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Cutting
transport costs with vehicle routing software
Inefficient vehicle routing, ambiguity over transportation
bills, rising transportation costs, real-time control of vehicles,
and pressure to increase call engagement is affecting the
bottom-line of BPO outfits. One solution they are looking
at: vehicle routing optimisation software.
Digging
deep
Systimax Solutions, a structured connectivity solutions provider,
has been in the Indian structured cabling market for over
a decade. The company has customers in various verticals including
oil and natural gas, government, BFSI, software development,
and of late, BPO. HPCL, BPCL, GAIL, Mangalore Refineries,
the Bangalore Vidhana Soudha, HP and the Karnataka Government
Computer Centre are some of its clients. Earlier, the company
was part of AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies and most
recently Avaya.
The
case for secure strategies
A comprehensive security strategy aims at leveraging the best
information security practices to improve business performance.
People, processes and technology are the core elements of
the strategy, which aligns these elements with the business
to assure a secure information environment and provide competitive
advantage. The capability to successfully structure the policy
makes a security strategist (SS).
How
Six Sigma saved seven crores
While Six Sigma is often seen as a mechanism for reducing
costs, few organisations realise its power in driving product
innovation. The Six Sigma initiative at Tata Honeywell was
driven by Honeywell, which provided guidance, training materials,
methodology updates and handholding (wherever required).
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