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Inventory management refers to the process of managing the stocks of finished products, semi-finished products and raw materials by a firm. Inventory management, if done properly, can bring down costs and increase the revenue of a firm. How much one should invest in inventory management? The answer to this question depends on the volume and value of inventory as a percentage of the total assets of a firm. The importance of inventory management varies according to industries. For example, an automobile dealer has very high inventories, sometimes as high as 50 per cent of the total assets, whereas in the hotel industry it may be as low as 2 to 5 per cent.

The process of inventory management is a continuous one and there are various kinds of solutions available. It is advisable to employ specialized staff for inventory management.

The inventory management process begins as soon as one has started production and ordered raw materials, semi-finished products or any other thing from a supplier. If you are a retailer, then this process begins as soon you have placed your first order with the wholesaler.

Once orders have been placed, there is generally a short period of time available to a firm to put an inventory management plan in place before the supplies are delivered. Inventory management helps a firm to decide in advance where these supplies should be stored. If a firm is getting supplies of small-sized goods, it may not be much of a problem to store them, but in the case of large goods, one has to be careful so that the warehousing space is optimally utilized.

From invoices to purchase orders, there is lot of paperwork and documentation involved in inventory management. Several software programs are available in market, which help in inventory management.

Who Is ExchangeFrame?

By Matt Odom
Collectively, Predictix has over 100 work years of experience integrating the most complex

supply chain, inventory management, planning, forecasting, assortment and merchandising

systems on the planet. Some of the names on their client ...


We get this question a lot. As a general philosophy, we believe that it matters less about who we are, and more about the value of the solutions we provide to you, our customers. Nonetheless, it’s still a fair question and we have a great story to tell, so here you go.

ExchangeFrame is a joint venture between Predictix (www.predictix.com) and some of the principal founders of Trafik tradeshow (www.trafiktradeshow.com ), where Predictix is the majority partner in the JV. Our team is a hybrid of some of the brightest minds in retail software and experts from the apparel industry.

Predictix is a fast growing specialty consulting and software company that solves challenging retail science problems for the most elite retailers in the world. With consultants and engineers based in the US and UK, they have worked with retailers on 4 continents, including major grocery retailers, fashion retailers, electronics retailers and more. Collectively, Predictix has over 100 work years of experience integrating the most complex supply chain, inventory management, planning, forecasting, assortment and merchandising systems on the planet. Some of the names on their client list include Office Depot, Best Buy, Kroger, Walgreens, Oracle, Michaels, Hugo Boss, Perry Ellis and more.

The Predictix core of scientists and engineers includes world class talent and some of the very brightest minds in retail software. In fact, many of the engineers on staff were instrumental in designing a significant portion of the Retek Predictive Analytic Stack which was bought by Oracle Retail in 2005 for $630M.

In 2005, Dan Caplin (a co-founder of Trafik Tradeshow) and I were having dinner and trading stories about our respective businesses (at the time, I was working for as a manager at Accenture, on assignment at the Retek Solution Center). Dan said that in hosting tradeshows for the apparel industry, he observed that the nature of the apparel industry was (and still is) largely paper based, from the paper line sheets to the actual order form. Certainly there was an opportunity to help his customers do business better.

Why not digitize the whole interaction and transaction and in doing so, help all players operate more efficiently, create a common platform for all, and ultimately promote more profitable business across the greater apparel industry? While Dan and his colleagues at Trafik had plenty of industry knowledge, could supply subject matter expertise, and provide access to potential users, they simply didn’t have the experience building retail technology platforms.

Enter Predictix. In early 2006, after leaving Accenture / Oracle Retail, I joined Predictix as Director of Operations. Predictix was growing fast and interested in solving interesting retail problems, so I took the idea for ExchangeFrame to Molham Aref, one of the co-founders of Predictix, and an idea started to take shape quickly. After a number of dinner meetings, mad scribbling on napkins, and laying out a business plan – ExchangeFrame was born. Together, the team of veteran retail software experts at Predictix and the contemporary fashion industry experts from Trafik would take ExchangeFrame from being an idea on a napkin to a fully formed company and software service with an immediate goal:

Provide a collaborative, web-based wholesale ordering platform to the boutique and midsized retail community, including retailers, brands, showrooms and tradeshows.

