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Health and fitness just got a jolt in the arm with an affordable, lightweight, portable workout wonder for all ages in all locations. Designed for those interested in optimizing their time spent in a chair, the newest essential for all fitness levels has come to play. Welcome to the Noonchi Version 2 All-Chair-Workout System. Using a newly-designed Noochi workout system, it quickly turns any chair anywhere into a full body workout machine. Making the most of resistance training with two sets of Noonchi weighted bands, the newest version turns a humdrum workday, or sedentary time, into a way to keep fit. Want to build muscle? Trim down or tone? Don't get up; reach around.

Set to give an alternative for office workers slated to spend another sedentary day at their desk, Noonchi makes its way to Kickstarter. Launching on January 1st, 2019 with a 20% off pre-order offer, the exercise product is the newest go-to resource for workout wellness at any time of day. With convenience on tap, the Noonchi Ultimate Office Workout is a lightweight system that attaches to a desk chair to provide resistance training between meetings, emails, and phone calls. Offering a "Why didn't I think of that?" moment for those intrigued by its possibilities, the patent-pending Noonchi system works every muscle group with "reach around" technology. Just reach around and grab resistance straps to bring portable fitness desk-side with a ten-piece system lightweight enough to tote in a small cloth bag.

Neil A. Chaudhuri recently suggested why Kanban may be a better choice for projects than Scrum. Scrum is a process. Kanban is a meta-process, asserting key principles without prescribing how to accomplish them. There is nothing about sprints, product owners, formal planning meetings or any of the ceremony associated with Scrum.

Lu Cao always wanted a perfect fanny pack that he can wear all day long without having to take it off even while driving, running, and dining. After a long and futile search, he decided to design something on his own. He has just completed designing Men's Dream Fanny Pack with separated layers that will help users remain organized.

It may not be possible for manufacturers to adopt a demand-driven approach with every product at the same time. It may make more sense to segment your products to identify the ones that would have the most impact right away. This might include products with the highest margins, shortest shelf life or in the early stages of the product life cycle. By focusing on high impact items first, the benefit of a demand-driven supply chain can be felt quickly. This is one of many features appearing in Forecast Errors Newsletter. Each week features two to four topics.

A number of antivirus programs are available today in the market. Among the best programs, McAfee.com is our top recommendation. Quick Heal and Kaspersky is also good. They differ in a great way from other programs of the same genre. Know here, why McAfee is the best antivirus program.

Cars are an essential mode of transport for the working members of society in most places throughout the country, but they come with no shortage of inconveniences in keeping them clean and well maintained. Many people have lost hours and even days taking their car to the shop for detailing work, but now there is a new alternative. Siteler is a new and exciting app that helps people access mobile detailing, cleaning, maintenance and servicing without the delays and frustrations of the traditional motor servicing industry.

A new social media platform called eClincher that helps businesses manage and organize their social media presence recently launched a new service through their partnership with Canva.

Lodestone Consulting Services, LLC announces they are now offering press releases that will be placed on professional news sites such as Y! Finance. Press releases provide businesses with a white hat opportunity to increase traffic to a website while providing authority for a business. In addition, press releases rank well in the search engine results, allowing for increased traffic through organic results.

ECODE Networks (http://www.ecodenetworks.com) , a leading provider of intelligent management and orchestration solutions for Software Defined Networks (SDN), today announced that it will be showcasing a live deployment of an evolve orchestration at the SDN Solutions Showcase at Open Networking Summit (ONS) 2015. The evolve orchestration engine is a suite of tools that leverages the power of SDN by allowing service providers and IT departments to manage logically disparate network elements as a single virtual environment. Evolve is one of the first products to be featured in HP's SDN App Store which was formally launched during Interop 2014.

Epiphan, a leader in professional audiovisual capture, recording, and streaming products plans to announce new products and technologies at InfoComm15, in the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida on June 17-19, 2015, booth 2385.These new products and features will improve your screen capture, video encoding, recording, and streaming workflow.

