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- P&G Profit Helped By cost controls
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Procter & Gamble Co (PG) on Wednesday posted higher quarterly profit as cost controls helped offset soaring prices for oil and other commodities. The world's largest consumer products maker, with brands ranging from Pampers diapers to Olay skin-care products,...
- News items 2008-04-30
- Performing a Cost/Benefit Analysis
- When you've put a lot of time and effort into developing an idea for a new project or initiative, you may be eager to get it approved and underway. Before you can get started, though, you must convince the decision-makers the project is worthwhile by determining its economic viability—which you...
- Articles 2007-10-29
- 6 Fundamentals For Evaluating Buying Strategies For Industrials
- Is it possible for industrial businesses to extend cost control measures to their electricity procurement activities in the midst of a highly volatile energy market? Following a conventional Request For Proposal (RFP) approach, an enterprise's electricity budget for a year or longer can be largely dictated by market conditions on...
- White papers 2006-11-14
- Controlling Business Costs
- Wise control of business costs will help you improve profitability, grow during good times, and better survive the bad times. If you look carefully at your business operations, you’ll probably find many opportunities to control and even reduce costs.What You Need to KnowHow can I get a handle on what...
- Articles 2007-05-01
- Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services: National Program Trends
- Long-Term Care (LTC) policymakers face mounting pressures to expand Medicaid home and community-based services while the cost of institutional provision continues to rise and consume the bulk of Medicaid LTC spending. This paper presents the latest program trends in the three Medicaid home and community-based services programs and reports a...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Applications of Optical Fiber Sensors to Structural Health Monitoring, Optimization and Life-Cycle cost control for Oil and Gas Infrastructures
- Optical fiber sensing is one of today's fastest developing technologies. The significant advantages that optical fiber sensors hold over more conventional sensors for component testing, design validation and structural health monitoring have long been understood. However, it is only within recent years that this unique technology has sufficiently matured to...
- White papers 2004-07-20
- Where Risk Control Meets cost control
- In a portfolio transition, cost-minimizing trading strategies may have the unintended consequence of increasing risk along several dimensions. On the other hand, strategies designed to mitigate risk can involve unacceptable levels of cost, may be sub-optimal once transaction costs are taken into account, or may simply be infeasible. This paper...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- On the Road Again: Business Travel and cost control Amid a Cautious Recovery
- This article focuses on the crisis of rising costs of business travel. Unfortunately, the cost of travel itself is also expected to rise. Faced with this pressure to hold down travel costs, many financial executives are now looking toward online services for help. It reports the findings of a research...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Global Enabled Supply And Demand Chain Series: Sourcing-II
- Cost control has companies re-evaluating their commitment to sourcing apps, especially as best-in-class firms are driving high returns from the technology. The procurement and sourcing space became a tragic play of small suppliers struggling to survive while users hunkered down to digest the applications acquired in the B2B buying binge....
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Building on the Job-Based Health Care System: What Would It Take?
- The paper presents a blueprint for a reform, along with design choices and their implications, which would improve access, cost control, and quality. Requiring employers to provide coverage or at least to help workers obtain group insurance, combined with income-based premium subsidies, expanded public programs, and backup "insurance exchanges," would...
- White papers 2003-08-27
- Why Corporate Campuses Make Sense In All Economic Conditions
- Flexibility, cost control and increased employee retention are just some of the many attributes a corporate campus can deliver, regardless of economic conditions. Many real estate strategists and planners consider it to be the word that best describes the concept of corporate campuses. In a discussion on campuses, it also...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Expanding Beyond Professional Service Revenue: Experiences, Regulatory Issues and Lessons Learned
- Many medical groups continue to enjoy high levels of profitability despite stagnant or declining reimbursement under Medicare Part B and many commercial payer arrangements. Previous studies of better performing groups have shown that cost control measures, by themselves, rarely result in increased long-term profitability. Better performing medical groups pay attention...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- cost control, Monitoring And Accounting
- During the execution of a project, procedures for control and record keeping become indispensable tools to managers and other participants in the construction process. These tools serve the dual purpose of recording the financial transactions that occur as well as giving managers an indication of the progress and problems associated...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- cost control and Profitability Strategies in Today’s Market
- Many organizations fail to realize the link between good strategy and the best possible performance. To control costs and enhance profitability, building a viable business strategy is the most effective action any organization can take. Granted, this is easier said than done. Unfortunately, many financial institutions equate strategy with a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Reviving Managed Care: Focused Medical Management (Finally) Pairs Quality Care With Measurable cost control
- This article describes about the year 2001 which was an ugly year for those trying to contain medical costs as a 12% inflation rate kept health plan executives up at night, swinging at demons. Some forecasters cannot see an end to the cost inflation. They point to a vicious whirlwind...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- An Intranet-Based cost control System
- Information plays a key role in construction project management. In order for a construction project to be well managed, data from past projects, stored in a historical database, as well as data from the project at hand, must be readily available. It is an essential and valuable resource for project...
- White papers 2000-08-09
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- China wins deal for jail uniforms
- Home News IN BRIEF *Secret plans to make prison officers' uniforms in China have angered unions. An internal memo to jail governors from the Ministry of Justice says managers have approved a contract for the supply of uniforms from China, saying it will "give us more control...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- Stretch Inc. Uses Arena PLM to Set up the Right Systems and Controls to Take the Market by Storm
- Arena Solutions, the leading provider ofon-demand product lifecycle management (PLM) software for manufacturers ofall sizes, today announced that Stretch Inc. ( www.stretchinc.com ), thepioneer and leader in software configurable processors, has adopted on-demand Arena PLM to enhance collaboration, manage its outsourcing activities, andmore easily comply with industry standards and...
- Articles 2008-05-08
- Statewide Conference Held Today to Explore Ohio Bioscience Industry's Focus on Chronic Disease
- COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Around 150 of Ohio's top bioscience, health, venture capital, and economic development experts gathered at BioPharma in Ohio III: Fighting Chronic Disease with Innovation & Products from Ohio today to explore what Ohio's bioscience industry is currently doing and what else can be done to develop treatments...
- Articles 2008-05-07
- Semaphore Introduces a New Model in the T-BOX SCADA System Product Family
- Semaphore , a CSE Globalcompany, has introduced its T-BOX LT-100 compact remote monitoring andcontrol SCADA system . The newadvanced IP telemetry system extends the T-BOX product familyto small, decentralized applications where its push and Web technologiesenable high performance, economical implementation and operation. The T-BOX product family is...
- Articles 2008-05-07
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