To read more about the birth and launch of ExchangeFrame, you can read a blog entry I wrote on my personal blog called “The 300 Day Gestation of ExchangeFrame”.

Differentiation is the key to success in Multi-channel Retailing

By Deepak Sharma(Deepak Sharma)
Fulfilling 95% of online orders in 15 minutes requires each store to integrate its inventory

management system with that of the e-commerce site. Shoppers then can identify online items

in stock at their local store. ...

Internet Retailer is reporting on how retailers are trying to differentiate the buy online/pick up in store programs to stay ahead of the competition. Started in 1999 by Circuit City, the buy online/pickup in store program was quickly caught on by other retailers. Almost all big US retailers have this program today in one way or another. The strategies adopted by different retailers differ, while some are providing guarantee that the order will be ready for pick-up in less than 30 minutes, others have created strategies/campaigns to target consumers during holidays when time is of great essence to their customers. But all this differentiation is paying, as per CompUSA, "customers who buy online and pick up in store spend 35% more than customers who shop only in stores".

Circuit City stores offer one or both conveniences. Individual stores are provided the choice because Circuit City figures they play a key role in making the program work, Mendelsohn says. The retailer guarantees an item ordered online will be ready for pick-up at a designated store in 24 minutes. If not, the customer receives a $24 Circuit City gift card....

As competitors such as Circuit City enhanced their programs by guaranteeing fulfillment in a specified window, CompUSA began working to achieve fulfillment in 15 minutes. The benchmark was based on customer feedback and store data.

After stores demonstrated they could achieve at least a 95% success rate for fulfilling orders in the prescribed time, CompUSA launched its 15-minute guarantee in November 2006. Shoppers also have the option of picking up an online order later the same day or the following day. “We wanted to differentiate our program. The time guarantee and other pick-up options are a way to do that,” Hurlebaus says.

Fulfilling 95% of online orders in 15 minutes requires each store to integrate its inventory management system with that of the e-commerce site. Shoppers then can identify online items in stock at their local store. To improve customer satisfaction, CompUSA allows customers to search the inventory of stores within a 50-mile radius of a designated ZIP code to provide greater availability of products if a customer’s preferred store is out of stock. CompUSA uses an in-house order management system to link store and web site inventories......

“Offering in-store pick-up in most major categories, reserved parking spots, designated pick-up lines in stores, and in-store signage directing consumers to the pick-up area are points of differentiation from our competitors,” a Best Buy spokeswoman says. While competitors such as Circuit City and CompUSA offer some of these services, they do not offer all of them, she adds.

While providing extra service to online shoppers, in-store pick-up also leads to increased purchases, retailers say. CompUSA says customers who buy online and pick up in store spend 35% more than customers who shop only in stores. To encourage cross-channel shopping, CompUSA’s store associates suggest add-on items after a customer purchases something online and arrives for in-store pick-up; the retailer also prints in-store offers on pick-up receipts. “We have been very pleased with the results,” Hurlebaus says.

Dual-Function Labels combine EAS and EPC functionality.

ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) - New York,NY,USA
May 30, 2007 - Designed for security and inventory management applications,
Evolve(TM) dual-function EAS-EPC labels help retailers improve inventory
...

May 30, 2007 - Designed for security and inventory management applications, Evolve(TM) dual-function EAS-EPC labels help retailers improve inventory visibility at case and item level. Integrated electronic article surveillance (EAS) and radio frequency identification (RFID) labeling products operate in UHF band of 860-960 MHz for traceability and 8.2 MHz for RF-EAS systems. Manufacturing process combines Gen 2-compliant product and EAS circuit compatible with existing systems.

New Aberdeen Report Validates Key Trends in Operational Excellence

PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Globalization, Automation of Inventory Management Processes and Trading
Partner Integration Identified as Top Initiatives REDWOOD CITY, Calif., ...


