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Energy websites (14 of them) are profiled in eBiz News, including GoGreenSolar.com, which reportedly gained in online sales of solar and other products—using social media.
Having the Right Inventory in the Right Place at the Right Time (Part 2 of 2)
In a previous blog, I introduced the concept of “Pulling vs. Pushing” your
inventory and how companies all of the world have been able to address forecast
error in the management of their supply chains, by “listening to what customer
have actually bought”.
Have the right inventory in the right place
at the right time… hasn’t this been said so many times before?
Is the iPad a potential business tool? How many marketers does GE employ worldwide? What’s SaaS—and what can it do for small distributors? Those questions and more are answered in eBiz News.
The PDAs are coming to your ERP System
Distributors - are you ready for the ultimate remote
access challenge? At first PDAs were just curiosities, toys for the tinkerers.
Then they started to proliferate. Soon after, though, power users started
to get frustrated about excessive data entry: They began to wonder why they
can't connect their new toys to the sales, financial, marketing, and other areas
of their business systems and avoid duplicating keystrokes.
Distributors: WESCO continues its flight up the rankings, moving
up another position to No. 4. Hill Electric Supply rejoins the ‘Top
5,’ and the ‘Top 3’ remains unchanged: No. 1: Atlanta Light Bulbs;
No. 2: Ferguson/J.D. Daddario Company; and No. 3: Graybar. Associates: At the top of the list, Fluke moved up to No. 4, switching with Milwaukee Electric Tool, now No. 5 for August. The rest of the ‘Top 5’ remains unchanged: No. 1: Panduit; No. 2: Littelfuse/POWR-GARD Products; and No. 3: Cooper Industries.
eBiz News focuses on the construction niche this time. How are iPads being used in the field? How are we doing on “paperless” construction? Why did Trimble buy Accubid? And how (in Autodesk’s view) does BIM fit in with “sustainable cities?”
What do you know about BellacorPro.com, CableOrganizer.com, and OneStopBuy.com? They are all e-commerce sites—making hay in your corner of the world—and you’ll learn more on them and other companies, in eBiz News.
Who is doing what with social media? Go through eBiz News and you’ll learn about what the DOE is doing, why IEEE likes LinkedIn, and advice recently conveyed on SM to lighting designers and those in the A/E/C community.
GE Lighting has put so much info online for consumers that it was moved to offer a release on all of it; eBiz News presents a snippet. Plus: NEMA blogs on lighting, the DOE goes whole hog into social media, and a look at the future of BIM.
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