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There are two ways to count inventory, cycle counting and a physical inventory. Cycle counting is quicker, more accurate and less disruptive than a physical inventory. Cycle counting involves counting a small sample of inventory at various times throughout the year, while a physical inventory involves counting all the inventory at one time, usually 1-2 times in a year. The company typically shuts down the facility for a day or more, so no orders are being shipped during that time.

"Costimator is currently being utilized in the Americas to respond quickly to request for quotes, to provide target pricing to suppliers and validate quotes received from the supply base. Ultimately, this tool will be utilized globally allowing us to estimate accurately and rapidly within each region," reports Kristen Housley of Jabil Circuits.

According to Jeff Klapp at TraceGains, “Actionable Intelligence is what matters and traceability is absolutely an afterthought because in the process of collecting actionable intelligence, traceability data is axiomatically captured. Most food and CPG companies’ quality personnel hold the perception “traceability is already handled.” What is needed is the ability to look at Supplier Compliance and Impacts to improve downstream visibility through the value chain …this results in improved quality attributes from upstream supplier compliance.”

The WCS solutions provided by QC Software enables companies to streamline their warehouse operations with the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry ensuring increased corporate profitability.

According to Bernie McCabe, Senior Manager with Lightning Pick, “LP Pick to Light can be fully integrated into any MRP, MES, ERP, WMS or internally developed host system. Lightning Pick does offer the option of being installed as an independent, stand alone product in which Bills of Material, kits or recipes can be entered, maintained and used to control the light-directed activity.”

BSI presents its business solutions at the American Society of Quality’s (ASQ) World Conference on Quality and Improvement in St. Louis, MO on Monday, May 24. To coincide with National Small Business week, BSI will provide information on how small businesses can profit from standards, training, software and certification. Located in Booth 1011 at the ASQ Conference, BSI representatives will provide valuable insight on the benefits of implementing and administering management systems.

The mission at TraceGains is to protect the brand of food and beverage clients by eliminating problems before product is shipped to the customer. If a problem does occur this unique solution can minimize the brand damage by using patented recall trace-back and track-forward technologies. A recall alert can be initiated within minutes, reducing potentially bad news to one news cycle, and saving customers millions of dollars in long-term brand rehabilitation costs. The Recall Detective analyzes critical risk factors, going beyond material movement tracking; the Recall Minimizer provides instant multiple scenarios for reduced brand damage.

Ecommerce is getting profitable at ecommerce.techwave.com that endeavors to provide with customized templates with graphic upload and introduces Crystal report integration.

Doremisoft has announced AVCHD Converter for Mac 1.0, the powerful AVCHD camcorder video software, designed for converting Sony, Panasonic, Canon and JVC high definition consumer cameras' video (.mts or .m2ts file extension) to the popular video player supported formats

Improving patient care and safety is Flo Healthcare’s top priority as the company works with clinical software and OEM business partners to deliver patented, integrated solutions—infrastructure, devices and services—to medical facilities. With 45,000 mobile devices and wireless infrastructure systems installed within approximately 800 hospitals, Flo Healthcare is the acknowledged leader in total hospital and system-wide wireless and mobile clinical workstation installations across the United States and Canada.

Ultriva is live at over 140 plants across 10 countries. Companies like AGCO, AO Smith, BE Aerospace, CNH, Dresser, Emerson, FRANKE, Ingersoll-Rand, McKesson and Owens Corning among others are using Ultriva to collaborate with over 5000 suppliers and transacting $1.5 billion of purchased parts every year.

The WCS solutions provided by QC Software enables companies to streamline their warehouse operations with the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry ensuring increased corporate profitability.

OmniVue is the recognized leader in delivering the innovative Microsoft Dynamics products and services that enable small to mid-sized companies to efficiently run their organizations and make informed business decisions. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, OmniVue helps businesses select and implement accounting, financial and customer management software solutions to best for scalability and ease of use, with reduced risk and lower total cost of ownership.

