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Making a choice between selling via traditional, physical, brick-&-mortar store, and offering products and services through an online, e-commerce store, is indeed difficult. However, whether you sell offline or online, it is your interaction with your customers, relationship with your partners/suppliers is all that eventually matters. Each have their own challenges, advantages and disadvantages.So, Online or Offline? How do you make a choice?Certainly, the cost-benefit analysis of the two, helps …

To run any business progressively; efficient and well-organized delivery of work is extremely important. For that matter, working setup of the company holds a great deal of significance, as it facilitates smooth and competent work flow in future. Open work spaces and closed cabins are two major systems available to set up a working area. To understand the differences and advantages of both systems, here is a thorough analysis of the two. Open Office System Advantages   &n …

We sometimes get complaints from customers that the Branded and Original products that they have ordered from us at SupplyVan.com are fake as they are Made in China, irrespective of the Origin of the Brand. One such customer had left a review on our website which I addressed personally.Sharing the email below to put our customer's concerns at rest.Dear Mr. XXXXXXXX, Firstly, thank you for placing your orders with us and trusting us. Let me add that your trust in us is not misplaced.I am wr …

Tools that we use on a daily basis in the work place or in our homes and garages can create hazards if not properly used or placed correctly after usage; when adequate precautions are not taken.In factories and industries, Personal protective equipment needs to be provided to the workers as they are always exposed to the hazards of splashing, falling, abrasive, and flying objects, or exposed to gases, vapors, mists, fumes, or dust while working with various power and hand tools. Also, workplaces …

For a safety program to be effective overall in the manufacturing workplace, it is important that personal protective equipment or PPE is used wisely. However, if history is anything to go by, then PPE has never been used as such. This has been the reason why accidents are common across workplaces.A lot of challenges are faced by product managers and manufacturing safety managers to remain complaint with PPE. However, their task is cut out because they also need to ensure workplace’s productivit …

An E-commerce portal that caters to Industries, Factories, Warehouses, DIY Individual Clients and any other kind of units that require maintenance and general supply products regularly. I have been sitting on this idea for the past 3-4 years. I was aware of similar websites in the US and Europe that did what i wanted to do on a much larger scale. I obviously have my own ideas for execution/working of the website.On a visit to my home country India on business, about a year and a half ago, I came …

Whether you believe it or not, construction impacts your life. The environment that people live in is a constructed one like roads, buildings, offices, schools, houses and hospitals are all part of the economy's infrastructure, which is a by-product of construction. The building construction industry is continuously booming. The building materials for construction plays a major role in any building construction. Any piece of infrastructure around us is undertaken by segments under Construction I …

We started doing a "Beat the Heat" drive last year (which was technically our first year of going live). We did one such drive today where the motive is to distribute Caps, Drinks and Glucose biscuits to the workers and laborers working in the Dubai Deira Markets. Although there are other people who pass by as well and working in the heat, and we distribute drinks, biscuits, and caps to them as well. We work very closely with the Diera markets and Its not much that we do with this drive but what …