Profit Point Announces Green Supply Chain Software

Profit Point, a arch accumulation alternation consulting firm, announces the addition of Green Network, a blooming accumulation alternation arrangement architecture application.

North Brookfield, MA -- Profit Point, Inc., a arch accumulation alternation consultant, today appear the addition of Green Network™ , a accumulation alternation arrangement architecture appliance that enables accumulation alternation managers accretion afterimage in to the trade-offs they will face if designing a green accumulation chain. Green Network is an addendum of company's accepted Profit Network™ appliance and enables accumulation alternation managers to cover any amount of ecology byproducts, including carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxide, particulates, and wastewater, in to the appraisal process. The user can aswell administer absolute activity burning or the blazon of activity captivated (coal, accustomed gas, hydroelectric, thermal, wind, etc.) in the architecture of the accumulation chain.
Green Network Software
"Many of our audience accept bidding a able absorption in greening their accumulation chains to accommodated the growing appeal by consumers," said Alan Kosansky, Profit Point's President. "Designing a acceptable accumulation alternation is acceptable a cogent antecedence for our clients, but not at any cost. The key to architecture a acceptable accumulation alternation comes in absolutely compassionate the trade-offs that are faced by accommodation makers."

Green Network was advised as an out-growth of Profit Network, an industry-leading accumulation alternation arrangement architecture software system. Profit Network is a robust, yet cost-effective apparatus that helps companies of all sizes optimize their accumulation alternation for best profitability.

Many of our audience accept bidding a able absorption in greening their accumulation chains to accommodated the growing appeal by consumers Designing a acceptable accumulation alternation is acceptable a cogent antecedence for our clients, but not at any cost. The key to architecture a acceptable accumulation alternation comes in absolutely compassionate the trade-offs that are faced by accommodation makers. Profit Network software has been allowance Fortune 500 companies about the apple body added able-bodied and assisting accumulation chains for added than 10 years By leveraging our plan in Profit Network, we were able to body a able apparatus that accounts for ecology appulse and profitability. "Profit Network software has been allowance Fortune 500 companies about the apple body added able-bodied and assisting accumulation chains for added than 10 years," said Jim Piermarini, Profit Point's CTO. "By leveraging our plan in Profit Network, we were able to body a able apparatus that accounts for ecology appulse and profitability."

In accession to Profit Network and Green Network, Profit Point's band of supply alternation software aswell includes Profit Vehicle Router™, a arrangement for optimizing busline routing, Profit Distribution Scheduler™ for simple assembly and administration scheduling and Profit Meeting Scheduler™, a adult appointment scheduler acclimated by above barter organizations.

For added advice about Profit Point's accumulation alternation architecture and enhancement software and consulting services, acquaintance Richard Guy or appointment www.ProfitPt.com.

About Profit Point:
Profit Point Inc. was founded in 1995 and is now a all-around baton in accumulation alternation optimization. The company's aggregation of supply alternation consultants includes industry leaders in the fields basement planning, blooming operation, accumulation alternation planning, distribution, scheduling, transportation, barn advance and business optimization. Profit Point's has accumulated software and account solutions that accept been auspiciously activated above a across of industries and by a assorted set of companies, including The Coca-Cola Company, General Electric, Rohm and Haas and Toyota.

Sum2 Offers Small Businesses Free Macroeconomic Risk Test

The arrest in the US abridgement is impacting the advance and advantage of baby and mid admeasurement businesses. In particular, the availability of credit, growing aggrandizement and crumbling affairs ability of consumers are decidedly adverse developments affecting baby and mid-size businesses. Sum2 is alms business managers chargeless acceptance to the Profit |Optimizer macroeconomic accident test. The analysis will advice business managers admeasurement the appulse of the poor abridgement on their business. It will aswell serve as a adviser to admit accomplishments that abbreviate the downside accoutrement of the business arrest and aerate a company's adeptness to capitalize on opportunities arising due to the accepted bread-and-butter conditions.

Little Ferry, NJ -- Sum2, LLC is announcement the actual absolution of chargeless and accessible acceptance to the Profit|Optimizer macroeconomic accident test. The Profit|Optimizer macroeconomic analysis is accessible for download from the aggregation website sum2.com.

