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Driving Success: Understanding Porter’s Value Chain

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It includes tasks such as warehousing, order fulfillment, transportation, and distribution management. Customer Service: Maintain customer satisfaction through after-sales support and assistance. Support Activities Support activities within the value chain exist to enable and enhance the primary activities.

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Business Process Improvement: What it is and How to Implement it

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Supporting Business Processes : serve the basic business. These include for example human resource management , accounting, and technical support to name a few. Better transport inefficiencies. Operating Business Processes : provide the main business of a company and make up the central income stream. Fix product defects.

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Process Improvement Plan: Everything You Need to Know

ProProfs Project Management

It is accompanied by a documented strategy to overcome these bottlenecks for improvement. Lean tools comprise three specialized techniques that are best suited to remove 8 types of process waste – defects, overproduction, waiting, non-utilized talent, transportation, inventory, motion, and extra-processing. Lean Tools. Reducing costs.

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