Unfortunately, sometimes warehouses lack enough space for certain things. This can be really disappointing because it is not much you can do about the lack of space. Or is there? Well, you are in the right place because, in this blog post, we will show you a few tips that you can try to optimize your space out of nothing. If you are experiencing this issue and your immediate thought was that you need to start planning to relocate to a bigger warehouse, you need to sit down and take a deep breath. Moving to a larger warehouse won’t be as easy as you might think.

Keep reading to figure out if you want to learn more about what you should try instead.

Get a mezzanine floor

A simple but slightly expensive solution to this problem is to get a mezzanine floor. Yes, it is quite the investment, however, it would be a lot more trouble and way more expensive if you decide to relocate to a new warehouse. Check out Nolte Mezzanine to check out the mezzanine floors they have. It basically is an extra floor you can install in a warehouse to get extra space. The best part is that if you decide you no longer need the extra space in your warehouse, you can just take the mezzanine floor down and put it away for the next time you need extra space. How cool!

Rearrange the stock

If you think of the classic game Tetris you might understand a bit more clearly what is meant here. Making sure every product in the warehouse is placed in its perfect place will maximize the space in your warehouse a lot more than if you just randomly put items wherever. If the things being stored have a fitting organization to them, you won’t believe how efficiently things around the warehouse will go, as well as the space you’ll save.

Clear up what isn’t needed

If there are products or items stored in the warehouse even though they are not needed or necessary, then you need to clear that up right away. That will just take up valuable space for things you actually should be storing.

By now we all know that you can’t use production data (or a copy of it) for testing purposes. The GDPR states that personally identifiable information may not be used for secondary purposes such as marketing, training and testing. There is a chance that personal data will end up in the wrong hands or leaked out. But when you’re a software tester or quality engineer, you need (production-like) data for your tests, right? Because how else can you test your applications and make sure they will work properly in production? Fortunately there are three (easy) ways to make your test data GDPR compliant, so you can keep testing with high-quality data:

1. Data masking
2. Synthetic data generation
3. Combination of techniques

Data masking

Data masking is the process of hiding privacy sensitive data that is stored in your database. The main goal is that personal information like names, addresses, IBAN, Social Security numbers, salaries et cetera is not traceable to a natural person anymore. But what makes information personal or privacy sensitive? A name in itself is not privacy sensitive, but the fact that the person with this name has a giant debt does. With the help of data masking tools you make sure that different pieces of personal information are not linked anymore. You can shuffle names, scramble text or numbers, set birthdays to the first day in the same month or year (so the birth year remains functional), use custom expressions, blank fields you don’t need for you tests and more. All these masking rules (which are combined in a masking template) help you make sure that your personal data is not privacy sensitive anymore.

Synthetic data generation

As an alternative to data masking you can choose to synthetically generate data for your test database. Synthetic data can be used as a masking technique or you can generate data from scratch if you don’t have any data in production yet (when you’re testing a brand new application for instance). Synthetically generated data is also helpful when you have outliers or specific cases in your dataset. The highest salary, for example, can be easily assigned to a particular person (you probably have an idea which employee of your organization earns the most). By using synthetic data for these fields, you can rule out these cases of accidental recognition.

Combination of techniques

We probably don’t need to explain why using a combination of data masking and synthetic data generation is the best method. You get the best of both worlds. On the one hand your data (and the data structure) remains intact as much as possible, so that it remains close to production. On the other hand, you use all the advantages that synthetic data brings. 

Conclusion

Both data masking tools and synthetic data generation will help you with getting your test data GDPR compliant. The best way is using a combination of techniques to get both a compliant and a functional (high quality) test data set. With a good data masking tool you not only mask (or generate) your data, but you also generate an audit report with which you can demonstrate your masking efforts. A great document to hand over to the privacy authorities if they come check.

The procurement process is extremely important for companies that have to purchase products or services. The better this process is set up, the better the whole of business processes can function. If there is a delay in the procurement process, you will notice this in the entire supply chain. When a product is not available in the purchasing process, dozens of end customers will notice this. If something goes wrong during the shipment or the settlement of the product, only one end customer will notice. As you can see, the purchasing process is one that has to be put together well. In this blog we will therefore tell you more about the possible improvements to the procurement process.