The Profit|Optimizer macroeconomic accident analysis enables baby business managers to admeasurement accident factors that are angry to the accepted bread-and-butter situation. The analysis helps baby business managers admit action affairs that accord with business threats and to analyze opportunities that appear during times of bread-and-butter distress. The analysis is amid at the basal of the Sum2's Risk Testing website page.

We are actual admiring to action a apparatus to advice managers accord with the bread-and-butter challenges against baby businesses

Recession Impacts Small Businesses

"We are actual admiring to action a apparatus to advice managers accord with the bread-and-butter challenges against baby businesses," declared James B. McCallum, President of Sum2. "The affliction that contractors and suppliers to the apartment bazaar accept been experiencing for the accomplished few abode is now overextension to all business segments. Merchants, distributors, ball establishments, non-profit organizations, account providers and baby manufacturers are all activity the abrogating accoutrement of the slowing economy. The availability of credit, inflationary pressures and the abrasion of chump affairs ability are decidedly adverse developments affecting baby and mid-size businesses. These macroeconomic accident factors are abnormally impacting the advance and advantage of all business sectors."

Profit|Optimizer Product Series

Sum2 is absolution the macroeconomic accident bore from the Profit|Optimizer Test to acquaint the companies afresh appear Profit|Optimizer artefact series. The ambition of the Profit|Optimizer alternation is to accommodate baby and mid-size businesses with simple to use and affordable business administration tools. The Profit|Optimizer is a awful able befalling analysis and accident administration tool. It helps baby businesses accomplish goals, administer advance and enhance profitability. The Profit|Optimizer walks a baby business administrator through a accident analysis accumulation over 100 action accident assessments.

Objectives of the Profit|Optimizer

The Profit|Optimizer is an MS Excel™ based appliance that gives managers appraisal and befalling analysis accoutrement that abode three analytical areas of baby business management. Those three analytical areas include:

a)   Company Products: assesses products, clients, accumulation chain, antagonism and bazaar dynamics of the business.
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c)   Critical Success Factors: a analysis of Critical Success Factors to actuate and advance aggressive superiority, managed advance and profitability.

Once these sections accept been completed by managers a alternation of dashboards are created. The dashboards advice baby business mangers anticipate its accident administration affairs to bigger govern, prioritize, monetize and administer business development initiatives. The dashboards acquiesce baby business managers to set priorities in their action plans, actuate ROI of business initiatives and adviser the advance and abyss of accident acknowledgment and business development initiatives. The angle abandoned Profit|Optimizer artefact sells for $75.00.

The Profit|Optimizer Test is a subset of the Profit|Optimizer. It includes the complete scoring templates of the seven analytical business functions that offers 75 action accident assessments. It retails for $19.95.

The Profit|Optimizer is an MS Windows™ based appliance that includes pre-formatted templates to account and appraise business accident and address factors that are different and germane to baby and mid admeasurement businesses. Sum2's articles can be purchased on the company's secure e-commerce site or on amazon.com.

Small Business Service Providers
Sum2 works with banks, CPA's, allowance brokers and added industry account providers to deliver its accident administration articles to the all-encompassing baby mid-size business market. Sum2 encourages industry account providers to deliver the Profit |Optimizer macroeconomic analysis to audience and affairs as continued as aggregation trademarks and artefact allegation is protected.

About Sum2, LLC:
Founded in 2002, Sum2 is committed to the bartering appliance of complete practices. Sum2's complete practices affairs includes accumulated governance, accident management, stakeholder communications and authoritative compliance. Sum2 believes that all accumulated enterprises body disinterestedness amount by implementing a complete convenance program. Sound practices are arch amount drivers for accumulated and artefact brands. Practitioners are awarded with advantageous accumulation margins, allure of top end clientèle, action accident acknowledgment and exceptional disinterestedness valuation.

Sum2 welcomes the befalling to allege with you to authenticate how the Profit|Optimizer articles and accomplishing of complete practices can differentiate your business and actualize amount for your artefact brands and aggregation stakeholders.

SBNR.org Becomes Fifth Company in Michigan to Organize Under the New L3C Status

SBNR.org, the acclimation anatomy for the Spiritual But Not Religious movement, touts its L3C cachet as the band-aid to the absurdity of accomplishing acceptable against accomplishing well.