The Government of Sierra Leone is establishing the National Pharmaceutical Procurement Unit (NPPU). This project shall be co-financed by the Government of Sierra Leone and various donor agencies. The purpose of NPPU is to act as an autonomous body responsible for the management of various pharmaceuticals for and on behalf of all public health facilities throughout Sierra Leone. NPPU is establishing a demand driven supply chain to distribute a wide range of medicines to governmental hospitals and Peripheral Health Units (PHUs). Improved supply chain performance is seen as a key enabler for creating a sustainable operating model. The new supply chain solution will support the logistics operation. The solution will enable replenishment to the dispensing point as well as support the supplier tendering and procurement process. This is one of many features appearing in Forecast Errors Newsletter.

Carpets add a level of luxury to the living experience that is key in making a house a home. Softness underfoot is something we prize, but this softness also makes carpets vulnerable to wear and tear, to stains, dust and other build ups that can make carpets not only unattractive but unhygienic. Keeping them clean has often meant using astringent chemicals in a long process that can make rooms noxious to be in and present a danger to vulnerable people. San Jose Carpet Cleaning is now offering the ultimate solution, with a fast and effective carpet cleaning service that uses only organic ingredients.

Demand planning is the art of integrating multiple, independent, and inaccurate signals into one accurate signal, according to Michael Massetti. Demand is the baseline for all things supply. Customers' desire for a product drives the demand and is the foundation for business volumes.

Today, by using demand forecasting software, manufacturing companies can plan long lead items without flooding production operations with unnecessary inventory. Working closely with key customers and the sales force to gain insight into potential demand—in addition to working with demand sensing techniques, results in data and shared repositories with information about the status of inventory at key suppliers (or even the entire supply chain). This is one of many features appearing in Forecast Errors Newsletter. Each week features two to four topics. No regurgitated garbage, just fresh interesting information.

Melissa Clow recently reported in the 21st Century Supply Chain blog that it has been about a decade since companies began talking about the dream of a truly "demand-driven" supply chain. Today, companies are "realizing that perhaps it's not quite as short a journey as we thought it would be," says Roddy Martin, managing director of Accenture Supply Chain Strategies. Progress has been made, however, especially among consumer-driven retailers and even some large industrial manufacturers. This difficult journey is a heavy investment in traditional enterprise resource planning and demand-planning infrastructure, says Martin. That has led to an "inside-out" focus with businesses. But the volatility of demand, coupled with growing risk in global supply chains, has shown that this approach won't give companies the agility they're seeking. What they need to be pursuing is the ability to conduct demand sensing and shaping within their supply chains, made possible by complete visibility of inventory at all points. This is one of many features appearing in Forecast Errors Newsletter.

The demand-driven supply chain must be optimized for the benefit of all suppliers in order to work well. With the help of supply chain management software, better optimization of the entire supply chain produces the best results. To be truly demand-driven, it is important to unite operations and supply chain management with common goals. S&OP (sales and operations planning) is one technique for ensuring that everybody in the company is on the same page. This may also require changes to a company's key metrics, employee incentives and even compensation models. Supply chain management is a complex task even at the best of times and even with perfect information. The key to understanding how to control inventory is coordinating the objectives of every member of the supply chain and ensuring that every link in the chain is working toward similar goals. This is one of many features appearing in Forecast Errors Newsletter.

Ever since the success of Uber, on demand services have caught the attention of almost all users and with the facility to get any service at their very own doorstep any time, the need for mobile applications for every business is still on the rise. With their ease of use and success, Uber like applications do solve the purpose and there are several apps for on demand services like laundry, beauty service, food and wine delivery etc. online already.

