If you want to work from home...Written by Marsha Maung
Here are some important points to take note of if you want to work from home. working from home is a dream occupation for many people, but only a few of us will dare to trudge that path. As long as you keep to your basic principles, keep focused, learn how to motivate yourself, be patient and learn how to manage your time properly, you CAN have best of both worlds. Set your working hours No doubt, you’re working from home but consider this – your TV remote control is just a stretch away. The temptation to just hop into your car and go shopping can be overwhelming. So, discipline yourself. When you work is not important, it’s keeping to schedule that is. You want to let your clients know when they can expect to see you online or catch you on Instant Messenger. If they know your working hours, they will know when to expect a reply to their email message. You can shape your working schedule according to your needs. If you need to send your kids off to music class or tuition at 10.30a.m., make sure you check your email or do some work before then. Working from home means you have flexibility of molding your working hours according to your family’s needs. Office space Having an office space where there are no crayons and no toys strewn about is important to working environment of your business. Working from home means that you have to set your office up either in a small corner of bedroom, setup a special home office in a special room, or you can set your office up in a small corner in living room. Help your kids understand that whenever you’re working, you are not to be disturbed. The documents and equipment in home office area is not to be drawn on, spilt on, torn, removed or damaged. Be serious about your work Whenever you’re working, you should be serious about work. You can do following to help you work more effectively:- 1.Work or do most important things whenever your kids are off somewhere else – like kindergarten, tuition, music school or visiting a cousin. 2.Setup a special table or space where your kids do their homework whenever you’re working. 3.Get someone to mind kids while you’re working during your working hours 4.Work when kids are taking a nap 5.Spend a lot of time with your kids and whenever you’re having family time, ignore business phone calls or office matters. 6.When you are working, tell your kids to get help from someone else
| | Lean Manufacturing via 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.
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