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Inventory Quality Ratio - An Inventory Reduction Metric, Method & Tool
IQR is an inventory management system that helps prevent the formation of excess and obsolete inventory. That means less money in inventory, lower carrying costs, and increased capital to operate your business. IQR is an abbreviation for Inventory Quality Ratio. IQR provides unique analytical tools to effectively reduce your inventory levels and improve the quality of that inventory. Said another way, IQR is an inventory management system that includes a metric, a method and a tool that helps you reduce inventory and keep it down.
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:2,401Uploaded:02 / 25 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionInventory Quality Ratio, IQR, Inventory Management Metric, Method and Tool
Inventory Management System focused on helping companies reduce inventory
Category:Brochures/CatalogsReads:2,481Uploaded:01 / 27 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionMeasuring Supply Chain Performance
Measuring Supply Chain Performance Doug Howardell dhowardell@InventoryPerformance.com Supply chain management is really about the management of inventories. Because you can't manage what you can't measure, to excel at supply chain management you need an excellent measure of inventory performance. Inventory turns is the defacto measure of inventory performance for most supply chain managers but it is not a very useful metric for those who are actually charged with managing inventory. Turns is bac
Category:Magazines/NewspapersReads:1,506Uploaded:01 / 23 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionGetting Your Boss to Change
It is a fact of nature that organisms only change when there is sufficient fear or pain. It is a fact of nature that companies only change if there is a significant emotional event threatening to bring real fear or pain. ! This article will explain why the boss resists change and will identify specific ways bosses react when faced with threatening change. I’ll explain the specific tools and techniques and tell you a story about how I used these methods in a real situation. After you read this, please share your stories about times when you were or were not able to get your boss to change. You can share your story by leaving a comment on Scribd or in an email directly to me.
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:2,679Uploaded:01 / 23 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionHow To Improve Customer Service
Tips on How to Improve Customer Service including: Definition of Customer Service Customer Service Improvement Focus Areas Customer Service Assessment / Needs Analysis Improvement Priority After you read this, please comment on other ideas you have to improve customer service or tells us stories of good and bad customer service that you've experienced. You can either comment here directly on Scribd.com or in a email to me.
Category:Magazines/NewspapersReads:603Uploaded:01 / 23 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionGrab Life by the Balls
This is an incomplete work in progress. I would love to get feedback on the content and style. Please comment at length. After you read this, please share your reaction. You can share your thoughts by leaving a comment on Scribd or in an email directly to me. Summary: Do you want to be in control of your life or are you content with having someone else in control? The answer to those questions is the starting point to living the life you want to live and not just getting by day to day. This highly energetic, motivational, and slightly irreverent book is about controlling your life. It’s about you knowing who you are, what you want, and getting what you want. This talk will include stuff like: The Secret Formula for Getting What You Want The patented Suckiness Test Grabbing control of your career and your life
Category:How-To Guides/ManualsReads:2,201Uploaded:01 / 22 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionLean People for A Lean Enterprise
Lean People for a Lean Enterprise By Doug Howardell Lean! Lean! Lean! They’re chanting it in corporate boardrooms around the globe. Yet, the reality is that only a few companies have achieved any significant measure of Lean-ness. Why are companies struggling to get Lean? Is it lack of top management commitment? I don’t think so. The top guys want all the bottom line savings and increased flexibility that Lean promises. Is it a lack of computer systems that support lean? Not at all. Lean doesn’t
Category:Magazines/NewspapersReads:390Uploaded:01 / 22 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionHow To Improve Productivity
How To Improve Productivity Seven Skills of a Highly Productive Workforce by Doug Howardell Customers in the global economy are more demanding than ever before. They can be; there is more competition than ever before. Customers take it for granted that you will deliver a low cost and high quality product or service. Now on top of that, they demand it faster and customized to their individual needs. To be a survivor in the marketplace today you must produce world class quality products and servic
Category:Magazines/NewspapersReads:570Uploaded:01 / 22 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionOver Coming People's Fear of Change
Overcoming People’s Fear of Change By Douglas Howardell Implementing change in an organization, any organization, is a challenge. It’s an undertaking that fails more than it succeeds. The difficulty comes from two areas. The attempt to design a new process that is better than the existing process, and the attempt to get people to accept and embrace the new process. Anybody who has attempted to implement a new business process or new technology will tell you the latter, getting people to change,
Category:Magazines/NewspapersReads:360Uploaded:01 / 22 / 2010ShareAdd to collectionManaging With ERP - A Guide for C Level Managers
Managing Differently After Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning by Doug Howardell Managing Differently After Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning by Doug Howardell The information contained in this article is based on the results of a poll of independent ERP consultants. The consultants were asked to answer the question posed by an executive at a company that was just about to go live with their ERP implementation. “‘Assume the implementation is complete. Now what do I do differently
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