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The "Pan Africa Gaming Group" (PAGG) has been unveiled today, bringing 10 studios together under a single umbrella across Africa.

Deep Sky Vineyard will be featured in a webinar with niolabs that demonstrates the real world impact and results of digital agriculture.

Since when should a patron have to dodge bullets when enjoying happy hour at a social gathering after work? Possibly nightlife has become an "enjoy at your own risk" proposition. Such was the case recently in San Jose when five people were wounded while attending an area nightclub. With adequate security measures and exceptional management practices the public's safety would be top of mind. Offering his expertise Gholam Ray Shafazand, CEO of Renzo Restaurant Group brings his services to restaurateurs overwhelmed by crowd control. His management and consulting firm helps bar owners run a safer business while optimizing profit at the same time.

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.

Sales professionals on the road can pick up valuable sales advice in Selling Above and Below the Line, rolled out this month to over 90 airport stores operated by Hudson Booksellers, the top airport bookseller in the United States.

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.

The Case for Cloud-based Supply Chain Management Today was authored by leading industrial journalist, Thomas R. Cutler. Cutler asserts process improvement at the supply chain level is a new concept. For more than twenty years the idea of Lean Manufacturing was literally on the manufacturing plant floor. Indeed it was this ground level examination which gave way to ERP and MRP. Over the past decade supply chain improvement projects have ranked among the top initiatives for corporations; all executives recognized that a well-managed supply chain made measureable contributions to the bottom-line performance of a business.

The Operations & Supply Chain Club reported that companies like Union Pacific Railroad use thermometers and ultrasound to capture data about their engines and send it for analysis to identify equipment at-risk for failure if any. The world's largest multi-carrier network for the ocean shipping industry-INTTRA uses its OceanMetrics application to allow shippers and carriers to measure their own performance. Companies are also using telematics and big data to streamline trucking fleets. GE believes these new capabilities can contribute $15 trillion to the global GDP by 2030 by using systematic and data-driven analysis. Ultriva supports real-time supply chain visibility. This is one of many features appearing in Forecast Errors Newsletter.

The Case for Cloud-based Supply Chain Management Today was authored by leading industrial journalist, Thomas R. Cutler. Cutler asserts the basic rationale for cloud-based Supply Chain Management (SCM) technology solutions has not changed in the past decade. The technology solutions have not undergone significant changes, although more agile and streamlined than the original iterations. What has changed dramatically in the past several years, particularly in the past twenty-four months, is the market receptivity for cloud-based SCM solutions.

The Union of Concerned Scientists recently noted that while a variety of facilities generate electricity, the location of these electricity generators – and their distance from end users – varies widely. Certain types of power plants, such as coal and nuclear power plants, have little short-term flexibility in adjusting their electricity output; it takes a long time to ramp up or down their electricity output. Other plants, such as natural-gas fired plants, can be ramped up very quickly, and are often used to meet peaks in demand. At any given time, there is also always a "reserve margin," a specified amount of backup electricity generating capacity that is available to compensate for potential forecasting errors or unexpected power plant shutdowns. Electricity demand, supply, reserve margins, and the mix of electricity generating technologies is constantly monitored and managed by grid operators to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Manufacturers play a similar game with inventory. This is one of many features appearing in Forecast Errors Newsletter.

Lodestone Consulting Services, one of the world's top Internet marketing agencies, unveiled powerful new tools aimed at helping clients counter Google's recent "Mobilegeddon" updates. With as many as 40% of all top websites being negatively impacted by the April 21 search engine algorithm changes, Lodestone's newly unveiled services will be of great interest to companies and organizations of all kinds and scales. Focusing on delivering much-needed digital marketing help to small and medium businesses, Lodestone Consulting Services has built a reputation as one of the top providers of highly effective search engine optimization, pay-per-click adwords management service, website tuning, and more.

William "Skip" Miller has launched a new website for salespeople and sales managers, including resources and tools to help accelerate sales in any industry and any economy.

Of the many moving companies in San Jose, Local Movers San Jose clearly stands out thanks to their unmatchable high quality services involving both long distance and local moving for both residential and commercial purposes at prices that do not burn a hole in one's pocket. With over 30 years of experience in the moving business and a list of over 1000 satisfied customers to their credit which continues to grow, these are the movers in San Jose that one should be looking at when they wish to move to a new home or a new office.

In time for the upcoming spring travel season EmotionalSupportPet.com has reduced the cost to renew emotional support animal prescription letters by forty percent. Traveling with your emotional support animal has never been easier or cheaper.

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.

Ultriva's founder and CEO, Narayan Laksham noted, "Demand forecasting requires the ability to accurately simulate consumption and compute on-hand inventory for each day."

A forecast error is the difference between the actual and predicted value. The consequences are expensive inefficiencies that can be resolved with lean manufacturing technology. Ultriva recently reported in Forecast Errors, a weekly e-newsletter, corroborates the PwC survey results that within the chemical industry the average forecast errors exceed 36 percent.

Miracle Man - the new EP by hip hop artist Sean Pierre with independent record label THA KEMP ENT has been making headlines due to its controversial EP tittle and cover, the EP is available for pre-ordering and is expected to release on May 18th 2015. The record label believes that Sean Pierre's style is unique and fresh which will suit the tastes of Hip Hop music lover who appreciate good quality music.

There is a new series of workshops and training methods utilizing the business processes and techniques found in collaborative planning, forecasting & replenishment. Ultriva urged that despite these new training workshops forecast errors remain unacceptably high and that only with real-time supply chain visibility can these forecast errors be significantly reduced.

Ultriva examines the cause of forecast errors each week. Forecast Errors, a weekly e-newsletter, sponsored by Ultriva, Inc. shares methods, modes, and tools used to inform manufacturers of forecast errors faced on the manufacturing floor, with a variety of supply chain industries. The newsletter explores forecast errors as the difference between the actual and predicted value. In the current issue, Forecast Errors reviewed what separates best-in-class companies from those firms which struggle with accuracy.