon.com, Toyota, Honda...But there have also been a few lesser lights who have shot into prominence as a result of putting their dollars and effort into payi… Continue

Added by Krishna Kumar on June 26, 2009 at 12:53pm — No Comments

Happy New Year! Or is it.

2009 has begun and we are all still talking about the GEC of 2008, what does it mean? The press are still being pessimistic and we may be still just a little concerned how the year will recover. Will it recover? All questions that I’m sure we will have a better understanding as the year progresses. What I do know, is the significant interest in working capital reduction. Cash is KING and no more so now where this will allow organisations to battle the storm and allow flexibility. As we have seen… Continue

Added by Peter Blashki on January 15, 2009 at 8:39am — 2 Comments

My first Blog Post

Hi, Thought I test out this blog thingy and see what happens.... not sure where it will go or end up... Anyone else blogging on this site? Why would you do it? Continue

Added by Angelina on January 13, 2009 at 1:41pm — 1 Comment

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