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Location, Location, Location

No mates, this is not another post on sub-prime mortgages or how the hunger for housing investment has taken the building sector into trouble. It’s just a way of introducing my new role in life and professional career; recently I moved from Brazil back to old Spain, moved from my …

Xmas’ Perfect Operations Management

I’ve already bought the presents. they were ordered from Brazil to an American company which manufactures in China, and they will be sent to my P.O.Box in Spain. I will deliver, of course, personally to my relatives the December 24th at the evening. All procurement has been managed by my …

TCO/TCP & BSc

I recently finished the essay on the integration of “total cost of ownership”/”total cost of procurement” within Kaplan & Norton’s “Balanced Scorecard”. At the moment is just a preliminary version and regretfully only available in Spanish (I’m hoping to have the final version ready in English soon). By the moment, …

TCO/TCP

Hi pals, I’m in the process of writing an essay on the efficiency of the procurement function within the enterprises and I’m finding some interesting facts. You’ll agree with me if I say that most of the current literature balances around TCO (total cost of ownership), but this is not …

Warehouse Management System & 1984

ITT: WMS needed! Features required: Receiving Directed put-away Cross-docking Order/wave planning Picking Packing Shipping Report generation Inventory control Cycle counting Transaction logging Value-added services Kitting Simultaneous RF and paper operation Multi-lingual and user-defined dictionary support Cluster and batch picking Expanded serial/lot number tracking Expanded weight and metrics capture Interleaved task …