Harvest great ideas from your company’s best assets
In particular, the initial state of the company’s sales and operations planning capabilities limited their ability to account for demand variability or raw material lead times in production and distribution. Improve sales and operations and production planning.
Three Social Media Hacks for the Busy Entrepreneur
The teams focused their efforts on a few of the highest-value S&OP levers in order to review the current planning process, identify gaps in the planning infrastructure and analytically understand demand and supply variability.
Stick with Your Concept but Do Your Homework
With hundreds of medications in the market, Pharm Ltd. needed a proper method to predict and manage their inventory. Using a mean absolute percentage analysis (MAPE), the teams defined appropriate levels for raw materials and finished products by mapping.
Generation X? I feel your pain!
Generation X has some problems—and not just their own. Perhaps the biggest one of all is that this group has everyone else’s problems too!
Michael Rivas quoted in Investment News
Forget boomers and millennials, Gen Xers need advisers’ help the most
Even though they are in their peak earning years, they have the poorest financial habits
A New Age of Opportunity
Change may be a given, but even when we know it’s for the better, shifting our own thinking can be quite a challenge.
Is “breaking news” killing your financial plan?
The fact is, all that financial “news” means absolutely nothing to the normal investor. Sure, the play-by-play changes in the stock market may make a difference to the day traders—at least for the day. And yes, the clicks on CNN’s website will make a difference to some marketing genius’s commission check. But for anyone investing for the long term, none of it matters. It’s just noise.
Doing more chores than your spouse? (You must be the mathematician!)
What most couples don’t realize is this: the mathematician in the house is getting a pretty raw deal.
7 Steps to Start Building Wealth Now
By being mindful of your debt-to-income ratio and leveraging your expendable income wisely, you really can start building your wealth now.
The mighty dollar: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Is a strong dollar all good news? Here’s a quick peek at the good, the bad, and the ugly about a high-flying dollar.