Business Expansion
Business Expansion as major drive towards success Every company aims at success in order to make profit, unless you are a non-profit organisation. In general, a business starts somewhere, the so called „start-up“ or related to time „start-up stage“. Before even getting your business idea to the start-up stage it is crucial to determining criteria […]
Opportunity Analysis
Opportunity Analysis the underestimated component of your business plan Every company and individual has opportunities lying in front of them. That means, individuals have opportunities like becoming finance analyst or sales manager. The process of choosing a profession and the variables that weigh for making that decision is the so called „opportunity analysis“. Companies use […]
Developed Distribution Strategies
Developed Distribution Strategies as part of your value added services A long period of time it had been believed that • distribution, • warehousing • and supply chain management have insignificant impacts on business operations. Since globalization, digitalization has moved to a new era, more companies realize the importance of those three business processes. Today’s […]
e-Commerce Process
e-Commerce a multi-layered process e-Commerce refers to any business transaction that is conducted online. Online-shopping is the most popular e-commerce activity, defined as buying and selling goods via the internet on any device (e-commerce, m-commerce). There are different business transactions that belong to e-commerce such as: • Online-Shopping • Online-Auctions • Payment Gateways • Online-Ticketing […]
Rise of Marketplaces
The Rise of Marketplaces How does your retail business benefit from? 20 years ago the first online marketplace appeared, offering products to retailer. These days e-commerce giants like Amazon, eBay, and Rakuten focus on wide range of products – so called horizontal marketplaces, serving consumers. „Fortune“ published a stunning figure of Amazon’s market value – […]
Enterprise Resource Planning
Enterprise Resource Planning How can ERP support your business operations? ERP is an acronym and stands for Enterprise Resource Planning that is a business process management software. It allows companies to use a system of integrated applications. Those applications manage your business and automate functions in the back office such as technology, services and human […]
Role of Warehouses
The Role of Warehouses the shift from buffers to vital links In the past, warehouses have been considered as cost centres which rarely add any value. But that has changed, triggered by the movement of production to lower cost countries, the growth of e-commerce, and increasing demands from consumers. There is an ongoing process, the […]
E-Sourcing
E-Sourcing the approach to global markets E-sourcing is a type of procurement strategy enabling companies to connect, screen and shortlist suppliers. As result companies do not need to be present at the same location nor at the same time which improves efficiency tremendously. The definition of e-sourcing: “The sourcing process enabled with the appropriate web-enabled, […]
Freight Consolidation
Freight Consolidation an opportunity in the procurement process The purpose of freight consolidation is to take various shipping arrangements a business engages in and pull them into one system which is conducted by third party logistics companies. Truck Load Shipments The costs of a truck per mile are always the same regardless of what is […]
OEM & VAR
OEM & VAR companies require a tight cooperation OEM stands for Original Equipment Manufacturing, a company whose goods are purchased by a retail company. That retailer then sells the end product to consumers. That means, the retail company which purchased those items from the manufacturer (OEM company) adds values to the product itself in various […]