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Ask the owner of a small online shop whether last year’s Black Friday email worked and the answer is immediate: “Yes — sales were up.” Ask how they know the discount code caused it and the answer s...
Read more →Ask the owner of a café, a shop, a pharmacy counter or a small service desk how many people they put on a Saturday and the answer comes instantly: “three.” Ask why three and the answer is slower: “...
Read more →Ask the owner of a small shop, café or wholesaler how they set a price and the answer is usually one of two things: “cost plus forty percent,” or “a bit under what the place down the road charges.”...
Read more →Ask the person who places the purchase orders at a small retailer or wholesaler how much of each product they will sell next month and the answer is usually based on gut feeling: “about the same as...
Read more →Ask the owner of a small distribution business how good their delivery service is and the answer is usually a feeling: “pretty good,” “we get the odd complaint,” “the carrier has been a bit slow la...
Read more →Every production line generates measurements. A filling line weighs bottles, a packaging line counts rejects, a machining cell logs dimensions. Most small manufacturers collect those numbers — an o...
Read more →An earlier post on this blog asked the classic operations question about stock: how many units should we order, and when? This post asks the finance question that sits one level above it: how much ...
Read more →Most companies with more than a spreadsheet’s worth of customers already have everything they need to answer “who are our best customers, and who’s about to leave?” — a customer ID, a signup date, ...
Read more →Every growing company eventually faces a stack of competing requests for capital: a new production line, a warehouse expansion, a fleet upgrade, an IT overhaul, a sustainability retrofit. Every spo...
Read more →Every SME owner and individual investor eventually ends up holding more than one asset — a mix of stocks, bonds, cash reserves, maybe a rental property or a stake in another business. The usual way...
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Why Inventory Optimization Analytics Matter for SMEs
Read more →Why Lead Conversion & Customer Lifetime Value Analytics Matter for SMEs
Read more →Generally speaking there are 3 kind of decisions: strategic, tactical and operational (day-to-day).
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