Kanban Provider Datacraft Solutions Grows 1000% in 12 months

Written by Thomas Cutler


1000% growth in e-kanban services inrepparttar past twelve months has North Carolina-based Datacraft Solutions (www.datacraftsolutions.com) poised to capture significant percentage of lean manufacturing organizations business.

According to Sam Bayer, President of Datacraft Solutions, “We have seen explosive growth from major manufacturing enterprises with Lean initiatives. From Wiremold to dj Orthopedics to KOYO to Outokumpu, our e-kanban system, Signum, is being used throughout North America.”

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 142827 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 142828 entire rationale for a lean manufacturing operation. Suppliers claim they did not receiverepparttar 142829 fax kanban; suppliers cannot makerepparttar 142830 shipment date requested and expedited shipping fees are incurred, or worse, there will be a stockout which will negatively impact customer service levels.

Avoid a Time Bomb: Sexual Harassment

Written by Judith Lindenberger


Over 53 charges of sexual harassment are filed withrepparttar Equal Employment Opportunity Commission every business day. What have you done to prevent sexual harassment in your workplace?

Amongrepparttar 142826 myriad subjects now commonly addressed in employee training is harassment. Sexual harassment, as well as age, disability and race discrimination, are amongrepparttar 142827 types of harassment employees experience inrepparttar 142828 workplace.

But it wasn't untilrepparttar 142829 early 1990s that sexual harassment and discrimination training became a higher priority for companies large and small.

Duringrepparttar 142830 Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991, sexual harassment was brought torepparttar 142831 forefront when Thomas was accused of harassing an employee, Anita Hill. This was a wake-up call for companies.

Harassment and discrimination of all types can hurt businesses. According torepparttar 142832 U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), inrepparttar 142833 past 10 years,repparttar 142834 average jury verdict in a case of sexual harassment was $250,000, not including legal fees, court costs and punitive damages, making itrepparttar 142835 most expensive harassment complaint. With such significant jury verdicts, companies have to takerepparttar 142836 issue seriously.

Inrepparttar 142837 years sincerepparttar 142838 Thomas case, companies, especially large companies, have been preparing more effectively to defend themselves against claims of sexual and other types of harassment inrepparttar 142839 workplace.

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