E-Kanban: Blanket Purchase OrdersWritten by Sam Bayer
Blanket Purchase Orders are a “best practice” in well-oiled kanban process. They minimize flow of information between buyers and their suppliers, while maintaining terms, conditions and integrity of business relationship between two parties. Datacraft Solutions (www.datacraftsolutions.com), leader in e-kanban, found that while managing a large number of suppliers with many part numbers, managing integrity of blanket purchase orders become an issue. For every given kanban release it is important to make sure that: an open purchase order still exists, and that there was enough remaining balance on purchase order to cover current purchase. The new Best Practice was “integrating electronic kanban system” with a manufacturers current purchasing system. Kanbans are now guaranteed never to be sent to supplier unless there is a valid blanket purchase order.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 improve relationships with existing suppliers.
| | How to Recognize Great Ads (that Are Generating Leads!)Written by Daryl Logullo | Strategic Impact!
Sorry to tell you, but people really don’t give a flying fling about you, your business or how great your product is. The want to know what benefit, advantage or personal improvement you offer that somebody else doesn’t. What do I mean? Well… how are you going to make people’s lives easier? Are you going to make them richer? Prettier? Slimmer? How are you going to improve their lives? I try to get my clients to understand this: advertising is salesmanship en masse. Plain and simple. It’s either salesmanship in print, salesmanship on air, or salesmanship in mail. But it’s not blind statements that say nothing, or cause no one to take action. Is it any reason why most advertising is lousy and doesn’t work? Unfortunately, few business owners don’t understand point of running an ad. You run an ad to stimulate a direct and immediate response. Or better yet promote an instant sale. Until a company understands purpose of an ad and how to formulate them, I tell clients to hold off and stop throwing their money away. Let me summarize where to begin:
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