The so called SME and MSME in manufacturing industry segment is always happy in supplying a component to a bigger company or manufacturing unit which is selling the product in its name and building the brand and also the awareness.
Lets understand the problem which manufacturing industry faces when it is happy being a supplier of a component to a bigger player.For e.g a SME and MSME which is into manufacturing of seconds hand, hour hand and minute hand to a well know watch brand which has outsourced the work to this MSME or what is known as contract manufacturing.
The well know brand has its presence across India and has brand it has limited itself to selling with retail network or its own company outlets to reduce the cost it has outsourced the job to MSME unit which is small and has technical ability to manufacture as per the technical specifications of the watch brand.
The MSME is happy that it is supplying parts to a big watch brand and happy that payments are not issue and is happy by supplying or fulfilling the contract it has signed.
Lets understand this scenario with a disadvantage, so what happens to the MSME unit is that it will get into comfort zone as payments is not problem so the founder of the unit is happy telling his friends that his payments are not a problem but at same time does not diversify nor he improves his capacity nor any innovation happens.
The major reason being that MSME which die due to lace of capital both capital and operational is happy with well know watch brand providing the payment on time. The MSME is does not increase its capacity nor its financials nor it diversifies its product range nor does get new vendor as the contract manufacturing comes with rider that the MSME cannot take a contract from the same industry and same product.
The brand that was doing well has found competition so what it does next is not axe its own people first it looks at vendors for reducing cost, when vendors resist the brand would be happy to pull out of the MSME and give order to any other MSME who is ready to work on lesser margins.
What happens to existing contract manufacturers is that the only option is to shut down as they cannot diversify at short time nor they did any R&D nor they though of a time where in the contract manufacturing would come to halt.
This is a situation where in major of MSME shut down and no one blame except themselves.
Both the words sound the same but there is huge difference between the two and also the impact that they bring can easily make a business grow and shutdown.
Lets understand the difference between both words by examples this suits more to manufacturing industry as the gap between payment to payment realization is good enough to take a manufacturing unit in spin from where the recovery happening is very rare.
A manufacturing unit which manufactures product organic sugar or palm sugar lets find the difference of the above two words.
A manufacturing unit cannot distribute by itself as the constraints of funds on marketing and appointing distributors is bit difficult to handle so keeping these things a manufacturing unit produces 20 kg of palm sugar and hands it over to the distributor.
So technically saying the cost of 20 kg of palm sugar should have been paid to the manufacturing unit, in reality it does not happen like this the distributor takes the goods worth 20 kg of palm sugar and places in the retail stores where the distributor has taken shelf space.
The distributor also does not get the amount from retail shop, who agrees on bill to bill or credit period for payment of sellable sugar and non sellable sugar needs to be replenished if its near the expiry date.
The manufacturing unit will be happy as it has sold 20kg of sugar but in reality money or the payment is not realized its just in the books of the manufacturing unit that there sales have happened.
By the time the retailer makes payment and the distributor makes payment to manufacturing unit, the manufacturing unit has to continue producing in spite of having got sales but not payment realization.
If manufacturing unit does not have adequate capital and inventory to continue production till payment is realized, if the unit does not have capital or inventory by the time it survives 90 days or 120 days of credit period the amount of receivables becomes too big.
Forecasting importance is specifically more important in manufacturing industry as the amount invested on raw material procurement becomes dead inventory the moment sales does not happen so forecasting with precision is tedious job which plays crucial role.
For e.g if the raw material is procured at bulk rates then realization of profits increase as the cost of manufacturing remains same across its only the raw material fluctuation which plays all the damage. So having raw material from a source, which is giving at lesser price and procuring them is good decision but if things don't go as desired with end product then the inventory problems crop up.
The forecasting is a science in today's world where the markets and consumer patterns are being mapped to arrive at the spike that can happen or the changes of behavior can come across. For e,g a company which is in manufacturing of CASEROLE will have low on demand during summer season so the planning manager has to keep in mind that he just needs to manage optimum inventory.
The manufacturing unit should have decision based on data, existing buying patterns and market behavior, which will ensure that forecasting, helps in increasing the bottom line of any manufacturing unit.
The more difficult is the job as human being a gregarious animal there has been instances where in demand has increased when it was suppose to go down and the vice versa.
Manufacturing unit just cannot increase the production at short notice to meet the sudden rise in demand, hence the role of forecasting and planning manger is critical to ensures that demand and supply chain is balanced properly and the unit is well prepared with raw materials which is optimum level to absorb any kind of shocks that come from market.
The major questions that are asked by investors when a founder pitches his startup for funding are the first aspect being the role of technology in solving the problems and scaling up by usage of technology.
The other questions are on the team and the role every member plays and the value they bring on board in scaling up the company. The myth here being that having a IIM or IIT member on team will help in funding is totally wrong.
Then comes the traction which the startup has already got with little or no marketing budgets but have still survived the 1000 day golden rule along with having modified their offerings to what they started and how the business model has evolved over there existence.
