If you want to work from home...

Written by Marsha Maung


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Use an organizer For someone who is working from home,repparttar line between ‘work’ and ‘family’ is blurred. Therefore, it’s important for us to learn how to schedule our work and use an organizer properly. This will help us meet deadlines, set priorities and remember important tasks. You can use a normal scrapbook, a journal, an exercise book, a small notepad (the 555 kind, even), use your Outlook program, use an Excel file, use a Microsoft Word document…whatever works for you! The point is that you need to use it consistently, refer to it, update it and add new tasks to it.

Don’t check your email allrepparttar 135618 time Yes, you need to check your email regularly but when you check your email too often or keep your inbox open allrepparttar 135619 time, you’ll get distracted with new tasks and neglectrepparttar 135620 earlier ones. This way, you will get more and more backlogs and inrepparttar 135621 end, some ofrepparttar 135622 older projects will take longer to finish. Check your email often atrepparttar 135623 same time everyday, but not allrepparttar 135624 time.

Don’t work allrepparttar 135625 time Those without discipline will work only when they feel like it and when they don’t, they’ll do something else. This kind of attitude towards work is not advisable. But onrepparttar 135626 other hand, workaholics should also learn how to let work go wheneverrepparttar 135627 time comes. If you feel stressed out, maybe that’s because you’ve been working too much because your work is right there in your house. You’ll never get far enough away from your work. So, learn to switch your computer off and let go!! Just go spend some time withrepparttar 135628 neglected spouse and kids.

Conclusion These are just a few ofrepparttar 135629 important points about working from home and I have just managed to skimrepparttar 135630 surface ofrepparttar 135631 whole issue. I will explore other aspects of working from home in another article.

Marsha Maung is a freelance graphic designer and copy writer who works from her home in Selangor, Malaysia. She loves nothing more than blowing bubbles in the park with her 2 kids, Joshua and Jared. She designs apparel and premium items at http://www.creativejooz.com and is the author of "Raising little magicians", and the popular "The Lance in freelancing". More information can be found at http://www.marshamaung.com


Lean Manufacturing via E-Kanban: Blanket Purchase Orders

Written by Sam Bayer


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Fax Kanban is not efficient and not Lean

At ten minutes per fax, someone is spending 3.5 hours per day in administration time. That inefficiency results in less time to utilize more suppliers or improverepparttar relationships with existing suppliers.

Furthermore, even if 99% of those faxes are trouble free procurement signals, four faxes per month are going to be problematic and diluterepparttar 135607 entire rationale for a lean manufacturing operation. Suppliers claim they did not receiverepparttar 135608 fax kanban; suppliers cannot makerepparttar 135609 shipment date requested and expedited shipping fees are incurred, or worse, there will be a stockout which will negatively impact customer service levels.

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