Entrepreneurs are people with a different attitude to other people, and constantly seeking new challenges, sometimes by necessity, others by simple enthusiasm. The truth is that they know that starting a new project, more precisely, a company is not as simple as buying and selling.

For an enterprise to achieve success and achieve the goals desired by the operator, must pass through a stage of theoretical analysis, prior to the practical development of the project. This is for one simple reason: we avoid wasting money on a project unfeasible.

Within that plan, known as Business Plan on the scene as basic as two essential factors that are often not properly considered by the people: the vision and mission of a company.

The vision and mission are not just theory or paragraphs that serve only to augment a loan application file to any financial institution. However, play a decisive role in defining the business and is a motivator for staff. Finally, it serves as a guide for the entrepreneur or manager, to the decisions that must be done and not clear on which to rely.

Thanks to the National Plan EPC led by GS1 Colombia and Logical Foundation, has achieved a 15% reduction in operating time in logistics processes, and a decreased level of exhausted from 4% to 1.4%, after EPC implementation.
Damascenes Exit, Colsubsidio and Olympic Superstores and suppliers as the Alliance Team, Aliments Polar, Bimbo, Casa Luke, Coalface, Companies de Galleass Noel, among others, were some of the companies participating in the Plan.
For several years Logical GS1 Colombia and Foundation are working in the search for new trends in the value chain aimed at the different flows involved (information, product, money and knowledge), all with two main objectives in mind: to make more efficient and optimal value network and in turn generate more money.
Last October 2009 GS1 Colombia and Logical Foundation decided to launch an initiative called the National Plan of EPC, which had as its goal: moving towards joint implementation of a model that would improve the visibility in the network value to the final consumer, as a major player, with the availability of POS sales generated online, reducing the percentage of non-stocked Gondola causal and time devoted to logistics operations as a receipt and dispatch of goods, calculate the investment and savings associated with implementation and, most importantly, build the business case that would later mass deployment decisions.
For the first time, and during three months of work, drew the participation and collaboration of 15 companies between industrialists and traders. On the side chains involved Damascenes Exit, Colsubsidio and Superstores Olympic, and the supply side Alliance Team, Aliments Polar, Bimbo, Casa Luke, Coalface, Companies de Galleass Noel, Companies National de Chocolates, Kellogg’s from Colombia, Meals Colombia, Products, and Unilever Angina Dorian.
These are the results obtained today with the implementation of National Plan EPC:

* Increased sales of channels at 0.42% on average.
* Increase in sales of industry by 0.21% on average.
* 15% reduction in operating time in logistics processes.
* Reducing the level of depleted under the causal non-stocked shelf, from 4% to 1.4% after implementing EPC.
* Validation of compliance with the promise of service chains made according to negotiations with suppliers.
* Actual knowledge of inventory both in store as the sales floor.
* Knowledge of real-time transportation between distribution centers and retail outlets set, and storage time of each reference in each point of the value chain
* Visibility along the value chain, i.e., traceability.

All companies that participated in the National Plan had a common goal: to be pioneers in the field, test and evaluate the mass deployment in its value chain for companies who choose to work later in the implementation of EPC know in advance, what were the obstacles and successes in the process.

Some of the powers of any person or company are the knowledge of certain skills set to display the set of competencies. Noting the knowledge and competence in business, it is important to understand from an economic point of view the usefulness of it, that is, how much better and under what conditions is worth.

It lets you make and how much under the conditions that allow to enforce. It may seem ill formulated, but keeps the essence of what this article is intended to convey.

Any event and the events that are stored information that is; one can trace any relationship of an event or incident. That is why, on this idea, which has developed a wide array of techniques and tools for the management of various business and industrial processes relaciodos with data handling and management of information and knowledge.

In addition, as for many scholars, that any business model consists of a historical sequence, any market condition implies a historical sequence of events and / or interrelated events.

The business plans are often mentioned as regards the study of supply and demand, from the standpoint of strategic planning that will assess potential approaches and / or strategies with a time horizon of application will probably different.

To study the current and potential customers could provide information about which are more profitable and which are not. However, this depends on your point of view. From the standpoint of market research and traditional tools such as analysis of supply and demand would be a bit exhaustive study. Poe even with the same amount of information and new approaches would be unable to obtain further information was obtained. For example:

RFM Analysis of an entirely different approach where the client is seen as an asset to the company. The econometric analysis and recognition of consumption patterns and trends could also be helpful. Both large and medium-sized enterprises, small and micro enterprises could make use of techniques and tools.

