Kyriba Releases New Comments – Supply Chain Finance: Main Drivers of Treasury Involvement


New York, NY (PRWEB) July 27, 2012

Treasurers are playing a more important role in supply chain finance (SCF) and as a result are improving risk management procedures, while creating cash and working capital optimisation.

Treasurers have become more involved in supply chain finance (SCF), as part of a strategic shift in the treasury teams responsibilities within an organisation. The trend has largely arisen since the financial crisis of 2008 when risk management, including supplier and counterparty risk, became more of a priority for the C-level and boards of almost all organisations.

This changing role for treasury has coincided with the movement towards global trade on open account terms; that is without trade finance instruments. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) reports that more than 80% of global trade is now done on open account terms, a percentage that appears to grow each time a new study is conducted.

This combination of factors increases the responsibilities placed on an organisation to support its business trading relationships and, where there is a financial component, the requirement for the treasurer to be involved. Depending on geographic region, treasury either is involved with or actually leads SCF programmes at least 50% of the time and this involvement is growing every year.

Treasurys involvement results from the increase in trade with suppliers worldwide which, in turn, means an increased demand for financial tools to support those trading relationships. Traditionally, those tools were trade finance instruments such as letters of credit (L/Cs) or business guarantees. While they continue to exist, especially where required by regulation in certain markets, open account trading necessitates a different set of financing arrangements that arent necessarily balance sheet items. As such, SCF is often the answer.

From a treasurers perspective, there are two primary reasons to be involved in SCF:

The Nemetschek Engineering Group Releases Scia Engineer 2012

Brussels, Belgium (PRWEB) July 25, 2012

The Nemetschek Engineering Group is pleased to announce the availability of Scia Engineer 2012. Scia Engineer 2012 provides significant improvements for structural and civil engineers who are to migrate to, or improve their 3D workflows.

Scia Engineer 2012 offers advances in structural modeling, analysis, design and documentation, as well as a number of enhancements to improve the engineer’s day-to-day workflows, says Dr. Jean-Pierre Rammant, CEO, Nemetschek BU Engineering Group. And, with improved support for IFC and Open BIM, we’re making it easier for engineers to plug analysis and design into today’s collaborative 3D workflows.

The release focuses on four key areas of development:

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Texas Energy Network (TEN) Announces Membership in Key Energy Data Standards Organizations; Releases Standards for Carrier Deployment of LTE for Energy Communications

Houston, TX (PRWEB) July 25, 2012

Citing ownership and control of the network core as a key element of service, Texas Energy Network, LLC announced today carrier deployment standards for LTE networks on the oilfield. Gregory M. Casey, Chief Executive Officer of TEN stated; “TEN is releasing these standards as guidelines for energy companies seeking to use LTE to transmit data. TEN’s network is being built to a carrier class standard and we think its important that our energy customers know what that means compared to some other service that may portend to provide critical infrastructure wireless service.” Casey was business unit head of Qwest/US West’s carrier access business before starting TEN.

The first key element of carrier class service is control of the LTE Evolved Packet Core(EPC). An LTE network uses an eNodeB (evolved node B, essentially an LTE base station), a MME (mobile management entity), a HSS (home subscriber server), a SGW (serving gateway), and a PGW (a packet data network gateway). With the exception of the eNodeB, everything is considered as part of the EPC (evolved packet core) network. At the tower the eNodeB connects to the EPC.

The MME and the HSS basically handle all duties regarding subscriber access to the network. It handles all the authentication, roaming rules for subscribers, etc. The SGW essentially acts like a giant router for subscribers, passing data back and forth from the subscriber to the network. The PGW provides the connection to external data networks. The most common data network the PGW provides a connection to is the internet.

Therefore, ownership and control of the EPC is essential. Allen Shipman, Vice President of Engineering and Operations at TEN stated, “network control is essential when providing data transmission to critical infrastructure companies such as the energy industry. If the network isn’t controlled and is maintained by a third party, its not secure and certainly not carrier class.” Shipman is noted for his architecture of the 50,000 mile Broadwing fiber network now owned by data heavyweight Level 3.

