Archiv ‘USA’
Freitag, 11. Juli 2008
Wo wäre Levi’s ohne SAP ERP?
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Im profitablen Bereich …
Levi’s is standardizing on a single global instance of SAP ERP, and told The Reg it was forced to take shipping systems at its three massive US distribution centers off line for a full week in April to fix problems receiving and fulfilling orders.
[…] SAP and ERP in general are complex systems, and when implementations go wrong they do so with profound implications on the bit of the business that really matters – making money and keeping customers happy. SAP has a few skeletons in its past.
Quelle: Levi’s suffers profit meltdown in midst of SAP embrace | The Register
Tags: Levis, SAP, Software
Labels: IT, USA, Wirtschaft
Montag, 7. Juli 2008
Dollars loswerden
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One consequence is that other nations sitting on our exported dollars (from our massive trade deficit) have apparently decided to spend off those dollars rather than wait for the fullblown financial collapse of the nation issuing them. My guess is that they are spending those dollars on oil, the primary resource of industrial economies, and that they are prepared to outbid other contestants (including the USA) no matter what — because they know the dollar is losing value, and that those losses are apt to accelerate over time, and what else would they spend them on?
Quelle: Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler : Where We’re At
Naja, ob diese Länder gleich Erdöl hamstern? Aber ich fände es auf jeden Fall nachvollziehbar, wenn man eine zukünftige WC-Papier-Währung so schnell wie möglich in „hard assets“ umwandelt.
Tags: Finanzen
Labels: Energie, USA, Wirtschaft
Samstag, 5. Juli 2008
Wieso Starbucks schwächelt
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What went wrong at Starbucks? To invoke the venerable business cliche, they didn’t stick to their knitting. Their core business was overcharging consumers for coffee, and a very lucrative business it was. Then they started selling dreamy CDs, and the company even helped produce a movie, „Akilah and the Bee,“ that bombed at the box office. Schultz bought a basketball team and started hanging out with Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney, the usual recipe for business disaster.
Quelle: A bitter-tasting jolt for Starbucks – The Boston Globe
Tags: Kaffee
Labels: USA, Wirtschaft
Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2008
Die Täter mit den Excel-Sheets
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Aber äbe: Über kurz oder lang sortiert der Markt solche Probleme aus. Wenn nur die Fed nicht immer einspringen würde, wenn es brenzlig wird …
Der US-amerikanische Moody’s Investors Service (kurz Moody’s) hat laut Financial Times (FT) unter anderem im Jahr 2006 für elf sogenannte „Constant Proportion Debt Obligations“ (CPDO) im Wert von rund einer Milliarde US-Dollar Bestnoten vergeben, obwohl diese sich später als praktisch wertlose Finanzanlagen erwiesen. Bei CPDOs handelt sich um komplex strukturierte Anleihe-Produkte auf Indizes für Kreditderivate, die häufig hohe Renditen versprechen.
Quelle: Fehlerhafte Computermodelle bringen führende Ratingagentur in Misskredit – heise online
Tags: Finanzen
Labels: USA, Wirtschaft
Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2008
Dunkle Töne eines Untergangspropheten
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Schafft es die us-amerikanische Wirtschaft noch rechtzeitig vor George W.s Abgang zu kollabieren? Zu gönnen wäre es ihm durchaus:
The US Dollar is on the edge of the chasm again. The nonsense has been cast aside about a bank recovery, a housing stabilization, and an economy that can withstand a spillover. How incredible it is to see grown adults accept such marketing and promotional drivel. Wake up and smell the blood! The US financial and economic system has never been so vulnerable in almost a century. […]
A couple big Wall Street investment banks are probably walking dead also, such as Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch. On the next round, they will tend to take each other down together. General Motors is being prepared by financial funeral directors as we speak. See the Merrill Lynch downgrade. The dead are downgrading the dead!
Quelle: US Dollar on Edge of BREAKDOWN, Gold on Verge of BREAKOUT :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets Analysis & Forecasting Free Website
Tags: Finanzen
Labels: USA, Wirtschaft