The market size and the opportunity available for the product or service, which the startup is offering, remember when there are many startups in the same domain, which has got followers and leader the funding chances get decreased, as the investors don't want to join the same bandwagon.
The revenues that have been generated and the funds infused by the promoters on bootstrapping basis to keep the company alive and having existence in market. The concept may be unique but end of day the investors look at the revenues that the solution to a problem has generated.
The promoters have to give clarity and purpose of deployment of funds and the benefit or the impact, which it can lead to the growth of the company. The funds just cannot be asked for increase in marketing budget alone as there are many cases where in in spite of advertising the startups have not got the traction or increase in sales.
The revenue model, the deliverables for the revenue in the form of services being provided and also they look at is the startup a burning model based where in to generate traction discounts needs to be given.
The term sheet is signed based on the deliverables, which the promoters promise or agree to bring on table for the funds, which will be infused by the investors.
The exit strategy plays crucial role to investor as he would like to know when he can encash his shares at higher rates and make X returns for his investment.
Importance of CAPEX for manufacturing segment.
The first important milestone for a manufacturing, which is starting, is the amount required to set up the infrastructure, which is called as CAPEX amount, or amount on capital expenditure.
The manufacturing unit requires capex as the first amount, which needs to be invested before looking at revenues, the reason why Capex is crucial for a manufacturing unit is that this investment cannot be done again and again and it cannot be increased or decreased in short span of time.
When writing capex sheet the founder has to accommodate the funds for unforeseen problems which arise and which are not in control of anyone. For e.g. a bar bending unit ordering machines from overseas expects the machines to land by 2 months and the unit can start functioning by 6th month but in reality it does not happen which leads to frustration and hence mindset starts to dwindle around.
There are many such cases where in the allotment of time for entering the market gets delayed by reasons beyond control, the other component which founder has to keep in mind while preparing blue print for capex component is the construction of the unit itself.
Then comes one more hurdle of forecasting the demand and the capacity of the plant which again becomes critical when founders decided to have one machine which can have x capacity of production but things change when they hit market and demand propels without any knowledge but at same time the capacity of unit cannot be expanded suddenly.
The same becomes vice versa where in the founder planned a bigger capacity plant but due to un foreseen problems the capacity is underutilized.
The capex component is the biggest critical step of any manufacturing unit irrespective of any industry.
Every founder of a startup needs funding this is absolutely correct thought process but the major component which is not looked at is that you need to grow the business to a point where in the business justifies yes I can be funded.
Just thinking of having funding for business or startup is not correct justification for funding. The founder need to have clarity that a business first has to survive 1000 days before coming to a point that funding is required.
Startups founders always do this mistake of calculating funding needs even before the startup is justifiable to have funds to grow. The thumb rule is to have business, which survives against all odds and still keeps it alive by generating revenue is the point where in the startup becomes eligible for getting funds.
Funding for startup is essential for scalability factor after having proved that the startup is delivering some solution and it can generate revenues at X times provided funding is done to speed up the penetration of its product or service.
The major areas which needs funding for a startup is product technology to ensure that the technology plays vital role and has enough infrastructure to support the growth which is being looked at by infusing funds on advertising.
The other aspect being hiring good talent which comes at a price and which is not affordable with startup to ensure the network and experience of senior positions are filled with good salary, which ensures that every senior management person works to his optimum level of delivery.
These days funds are used for acquiring customers which has led to a war among segments of industry by burning in the form of discounts and freebies which is bit dangerous game to play as the burning will not happen for long and once the discount game is over it falls flat and customers start to move as there is no loyalty with customers who come in inorganic manner.
The other areas of funding for startup is to announce its arrival and gaining momentum and trying to be the brand these happen in both product which tech related and services industry.
Caution note funding should not be raised to meet expenses or clear old dues of promoters as the funding is only for specific reason and not to clear old dues.
Lot of business reach to critical conditions of either bleeding or shutting or losses not because of the market or product or service but its because of not having informed decisions on the financial viability of the business.
Many of business get started out the typical way of calculating the market size and satisfying themselves that they can create the wonder million dollar company as the number of market size even if a bit falls under them it will be big.
Till date it has not happened nor it will happen. The ignorance on financial viability actually kills a startup or business. The founder is ready to pump in funds but does show a blind eye for paying or spending time to get a financial viability written.
The major areas where in financial viability plays role is understanding the minimum revenue that has to be generated in order to keep the business alive, which is completely forgotten by the founders in the process of doing the business.
The financial viability provides clarity even before you start a business to prepare your mindset that if this idea or business does not scale to a point in given specified time then its time to shut down the business which is called as FAIL FAST rather than bleeding which usually happens as founders fall in love with product or service of there business and not able to digest that the business is not working.