Ultriva, Inc., the leading supply chain execution software company, was profiled in Suppliersof.com. The blog discussed having visibility on demand all the way through customers helps eliminate surprises in the processes, so similarly providing the same visibility to a company's suppliers gives the same advantage. The Collaborative Supply Portal (CSP) from Ultriva provides similar capabilities to the customer portal, with some added benefits. The principal feature is that the suppliers get looped in on the demand cycle already established both in factory and with customers. It does so on a part level, so as demand rises for a particular product CSP will automatically escalate demand for all the component parts.

With drones being at the forefront of military operations globally, ultra-reliable and rugged equipment must be installed on the backend to ensure safe and dependable capture, encoding, streaming and recording of everything that happens in the control room.

"The Case for Cloud-based Supply Chain Management Today" was authored by leading industrial journalist, Thomas R. Cutler. Cutler discusses "The Goal," first published by Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox in 1984, which described Theory of Constraints (TOC). It detailed precisely the change management thinking that is now considered standard by most using cloud-based SCEs. Sergio Rattner of the Lean Enterprise Institute defined the Theory of Constraints as an organizational change method that is focused on profit improvement. The essential concept of TOC is that every organization must have at least one constraint. A constraint is any factor that limits the organization from getting more of whatever it strives for, which is usually profit. "The Goal" defined constraints as bottleneck processes in a job-shop manufacturing organization. However, many non-manufacturing constraints exist, such as market demand, or a sales department's ability to translate market demand into orders.

Epiphan is delighted to announce that it has secured a sponsorship opportunity with InfoComm which will provide a significant presence for Epiphan at the InfoComm15 trade show in Orlando, Florida on June 13-19, 2015.

"The Case for Cloud-based Supply Chain Management Today" was authored by leading industrial journalist, Thomas R. Cutler. Cutler asserts suppliers are faced with the difficult and time consuming task of reviewing and interpreting the plan, identifying changes from the previous plan, and reviewing production capabilities. Suppliers must acknowledge the customer with acceptance or rejection of the plan. This messy process is usually followed by a series of telephone conversations, emails, and texts, addressing supplier questions and concerns, all followed by rescheduled requests and confirmations.

Manufacturers and distributors are frequently nervous about running out of stock, and tempted to overstock. Holding excess stock is not a lean practice and highly inefficient. Overstocking tempts employees to make Errors, due to the overage. Start with a decent projection of sales and tracking software to help calculate the rate of product turnover. This helps manage inventory risk and reduce overstocking. Either that, or, use a Bill of Materials that spells out what is required for the project. Forecast errors can be avoided by monitoring real-time inventory data. This is one of many features appearing in Forecast Errors Newsletter.

Web Design Beast Of Silicon Valley recently announced an amazing new pricing structure for all their services. The discount comes just in time for the release of their new revamped website. The new pricing will give clients the same expert service at a lower price. Web Design Beast is one of the few companies that actually posts its pricing structure, so this announcement is in keeping with the firm's commitment to bringing the best value to its clients. According to a company spokesperson, "The new pricing structure will last through the end of this year and is our way of giving back to the clients who make us successful."

In a recent webinar, participants were asked, "How accurate do you think the forecast for your company usually is?" With 54% of the respondents claiming less than 60% forecast accuracy, it is not surprising supply chain professionals have to spend a large portion of the day making additional corrective action spreadsheets and providing them to suppliers. Supply chain professionals in the automotive, aerospace, medical devices, electronic components, fitness equipment, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing industries were also asked how to improve forecast accuracy within the company. Two choices, "changing production to a demand-driven model" and "implementing a pull process," (33% combined), though not a majority, bodes well for the future of manufacturing. This is one of many features appearing in Forecast Errors Newsletter. Each week features two to four topics with fresh interesting information.

The Case for Cloud-based Supply Chain Management Today was authored by leading industrial journalist, Thomas R. Cutler. Cutler asserts MRP and ERP IT systems are data intensive and require a high level of data integrity and end-user discipline. Timely and stable sales forecasts are required for an MRP forecast to be an accurate; in today's uncertain economic environment this metric is nearly impossible to achieve.