Globalization, Automation of Inventory Management Processes and Trading
Partner Integration Identified as Top Initiatives

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Increasingly, global supply
chains and new customer-specific fulfillment mandates are driving companies
to embrace transformational initiatives for operational excellence,
according to a new Aberdeen Group benchmark study released this week
titled, "The Supply Chain Innovator's Technology Footprint 2007." Aberdeen
surveyed more than 200 enterprises for the study, which was partially
sponsored by E2open, the leading provider of supply chain management
software-as-a-service (SaaS) for visibility and control over global supply
networks. Aberdeen's key conclusions include:
-- Innovators are 1.5 times more likely than all others to indicate that
globalization is their top driver for supply chain improvements.
-- Inventory management is the top priority for companies, with nearly
two-thirds of respondents indicating that they are reevaluating their
inventory management processes and technologies.
-- Supply chain visibility is the number two priority for companies in
2007 (very closely behind inventory management).
-- Supply chain visibility is a top area of intention to adopt on-demand
applications.
-- Top areas where companies are embarking on short-term ROI projects in
2007 are inventory optimization (42 percent) and supply chain
visibility (38 percent).
-- Supplier enablement for trading partner integration is a top priority
for companies, with 67 percent identifying it as a technology priority.
This, in turn, is driving adoption of new supply chain processes and
technology. According to Aberdeen, five times as many companies plan to
spend more on new supply chain technology in 2007 than plan to spend less
compared to previous years. Aberdeen identified the types of supply chain
infrastructure areas that companies believe are most important for their
supply chain management technology roadmap:
-- Supply chain management exception and alerting platforms: 52 percent.
-- Master data management: 47 percent.
-- Business process management: 46 percent.
The study also identified several best-in-class companies that have
realized significant benefits from innovative supply chain processes and
technologies. One such company, E2open customer Seagate Technology, was
identified as a leading adopter of flexible supply chain applications.
"Aberdeen's research validates conclusions we've drawn from our
customer base that industry leaders are achieving operational excellence by
executing key supply chain transformation initiatives, such as
globalization, lean demand-driven, low cost country-based sourcing,
outsourced manufacturing, process automation and trading partner
integration," said Lorenzo Martinelli, senior vice president, E2open. "Our
proven speed of deployment provides our customers significant advantage
through accelerated return on investment."
"The Supply Chain Innovator's Technology Footprint 2007" is available
for download at
http://www.e2open.com/landing/aberdeen_research_seagate.php.
Additional information on supply chain trends and customer deployments
is available at http://resources.e2open.com.
About E2open, Inc.
E2open is the leading provider of supply chain management
software-as-a- service for visibility and control over global supply
networks. Industry leaders that power their supply chain with E2open
include The Boeing Company, Celestica, Hitachi, IBM, LG Electronics, LSI
Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic), Motorola, Seagate
Technology, Spansion, Vodafone and Wistron. E2open's software-as-a-service
model offers faster payback, larger ROI and reduced risk while requiring
less IT and business resources. Over 15,000 companies worldwide currently
use E2open. Headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., E2open is a privately
held company.

Re: RE: Re: Spare Parts Inventory Management

By Ravi Challa
Omi Kell, Can you elaborate on what the point is that you are trying to ma.


Can you elaborate on what the point is that you are trying to make?

Thank god!! you didnt say that since there are too many types of spare
parts...lol


On 4/8/07, Omi Kell via erp-projectmanagement wrote:
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> Though I'm agree the main goal of IT and engineering is to avoid downtime,
> it's good to know when and what went wrong. But indeed, forensic evaluation
> should not create lagging in the supply chain.
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> Spare parts are usually dealt with outside any other system than Excel,
> principally because there are as many style of managing spare parts as there
> are engineering department in the world.

Indian Retailer Uses RFID on Garments

RFID Journal - Melville,NY,USA
Sakhi is also using an Orizin handheld RFID reader for item location and
inventory management in the store. Data is transferred, via a Wi-Fi
connection, ...

By Claire Swedberg

April 4, 2007—Sakhi Enterprises, a women's clothing boutique in Bangalore, India, has begun tagging all of its garments for both inventory and security purposes. The retailer's system, installed in February by Orizin Technologies, includes item-level RFID tags, which are interrogated at the point of sale and then removed.

According to Prashant Agrawal, managing director of Orizin Technologies, the system reduces transaction times and speeds the stock-taking process, allowing the daily counting of thousands of items. It also improves security by sending an alert whenever a garment with a tag passes through a reader at the exit—an indication that a theft might be in progress.