Other key elements beside ownership and control that are essential to the provision of carrier class service are: 1) ownership and control of backhaul links over licensed spectrum, 2) ringed network topology to provide system continuity in the case of backhaul failure, 3) redundant core routers in the case of failure, 4) secure tower deployment and several other design elements. These standards will be announced on TEN’s website in September.

TEN also announced membership in two key energy data standards organizations, Energistics and PIDX. Energistics is a global industry consortium that facilitates an inclusive user community for the development, adoption and maintenance of collaborative, open standards for the energy industry in general and specifically for oil and gas exploration and production. Its website can be found at http://www.energistics.org. PIDX provides a global forum for delivering the process, information and technology standards that facilitates seamless, efficient electronic business within the oil and natural gas industry and its trading community. Its website can be found at http://www.pidx.org. Greg Casey also noted “TEN is the first carrier to become a member in both organizations. Our intention is to not only efficiently transport data at high speeds but to facilitate the use of data in energy company work flows. Membership in these organizations gives us access to key energy data constituents.”

Starting first in the Permian Basin and the Eagle Ford shale play, TEN is delivering 4G LTE to the oil and gas industry to enable the promise of the “Digital Oilfield”. The company’s website can be found at http://www.texasenergynetwork.com.







The Booth Company Releases New Sales Management Survey


Boulder, Colorado (PRWEB) July 24, 2012

The Booth Company (TBC), an international provider of 360 degree feedback and survey hosting solutions announces the release of a new Sales Management Survey that addresses the growing importance of including first-line and middle sales managers into an organizational development plan.

With the stagnant economy, organizations rely more intensely on the sales team to grow both existing and new revenue channels. First-line and middle sales managers are at the core of the sales process and a business-critical part of an organization. However these employees are often overlooked when it comes to training and development programs. Ironically, organizations seem to have a close eye on sales but often overlook the possibility of improving their sales team by including them in the companys organizational development initiatives.

The Sales Management Survey (SMS) not only helps sharpen communication and teamwork skills, but they are designed to stretch the sales skill development and goals into early stages of leadership competencies. Sales managers have the unique responsibility of implementing sales strategies and achieving sales goals, explains Derek Murphy, CEO of The Booth Company, this challenge is the basis for the sales management survey, giving the sales manager valuable feedback specific to the sales management role to create a starting point for on-going development.

The SMS is built on the Task Cycle

Ecko Unlimited Releases New Batman T-Shirt Collection


New York, NY (PRWEB) June 22, 2012

The Batman t-shirt collection from Ecko Unltd. revives the classic comic logo wear with an infusion of Ecko attitude. Rather than the traditional minimalist Batman style that s been seen many times before, the line utilizes bright colors and boasts Ecko signature techniques including gel printing, carbon coating and 3D texturing.

Inspiration for the Batman T-Shirts Collection

This first release from the Batman collection features designs that help connect the feel of the classic Batman brand, the existing Ecko aesthetic and current trends in t-shirt design.

One design, the Ecko Wham t-shirt, helps clearly mix the classic comic vibe seen by Batman fans for decades, while making use of in your face graphics. The Vandal Signal t-shirt design features the well known bat signal, incorporated with the classic Ecko graffiti and rolled paint look.

The Blood Bath t-shirt design visits the twisted violence that Batman deals with on a daily basis. Its a plain white layout with Batmans face staring outward, surrounded by blood spatters and a blood soaked Ecko Unltd. logo. This design, alongside the Carbon Coated t-shirt, are made with the Dark Knight Rises movie in mind and reflect the films theme.

The next release of the Batman t-shirts, the Dark Series, depicts the darker side of Batman, his struggles, depression and feelings. Hes the only superhero that fights crime without the aid of a superpower, which is reflected in the look of this upcoming series.

Matt Black, Ecko lead designer, said: “The t-shirts mix current trends with the classic comic vibe showing a new side to the well known dark hero. The t-shirt designs stay in line with the theme of the new movie and the classic Batman feel; giving Batman fans the opportunity to get psyched about the line, the release of the latest film and Ecko’s involvement.”

The t-shirt collection is available here: http://unltd.is/MiNV31

About Ecko Unltd.

