Helping Electric Utilities Get the Right Level of Inventory
How Much Inventory Do We Need to Support the Company’s Assets?
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How Much Inventory Do We Need to Support the Company’s Assets?
Brad DeMent, partner and finance and accounting practice co-leader at ScottMadden, Inc., recently corresponded with Mary Driscoll, a senior research fellow at American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC), about cloud-based finance. The article, found on pages 23-24, is available here for download.
ScottMadden recently partnered with APQC for a complimentary three-part webinar series focused on shared services.
ScottMadden, Inc. was recently featured in the June 2013 issue of Electric Light & Power magazine. This issue highlighted ScottMadden’s recent report, “Coal’s Slow Burn”. To view the June 2013 edition of Electric Light & Power magazine, please click here.
Have you ever wondered how the HR service center (HRSC) interacts with the Centers of Expertise (CoEs) in other companies? Shared services literature and consultants will advise that in a best practice HR service delivery model, the CoEs and the HRSC stay closely in sync with the development, execution, and support of HR programs and processes. But what happens in real life? How do the channels work effectively together?
Earth Day provides an occasion to draw attention to the interdependence of energy and water resources, also known as the energy-water nexus. Energy and water are inextricably linked.
In 2013, ScottMadden sponsored and presented at the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) Strategic Issues Roundtable.
As the electric power industry faces declining demand and more stringent regulations, addresses the need for increased capital investments, and considers technology enhancements to enable broader customer choices, what can/should we think about for the future? During this event, ScottMadden, discussed how to navigate the spaces between investors, customers, and regulators and brainstorms some future options. Access the full presentation for more.
Combined cycle plants may have fewer moving parts than coal plants, but that does not mean that their operations are any easier to analyze. Relatively limited operating experience and sparse data allow beliefs to take root—some well-founded and others less so. This report takes a quick look at three such beliefs and offers some tantalizing, although preliminary, observations on these questions:
The principles of Lean (or Lean Manufacturing, Lean Enterprise, etc.) are focused on building a culture in which everyone is constantly focused on the elimination of waste in their environment. In other words, delivering products or services through streamlined processes that minimize non-value added activities and effectively leverage people’s abilities. These principles previously found their home among the people, processes, and equipment of the factory floor. However, lately these same principles are part of conversations among those in office and service environments—even HR.
ScottMadden recently partnered with APQC for a complimentary three-part webinar series focused on shared services.
ScottMadden recently partnered with APQC for a complimentary three-part webinar series focused on shared services.
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