Learn how dividend arbitrage works to potentially earn risk-free profits by buying stock and put options pre-ex-dividend date. Discover the strategy, steps, and a profit example.

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Measuring, understanding and ultimately controlling manufacturing processes offers pharmaceutical companies a route to greatly enhance the business effectiveness of both their product development ...

Business process outsourcing involves the outsourcing of business functions to external companies. To clarify, many companies outsource tasks to external providers. An example may be hiring a ...

The authors outline a validation approach for the manufacture of a “legacy product,” taking into consideration recent guidelines. The aim is to demonstrate the validity and capacity of the ...

As a business owner or operations manager responsible for production, understanding the supply chain is essential to the success of your business. Any obstacle or impediment to the smooth flow of ...

As we have previously covered on this blog, the primary purpose of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology is to eliminate waste and reduce variation in manufacturing, service and design processes, thus ...