Prashant Agrawal
Orizin was established in 2005 by several alumni of the National Institute of Technology, Trichy. It has since installed, or is installing, RFID systems at libraries and retail stores in India, Agrawal says.

Sakhi came to Orizin in November 2005, seeking an automated solution for billing, inventory and merchandise security. "This system should be the latest," Agrawal says, "and should not have to be upgraded for another couple of years." Without RFID, he notes, "billing and stock verification using bar codes was a cumbersome and time-consuming process."

The RFID system Orizin set up includes a station consisting of a desktop RFID reader for tagging items and updating the prices. As items are received at the store, workers outfit them with 867 MHz RFID tags based on EPCglobal's second-generation Electronic Product Code standard. Relevant information, including pricing, materials, size and other information, is updated in a database and linked to the unique EPCs.

At the point of sale, the system also includes a "billing scanner," which sales clerks use in the purchasing process. "Items can be brought near to it," Agrawal explains, "and their information can be captured immediately, creating an invoice that can be automatically printed. Billing of hundreds of items can be generated in a minute."

As the items are billed, the tags are removed and can be reused. If any tag-bearing garment passes an RFID reader stationed at the door, the gate antennas will trigger an audible alarm, alerting staff. Sakhi is also using an Orizin handheld RFID reader for item location and inventory management in the store.

Data is transferred, via a Wi-Fi connection, from the desktop and handheld readers to a server. At the end of the day, the Orizin Web-based software package allows Sakhi to generate a stock list of mismatched or mislocated items, while also providing point-of-sale, security and database management. The data is then uploaded to a Web page hosted by Orizin, where Sakhi management can access daily, weekly and monthly sales figures, as well as data on fast-moving items, inventory details, cash collections and other statistics.

Agrawal says customer loyalty cards containing RFID tags will become available later this year. "The UHF cards will provide faster identification and quicker billing," he says. "In this way, regular customers need not take the pain of identifying themselves." In the future, Sakhi intends to tag clothing items sent out of the store for alterations. "We are planning to extend the usage of tags," he notes, "to work-in-process."

Stock verification, which Agrawal says was Sakhi's greatest concern, has now become automatic with the RFID system. "Everything is working well," he says, adding, "We have some minor issues with some materials, such as silk. RFID tags do not work well with silk items, which are heavily embossed with metallic zari [trim]. We are trying to solve this issue by trying different types of tags."

As Sakhi opens other stores in India, the company would like to deploy RFID in them, as well. "We partnered with Orizin to help better our understanding of the stock movement and, in the bargain, integrate security so as to ensure better control over the retail business," says Neeta Rajendran, Sakhi’s CEO. "The daily reports generated, together with improved and easy stock taking, render a complete solution. Going forward, we expect greater efficiency in stocking maintenance and intelligent management of the same."

RE: RE: Re: Spare Parts Inventory Management

By Omi Kell
Though I'm agree the main goal of IT and engineering is to avoid downtime,

Though I'm agree the main goal of IT and engineering is to avoid downtime, it's good to know when and what went wrong. But indeed, forensic evaluation should not create lagging in the supply chain.

Spare parts are usually dealt with outside any other system than Excel, principally because there are as many style of managing spare parts as there are engineering department in the world.

mini pecan & ameratti tartlets

By Gattina(Gattina)
I'ma squirrels, in the sense of inventory management! Yesterday I passed the pantry (with a

thread of intention things won't show up you know...), I spotted some unshelled nuts,

chestnut cream (be in next post), gourmet cookies... time ...

Around this time (early spring) of the year, in my yard I'll start to see hundreds of small holes on the ground. My husband said they're from squirrel digging, most probably looking for the food they hid during the winter. But the funny thing is, the squirrels can't remember where the food hidden, so they'd dig here and there. I'm a squirrel - manage inventory in the same manner. Yesterday I passed the pantry (with any trace of intention things won't show up you know...), I spotted some unshelled nuts, chestnut cream (be in the next post), gourmet cookies... time for clearance.

I'd continue to use a recipe from Flo Braker's. I've only read two of her cook books (published in the early 90) so far, quite technical, but not difficult. She's been teaching for so many years, she knows what make us stupid; she'd take us away from there to the next level. Leading us to next level is not a thing I find in some celebrity chefs nowaday, in my opinions.