Integrated System Group has led the industry with our expertise and abilities to review all aspects of the Supply Chain from Receive to Put-away to Ship and all of the steps in between including analyzing and optimizing SKU movements. ISG has also integrated many types of equipment from rack to complex conveyor sortation systems.

Lightning Pick Technologies’ LP Pick to Light solution is ideal for continuous improvement environments by reducing errors and defects in parts and components handling processes. The light-directed methodology is an effective poka-yoke (error proofing) device by directing operators to the correct parts and quantity of each required for the active Bill of Materials. The Lightning Pick methodology also supports kaizen events by eliminating wasted touches common to paper-based material handling approaches.

According to Tim Bastic, Vice-President of ISG, “We follow a meticulous step-by-step process that starts with a complete analysis of a client’s current operations and end objectives. Time is spent to determine what operational enhancements and technologies are needed to frame the system configuration for present and future distribution requirements. This thorough analysis guards against false starts and the ill-timed development of budget-wasting, non-functional system concepts.”

iSkysoft has announced iSkysoft iPad Video Converter for Mac, the powerful video converter for iPad, which can assist mac users to make the most of iPad's big screen and HD feature by converting video to iPad video and audio on mac.

As a professional software developer, iToolsoft team are doing their best to provide the best software so that everyone can be a master of disc copy, ripper and converter.iToolsoft mainly provides three categories-PC system recovery, disc tools and mobile tools, as well as all tools for Mac, which makes it convenient for Mac users to edit their videos on Mac.

After a few weeks of research and improvement, the new verison of iToolSoft Blu-ray DVD Ripper has been released

Leawo Software has announced an update for its all-in-one video converter for Mac OS, with the program version revised to 1.3.3.6. In this new update, the user interface and several functions have been optimized in anticipation to provide better user experience and more practicability upon video format conversion routines. Users with previous versions are recommended to upgrade to this version for stable use and video syncing with audio.

Leawo Mac DVD Ripper V1.0.3.5 is released to improve DVD to video conversion experience with multiple functional optimizations.

The mission at TraceGains (www.TraceGains.com) is to make the food supply chain safer and more profitable by helping companies produce finished goods faster, better, and more cost-effectively. Supplier Compliance is a food safety firewall that allows companies to detect and eliminate problems in the supply chain before they are incorporated into finished goods and shipped to customers. By reducing ingredient variability, the finished product becomes less costly to manufacture, performs better, and ultimately increases customer satisfaction. Supplier Impact enables companies to easily measure how each supplier affects finished goods quality and profitability, and connects product outcomes and customer feedback to specific upstream ingredient suppliers. Suppliers are continuously scored based on performance of key attributes for each shipment, and rank ordered against their peers. With the TraceGains’ CaseTrace and LabelTrace solutions, companies can achieve true ingredient-level traceability. Effective product recalls are accelerated and performed at the unit level, so recall costs, long-term brand damage, and brand rehabilitation costs are minimized. LabelTrace can be expanded to include brand authentication and consumer-level loyalty marketing. All TraceGains solutions present findings in easy-to-understand dashboard graphics with full drilldown capabilities, which are available for onsite deployment or delivered as SaaS (software-as-a-service). Headquartered in Longmont, Colorado, USA, TraceGains has direct and partner offices throughout North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

Leading open source CRM consulting firm Intelestream is tweeting. The company believes its Twitter activity can help office workers better understand CRM - a vital business topic that is often misunderstood.

CIMCON Software and Bloor Research today announced a joint web seminar on a Spreadsheet Management Maturity Model. The educational web seminar will be lead by Philip Howard, Research Director at Bloor Research. In this webinar, Philip will discuss recent findings and observations from his paper on the Spreadsheet Management Maturity Model. Organizations can learn where they stand in their spreadsheet management maturity cycle and perform a gap analysis which can then form the basis for process improvements and implementation of best practices.

At Carroll Machine Works (Pasadena, TX), the ability to produce cost estimates quickly and accurately is a matter of survival. To win jobs from customers that include NASA, aerospace companies and a variety of petrochemical, oilfield and gas industries, a precision machine shop must respond to an average of 150 customer RFQs per week.