• Draw inspiration from your company’s greatest assets

    • December 25, 2015
    • Posted by: corza
    • Category: Competitive research, Uncategorized
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    In particular, the company’s sales and operations planning capabilities were initially limited, which hindered its ability to account for fluctuations in demand or raw material lead times in production and distribution. Improve sales, operations, and production planning.

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  • Three Social Media Tips for the Busy Entrepreneur

    • December 25, 2015
    • Posted by: corza
    • Category: Innovation, Uncategorized
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    The teams focused their efforts on a few of the most critical S&OP levers in order to review the current planning process, identify gaps in the planning infrastructure, and gain a deeper analytical understanding of demand and supply variability.

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  • Stick to Your Plan, but Do Your Research

    • December 25, 2015
    • Posted by: corza
    • Category: Economics, Uncategorized
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    With hundreds of medications on the market, Pharm Ltd. needed a reliable method to forecast and manage its inventory. Using mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) analysis, the teams determined appropriate inventory levels for raw materials and finished products through mapping.

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  • Narrow Your Focus to Avoid Overanalyzing

    • December 14, 2015
    • Posted by: corza
    • Category: Franchising, Uncategorized
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    What is this highly valuable asset? Its own people. As Morgan Fraud, the author of *The Thinking Corporation*, puts it, “Given that we are all capable of contributing new ideas, the question becomes: How do you successfully generate, capture, process, and implement ideas?”

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