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Running a successful business venture has a lot to do with keeping track of your small business finances to maintain a positive cash flow and stay on top of things.
Most small business owners tend to underestimate the impact financial management can have on business profitability.
You need to constantly monitor your finances as they possess the power to make or break your business’s success plans.
Continue reading “4 Tips for Managing Small Business Finances!”Supply Chain Management is perhaps the most crucial aspect of modern and future business operations, encompassing and touching virtually all business processes.
In this complex landscape, individuals with distinct personality traits, such as extroverts and introverts, play vital roles. Both personality types bring unique advantages and disadvantages to their careers in the field of Supply Chain.
This article explores the various ways in which extroverts and introverts impact Supply Chain, discussing their strengths and weaknesses. This is critical to know as we staff our organizations to define, create and operate the Supply Chain of the future!
Continue reading “Is it Better to Be an Introvert or Extrovert in Supply Chain?”The rise of electric vehicles (EVs) is transforming the way we think about transportation. As more and more consumers switch to electric cars, the demand for charging stations is increasing rapidly.
For businesses, the rise of EVs presents both challenges and opportunities. On the one hand, companies that rely on traditional gas stations or fuel-based transportation may find themselves at a disadvantage in the marketplace.
On the other hand, businesses that invest in electric car charging stations can position themselves as leaders in sustainability and customer service, while also generating additional revenue streams.
Continue reading “The Rise of Electric Vehicles: Why Your Business Needs to Consider Charging Stations!”Starting a small business is exciting, but sustaining and expanding it requires strategic planning and execution.
Whether you’re a budding entrepreneur or a seasoned small business owner, here are seven effective strategies to propel your venture to new heights and expand your small business.
Continue reading “7 Effective Strategies to Expand Your Small Business!”Are you a property rental owner focused on expanding your operations? Have you been searching for ways to increase efficiency and streamline processes at your business? Look no further!
With the right automation strategies, landscape improvements, and professional property management agencies, scaling up your property management business has never been easier.
In this blog post, we will discuss how these three aspects can help significantly enhance your organization’s capacity to expand its reach and offer an even more comprehensive service.
Continue reading “Scaling Up Your Property Management Business!”With the relaxation of many of the protective pandemic protocols, more and more companies, institutions, and people are trying to get back to “normal”, or business as usual. However this is a moment of truth.
We can’t go back to business as usual. There have been too many disruptions in every aspect of our lives. The old ways of doing things, particularly in Supply Chain, have been exposed as contributing to these disruptions.
Still there are many who will conveniently forget the life changing experience we all have gone through with the pandemic, and this inertia will inhibit making the improvements necessary.
So will we move forward and make changes and improvements, or will we stagnate and remain stuck in the old ways? This is the most important Supply Chain question.
Supply Chain’s Moment of Truth has arrived!
Continue reading “Supply Chain’s Moment of Truth Has Arrived!”Rapid or slow, or even delayed, time to market makes the difference between success or failure of your new products and/or services, and in turn your company.
There are many factors that impact time to market either positively or negatively. Some of these factors can be planned and controlled. Other factors are unplanned and the ability to recover from these quickly is most important.
Regardless, one of the functions that plays a preeminent role in terms of influencing time to market is Supply Chain. Here we discuss the many ways that Supply Chain can help, or hurt, your time to market performance.
Continue reading “How Supply Chain Can Accelerate Time to Market!”When running a business in the modern world, it is the case that more and more of it will be conducted online. With this in mind, you certainly need to take all the necessary steps to ensure your online reputation remains as strong as possible.
Otherwise, this can easily lead to a situation where you are not attracting the customers you initially hoped for. Not only this, but it could well be the case that your nearest rivals will be in danger of overtaking you and getting one step ahead of everything you have done.
Taking all of this into account, there are plenty of ways your business online reputation remains strong. The following blog post will be all about some of them.
Continue reading “How to Ensure Your Business Online Reputation Remains Strong!”Anyone who has worked in Supply Chain knows that problems will arise anytime, anywhere and anyhow. These problems will require quick reaction, expediting, firefighting, long hours and sleepless nights.
Certainly the disruptions caused by the pandemic have made reactive Supply Chain operation the norm in virtually every industry and every geography.
How much of this reactivity could have been, or can be, avoided through the implementation of more robust Supply Chain strategies? After all wouldn’t you prefer to work in a more strategic and less frantic organization?
Continue reading “The Reactive vs Proactive Supply Chain! Which Will Prevail?”The pest control industry plays a crucial role in maintaining public health and safeguarding property against a myriad of pests. From rodents to insects, its services are vital for both residential and commercial spaces.
However, in recent times, the industry has been grappling with significant supply chain challenges that have the potential to disrupt its operations and overall effectiveness.
Continue reading “Navigating Supply Chain Challenges in the Pest Control Industry!”The Electric Vehicle market will continue to expand around the world for decades to come. But one of the limitations with Electric Vehicles is their range of distance on a single charge.
In order to facilitate the growth of Electric Vehicle purchase and use there needs to be a dramatic expansion of the Electric Vehicle charging station infrastructure.
It won’t be enough to just charge your vehicle at home. There will need to be an expansive network of charging stations and options across any and every country.
Continue reading “The Electric Vehicle Charging Station Infrastructure!”70% of companies believe that strong supply chain management is the driving force behind exceptional customer service, while 57% believe that supply chain management gives their company an edge over competitors. Supply chains are an essential part of a fast-moving global economy.
Physical attacks on supply chains generally cause disruptions that can have long-lasting consequences to both reputations and finances. Physical security may seem like a given, but its importance cannot be overstated when considering manufacturing, logistics, transportation, and distribution.
Continue reading “The Link Between Physical Security and Supply Chain Success!”Amazon is far and away the leader in the E-C0mmerce space. Their growth continues at an exceptional pace. And they continue to expand their products, services, and capabilities. In short they continue to press their advantage and make it difficult for anyone else to compete with them. You need a Blue Ocean strategy!
But if you are in the E-Commerce space that is your reality. Amazon is the biggest shark in the room. So how do you compete in the face of such an overwhelming adversary?
One technique is to consider creating your own Blue Ocean Strategy to create competitive advantage! If you can define dramatically different space in which to do business you may be able to keep this shark, and others, at bay (at least for a period of time).
Continue reading “Competing against Amazon? You Need A Blue Ocean Strategy!”Supply chains might one of the most important elements in running any successful business. If your supply chain isn’t functioning correctly, then you can’t deliver goods to your customers on time, adhere to changing peaks in demand, or outshine the competition.
Unfortunately, managing these environments in an efficient, consistent, and productive way is often easier said than done. As customer expectations and global environments continue to evolve, supply chain management is no longer a set-it-and-forget-it concept.
Continue reading “Valuable Ways to Improve Supply Chain Efficiency!”Is your Supply Chain reactive, always fire fighting and dealing with new problems every hour and every day?
Or is your Supply Chain proactive, having defined and implemented the strategies necessary to create a more robust and resilient Supply Chain, less amenable to daily disruptions and surprises?
In a recent article, The Reactive vs Proactive Supply Chain! Which Will Prevail? we discussed this problem and state of companies around the world.
We polled our readers to find out where their companies stand in this regard. Here are the results!
Continue reading “The Reactive vs Proactive Supply Chain Poll Results!”
