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Shipping news: Globalization halted by credit crisis

DK Matai, chairman of the ATCA Open has written a very interesting article about global shipping of bulk cargo and how it has come to a halt because of the lack of letters of credit. Just five months ago it cost about $234,000 to rent a 170,000 tonne Capesize...

Tags: Cargo, Financial, Raw Material, Vessel, Globalization, Great Unwind, Reports, Financial Accounting, Finance, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-22

What you don't know can really hurt your business

This fascimile chart shows how RockBlocks would enable a buyer to conmpare and evaluate various aspects of a product. And here's how RockBlocks intends to help the manufacturer and the retailer. Avoid the pain. A software company that was recently spun off, Boston-based...

Tags: Raw Material, Diamond, Retail Company, Product, RockBlocks, Retail, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-04-13

Ceramic Raw Materials 1.00 (Windows)

This book is for collectors, practitioners, teachers and students in need of a technical treatment of clays and glazes in terms of their raw materials - earths, rocks, minerals, oxides, and elements which is thorough and yet very easy to use. Materials are listed by alphabetized titling; data are thoroughly...

Tags: Raw Material, E-dition, Materials, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2004-07-06

Management 1.0 (Mobile)

Management is a game for the Palm OS. It works on colour, grey-scale and black & white models. The game involves buying raw materials (plastic, wood & metal), manufacturing them into finished goods and then selling those goods. Prices of the raw materials and finished goods are determined...

Tags: Goods, Mobile, Raw Material, Robert McQualter, Palm OS, Games, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2003-01-11

ExeDecision 1.04 (Mobile)

The target of the game is to earn as much money as you can by buying raw materials and selling finished products at their best prices. Four players can play together, one of them can be the computer.It is in spanish or english.

Tags: Mobile, Raw Material, Independiente, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2002-04-29

MRP_Excel.zip 2.0 (Windows)

From the developer: "A fully functional Manufacturing Resource Planning MRP system in Excel that has no macros or VBA code, nothing is hidden, the system may be modified by an Excel literate person, and adapted for use by a range of manufacturing companies. The system is loaded with sample data...

Tags: Raw Material, Inventory, Microsoft Windows, Production-Scheduling.com, Microsoft Excel, Manufacturing, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2001-04-14

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NBL Inventory 1.3.1 (Windows)

NBL Inventory is a Windows database-driven software designed for soho, small and medium size company, to manage and monitor raw material warehouse or finished product stock quantity and movement Master Editor: Store Employee, Organization particular / contact and Material / Product information. Listing: Query, print or export master data and...

Tags: Monitor, Stock, NBL Inventory, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Monitors & Displays, Investment, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Hardware, Components, Finance

Software downloads 2009-11-12

ExpressMRP 1.0.2 (Windows)

ExpressMRP is a software for MRP Material Resources Planning, forecasting and simulation of production in manufacturing companies. It tends to be simple, yet powerful tool for ad-hoc MRP calculation, planning and simulation, often needed in process industries. The program is especially suitable for dynamic manufacturing companies that produce many different...

Tags: Manufacturing Company, Microsoft Windows, MRP, Zlatko Matic, ExpressMRP, Manufacturing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-11-09

TextileNet 3.48 (Windows)

TextileNet is designed for MRP, warehouse, logistic and distribution operation of textiles material supplier, fabric converter, spinning mill, weaving or knitting manufacturer. Raw material like yarn, filament, wool or grey goods. In view of the keep increasing price of textile material around the world, material resources planning become an important...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Manufacturer, TextileNet, Manufacturing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-23

MaterialNet 3.38 (Windows)

MaterialNet is database software used to manage all the purchase and inventory of raw material, accessory, trims, and parts inventory of your company. Able to crop with all types of accessories. Very simple to use and understanding. Giving the management the purchasing order details or location and quantity of leftover...

Tags: Inventory, Accessory, Microsoft Windows, MaterialNet, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-10-23

Brickbats over bricks

Some more input from CalStar on their pending entry into the building materials market. I had asked about who set the standards for what is a "brick." The answer from CalStar: "ASTM is not the gatekeeper for new products - national and local building codes are....

Tags: Brick, Standards, CalStar, ASTM, Ash Brick, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Is Wal-Mart changing the color of commerce to green?

If you and I and all our friends and relations got together and decided to only buy certain products, or buoycott others, nobody would notice except us. But if the world's largest wholesale shopper, Wal-Mart, does something...well, everybody in the retail and manufacturing world will take notice. Wal-Mart...

Tags: Sustainability, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Biodiesel's future

I recently spoke with Innovation Fuels CEO John Fox. His firm already makes biodiesel at plants in Milwaukee and New York Harbor. He says next year will see a growth in bodiesel production in the U.S. The 2010 federal requirement calls for all diesel oil--heating and vehicles--to...

Tags: Biodiesel, Innovation Fuels, John Fox, Soy, Diesel, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-13

China throttles Google, U.S. ratchets up trade war over Green Dam

With less than a week until July 1 - the deadline for PC makers to start intalling the spyware called Green Dam Youth Escort - China appears to be cutting off access to Google after a bitter campaign accusing the American company of spreading porn. Meanwhile, U.S. officials have escalated...

Tags: U.S., China, Google Inc., Free Trade, Tools & Techniques, Network Security, Networking, Security, Finance, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Excerpt: Marketing 2.0 From CRM at the Speed of Light 4th Edition

I'm going to try something out here. I am ready to cringe as the tomatoes and old iPods are thrown at me, or the praise is showered on me...oh, wait, that's someone dumping buckets of tar over my head. I'm providing an advance excerpt of Chapter 13 of CRM...

Tags: Advertisement, Attention, CRM, New Competition, Engagement Rating, Marketers, Marketing Professional, Marketing Research, Marketing, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-05-29

Army Survival Manual 1.0 (Mobile)

The information contained in this App saves thousands everyday out in the field and in daily life situations, you will learn the raw material used to train US soldiers for survival situations. The survival principles in this App can help you in everyday life too. You will learn about the...

Tags: Situation, Mobile, Daniel M. Landeros, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-05-20

Smartweigh 11 (Windows)

Weighbridge interface & inventory management software for Quarry, Ready-mix plants, Scrap weighment, Cement plants etc. Can connect to any truck scale like Avery, Ricelake, Cardinal etc. Supports sales, purchase, public weighments, invoicing, production logging with Recipe Raw material BOM, Liquid/Gas weighment, order management, payment management and detailed reporting. Version 11...

Tags: Payment, Microsoft Windows, Inventory Management, SmartB Technologies, Smart Cards, Operational Accounting, Enterprise Software, Finance, Software

Software downloads 2009-04-16

Trash to cash, any investor's dream

How the process works. Courtesy: BlueFire The folks at Blue Fire Ethanol see a bright future for ethanol. But they are not using corn or sugar or other food crops, they're planning to use all the stuff we have "used up" and "thrown away." ...

Tags: Food, Investor, BlueFire Ethanol, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Poop power, the old dream revisited

Somebody always has some clever plan to turn chicken #^%t into methane power. Here's the latest effort, in Georgia. Do you suppose that's means they have more than their fair share of ... ? At the University of Georgia they're working on a process to...

Tags: Georgia, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-05

Innovation and competition

The topic of how America competes economically in the present world has raised some crucial issues. Is there not a disconnect says one reader between innovation and competition? The best products and the best producers are NOT NECESSARILY THE SUCCESSFUL ONES. This talkback makes a solid point...

Tags: Innovation, Pollution, Offshoring, Product Win, Leadership, Outsourcing, Strategy, Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-01