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The Migration to Retail S&OP
By Ron Ireland · 13 years ago
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) has been considered a best practice in the manufacturing industry for the past 25 years. Initially started as a process to balance demand and supply, retail S&OP has evolved to ...
Stop, Collaborate and Engage: Small Business Communication Tools for Entrepreneurs to Navigate the Social Media Seas
By Jon Harmer · 13 years ago
From smoke signals and carrier pigeons to smartphones and their ubiquitous apps, the way people interact across distances has drastically evolved. With each passing year, innovation appoints a new form of communication as revolutionary while ...
12 Tips to Maximize IT Expenditures and Improve Business Productivity
By Jonas Fruge · 13 years ago
Now more than ever, small businesses need ways to drive and improve business productivity and maximize investments on each small business IT solution in order to deliver excellent customer service and accelerate revenues. The good ...
Don't Be Vulnerable to Small Business Security Threats: Avoid These Common Mistakes to Protect Critical Data
By Tom Collins · 14 years ago
It's not a matter of if, but when. You might think that as a small business owner, your company is not a target for malicious hackers or attacks, but this couldn't be farther from the ...
Anti-Spam: The Solution to All Your Unsolicited Email Problems
By Jon Harmer · 14 years ago
Everybody hates unwanted email or spam, and without an effective anti-spam solution in place, it costs US companies an estimated $21.8 billion annually (citation: Information Week, "Spam Costs Billions"), including infrastructure and bandwidth costs and ...