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Planning even a small project can be quite difficult. You have to contend with issues such as a day being only eight hours long, having a five day working week, and having special holidays all over the calendar. If the boss changed some parameter in the middle of your analysis, you would have to repeat so many calculations. This article describes how the OpenProj software can help you plan your projects better.

The PDCA cycle is a very useful tool to help you improve your business. In this interconnected world it is hard to imagine a business that does not need or cannot be improved. Today our customers too are becoming used to and even expect perfect customer service all the time and every time. You just cannot afford a misstep. This article describes how the PDCA cycle can be used to improve your business processes.

Running out of cash to buy profitable inventory is one of the biggest problems many small businesses experience. Purchasing too much and slow moving inventory will negatively impact your cash flows and profits. Excess inventory consumes administrative and physical resources, and continuously decreases in value as it sits idle in your warehouse. This article discusses some of the issues associated with excess inventory and its solutions.

The demand for facilities managers is growing fast here in the Philippines. So many buildings are sprouting all over Metro Manila and in the provinces and all these building will need to be managed properly. This one-day comprehensive course will teach you the techniques and best practices used by leading facilities managers to run a safe, cost-effective, and employee-friendly environment.

This was a hands on and interactive workshop where the participants were required to use their laptop computers and spreadsheet applications in order to complete the comprehensive inventory exercises. These exercises included computing the economic order quantities for ordering inventory, calculation inventory turns, and forecasting inventory.

Many companies focus on cutting staff to reduce costs. Most promote the use of the back side of printed pages as another cost cutting measure. While these strategies are good, often very little attention is paid to the mountains of slow moving inventory that has consumed all the resources of the company. Surely, the significant savings may be found optimizing the inventory levels, shouldn’t it?

Many of us are assigned projects to do in addition to our regular tasks. The project could be to organize the regular summer outing, create a new brochure, update the website, outsource a piece of software, an activity in church …

Hazelle Ramos is now a certified a Six Sigma Green Belt certified by RMP Consultancy Six Sigma Master Black Belt Flor Glinoga, PhD. Hazelle certainly woked very hard and she passed the rigorous 5 day training program conducted by Dr. Glinoga with flying colors.

As your organization grows even bigger it will add more sub-processes. There could be hundreds of sub-processes created. It will certainly be worthwhile to review your processes in the light of new technologies, new products in the market, and changes in market economies. Your strategy would be to improve your processes so that you respond better to the market, deliver faster and more accurately, and still keep cost down to a minimum and profits at the best possible level.

This one-day comprehensive course will teach you the techniques and best practices used by leading facilities managers to run a safe, cost-effective, and employee-friendly environment. It addresses the challenges, difficulties, and dilemmas of this demanding position. It will cover tough questions on a variety of facility management issues such safety, risk and security planning, building services, dealing with vendors, handling complaints and many more. We will introduce you to time management tools that will help manage your day-to-day priorities.