Procure to pay systems

With procure to pay systems, the entire procurement process can be mapped from a to b. This way you will quickly encounter any errors and bottlenecks in the organization. It is therefore advisable to use this system carefully. The better you implement this, the better the entire procure to pay process will run. For example, these systems can automatically order products when the stock approaches a certain level. In addition, the system is able to automatically purchase the products from the party that currently offers them the cheapest. This way you never pay too much for your stock and you also always have it at home on time.

Indirect procurement

Indirect procurement is a method of purchasing that has been gaining popularity rapidly in recent years. This is mainly due to the favorable cost structure of indirect procurement. In principle, the procurement process is outsourced to another party. Because they take the purchasing process off the hands of many parties, they can realize larger volume discounts at the supplier. Because the indirect procurement party realizes a volume discount, everyone at the bottom pays less. It may sound very unrealistic, but this way you can save money by adding an extra batch to the delivery process. It is important to outsource this to a party that is several times larger than yourself. Only these huge parties can achieve such a volume discount that it is interesting for everyone to participate.

Om een ​​website te bouwen heeft u zowel een domeinnaam als een webhostingaccount nodig.

Het kopen van een domeinnaam alleen geeft je alleen het recht om die bepaalde domeinnaam te gebruiken voor een bepaalde periode (meestal 1 jaar).

U heeft webhosting nodig om de bestanden van uw website op te slaan. Nadat u hosting heeft gekregen, moet u uw domeinnaaminstellingen bijwerken en verwijzen naar uw webhostingserviceprovider.

U kunt ook zowel het domein als de hosting bij hetzelfde bedrijf kopen. Cloud86 biedt verschillende soorten pakketten aan die passen bij het soort website dat jij graag wilt. Daarnaast bieden zij ook goede webhosting pakketten aan vanaf 1,95 euro.

Voordelen van Cloud86:

–        Meerdere websites per pakket. Je kan erg veel kosten besparen door meerdere websites onder 1 pakket te plaatsen. Je kunt een onbeperkt aantal domeinen toevoegen vanaf het “Webhosting Medium pakket”. Dit is erg voordelig

–        Elk moment opzegbaar. Bij Cloud86 heb je ook de mogelijkheid om te kiezen voor een maandcontract. Hierdoor zit je niet aan het contract vast.  Opzegtermijnen zijn namelijk niet meer van deze tijd. Dus bij Cloud86 kun je dit elk moment annuleren

–        Geautomatiseerde backups. Een andere mooie functie van Cloud86 is dat zij elke nacht een backup maken van je websites, databases en e-mails. Deze backups kun je 24/7 terugzetten via het “Plesk control panel”. Door deze functie hoef je nooit in paniek te raken als er wat gebeurt.

Zodra je hosting hebt gekocht en je domeinnaam hebt geregistreerd, kun je beginnen met het bouwen van je website. Raadpleeg handleidingen voor het maken van een website voor volledige stapsgewijze instructies.

Moet ik ze samen kopen? Of kan ik ze apart kopen?

U kunt bij twee verschillende bedrijven een domeinnaam en webhosting kopen. In dat geval moet u uw domeinnaam echter naar uw webhostingbedrijf verwijzen door de DNS-instellingen te wijzigen.

Aan de andere kant, als u uw domeinnaam en webhosting bij hetzelfde bedrijf koopt, hoeft u de domeinnaaminstellingen niet te wijzigen.

Het is ook veel gemakkelijker om beide services onder hetzelfde dashboard te beheren en te vernieuwen.

What is storytelling?

As human beings, we’re hardwired to love a good story. It’s been this way since the beginning of time. We use stories to make sense of the world around us and to connect with the people we share it with. Good stories grab our attention, foster understanding, and build an emotional connection.  

Stories are at the heart of how we communicate. They enable people to transfer knowledge and understand complex information. On top of that, stories make it easier for people to remember things. 

Try to recall what was in that status report 3 weeks ago and you’ll most likely draw a blank. Try to remember what the hotel room looked like during that legendary weekend getaway with friends and you’ll remember every detail – from the floral printed throw pillow to the suspicious stain on the carpet. Through the power of storytelling, you can turn all sorts of information into compelling and memorable stories. 

