Interview - July 1, 2010
Retail is betting on central warehouses and rightly so, since this creates significant savings and synergies, especially when it comes to personnel expenses. However, more and more properties are being leased and not self-built anymore, Umut Ertan, Managing Director for Realogis points out in this interview.
Report - July 1, 2010
Logistics means more than just transporting goods from A to B. Logisticians have thought in terms of supply chains for a long time, from manufacturer through several intermediate storage facilities, ports and freeways all the way to the location where the goods are needed. Supply Chain Management (SCM) in business means:
Report - July 1, 2010
In business, using Business-Intelligence-Software is most beneficial. Many suppliers, many products, many stores and many customers – in other words many data sources and terabytes are in the so-called Data Warehouse. The ranges of applications for intelligent software is consequently multifaceted – from sales projection in the fight against empty shelves all the way to a targeted sales approach in direct marketing.
Report - July 1, 2010
Business Intelligence (BI)
Collection, analysis and presentation of all available data in a business. Coined by the Gartner Group, BI is identified as a process by which data is converted into information and further knowledge. BI today is considered to be the catch-all term for Data Warehousing, Data Mining and OLAP.