(Vocus/PRWEB ) May 28, 2009 -- This year Michigan became the additional state, afterward Vermont, to admit a new blazon of business alignment accepted as a low profit, bound accountability company, or L3C. On April 9th, 2009 SBNR.org, the acclimation anatomy of the Spiritual But Not Religious movement, became the fifth aggregation to be accepted L3C cachet in Michigan.

The non-profit archetypal is outdated What is aswell anachronous is the abstraction that a for-profit business should alone actualize abundance for its shareholders. The L3C car is a above footfall advanced in acquainted that businesses can and should actualize amount for all commutual stakeholders - including customers, employees, investors and the broader community. As an L3C we have to put purpose afore profit but we still admiration to allure top aptitude and advance basic through investment - and that can't appear as a non-profit organization. In the past, accomplished business professionals had to accept amid accomplishing acceptable and accomplishing well. The L3C car lets both appear in the aforementioned alignment and that enables us to allure top performers to do this important work It’s accidental that Michigan accustomed the L3C alone months afore we launched SBNR.org Some things are just meant to be. We apperceive there is a foundation out there that not alone understands the ability of PRI but is aswell absolutely accumbent with our mission Our business archetypal has been affirmed by the association and we are accessible to grow. The claiming now is to acquisition a foundation that is accumbent with our cause. That’s if the fun will absolutely begin. The L3C is a acknowledged amalgam of the nonprofit and for-profit authoritative structure. It is a new blazon of LLC (limited accountability company) accurately advised to allure both clandestine investment and altruistic basic into ventures that accommodate a amusing benefit. The L3C differs from a acceptable LLC in that it has an absolute primary accommodating and educational mission and alone a accessory accumulation concern. But, clashing a charity, the L3C is chargeless to deliver after-tax profits.

“The non-profit archetypal is outdated”, says SBNR.org CEO, and Co-Founder, Steve Frazee. “What is aswell anachronous is the abstraction that a for-profit business should alone actualize abundance for its shareholders. The L3C car is a above footfall advanced in acquainted that businesses can and should actualize amount for all commutual stakeholders - including customers, employees, investors and the broader community.”

SBNR.org is a amusing media aggregation that produces and distributes ball and apprenticeship to the Spiritual But Not Religious (SBNR) community. The aggregation estimates that over fifty actor humans in the United States abandoned analyze themselves as Spiritual But Not Religious.

“As an L3C we have to put purpose afore profit”, confirms Founder and absolute airy abecedary Ian Lawton, “but we still admiration to allure top aptitude and advance basic through investment - and that can't appear as a non-profit organization.” The acumen amid accomplishing able-bodied and accomplishing acceptable is a abundant discussed affair a allotment of amusing entrepreneurs. “In the past, accomplished business professionals had to accept amid accomplishing acceptable and accomplishing well. The L3C car lets both appear in the aforementioned alignment and that enables us to allure top performers to do this important work,” says Lawton.

The primary advantage of the L3C is its accomplishment as a Program Related Investment (PRI), an investment with a socially amiable purpose. Foundations can alone anon advance in for-profit ventures able as PRIs by the IRS. Many foundations shy abroad from advance in for-profit ventures due to the ambiguity of whether they would authorize as a PRI. Validating that an investment qualifies as PRI can be able by a Private Letter Ruling from the IRS, but accepting such a letter can be big-ticket and time consuming. An L3C’s operating acceding minimizes this botheration by accurately analogue its PRI-qualified purpose at the time it is accurately formed, authoritative it easier for foundations to analyze social-purpose businesses. By regulation, a foundation have to deliver 5% of its backing anniversary year. PRI funds calculation against the 5% anniversary administration benchmark. Foundations are activity the compression of these boxy bread-and-butter times. PRI distributions accredit foundations to accommodated the 5% aphorism while accepting the abeyant for that money to be repaid with absorption or basic gains. That doesn't appear with grants.

“It’s accidental that Michigan accustomed the L3C alone months afore we launched SBNR.org,” says Lawton, an Australian who currently calls Grand Haven, Michigan home. “Some things are just meant to be.” SBNR.org is gluttonous foundations and clandestine investors to advance in its growth. “We apperceive there is a foundation out there that not alone understands the ability of PRI but is aswell absolutely accumbent with our mission,” says CEO Frazee. “Our business archetypal has been affirmed by the association and we are accessible to grow. The claiming now is to acquisition a foundation that is accumbent with our cause. That’s if the fun will absolutely begin.”

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