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		<title>How To Improve Logistics Efficiently</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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“Logistics management is a process of delivering the required goods and services to obligatory party on time at the right location”. These days, it has become the main concern for almost all of the organizations and businesses worldwide. Therefore every business organization is paying a close eye to logistics management so as to improve its [...]]]></description>
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<p>“Logistics management is a process of delivering the required goods and services to obligatory party on time at the right location”. These days, it has become the main concern for almost all of the organizations and businesses worldwide. Therefore every business organization is paying a close eye to logistics management so as to improve its delivery procedure and output effectively. It would involve non profit organizations, banks, printing industry, private industries, and government agencies. More importantly, these companies are making use of BSC designer, business KPI, and logistics management software in order to accomplish their organizational goals successfully.</p>
<p><strong>BSC Designer</strong><br />
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“The <a href="http://www.bscdesigner.com/bsc-designer-online.htm" title="balanced scorecard designer">balanced scorecard designer</a> is a strategic planning and management framework that is persistently used to translate the organizational strategies into action plan”. With the aid of balanced scorecard designer, a business organization can surely boost up its logistics and supply chain management process significantly. In addition, these software applications would help the business organization to determine its insufficient areas effectively. Then these software applications would help you to improve your various business processes such as order processing, production, accounting, transportation, shipment and route.  Thus it would help you to improve your internal as well as external communications effectively.</p>
<p><strong>Business KPIs</strong> </p>
<p>“Actually these are quantifiable measures that would help the business organization to define and measure progress toward organizational goals and objectives successfully”. Today, the business KPIs are being extensively used by stacks of organizations to improve their logistics including printing industry, non profit organizations, corporate bodies, banks, SEO companies, etc. Here one of the most significant aspects about business KPIs is that these would help you to reflect your organizational goals successfully. </p>
<p><strong>Logistics Management Software</strong></p>
<p>Truly it is amongst the most cost effective methods of improving your supply chain management effectively. The basis purpose of using logistics management software is to ensure the implementation of supply chain, project life cycles and resultant efficiencies. It is a very simple yet smart tool of supply chain management. Cost-wise, you don’t have to pay plentiful dollars while buying logistics management software. Thus with the help of logistics management software, you can reap plentiful advantages shortly for instance timely batch of goods and services at the right spot, customer and client pleasure, increased sales volumes, revenue generation, and business identity development.</p>
<p><strong>Final Analysis</strong></p>
<p>Logistics management is without a doubt a comprehensive concept. It has mainly contained three important perspectives i.e. sheer planning, organization, and execution. That’s what it is often called as a military of science. All you have to do is to make full use of those three methods in order to improve your logistics and supply chain process effectively.</p>
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		<title>Fully customizable KPI of your dread with BSC Designer PRO</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new version of BSC Designer PRO released, now it is possible to customize formulas used to calculate the performance of the KPI. It is possible now to use not only linear formulas, but actually any dependency, including binary function, where you can specify the value of the performance for certain intervals.
The PRO version also [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.bscdesigner.com/bsc-designer-screenshots.htm"><img src="http://www.strategy2act.com/images/bsc-designer-screen-main.gif" alt="BSC Designer PRO with strategy maps and custom formulas" align="right" height="263" width="300" /></a>The new version of BSC Designer PRO released, now it is possible to<strong> <a href="http://www.bscdesigner.com/kpi_designer_manual/custom-formulas.htm">customize formulas</a></strong> used to calculate the performance of the KPI. It is possible now to use not only linear formulas, but actually any dependency, including binary function, where you can specify the value of the performance for certain intervals.</p>
<p>The PRO version also suggests powerful <strong><a href="http://www.bscdesigner.com/strategy-maps-in-bsc-designer.htm">Strategy Maps</a> feature</strong>, which allows automatically export data from KPI into nice-looking strategy maps with all necessary diagrams and arrows.</p>
<p>Right now:</p>
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<li>Download fully-functional 30-day <a href="http://www.bscdesigner.com/download">trial of BSC Designer</a></li>
<li>Check the <a href="http://www.bscdesigner.com/bsc-designer-standard-vs-pro.htm">difference between Standard and Professional</a> versions</li>
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		<title>Tackling Warehousing Performance through Scorecards</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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Logistics is defined to involve; planning, implementing, and controlling the cost effective flow and storage of raw materials, in-process inventory, finished goods and related information from point of origin to point of consumption for the purpose of meeting customer requirements according to certain association of logistics management. A much critical management it [...]]]></description>
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<p>Logistics is defined to involve; planning, implementing, and controlling the cost effective flow and storage of raw materials, in-process inventory, finished goods and related information from point of origin to point of consumption for the purpose of meeting customer requirements according to certain association of logistics management. A much critical management it encapsulates is the Warehousing Management System which is a significant part of the supply chain.</p>