The Center for Neuroeconomics Studies has done interesting research that shows how stories affect people differently than formal presentations—concluding that storytelling has a much higher impact on the audience than presenting mere facts and figures. This makes it a powerful content marketing tool that can maximize a business’ profit, visibility, and impact. 

How to use storytelling for your business

There are many ways to integrate storytelling as part of your brand and business communication. Nowadays, digital storytelling is probably the most logical way to go – as so much of our communication and life has moved to the online space. Companies such as Hyro, offer storytelling software that makes it simple and accessible for companies to create impactful digital stories that are worth sharing.

When wrapping corporate facts and figures in a story, it’s essential to understand the structure of good stories. There’s no real difference between a best-seller, Hollywood Blockbuster, Pulitzer prize winning type of story and a corporate story. Every good story follows a similar story structure that consists of 7 elements: 

There’s a good reason why most people remember dialogues and scenes from their favorite movies – even years later. A good story provides the structure we need to remember things. It’s how our brains make sense of the world. Whether it’s a famous fairy tale such as Snowwhite or a compelling corporate story, every captivating story has the same structure. 

There’s always a hero who faces a problem. He then meets a guide, who provides the hero with a plan to solve the problem. This is when the stakes become clear, which moves the hero to action. By doing this, the hero of the story avoids failure, and eventually delivers success. 

In most “normal” stories the audience identifies with the hero and his/her challenges. As a corporate storyteller, your customer IS the hero of the story. And you’re the guide that offers a solution that allows the hero to overcome his/her challenges.

The use of visuals in corporate storytelling

Building a good story is the first part of storytelling. Presentation and deliverance is the second and equally important part. You need to use visuals to communicate your story effectively. Visualizing your corporate story helps you grab your audience attention.

People respond to what they see more than anything else. The human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than written text, which is why visual stories are so impactful. 

There are many options to create visually stunning and engaging stories, for example, by using photos, videos, animations, and even virtual or augmented reality. Regardless of the chosen option – a storyteller needs to help the audience see things clearly. This counts as much as what’s being said. 

How does storytelling benefit your company? 

There are many ways storytelling is used to grow businesses. Telling corporate stories in a captivating way will add more value to any customer experience, and it will take experience marketing to a higher level. 

Storytelling can also be used for internal purposes. For instance, a company’s internal marketing and employee communication. It’s an effective way to create a sense of community among employees while growing a strong company culture. 

In short, storytelling can unlock a whole new world of business opportunity and profit.

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As you might know, the oceans can be pretty inhospitable places. For hundreds of years, people have tried sailing them and many of them failed. Although, of course, many also succeeded, they can still be very dangerous places. Despite that fact, a lot of transport happens by sea. How do we do this safely in this day and age? That is something we will dive into during this blog, so be sure to read on!

Monitoring tools

Ship performance monitoring is extremely important to ensure that the ship can be provided with all of the benefits that the fleet manager on shore has. Elaborate data analysis and advice is much easier to create on shore than on the ship, but it requires insight in all of the real-time data about the ship. This is done through ship performance monitoring.

Modern technology

There are many different kinds of technology which are employed in order to try and make the sailing of ships across oceans as safe as possible. Back in the day, ships were made of timber and would be propelled by sails and thus the wind. Now there are effective diesel engines, strong metals for the ships hull and lots of systems that help stabilize the ship, in addition to many more useful types of technology.

Size

Another factor that contributes to the safety of seafaring ships is the fact that they are, currently, rather large. Some of them are viewed more as floating cities than as ships, and this is no exaggeration. Because of this enormous size, the waves they face become slightly less of a challenge and thus the journey becomes a little bit safer as well. 

Experience

There is also the fact that by now, we have a lot of experience on the ocean. This experience is shared world wide and used to increase efficiency, reduce cost and of course make the journeys more safe. This is beneficial to all those who travel by ship, transport goods across the ocean of work in off-shore industries.

Weather forecasts

Lastly, the weather forecasts have become much more useful in the last few decades. This makes it easier for ships to avoid bad weather and therefore encounter far fewer dangerous situations. Ships can count on real-time weather reports and advice both from systems on their ship as well as their support systems on shore to make it safely to their destination!