How much? Vale do what you allow, that is, you could have much or little information, but combined with clear objectives may have an important impact on certain initiatives and the formulation of strategic and operational plans. Another important point is the heterogeneity of sources, and it is important to discover information crosses low mesh combinations and variations resulting new information.

The conditions to give vouchers to information also related to their treatment and opportunity. This means that you could have biased or incomplete information but with a corrective treatment could rescue important values, it is also possible to study possible scenarios. On the other hand, it must be timely, it must serve the objectives.

Finally, it is important to approach it, there are similar treatments of data, but bring in as the situation requires it, for it is important to test under controlled conditions the effects of decisions that have as input the resulting information of a given process.

Colombian companies increased their production capacity and investments to meet growing demand in Venezuela between 2008 and 2009. According to the Bank of the Republic of Colombia (equivalent to the Central Bank of Ecuador), Foreign Direct Investment in Venezuela-balance between input and output of capital-was $ 51 million in 2009.

“Companies like Alpine imported part of their products but then put a plant there. At this moment an issue of legal uncertainty in Venezuela holds it back, says Ana Maria Camacho, COM Venezuela.

The currency issue and discretion in the delivery of permits are the most sensitive. “For some companies are given permits and others doing not. It is impossible to plan how they will behave in the Venezuelan market, because then there is the order of the importing country, but you can access foreign or permissions are granted but can not be exported but the market demands it. “

Companies can not repatriate their profits, which are considered another obstacle. Noel Alvarez, Fedecamaras of Venezuela, holds that the legal uncertainty for all companies and not just for Colombians.

Intelligent Transport Systems launched the high performance multi-protocol reader Janis that integrates technology with readers plug and play (PnP plug and work), protocol compatible with the tags of Time Division Multiplexing (TDM).

Janis Multiprotocol Reader closes gaps between different RFID technologies used for electronic collection and other applications, egg Automatic Identification Equipment and Vehicle Register-Mail.

This reader is developed under the expertise of the network of toll Multilayer is a reader offering redundancy and is built on industry performance of earlier systems of MARK IV, with the addition of new features and even greater reliability. New features include an open source operating system and standard USB, serial and Ethernet interfaces that allow for easy expansion and integration.

The high resolution can be adapted automatically to the speed of traffic as well as power output, dynamically adjustable, and the input sensitivity with the most efficient use of bandwidth achieve greater success in capturing and writing tags improperly installed.

Multi-Reader has a storage capacity five times more transactions than its predecessor has, and is capable of automatic recovery to preserve optimal performance.

The architecture of individual antennas via the Janis reader can give support to eight-way or five channels on the open road toll in the configuration of MARK IV protocol only. Janis reader’s administration is performed through a network interface that enables remote diagnostics, including power settings and sensitivity of antenna, firmware update management and monitoring system performance.

In the fitness industry, the supply of services has been changing gradually in recent years: the martial arts and bodybuilding have yielded to concepts related to the welfare and health, activities and exercises choreographed “high impact” are giving rise to new activities such as indoor cycling or final working formulas toning with added elements
He speaks frequently of the need to steer business toward the customers, not to the products. In the case of sports facilities, this orientation is performed, too often, to the service, promoting activities, new services … with the aim of keeping alive the installation and a good level in the offer.

This is important, but in reality the process should consider before the figure of the client and with it their needs and desires, because eventually, when a client is interested in our center, we offer information on everything we’re doing a “promise of value” that we should meet.

In this sense, we should remember that there are many marketing strategies that are appropriate for our company as long as we are clear that we are working with a need for possession or consumption but on many occasions, with a desire to improve health or physical condition.

We should never take any internal action without putting our clients as a starting point. For this, the most important thing is to know; otherwise it is impossible to meet their needs.

Obviously, a good range of services is desirable, but not forget that in Spain, the sports facilities have a range of customer turnover up 50%. I.e. 50 out of 100 members of our center is leaving because the “promise of value” that you did in your day has not been accomplished, we have not able to explain and sell the benefits of these benefits or simply not have existed.

Clearly, therefore, to duplicate or copy services and activities is proving to be a good strategy and that in any case, we should have much more information in parallel on the reasons why a client causes high in our facility and also on what is the cause that motivates low.

In the fitness industry, the supply of services has been changing gradually in recent years: the martial arts and bodybuilding have been replaced by concepts related to the welfare and health, choreographed activities and gaining