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Estate planning is vital for ensuring that upon death, the people nearest and dearest will be provided for. In the LGBTQ community, there can still be considerable acrimony between individuals and family members. As laws change, it's important to stay on top of changing state laws that can have significant estate and tax implications. For more, go to: https://kushnerlegal.com/estate-planning-for-the-lgbtq-community/

Quartz Construction San Jose, a bathroom remodel San Jose contractor, recently stepped up their efforts to help San Jose residents add rooms to their existing properties in a hassle-free and cost-effective manner. The owners said that they now offer end-to-end room addition solutions to San Jose and Mountain View CA residents. They added that right from structural drawing to carrying out the construction work, they do it all. The general contractor San Jose recently started offering free quotes for room addition services that they offer.

Penrose Productions announces the launch of its service to provide inexpensive professional video productions for San Francisco Bay Area small businesses. The San Francisco video production company is taking its 32+ years of award-wining business video expertise and making it available to small businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area at an extraordinarily low cost.

Ultriva, Inc., a leading supply chain execution software company, will be exhibiting at SuiteWorld 2014 in San Jose, California from May 12-15, 2014. The SuiteWorld Conference is expected to attract more than 6,000 NetSuite customers, partners, and developers from around the world. SuiteWorld is NetSuite’s largest user conference and Ultriva will be showcasing their solution which will complement NetSuite Cloud ERP. Attendees can visit Ultriva at booth #818.

Ultriva’s cloud-based Lean Factory Management (LFM) solution was chosen by a successful global biotech/pharmaceutical company. LFM helped the pharmaceutical manufacturing services group gain control of its sterile equipment inventory by establishing a series of interconnected material replenishment loops between manufacturing usage and supply locations.

Da-Las Auto Body, a full service auto repair facility that has earned an A rating with the Better Business Bureau, has just posted a new and informative blog to their website that explains why and how they started to offer a lifetime warranty on their auto body repairs. Titled “Da-Les Auto Body: Pioneer of the Auto Body Life Time Warranty,” the article gives interesting insight about warranties, and why the founders of Da-Les decided over two decades ago to start offering them on their work.

Ultriva, Inc. announced the addition of Joseph A. Ekman as Director of Business Development and Alliances as growth continues. Ultriva empowers leading industrial, automotive, healthcare, aerospace, and defense businesses to operate more effectively and collaboratively by providing real time visibility and targeted actionable intelligence into inventory and material flows. Ultriva’s cloud-based platform leverages and seamlessly integrates with leading ERP and MRP systems, to deliver an end to end pull based replenishment model for a wide variety of industry sectors and enterprises such as ATK, CareFusion, Emerson, Ingersoll Rand, McKesson, Magellan, Regal Beloit, Thermo Fisher and more.

Dark circles are reported to be one of the few appearance problems that even men are highly conscious about. As a matter of fact, there are reports that the number of the men folk visiting the surgical clinics for correction of this under eye problem are expected to double. Celebrity makeup artists claim the secret to making any one look great is by hiding the dark under eyes first. Without this, no amount of makeup makes the person look good.

Ultriva, a leading supply chain execution software company, was featured in Business Lean exploring why demand driven supply chain solutions are reality today. Ultriva is the leader in demand drive supply chain cloud solutions. According to the article, often companies want to simply reduce working capital, improve supplier collaboration, and improve delivery performance across the supply chain. The result is always improved delivery performance, significantly reduced part shortages, as well as overall inventory reduction.

Due to increased growth, Ultriva, Inc. announced the addition of Joseph A. Ekman as Director of Business Development and Alliances. Ultriva empowers leading industrial, automotive, healthcare, aerospace, and defense businesses to operate more effectively and collaboratively by providing real time visibility and targeted actionable intelligence into inventory and material flows. Ultriva’s cloud-based platform leverages and seamlessly integrates with leading ERP and MRP systems, to deliver an end to end pull based replenishment model for a wide variety of industry sectors and enterprises such as ATK, CareFusion, Emerson, Ingersoll Rand, McKesson, Magellan, Regal Beloit, Thermo Fisher and more.

Fisil LLC, a software development company, released its Debian 64 bit Lync Linux software client for Microsoft Lync. It is available for download at fisil.com

Often overlooked in lean manufacturing initiatives is the supply chain, in particular supplier replenishment. In the current company blog, Ultriva’s CEO, Narayan Laksham, explored how Global multi-national manufacturers can use supplier replenishment as the ultimate tool in lean manufacturing best-practices. Laksham explained that Supplier Replenishment is lean because it: - Improves supplier on-time delivery performance by enabling better collaboration and data sharing between buyers and suppliers. - Improves buyer and planner productivity by automatically flagging and communicating new and changed orders to suppliers, eliminating unreliable communication modalities. - Eliminates stock-outs by tracking order status and proactively alerting buyers to high risk situations. - Reduces Inventory levels by providing better inventory on-hand data and continuous improvement analytics. “Lean manufacturing principles require a variety of inventory replenishment methods, including: schedule-based replenishment, discrete POs, min/max, consignment and VMI (vendor-managed inventory) replenishment methods. With supplier replenishment, manufacturers can drive replenishment from production schedules, publish forecasts to suppliers, and automate purchase order releases and receipts through a collaborative Internet portal,” noted Laksham. In today’s fast-paced economy, manufacturers must constantly find ways to reduce costs and improve efficiency. A collaborative supplier replenishment system is a great way to accomplish lean goals. To read the entire blog, go to: http://web.ultriva.com/ultriva-blog/bid/100838/Lean-Manufacturing-Requires-Supplier-Replenishment. Ultriva’s (www.ultriva.com) cloud-based platform leverages and seamlessly integrates with leading ERP and MRP systems, to deliver an end to end pull based replenishment model. Ultriva, based in Cupertino, CA, implemented a global demand driven manufacturing model by providing full visibility, scheduling, and sequencing of production of customer orders. The need for a collaborative transactional portal is essential and E2E (End to End) Pull allows large multi-national manufacturers to actively collaborate with customers for actual demand and synchronize with suppliers for replenishment. E2E Pull offers a better solution to balancing supply with customer demand through procurement strategies, materials and inventory policies tied to actual demand signals. Many suppliers want to provide sufficient service levels to customers and turn supply replenishment and synchronization into a competitive advantage. The company’s global footprint is increasing rapidly with implementations in wide variety of industry sectors and enterprises such as ATK, CareFusion, Emerson, Ingersoll Rand, McKesson, Magellan, Regal Beloit, Thermo Fisher and more. Follow Ultriva on Twitter at @Ultriva.

