Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the systemic, strategic coordination of the traditional business functions and the tactics across these business functions within a particular company and across businesses within the supply chain, for the purposes of improving the long-term performance of the individual companies and the supply chain as a whole (Mentzer et al, 2001).
Nothing is worst than having to wait in a crowded airport for hours and hours or miss your connection flight because of a delayed aircraft. Such situations can create a lot of frustration and tension among passengers and usually lead to a lot of headaches for the airline representatives.
One of the greatest challenges for marketing professionals is to “probate” the results of their activity in terms of financial numbers. To do so, a simplistic approach that might still be in use in organizations which lack an accurate performance measurement system is looking into the value of sales. Fair enough, marketing efforts should, in the end, lead to selling as much as possible. Brand building, image construction, client relationship optimization and all other marketing directions aim, in the end, at generating sales.
Over the past few weeks the majority of media outlets in the world have been writing about how Avatar surpassed the world’s highest grossing film of all time – Titanic. Cinema and motion pictures are acknowledge today as a major art form, also called the seventh art. At the same time they constitute a major business. Blockbusters can generate millions and more recently billions of dollars. One important source of revenue represents the money collected as admission to film, also called the Box Office.
Efficient Paper Use: Where the Environment and Business Intersect
Paper is an omnipresent element in any office, both indispensable for current activities and seen as a great burden when it starts to create piles of documents which need to be looked after.