<p>It strives to check the controls of movement and stocking of supplies within a warehouse along with the implementation processes and related procedures of shipping, receiving, assembling and delivering to the relevant locations in timely fashion. The management of warehousing requires its strategy to be fully optimized, based on real-time information and with zero-error possibilities.</p>
<p>For such key management of monitoring the flow of products acute vigilance is not possible without the use of technology. Therefore, organizations are using softwares like <a href="http://www.strategy2act.com/solutions/balanced_scorecard_designer.htm"><strong>Balanced Scorecards</strong></a> that enable real-time stream of   data to be recorded, categorized, communicated and collected from various level of activities into a specific, accurate and centralized data-base. This software also generates useful reports about the status of various aspects of warehousing.</p>
<p>The designing and implementation policies of warehousing   entail challenging decision problems. Hence, this system is well-equipped to define qualitative descriptions in terms of quantities for ease of drawing results for the information gathered.</p>
<p>Warehousing requires systematic evaluation of tracking the efficiency of the various tasks it involves along with other issues as storage costs, inventory costs and management costs which can be identified along with any other personalized requirement varying from firm to firm as the <a href="http://www.strategy2act.com/solutions/inventory_and_warehousing_excel.htm"><strong>Key Indicators</strong></a> for measurement.</p>
<p>One of the most important issues warehousing tackles is that of inventory management which alone has many facets. Each and every aspect of business and activities are defined ranging from; availability of sufficient quantity to minimum wastage to additional costs which directly affect the production capabilities of the firm.</p>
<p>How it works is really simple. According to the aspects of warehousing certain <strong>categories</strong> have been pre-determined in the software. Each of these categories has a number of <a href="http://www.strategy2act.com/support/kpi_designer_manual/adding-categories-and-goals.htm"><strong>indicators</strong> </a>of jobs set according to the problem solution approach involved with various activities of the functions and operations. These indicators are defined with ranges and rated according to the actual performances hence making the data easily comparable and finding out gaps of inefficiencies. The condition of assigning numerical values as weights is compulsory as is the uniqueness of each indicator. However, <a href="http://www.strategy2act.com/support/kpi_designer_manual/adding-categories-and-goals.htm"><strong>personalized indicators</strong></a> can also be created which need to be categorized by the user according to their nature. Once the indicators are rated, they are compared against the set standards and visualized through<a href="http://www.strategy2act.com/solutions/balanced_scorecard_designer.htm"> <strong>strategic maps</strong></a>.</p>
<p>Warehouse management via Balanced Scorecards is an avant-garde approach to structuring holistic strategies of an organization.  It entails processes right from the time of initial planning and monitors physical infrastructure, tracking policy and ensures communication between various product stations.</p>
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		<title>Mapping strategy performance indicators for logistics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you ever ask, how can you map the strategy performance indicators for delivery and logistics scorecard? It is possible now with BSC Designer, the latest version of this scorecarding software allows to create strategy maps, here is how the strategy map looks like for logistics scorecard:

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you ever ask, how can you map the strategy performance indicators for delivery and logistics scorecard? It is possible now with BSC Designer, the latest version of this <a href="http://www.strategy2act.com/solutions/balanced_scorecard_designer.htm">scorecarding software</a> allows to create <a href="http://www.strategy2act.com/support/kpi_designer_manual/strategy-map.htm">strategy maps</a>, here is how the strategy map looks like for logistics scorecard:</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.logistics-management-kpi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/logistics-strategy-map.gif" alt="Delivery and logistics strategy map" /></p>
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		<title>Stop lights in your ligistics KPI</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The version 2.0 of Balanced Scorecard Designer now supports stop lights in the KPI representation scheme. If the performance value of indicator in KPI is too low then BSC Designer will highlight it with red triangle.
Stop lights are fully customizeable, e.g. use can define the dependence between stop light color and performance value. Learn more [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The version 2.0 of Balanced Scorecard Designer now supports <a href="http://www.strategy2act.com/support/kpi_designer_manual/stop-lights.htm">stop lights in the KPI</a> representation scheme. If the performance value of indicator in KPI is too low then BSC Designer will highlight it with red triangle.</p>
<p>Stop lights are fully customizeable, e.g. use can define the dependence between stop light color and performance value. Learn more in <a href="http://www.strategy2act.com/support/kpi_designer_manual/stop-lights.htm">product&#8217;s manual</a>.</p>
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		<title>Integrate logistics scorecard with business system</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new version of Balanced Scorecard Designer allows to integrate logistics scorecard with online data from business systems, such as ERP, CRM or other logistics business system.
The new features called &#8220;SQL Indicator&#8221; allows to access data from almost any database and use this data for indicators values. There are also some other features which ease [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The new version of <a href="http://www.strategy2act.com/solutions/balanced_scorecard_designer.htm">Balanced Scorecard Designer</a> allows to integrate logistics scorecard with online data from business systems, such as ERP, CRM or other logistics business system.</p>
<p>The new features called &#8220;SQL Indicator&#8221; allows to access data from almost any database and use this data for indicators values. There are also some other features which ease the process of integration of BSC Designer with third-party software tools.</p>
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