A recent Mzinga and Babson Executive Education survey on the topic of social software in business, comprising over 900 executives, managers and individual contributors identified what they call Social Media Customer Leaders (SMC Leaders).
Companies use profitability ratios in order to measures their ability to generate returns through effective allocation and use of available resources. KPIs in this area have often as main component profit or return. One of the most popular profitability ratios is the Berry ratio.
Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the systemic, strategic coordination of the traditional business functions and the tactics across these business functions within a particular company and across businesses within the supply chain, for the purposes of improving the long-term performance of the individual companies and the supply chain as a whole (Mentzer et al, 2001).
As part of the promotion mix in marketing, advertising is one of the most dynamic and costly promotional activity. Although declined with about 2,6 % by comparison to the previous year, the U.S. advertising expenditure has still been above $ 130 billion dollars in 2008 (according to a The Nielsen Company report).