Monthly Archives: July 2007
RFID And Logistics Management
By Alexander Gordon Logistics assets that have a circular flow are an essential part of the distribution network of any business. These assets are often reusable such as totes, racks, bins and roll cages, shipping containers, gas containers etc. used to transport goods from one place to another. Procuring, maintaining and managing these assets often … Continue reading
Logistics Software
By Ken Marlborough Logistics software is a computer program which is used to make the process of logistics services more reliable and accurate. Logistics management is a science of planning, organizing, and executing activities for delivering the required goods or services in the right location at the right time. Modern technologies, communication links, and control … Continue reading
Supply Chain KPI’s – Understanding Supply Chain Metrics and Choosing the Right KPI’s to Measure
By Sam Miller Getting your supply chain management right can give your business competitive advantage by lowering costs, greater efficiency and improving customer satisfaction by getting goods to customers faster. The impact of technology with the use of RFID tags to track pallets and shipments electronically and merging this into the stock and order management … Continue reading
The Challenges of Leadership in a Global Marketplace
By Susan West Leadership in a competitive marketplace is extremely challenging. You must always be scanning the horizon, looking for the next critical trend, while still paying attention to the here and now. The challenge increases in difficulty exponentially when your marketplace is not only competitive, but global as well. Dealing with cultural differences Many … Continue reading
5 Practices of Extraordinary Leaders
By Allison Babb After extensively researching ten thousand leaders and fifty thousand staff members, the authors of the book The Leadership Challenge uncovered 5 principles for how leaders get extraordinary things accomplished in organizations across the globe. While in my senior management roles, I read The Leadership Challenge book and also attended their leadership training. … Continue reading
Leadership Style and Motivating Employees
By Patricia Weber Honeymoon Over There’s a honeymoon period in work that lasts about six months on average. Employees start out with high trust and enthusiasm. The employer is benefiting from both the aptitude and the attitude. After this phase, an employees’ motivation drops. While we hired the best match aptitude, we now have lost … Continue reading
How To Be A Good Team Leader
By Steve Hill What makes a good team leader? Should the team leader be very strict, very friendly or something some where in the middle? A few years ago I was promoted to the role of team leader after spending two years as being a member of the same team. I was not exactly sure … Continue reading
Accounting – Three Major Areas
By Michael Russell There are three major functional areas in accounting, which need to be considered in modern day accounting for any business. The three are financial, cost and management accounting. The first area, namely financial accounting, is primarily useful for ascertaining the results of the business on a periodical basis; for example, one year. … Continue reading
A Basic Introduction to Accounts Receivables
By Ajeet Khurana If one were to reduce business to the simplest terms, one would probably call it the selling of goods by one person, and the buying of those same goods by another. Thus, whether we pay cash or run up a tab while doing business, money has to change hands during the course … Continue reading
Steps To Prepare Income And Expenditure Account
By Anil_Kumar_Gupta The steps are as follows: 1. Ignore opening and dosing cash and bank balances appearing in receipts and payments account. 2. Eliminate all items of capital receipts and payments. 3. Ascertain income of the relevant year by deducting from the total receipts the income received on account of previous and future years and … Continue reading