The founders always try to justify that tomorrow things will change but never look in to the reality aspect which ensures further deepening the woes and leading to problems.
Having financial viability also helps in understanding how much do you understand the market and the offerings you are providing, as during writing the financial viability you will come to point to understand the pricing and getting clients to generate revenue.
Though this document is hypothetical but has numbers in black and white, which shows you the mirror, as numbers don't lie.
Many of the startups fail to scale up, as the founder is unable to find team or people who believe in his vision. This leads to founder employing people and training them hence the founder's major work becomes to train the people and completely forgets what he needs to do to grow business.
As the day-to-day work ensures his full attention he becomes a trainer rather than founder or person who is suppose to build team. One thing the founder usually does mistake is paying less so remember when you through peanuts you get monkeys and by the time you train monkeys your time and effort will consume the same amount of money.
Remember for any successful heist it has to be a team of people individual cannot pull it out so hiring people who are good in there roles should be the preference of a founder rather than training them.
Its always better to have people at higher salary with experience when you know there is no room for error or time for R&D , so its better to have person who can delivery rather than trying to make horse out of mule.
Then next question is I don't have so much of funds to take care of people who can deliver as there salary i cannot afford, so here is where the founder needs to play his cards by providing equities and still paying them what he can afford to pay.
So the founder should be in a position to build in the faith among the team to sacrifice some financials for larger gains at a later date when funding happens giving them the responsibility which they didn't get in the previous jobs they were working.
So founder has to ensure the team is motivated and brought on common platform as every company can go long way only if it has team and take care of critical components which are essential for keeping the company.
Every team or a founder of a startup business always wonders on this question is raising funds a myth or reality, many founders try to decipher as how X company got so much funding and why cant he get the same, then the founders try to figure out its just a myth and doesn't happen for every one who starts.
Yes its not possible for every startup to get funding or raise funds, there are various reasons but for a founder he either feels its all foolish game being played in the name of funding or he feels that having factors like knowing investor or having a founder from IIM will make the difference.
Then there are founders who feel that let funding come then I will work on the million dollar idea so these thought process makes a founder or team of startup think that raising funds is a myth.
To play game you need to understand the rules of the game to understand how to break the rules to your advantage this is never the though process of founder of startup or team. The entire team thinks only from the perspective of their business being the best but they forget to think what investor's want and what makes investor to write cheque is completely forgotten.
It's a old story of fox unable to pluck grapes says to itself that grapes are sour and walks away.
First thing the founder has to realize is figure out the product or service he is trying to provide does satisfy the investor criteria of investing rather than pitching across and then saying the investor don't understand what I am trying to do.
This point is of no use as its not going to get funds for your startup and the same ways you cant quit and give up, you cannot create your own assumptions of funding.
Funding of startups is not myth its reality but it needs to be deciphered and approached accordingly by the founders.
Birth of Startup starts with one person thinking on the problem and understanding the solution that needs to be provided and his ability to do so, the location of problem usually happens with one individual thinking hence called in as founder for a company.
As founder and his vision of the business and the solution being provided needs to be nurtured by the founder himself before it reaches a point where in more people join having the faith in the vision, which is envisaged by the founder.
The founder at a certain part has to part and develop trust on his team or co founders to nurture some aspects of the business as beyond a certain point founder cannot be present and cannot be doing multitasking as at some point multitasking also becomes a disadvantage.
The reason being the vision envisaged by founder cannot be just with one person, as there is saying its employees who build business when you are planning to build a big business. If not you just become like a grocery store, which is run by one person running around every aspect.
When a founder starts a business every responsibility of the business surviving depends on his shoulders as he has to ensure that the vision what he developed into a business needs to be taken care by him alone as in initial stages getting team and making them believe in the vision is not possible.
The reason being every individual acts upon himself till he finds the other's thought process is aligning with him. Founders who are tech this statement is completely true as just building product would not help as the problem solving solution also needs to be addressed by the product.
Sometimes founders who are tech get so much into it that they forget the revenue or think that there product is the best and will bring revenue which only the test of time and market behavior can give clarity on.
The founder can be from any field of expertise but he should understand every aspect to ensure the business survives 1000 days, the best example is though mahendra singh dhoni is wicketkeeper he ensures he leads with example when it come batting and taking pressure and delivering when ever it is required.
The same applies for founder of startup to have clarity on every aspect, which will help him in strategizing and also taking a business to a point where in team joins to build it further.
Guiding entrepreneur's ideas for growth is what we enjoy in defining the process of success for every business plan we write. We act as catalyst to entrepreneurs in realizing their dreams. Providing critical business solutions for problems and defining growth path for existing Business.