Ecko Unltd. continues to use the iconic rhino logo and graffiti, once a blemish on the urban landscape, as a legitimate art form. With an uninhibited pulse on emerging trends and talent, Ecko Unltd. is in a class of its own with original collaborations with Star Wars, Batman, street artists like Cope2, Pez and 123Klan, rapper Meek Mill, boxer Miguel Cotto and others. The ecommerce division of Ecko has continued to help elevate the brand in the digital space, recently mentioned in Mashable and New York Times for their innovations. From music videos and television programs to catwalks, action sports, and video games. Ecko s “World Famous Rhino Brand” has expanded to include graffiti t-shirts, polos, jeans, shorts, watches, and more.

CONTACT:

Brian Honigman

Marc Ecko Enterprises

brianh(at)ecko(dot)com







MyCustomSign.com Releases New How-To Video to Optimize Custom Sign Design


Brooklyn, New York (PRWEB) June 01, 2012

MyCustomSign.com, the Webs premier resource for entirely customizable signs and tags, has distributed a new online video tutorial about custom sign designs. The video assists users in formatting and layout techniques to increase readability, allowing viewers with no graphic design experience to create professional, personalized signs for homes or businesses in minutes.

Customizable signs serve a wide variety of uses, from custom-made information and branding for businesses and schools to humorous personal signs for the home. As outlined in the video, MyCustomSigns templates not only allow for simple text and color modifications, but also offer a service for customizable graphics on individual signs with no extra charge. A user can simply sketch a graphic on a piece of paper, and the creative team at MyCustomSign will generate a clean, professional graphic with no additional fee.

In addition to providing viewers with information and free benefits, the video also features instruction in text and color formatting to ensure maximum comprehension. The video suggests the utilization of the five second rule, meaning if the message of the sign cannot be understood in five seconds or less, the sign must be reformatted for increased clarity. Other pointers involving the amount of text used and color formatting tips guide sign-makers towards creating direct and effective custom signs.

While our site makes creating professional customized signs quick and simple, being aware of a few simple design techniques can make a significant difference in a signs efficiency and value, said Blair Brewster, CEO of MyCustomSign.com. As a leading distributor of custom signs, we are familiar with the characteristics and features that make signs maximally efficient. In being informed about these techniques, customers will be able to experience greater benefits from our products.

With a clean user interface and easy formatting options, visitors to MyCustomSign.com can make professional, entirely customized signs in minutes. By informing different design strategies for customizable signs, this video hopes to certify maximum efficiency in the personal signage generated on the site.

For more information on how to produce professional custom-made signs in minutes, visit http://www.MyCustomSign.com.

About MyCustomSign.com

MyCustomSign.com is the Web’s top platform for users to create personal signs. Users can create fonts or add artwork at no extra charge. Custom signs are ideal informational and branding tools.

About SmartSign

SmartSign is one of America’s fastest growing e-commerce companies and parent of MyCustomSign.com, MyParkingSign.com, as well as more than 50 other sites. The company manufactures and distributes a wide range of signs, tags, mats, and labels. In the past, many consumers have found it hard to find, hard to design and hard to order signs with the right message. By positioning signs as solutions, SmartSign has taken an entirely different approach. Through highly targeted, content-rich, and authoritative retail sites, the company provides specific solutions to specific problems, such as customizing an asset tag. SmartSign is widely recognized for its quality construction; its signs come with a 3M

Knaak Design Group Releases Its New Virtual Landscape Design Division that Gives Homeowners and Investors Several Budget Friendly Options for Do-It-Yourself Projects


Seattle, WA (PRWEB) May 12, 2012

PlanWorx is a new concept in residential landscape design that gives homeowners and investors in the United States and Canada a variety of options to address their front and backyard projects that suit their budget and time frame. Delivered by registered landscape architects, the virtual landscape design services are at a fraction of the cost compared to most custom designed projects delivered by the same professionals in the industry. Homeowners and real estate investors can benefit from an increased savings of up to 40% by buying the materials should they choose a do-it-yourself approach providing their own installation resources. In addition to creating a custom landscape designs that gives guidance to plan their project, PlanWorx helps people avoid the common mistakes that occur during do-it-yourself projects that further cause delay and waste valuable dollars. KDG will also provide scheduling options to help phase various parts of the project over time due to life events and budget constraints.