Ultriva’s founder and CEO, Narayan Laksham discussed in the current company blog how many organizations fail to execute a best-practice solution beyond Proof of Concept at a single plant or site. Multi-national management organizations usually turn to improved best-practice technology solutions when one of two circumstances occurs: rapid growth requiring improved throughput capacity or serious quality-control issues. Both these challenges produce lower customer satisfaction if the correct products are not received in a timely, safe, and accurate manner.

Umbrella Property Restoration, a leading San Jose water damage and full service remediation company, is now offering free safety checks for commercial properties. For a limited time, the company will perform a thorough safety check for Bay Area commercial property owners.

Fisil LLC, a software development company, added chat history to its Lync Linux software clients for Microsoft Lync. They are available for download at fisil.com

Born of and dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to good health, Thriving Chiropractic is a completely self-contained holistic health care center, fully staffed by experienced physicians, chiropractors, acupuncturists and physical therapists. Together they create an individual treatment plan that is designed to allow patients to progress at their own.

First Security Services is excited to announce that they have acquired Bayer Protective Services (BPS). With their corporate office located in Sacramento, CA, Bayer Protective Services has been providing superior security services to companies and corporations throughout the greater Sacramento area since 1995.

Ultriva CEO Narayan Laksham noted in the current company blog, “Manufacturing champions, who are often operations managers, or plant managers at a single location, have budget caps. This often results in a single location plant performing a “proof of concept” (POC) experiment to test the efficacy of a solution. Even in the world of low-cost, rapid implementation, SaaS (software as a service) cloud-based technologies, large multi-nationals often lack the agility to quickly extrapolate a good idea across the enterprise.” Once a technology solution has been tested and vetted by a multi-national, multi-plant operation, it is rolled out enterprise-wide. There are many reasons why this approach into solutions, with obvious bottom-line improvements, takes time.

Ultriva, Inc. announced the implementation of end-to-end pull and deployment of internal Kanban for a successful maker of gas and wood burning fireplaces. Scott Stickles, Application Consulting Manager at Ultriva, Inc., noted, “The hearth manufacturer has been using the external supplier loop into a consignment warehouse for about six years. They were struggling with having to bring a full box quantity out of consignment into the lines for production use. In many cases this could be a month or more of inventory. They wanted to maintain just a few days of inventory. By putting our internal pull in place it will allow them to do this and reduce inventory.”

Ultriva, Inc. announced the implementation of their Collaborative Supply Portal with a large pleasure boat manufacturer. Deployment has begun at six of the manufacturer’s plants.

For the fly fishing enthusiast The Trout Spot is offering 15% off select items from Stream Works line of accessories, including fly boxes, rugged scissors, essential tools and items to compliment the angling experience. In addition, there is a “deal of the day” hosted by The Trout Spot which offers incredible savings daily from their well-stocked inventory.

Ultriva, the leader in collaborative supply chain solutions, was chosen as the solution for a successful agricultural equipment manufacturer. The manufacturer is a global leader focused on the design, manufacture, and distribution of agricultural machinery. The equipment manufacturer’s operation consists of two large tractor assembly plants and two feeder engine assembly plants. Their main tractor assembly plant had some success with an internal manual Kanban card system but had struggled with trying to extend it beyond the four walls of their plant to their supply chain partners and to other plants. The combination of high overhead support costs for their manual Kanban card system, lost and duplicate Kanban cards, and a reliance on email, phone and fax to place, track and close material replenishment orders created an environment ripe with cost savings and cost avoidance improvement opportunities.

Alliance Bay Realty, a leading residential real estate brokerage firm, today announced that in just over two years it has grown to become one of the largest 100% commission brokers in Northern California. Since its January 2012 launch of 100% commission model, Alliance Bay Realty has expanded to over 300 real estate agents and many branch offices in Santa Clara and Alameda Counties. Alliance Bay Realty became one of Northern California's largest 100% commission broker in just over two years.

Ultriva, the leader in collaborative supply chain solutions, is quickly becoming the enterprise-wide solution for many multi-national corporations. Actual consumption, rather than forecasts, drives the kanban pull system of replenishment.

The journal Pediatrics recently reported that 31 children are treated, on average, every day in emergency rooms across the country for injuries sustained on party rental inflatables such as bounce houses. Fractures and sprains tend to be the injuries seen, and only three percent of these injuries lead to the child being hospitalized. "When one makes use of party rentals from 408 Jump in San Jose CA, safety must be the top priority at all times," Manny Kaloti of 408 Jump proclaims.

Humans do have a knack of choosing what is worst for them; rather, it is also true that humans have difficulty in being able to choose what is good for them! Solving this problem is exactly what Nish, Founder of Joday, has set out to do.

Ultriva (http://www.ultriva.com), a leading supply chain execution software company, today published a newsletter featuring research by leading analyst firm Gartner, Inc. about why organizations should aim for end-to-end supply chain visibility (E2ESCV) by 2016.