Recipe: (yield 10 - 12 mini tartlets)

Filling recipe: I took this recipe as reference, and scaled down. Since I aimed for paste-like consistency, so I gounded the pecans, reduced a bit of sugar and replaced with a handful of amaretti, fine crumble. Plus some halved pecan as garnish.

Tartlet pastry dough's recipe: *adapted from Sweet Miniatures by Flo Braker*

* 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
* a pinch of salt
* 1/8 cup + 1 tsp sugar
* 1 stick (4 ounces) butter, chilled and cut into 1/4 inch slices
* 1 small egg
* 1/2 tsp vanilla

Directions:

* In a large mixing bowl, whisk to combine flour, salt and sugar. Drop in butter slices, use a pastry blend to cut them into flour mixture until they have the consistency of very coarse cornmeal.
* Whisk the egg and vanilla, add into the flour mixture, slightly knead as needed until the dough is formed.
* This step I'm very different from Flo's. She'd just pinch out some dough and press into tins. But I wrapped the dough, send it to fridge to rest for an hour. Then roll it to a 1/8-inch-thick flat sheet (in between rollings, sending back to chill and rest is required). Cut out the round circles and place them into pre-greased and pre-floured mini tart tray. *
* Pre-heat oven to 350F.
* Spoon the filling into tart dough, top with a halved pecan. Bake for 12 - 15 minutes or until light golden. When the tray is cool enough to touch, unmold, let the tartlets cool completely on rack.

Flo's note: either method you use to shape the dough, please complete one task before beginning another, e.g., first to complete pinching out all the individual dough (my way would be cutting all circles out), second, rolling all the doughs as a ball (N/A to mine), then finally to proceed shaping the dough to ensure it distributes evenly. Handling one movement at a time is easier and faster. You discover you own rhythm from the repetition.

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* Decreased manufacturing cycle time
* Reduced manufacturing costs

Additionally, a properly selected and implemented MES will facilitate increased visibility and ownership on the shop floor while providing planning and scheduling with data crucial to the development of achievable production schedules.

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* A web-enabled GlobalToolkit used to manage project issues, actions, process, and procedures
* A searchable, web-enabled knowledge-base containing solutions from over 50 implementation projects

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The combination of Logan Consulting's services and the resulting successful MES implementation benefits our clients' bottom lines through improved decision making in the back office and more cost-effective use of manufacturing resources and assets on the shop floor.

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In recent years, Fed Chairman Bernanke and other economists have been analyzing the causes of the increased stability in the U.S. economy, a phenomenon known as "The Great Moderation." Most of their analyses have focused on the national economy, noting that the fluctuations, or volatility, in GDP growth, employment growth and inflation have declined noticeably over the past 25 years or so. But a Philadelphia Fed economist, Jerry Carlino, recently wrote a paper that looks at the issue at the state level and finds that every state has shared in the decline in employment volatility.

Increased stability has numerous benefits for both households and businesses. When employment is growing at more stable rates, people can be more certain of their job prospects, which makes it easier to decide whether to buy a new car, for example. Similarly, businesses have an easier time deciding whether to invest in new machinery when they can be more certain about the state of the economy. In turn, better decision-making by people and businesses can minimize the potential waste in the economy created by bankruptcies and other problems that can arise when people make decisions that turn out poorly.

Comparing the average volatility (measured in Carlino’s paper as the standard deviation of quarterly changes in employment) before and after 1984, Carlino’s results show that the states of the Seventh District all had declines that ranked in the top half of all U.S. states. Michigan ranked 2nd with a 63.6% drop in volatility, Indiana 4th with 57.1%, Wisconsin 8th with 52.5%, Iowa 16th with 45.3%, and Illinois 20th with 42.7%.

The following graph illustrates how the volatility in total employment has changed over time in each of the District states, converging toward the national average.



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One reason for the relatively bigger declines in employment volatility in the Midwest is our concentration in manufacturing and, specifically, our concentration in durable goods manufacturing. Carlino reports that volatility in U.S. factory employment was cut in half after 1984, whereas the declines in employment volatility in services were much smaller. And by my estimates, the volatility reduction in durable goods manufacturing employment was much sharper than that in nondurable goods.