With the recession, many homeowners dont have the same discretionary income as they did 5 to 7 years ago. Times are tough, and people need to find innovative and efficient ways to beautify their front and backyards, without feeling like it isnt worth the effort, says Robert Kn

HealthCompare Wants Health Insurance To Be Educated And Releases Infographics To Help


(PRWEB) June 12, 2012

HealthCompare, a nationally recognized health insurance comparison site, is releasing new tools in their attempt to help Americans who are in search of health insurance. HealthCompare, who consistently displays concern for consumers, asks visitors that come to their site to ask themselves a series of questions before attempting to find health insurance coverage. These questions are designed to help shoppers decipher what type of coverage is best for them in terms of cost and type of policy.

The questions that HealthCompare encourages consumers to ask themselves are:

What are the consumers current health care needs? Do they currently require medication? Does the consumer have a pre-existing condition? Or are they seeking to start a family in the near future?

Does the financial state of the shopper allow for a lower deductible, thusly giving them a higher monthly premium? Or would having a high deductible (and therefore lower monthly premium) be more beneficial?

Is the consumers physician a factor? If they prefer to continue seeing their doctor of choice, HealthCompare helps them decide what policies allow that.

Are there any other health insurance options for the shopper, such as spouse or parent plan?

Once consumers get their quotes, HealthCompare then helps them narrow their decisions by prompting them to ask further questions, like:

How much will the policies being compared cost them from their pocket when considering deductibles, co-insurance, and co-pays?

What will the policies being compared offer in terms of maximum out-of-pocket expense?

Will the consumers office visits be covered?

Do any of the policies up for comparison offer maternity?

Is prescription drug coverage an option?

How much will the consumer pay for emergency services and ambulances?

Will the current primary physician and local hospitals be accepted under any of the policies being considered?

HealthCompare knows how difficult health insurance can be and wants to help consumers make their decisions with the release of these infographics.

Infographics are unique graphics that are growing in popularity across the web are known for utilizing images and colors to help make complex data from scientific reports, demographics, and studies to make them more easily understood by the casual reader. Reports such as the ones used in scientific studies often use jargon and unnecessary language that makes deciphering results difficult for those without the background for these terms. Infographics compress and compile numbers and meanings into aesthetically pleasing arrangements that illustrate rather than tell. They can also functionally layout arguments for debates, complex concepts or any other topic that could otherwise be considered difficult to understand.

These new graphics explain hardships that can effect consumers when it comes to medical coverage. HealthCompare is nationally recognized for caring about patient knowledge and choice. They want consumers to understand as much as possible when it comes to making decisions regarding coverage that suits their needs.

The infographics released in this series are:

How Not To Get An Online Health Insurance Quote – Designed to educate consumers on the right way to get a health insurance quote that is effective

Instant Health Insurance Quotes Made Simple – Designed to explain how to get quotes the consumers can use

Why Instant Health Insurance Isnt A Good Idea – Designed to educate consumers on the dangers of settling for instant health insurance

The Most Effective Individual Health Quote Does This – Designed to illustrate the most effective ways consumers can get an individual quote

COBRA: Not The Only Option For The Unemployed – Designed to show shoppers how they can get health insurance if they are unemployed

Other infographics can be found here.

Health insurance costs are much more involved than mere premiums and buyers must carefully consider all out of pocket expenses to understand what their policies will ultimately cost them.

About Health Compare: HealthCompare was launched in 2009 to work with brokers and carriers to help individuals and families easily research, compare, buy, and enroll in the right health insurance plan at the right price. Based in Orange, Calif., it delivers accurate, customized, health insurance quotes for the country’s diverse population.

Through a unique partnership with its sister company, CONEXIS, HealthCompare has the ability to quickly reach thousands of COBRA-qualifying consumers and provide them with COBRA alternatives at the moment they become eligible for COBRA benefits. This provides these consumers with an opportunity to enroll in individual or family plans and potentially save hundreds to thousands of dollars on COBRA premiums and, at the same time, rewards referring brokers with referral fee income for the life of each policy.

For more information, visit http://healthcompare.org/ or call 888.748.5152.







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