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Aleš Mertelj (born 22 March 1987) is a retired Slovenian footballer who played as a midfielder.

Club career
Mertelj started his career playing for Triglav Kranj and stayed there until he was acquired by Slovenian top division club, Koper. He played for Koper during the 2008–09 season, making 35 league appearances for the club and scoring three goals in the process. In 2009, he transferred to Maribor, where he stayed for nine years, winning 14 trophies with the club.

International career
Mertelj made his international debut for Slovenia on 26 May 2012 in a friendly match against Greece, coming in as a late substitute.

Personal life
Mertelj was born in Kranj in the northwestern Slovenia and has one brother and one sister. His older brother Sandi is a professional waterpolo player.

Honours
Maribor
Slovenian PrvaLiga: 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17
Slovenian Cup: 2009–10, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2015–16
Slovenian Supercup: 2009, 2012, 2013, 2014

References

External links
NZS profile

1987 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Kranj
Slovenian footballers
Association football midfielders
Slovenia youth international footballers
Slovenia international footballers
Slovenian expatriate footballers
Slovenian Second League players
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
Czech First League players
NK Triglav Kranj players
FC Koper players
NK Maribor players
MFK Karviná players
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic
Expatriate footballers in the Czech Republic
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Expatriate footballers in Austria

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Q: What is the meaning of "laid by the heels"? I am quoting from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Gloria Scott by Arthur Conan Doyle:

It was a prosaic way of forming a friendship, but it was effective. I was laid by the heels for ten days, but Trevor used to come in to enquire after me.

From the context it's clear that Holmes was staying in bed for 10 days, but does being laid by the heels mean that it was his heels which were in pain or is it an expression that is used no matter part of the body is the source of pain (for example may I say 'I was laid by the heels due to a stomach ache')?

A: to "lay by the heels" was a method of punishment and restraint in times gone by

To place one's hands or feet in shackles; to lock up or imprison one
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Here is a depiction:

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The bilboes referred to in the picture are:

An iron bar with sliding shackles, formerly used for confining a prisoner's ankles
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Hence, Holmes uses the term as a lighthearted allusion to being imprisoned and confined by his illness.


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Voter Opinion Survey
San Francisco Voters Support Increased Transportation Funding for Critical Investments
7 in 10 voters see need for transportation improvements
Monday, December, 18, 2017
San Francisco voters strongly desire local transportation improvements and a majority support new or expanded funding measures to pay for the work, according to a public opinion survey commissioned by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority.
More than 7 in 10 likely San Francisco voters said there was a "great need" or "some need" for transportation improvements. The survey also gauged voter support for additional revenue sources to help pay for these improvements. These revenue sources were drawn from recent discussions by the 60-member Transportation Task Force 2045. These include:
Increasing gross receipts tax on commercial rents up to 2.5 percent.
Establishing a two percent tax on revenues from service intermediary companies that contract with independent workers for services like ride-hailing and food delivery.
Increasing the city's sales tax by one-half cent, bringing the total to 9 percent.
Increasing the vehicle license fee in San Francisco by 1.35 percent, bringing fee to 2 percent of the vehicle's value.
Revenue support
First, respondents were asked which of the four revenue measures they would support. In that round, they indicated strongest support for sales tax (59 percent) and business taxes on commercial rents (58 percent). A majority also supported a tax on service intermediary companies (54 percent) and vehicle license fee (53 percent).
Second, after the respondents were given more detailed descriptions, respondents drew sharper distinctions among the potential measures. Support for taxes on commercial rent increased to 65 percent and support for a tax on service intermediary companies that contract with independent workers like ride-hailing and food delivery increased to 59 percent. Support for a vehicle license fee decreased to 49 percent, while support for a one-half cent increase in the sales tax similarly decreased to 37 percent.
Expenditure support
More than two-thirds of respondents said it was "extremely important" or "very important" that new funding go toward street repaving and Muni maintenance (75 percent) and expanding BART, Caltrain and Muni service to reduce congestion (70 percent). Other expenditures found strong support, including pedestrian and bicyclist safety improvements (63 percent), and providing paratransit for disabled users (62 percent).
The survey was conducted by Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates. It involved 1,013 interviews via telephone, cell phone and online between Dec. 1-7, 2017. Interviews were conducted in English, Spanish and Chinese. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3.1 percent at the 95 percent confidence level. Some percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding.
Highlights from the survey results will be presented at the San Francisco Transportation Task Force meeting scheduled for Monday, December 18 (see sftransportation2045.com). Full results will be available by request in January.
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Any chance of completely nuking my system and starting afresh?