As a result, Seventh District states ranked in the top half of all states in terms of the magnitude of the decline in manufacturing employment volatility. Michigan ranked 1st with a 66.3% drop, Indiana 3rd with 63.1%, Wisconsin 7th with 56.9%, Illinois 12th with 55.7%, and Iowa 22nd with 48.8%.

I’ve also looked at other state-level data series to see if they too reveal evidence of the Great Moderation. The quarterly changes in unemployment rates show similar reductions in volatility to those seen in employment (though the state-level unemployment data only go back to 1976). Real per capita income also shows a reduction in volatility, but the relative reductions are smaller.



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Interestingly, whereas the District’s concentration in durable goods manufacturing seemed to lead to larger reductions in volatility compared with other states, that is not the case with changes in unemployment rates and personal income. As shown in the following table, the Midwest states’ reductions in unemployment and income volatility were rather middling.


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Carlino notes that the economists who have been tracking the Great Moderation have proposed numerous reasons for the decline in volatility nationwide. Explanations include better monetary policy, structural changes (such as improved inventory management, the decline of unionization, the redistribution of jobs from manufacturing to services, banking deregulation), and plain good luck, in that the economy has not faced any significant crises like the oil embargo of the 1970s.

Regardless of the causes, it is clear that changes in employment and other variables are much more stable here in the Midwest than they were 25 years or so ago. Yet while lower volatility has its benefits, it does not uniformly deliver positive outcomes. Typically, volatility rises during a recession (as shown in the graphs above) then settles back down when the economy recovers and employment expands again.

However, that has not been the case in Michigan. Its volatility in all three variables increased during the 2001 recession and retreated since then, but the state economy has not recovered. Michigan's employment has been stabilizing around an average decline in jobs (-0.2 percent per quarter over the past five years). Its unemployment is high; in April the unemployment rate in Michigan was 7.1%, the highest in the nation. And per capita incomes in Michigan are stabilizing around slow growth of 0.1% per quarter, which is below the national average and among the slowest in the nation.

If you buy the assumption that the observed volatility affects the confidence of business and household decision-making, this means that Michiganders could be getting more certain that the local economy is heading in the wrong direction.

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Company: Yahoo! Location: Santa Monica, United States

The Internet is a big, busy place, and we at Yahoo! are proud to stand out in the crowd. As the world's number one Internet brand, servicing over a half billion people, we're determined to maintain our commitment to delivering news, entertainment, information and fun... each and every day.

In order to maintain our position as one of the world's most trafficked Internet destinations, we're always on the lookout for people with big ideas and big talent to help us provide our visitors with the innovative products and services they've come to expect from Yahoo!. We're looking for people like you.

How Big Can You Think?

Job Description:

The Yahoo! Consumer/Customer Innovation Team, located in Santa Monica and Sunnyvale, is an innovation lab dedicated to generating new demand for Yahoo! products and services by finding new ways to fulfill consumers' and customers' deepest needs. We're a small, nimble, highly collaborative team with skills in many disciplines and partners in many places - both inside and outside the company. Our charter is to imagine, prototype, and deliver new kinds of experiences and tools that delight customers and consumers, and change the game for Yahoo!.

As Visual Designer-Developer, you will be dedicated to visualizing and prototyping these tools and experiences. Multifaceted projects will require you to tap a broad range of skills, encompassing web page design, web video, in-video advertising, editorial packaging, rich media promotional units, web widgets, and fully featured interactive content modules. You will work side-by-side with marketers, product managers, engineers, content editors, business strategists, data specialists, and external contractors. You must thrive on teamwork and collaboration, and enjoy serving as an advocate for innovation, experimentation, and entrepreneurial spirit.

