- 1. Your Own Horror Story; How to Avoid It
- (Management)
- You've read all five of my horror stories and I hope you've thought about your own business, and to make sure everything is in order. Are all of your systems running as efficiently and as smoothly as you ...
- 2. RFID Improves Efficiencies and Reduces Shrinkage for Retailers
- (Technology)
- Advance shipping notices (ASNs) can drive up efficiencies and accuracies by reducing discrepancies – which experts estimate happen about 30 percent of the time -- between invoices and the orders a retailer ...
- 3. Ignore That Deadline - It Won't Hur
- (Management)
- A distribution company called me in to do a review of their EDI processes, and look for things that they might be doing wrong. The review was just a precaution. However, since the distribution company ...
- 4. That Darn UOM Problem
- (Management)
- ... “Dear Cecil, Unmatched invoices are driving me up the wall! Since you left us, we started doing EDI with our biggest (by order count, anyway) MRO supplier a few months ago. We began with just 850s, but ...
- 5. Cash Flow Disaster - How Would You Fix It?
- (Management)
- My first horror story is about a company much like any other. A mid sized supplier; not at all out of the ordinary. The company had (or at least THOUGHT they had) a great EDI program that they had implemented, ...
- 6. Global Logistics Increasing by 25%
- (Logistics)
- When asked about predictions for 2013 in the global logistics sector Gartner estimated that software as a service (SaaS) and cloud TMS will command 25 percent of the total addressable TMS market. This ...
- 7. Customers Are Not Always Right - Until They Stop Being Customers
- (Management)
- I was called in to facilitate a confidential EDI productivity meeting with a group of senior management officers from various medium size companies. The meeting was great, right up to the point that I ...
- 8. Outsmarting EDI's Built In Processes - Priceles
- (Management)
- There's a recurring problem here as you may already be picking up on. Problems start small and get out of hand quickly. My next horror story takes place at a mid sized manufacturing company, whose problems ...
- 9. Just Ignore the Problem - Your Company Will Go Away
- (Management)
- Picture if you will, a small record company. The company was beside themselves with joy, with one of their biggest clients being a huge retail store. This was a high volume client, and the company was ...
- 10. Tales of Horror - 5 Ways to Kill Your Business
- (Management)
- If you're reading this you already know that EDI is no longer an option, it is an integral part of doing business with your trading partners. Besides that, if it weren't practically required, I would have ...
- 11. Cecil's Takes a Gande
- (Retail)
- Last week I was taking the slow and casual route toward the Southland, and had pulled into one of my long time favorite roadside eateries. I was just finishing up my slice of Mother Mabry's apple pie and ...
- 12. Cecil's SaaSy Cloud Tri
- (Management)
- I'm making my way west over the next few weeks, taking the I-10 route across the Southern States then up the California coast. The half dozen clients I'll see along the way have more in common than their ...
- 13. Cecil Explains Work
- (Management)
- A couple weeks ago I was pulling out of Denver, CO, heading East toward Kansas. I was anticipating a long, flat drive toward Kansas City. I stopped at Smokey's Cafe in the appropriately named Kanarodo ...
- 14. Cecil Smells Something Fishy
- (Management)
- It's been a great Summer, and I've been traveling through the Northwest, meeting with my clients and sampling the tastes of the area. One of my favorite splurges is local fish. I'm not particularly enamored ...
- 15. Cecil in the Sunshine
- (Management)
- Here I am in Southern Ohio once again, working with one of my clients on the expansion of an implementation. I continue to find it interesting that just when I think I'm going to run out of work to do, ...
- 16. Cecil's Disclosur
- (Management)
- I used to hate when someone asked me the old "Which do you want first, the good news, or the bad news?" I always assumed they really wanted to give me the bad news, and the good news was just filler. So ...
- 17. Cecil's (old) Od
- (Management)
- I was driving across the NorthEast this week, contending with the snow and other nasty weather impeding my progress. I pulled into a local truck stop along I-95 to calm my nerves and let the snow plows ...
- 18. Non – Standard EDI data = Failure to Communicate
- (EDI)
- I love small, local restaurants (in case you didn't already know that). They are typically pragmatic in creating their menus. One of my favorite local diners has possibly the world's greatest chili. They ...
- 19. Cecil's News Flas
- (Management)
- It isn't often that I get to report that an effort to highlight things that should be done differently, result in an actual change to a company's trding practices. And it may be a simple coincidence that ...
- 20. Cecil's Big Breakfas
- (Management)
- Last week I was in Albuquerque, working with a client who was nearly as big a fan of local restaurants as I am. We were able to indulge in more than one meal together, but my favorite was our breakfast ...
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