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Man who runs the islands creameries
- 21 August 1998
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The Abbeylands cheese was placed at Nantwich Inter-national Cheese Show and the Manx smoked cheese took a first prize at the Bakewell Show.
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Q: explode and implode in codeigniter Data
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my input is id="20" now i need to change statically as  "uploads/20/thumbs/967693821370850253.png"  for every id 3.
i need output like this..
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    $this->db->from('photos');
    $this->db->where('album_id', $input['album_id']);
    $query = $this->db->get();
    $result = $query->result();
    foreach ($query->result() as $row)
    {
         $data[] = $row->photo_thumb_url;
         $data[] = $row->photo_url;

         $explode_data = explode('/',$row->photo_thumb_url);
         $explode_data[1] = 20;
         $data['change'] = implode('/', $explode_data);

    }

        $status = $this->privue_lib->return_status('success', $serviceName, $data, $ipJson);

    return $status;

}

A: I don't know CodeIgniter, but you can simply use a regex replace for this:
<?php
    $id = 20;

    $imagePaths = array(
        "uploads/8/thumbs/8470177001370850253.png",
        "uploads/10/thumbs/967693821370850253.png",
        "uploads/9/thumbs/8470177001370850253.png",
        "uploads/11/thumbs/967693821370850253.png"
    );

    foreach ($imagePaths as $imagePath) {
        $newImagePath = preg_replace("#^uploads/[0-9]+/#", "uploads/" . $id . "/", $imagePath);
        var_dump($newImagePath);
    }
?>

Would output:

string(41) "uploads/20/thumbs/8470177001370850253.png"
  string(40) "uploads/20/thumbs/967693821370850253.png"
  string(41) "uploads/20/thumbs/8470177001370850253.png"
  string(40) "uploads/20/thumbs/967693821370850253.png"

Live demo
Explanation of regex:

*

*^ - the string MUST start here

*uploads/ - the literal string "uploads/"

*[0-9]+ - the digits between 0 and 9 repeated one or more times

*/ - the literal string "/"

We're replacing it with uploads/{ID}/.

A: say your data is $data array
try this
$data=array('uploads/8/thumbs/8470177001370850253.png',
      'uploads/10/thumbs/967693821370850253.png',
      'uploads/9/thumbs/8470177001370850253.png',
      'uploads/11/thumbs/967693821370850253.png');

foreach ($data as $row){
$temparray=explode('/',$row);
$temparray[1]=20;
echo implode('/',$temparray);
}

A: try this, assuming that the paths are all the consistent.
$explode_data = explode('/', 'uploads/8/thumbs/8470177001370850253.png');
$explode_data[1] = 20;
$implode_data = implode('/', $explode_data);

this will return
uploads/20/thumbs/8470177001370850253.png

A: You can use simple regex
$images = array(
    "3 uploads/8/thumbs/8470177001370850253.png",
    "3 uploads/10/thumbs/967693821370850253.png",
    "3 uploads/9/thumbs/8470177001370850253.png",
    "4 uploads/9/thumbs/8470177001370850253.png",
    "3 uploads/11/thumbs/967693821370850253.png"
);

foreach ($images as &$im)
{
    if(substr($im, 0, 1) == '3')
    $im = preg_replace("#/[0-9]+/#",  "/20/", $im);
}
print_r($images);

output:
Array (
       [0] => 3 uploads/20/thumbs/8470177001370850253.png
       [1] => 3 uploads/20/thumbs/967693821370850253.png
       [2] => 3 uploads/20/thumbs/8470177001370850253.png
       [3] => 4 uploads/9/thumbs/8470177001370850253.png
       [4] => 3 uploads/20/thumbs/967693821370850253.png
      )

/[0-9]+/ looks for digits at least 1 time between / and / and replaces it with /20/ foreach uses references so it can replace the value of variable in loop and then print it with print_r
Edit:
Changed to work only with strings that begins with 3