Responsibilities:

In this unique role, you will:

- Design and prototype new online tools, promotions, and editorial packages
- Integrate front-end design and functionality with back-end web technologies such as xml feeds, content databases, and server-side scripted applications
- Work intensively with web video and emerging web video advertising technologies
- Visualize marketing and programming concepts to support early-stage discussions with potential brand and content partners
- Manage relationships with multiple vendors and contractors
- Stay abreast of emerging developments in the online media & marketing industries
- Build and maintain productive working relationships with colleagues in many disciplines from across the company
- Travel frequently between Santa Monica and Sunnyvale to collaborate with colleagues in both locations

Requirements:

- Strong conceptual and visual design skills; extensive web design experience
- Expert-level knowledge of Flash, JavaScript, CSS, DHTML, XML
- Proficiency with web video editing and related applications
- Strong project management skills; able to multitask and prioritize in a fluid, fast-changing environment
- High level of comfort working in cycles of rapid iteration, prototyping, and testing, often within short overall delivery timeframes
- Exceptional interpersonal skills; comfortable working with colleagues from any discipline or level of the organization
- Innovative, inquisitive, entrepreneurial spirit
- Passion for online media & marketing
- Willingness to travel as needed between Santa Monica and Sunnyvale offices
- Strong knowledge of Photoshop, Illustrator, PowerPoint
- Strong portfolio (please provide URLs).

Desired qualifications:

- Animation and/or motion design experience
- Knowledge of AJAX application development, PHP or other server-side scripting
- Experience working with a CMS and/or large online content databases
- Knowledge of online ad server systems and inventory management
- 2-5 years' experience in an online media, marketing, or technology organization

Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit http://careers.yahoo.com

To apply for the Flach Designer role, please visit the following link:
http://www02.rmx.scd.yahoo.com/pljb/yahoo/yahoo_jobs/applicant/jobClick.jsp?count=1&id=9646

Accurate Inventory Maintenance for Manufacturing Efficiency

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ERP will also provide real-time visibility into inventoried parts, allowing more accurate inventory management decisions. In building efficiencies, an ERP software system will help in the overall maintenance of inventories by enabling ...

Of the many ways to maintain efficiencies in modern manufacturing, none is perhaps more underutilized than the keeping of accurate inventories. Perhaps, this is due to some ancient notion that inventory simply takes care of itself: Orders get taken, parts get ordered, parts get used in production, product leaves shop—and the cycle starts over anew. Perhaps accurate inventory maintenance is considered unnecessary, that there is little margin loss as a result of obsolescence or overstocking.

However, both considerations operate under the same single primary fallacy—that inventory is only an insignificant means to a production end where other factors such as labor and machinery are considered far more important manufacturing elements.Today, though, it is not enough to say that you have a great grasp on the scheduling and maintenance of men and machine on the shop floor. For, without proper inventory maintenance, no amount of efficiency in scheduling and direct-labor costing will prevent production delays due to something such as a lack of parts.

It is for this reason that enterprise resource planning (ERP) software systems have been developed. An intuitive and robust ERP software brings together a wealth of real-time shop floor data that includes the typical tools that keep an accurate accounting of inventory. Inventory control in ERP is designed to manage all inventory-related transactions. For example, using a graphical user interface on the shop floor, you can identify and track information for each standard part within the item master.

ERP will also provide real-time visibility into inventoried parts, allowing more accurate inventory management decisions. In building efficiencies, an ERP software system will help in the overall maintenance of inventories by enabling managers to make better inventory decisions—this, as a result of the performing of everyday tasks that before ERP took hours or even days to produce. However, now with the automated functions of ERP, and the access to real-time data, such tasks such as cycle counting take only minutes to generate a detailed material availability report.

The result of a fully integrated ERP software system is the enhancement of communication between all shop functions. This includes communication between shop floor personnel, sales order clerks, and inventory managers. That is to say, an intuitive and integrated ERP software will automatically tend to inventory maintenance through these on-line tools, with on-hand inventory levels being held at minimal volumes that take advantage of just-in-time (JIT) production mandates. In short, the keeping of accurate inventories helps keep obsolescence down, while at the same time producing automated purchasing when needed.

With so much riding on the maintenance of accurate inventories, it is a wonder that more attention is not given to its importance by manufacturers. Indeed, as waste is eliminated through every aspect of the job shop or make to order manufacturer, little is gained if inventories are not properly accounted for with great regularity. ERP software now allows inventory managers the means to, for once, incorporate the production levels taking place in other vital areas of the plant. As the plant speaks with one mind on the production line, inventory accounting then becomes that last piece in the puzzle where gains in efficiencies are made through the total integration of shop floor communication.