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    Electric Company Car Advice

    Thanks everyone. By the looks of things, if the company profit is less than the cost of the vehicle that year you're able to "carry the remainder over" to the next.
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    Electric Company Car Advice

    Hi, I''m looking for some plain advice on the benefits of an electric company car. I'm a director of my own company and am playing with the idea of purchasing an electric company car through the business. I know that the BIK rates are much less than combustion engines, however, I've read that...
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    How do you maintain Annual Leave

    Hi, I'm interested in how others manage and administrate staff annual leave. How do you track days taken, requests and authorisation? Currently, we have a manual process which works okay-ish, but I've been looking at some online services and Wordpress Intranet Plugins, does anyone have any...
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    Sales and Business Intelligence software

    The data can be exported from the SQL database as a txt / csv file. I'd like to be able to track daily sales stats on a wallboard for the office sales team and also monthly sales stats for management and road sales. Preferential dimensions would be by product group and sales agent. I'd like to...
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    Sales and Business Intelligence software

    We're looking for software to analyse sales patterns has anyone had experience is using such software? Whilst I'm on a similar subject, does anyone use sales stats wallboard's in their office?
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    Stock control advice needed

    I can't name any specific software, but it sounds to me that you need some kind of very simple "rental" software. You could "rent" the key out and track returns. At the most basic solution, you could use a Excel spread sheet.
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    Sales Representative

    I have two representatives out on the road selling our services and products. They both live locally and only work within a 50 mile radius. One rep will call into the office before heading on his way, he'll also telephone in a couple of times a day to explain what his plans are. The other sales...
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    Supply Chain Management

    I understand. In your examples, we're more like the electrical componets supplier. If we were aiming to have a high first time order fill as you suggested, is there anywhere I could find tested and proven KPIs?
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    Supply Chain Management

    Can anyone recommend any books / web sites on Supply Chain Management? More specifically the kind of KPI's we should be aiming for.
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    Credit card terminals

    I'm looking for a terminal which the sales staff can use through a PC (I guess via USB) but the customer still interfaces through a regular keypad. I want to avoid our sales staff having to type the details into the device before the customer handles it.
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    Retail Display & Merchandising Advice

    I'm looking for someone to help us out in our retail store. We sell car parts but have a shop selling oils, additives etc. We've got a load of new shelving but was looking for someone tell advise us on maintaining and displaying products efficiently. Does anyone know of any short courses...
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    Sales staff targets

    I'd like to start giving our sales staff targets based on previous months sales and a little more obviously. I'm looking to find out what other companies use as a sales incentives and what you offer as a reward for hitting targets and how you calculate it. Anyone?
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    Putting prices on website - Good idea?

    From and outsiders point of view, I find it very annoying when I find a web site for a company that sells something, tells me about it and how good they are, then doesn't bother giving any indications of cost.
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    Wordpress v Joomla

    I'm a big Joomla fan, it's very easy to customise with a little research and reading. You can spot a Word Press site a mile off.
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    Offering flu jab to staff

    That was my main concern. I've not heard of anyone else doing it both and I'm guess that's why.
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