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Supply chain management (SCM) executives struggle with what their responsibility and role is. SCM crosses the organization. It is both strategic and tactical. It serves both cost and service mandates.

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When it comes to inventory management, you are either effectively moving your products or you’re losing money. It’s that simple!

Whether you are a 3PL, manufacturer, wholesaler, distributor, retailer, importer, exporter, supplier, customer, logistics service provider or other type of firm that participates in supply chain management, a major key to success is time compression. Increasing velocity, rapid response to changing market conditions, minimizing time-and sustaining that velocity–are the reasons for collaboration, integration, supply chain visibility and other endeavors to accelerate the movement of product and information.

Lean supply chain management is for many companies. It is not just for manufacturers who practice lean management. It is also for non-manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, retailers and others.

The promise of RFID is the dream of every supply chain manager — enabling the accurate real-time tracking of every single product, from manufacture to checkout. Compared to universal product code (UPC) bar coding, which it promises to replace, RFID proactively transmits information, eliminating the manual point-and-read operations needed with bar coding. This enhanced visibility could result in significant decreases in warehouse, distribution and inventory costs, increases in margins and enhancements in customer service.

CEO’s and CFOs have to ask themselves four questions.

Wholesalers, distributors and other middle parties-between customers and suppliers-fight the challenge of being price competitive and service responsive, while making a profit. The traditional role of middlemen has changed. Customer base, customer locations and market size have expanded. More is expected and required. With all these pressures to compete and to differentiate yourself, there is one approach that some have successfully implemented as part of their strategic business plan and tactical operation while others have given token recognition to-supply chain management.

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Artists and photographers happily build up their inventory of works. Artists paint and draw, creating works which may sell next month, next year, or in 20 years. Photographers, even when they’re working on commission, shoot images for stock.

You’ve submitted your web page to hundreds of search engines, but every time you check your traffic stats, you don’t see the flood of visitors you were expecting. What’s the problem, why aren’t they coming?

Search engine positioning

High search engine positioning brings traffic. That’s good web site promotion! But high positioning needs careful planning prior to submission of a website to an engine.

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Hi Wayne: I own a Video Store which I bought last year. I used “taxcut” to do my taxes but realized too late that I was over my head. Someone is probably going to have to look at them. I completed and paid my taxes on time even though there may be errors.

I’m confused about my inventory. Do I show it on the balance sheet and taxes as inventory or just depreciate it as a depreciation expense?

Oracle said it plans to release a new software program in May designed to reduce the aviation industry’s spare-parts inventory costs by billions of dollars.

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Wayne Davies joined the WebProNews team of experts with his break out article “How To Reduce Your Business Taxes.” He’s been answering WebProNews readers’ tax questions ever since.

Bar codes and scanner technology were first seen commercially in large retail chains, but have become so commonplace that large stores now offer checkout lines where you scan your own products for purchase. Almost all large businesses keep track of inventory using some sort of bar code tagging, and this technology has trickled down into the small business and customer sector. Can you use this technology, however? While pricing and actual store purchasing requires a sophisticated link between scanner, cash drawer, and database, using bar codes to keep up with equipment, or keep an eye on inventory levels is relatively simple.

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