KARACHI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 31st Oct, 2022 ) :First Lady ,Begum Samina Arif Alvi, on Monday, urged all citizens particularly women and girls for spreading awareness about breast cancer as early detection of the deadly disease could save millions of precious lives.
She while addressing a breast cancer awareness event at St. Joseph College for Women said that breast cancer- though a curable disease- was causing loss of millions of lives every year only because of lack of awareness and timely treatment.
Begum Samina Alvi said that in Pakistan approximately 90000 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed every year while mortality rate due to the fatal disease was also very high.
Late diagnosis was the major cause of high mortality rate due to breast cancer in the country, she noted adding that it was a social stigma or taboo to speak about the disease and that results into delayed diagnosis, enhanced complications and in a number of cases into death of the patient.
Breast cancer was not an incurable disease as it had over 98% survival rate if diagnosed early in the first or second stage, she said and stressed on mass awareness about the disease to sensitize women and girls about signs, self examination, diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
“Well being and welfare of a home depends on women and your health is very important so take care of yourself as examining yourself is very simple and takes only five minutes in a month,” Begum Alvi urged the women.
She said that awareness campaign regarding breast cancer was being carried out from years and a number of philanthropists, educational institutions, civil society activists and a large number of people from different walks of life had joined it.
Pink was colour of the breast cancer awareness campaign that derives attention of the viewers and the message in this way reached to persons who earlier were unaware about the disease, she noted.
Lauding media‘s role in the campaign, she said that media was successfully conveying the message all around the country and more and more women were examining themselves for prevention from the fatal disease.
Over the years, facilities of diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer increased as well and right now there were over 13 facilities offering Mammography at discounted rates only in Karachi, she informed adding that such facilities were also available in Islamabad, Punjab, Khaiber Pakhtunkhuwa and Balochistan.
Every one should pledge to promote and spread the message of the campaign in their social circles to sensitize every woman about importance of the early detection that could save the life, she urged the college students.
She also expressed gladness on organization of such an event at St. Joseph College for Women and said that it was a prestigious educational institute that played a major role in career building of thousands of students in 75 years.
Earlier Principal of the college Sister Julie Pacheco in her welcome address commended Begum Samina Arif Alvi for her philanthropic services in various sectors including health and education.
Sister Angelina Francis and Sister Julie Pacheco at the occasion also presented souvenir of the college to Begum Samina Arif Alvi while students played a welcome song specially composed for the occasion.
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The senator is asking the FTC and the DOJ to watch out for Amazon’s, Apple’s, and Google’s moves into your dashboard.
Elizabeth Warren has a new Big Tech target: its growing presence in our cars.
The Democratic senator from Massachusetts recently sent a six-page letter to the country’s top antitrust enforcers — Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, and Jonathan Kanter, who heads up the antitrust division of the Department of Justice — asking them to look at Google, Amazon, and Apple’s expansion into the automotive industry. She hopes taking action now will prevent them from taking over our cars in the way they already have our computers, phones, and homes.
Big Tech is well on its way to taking over our dashboards as well, turning them into giant versions of smartphones and Echos. This would give them yet another rich source of data to use and another industry to control, and make it that much harder for other companies to compete with them.
“I’ve been ringing the alarm about Big Tech’s growing dominance across our economy, and their expansion into the automotive industry is the latest effort to stomp out competition in yet another sector,” Warren told Recode. “This has potential consequences for American workers, developers, and consumers — and could lead to less innovation and higher prices.”
This is Warren’s first letter to the FTC and DOJ about this matter, but she’s not the only person who is worried here. Last April, 11 Democratic members of the House wrote a similar letter to Khan and Kanter, and several antitrust and consumer rights groups sent a letter last January to Khan, Kanter, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), who head up the Senate and House antitrust subcommittees, respectively.
In the letter, Warren writes that Big Tech wants to be a “one-stop shop for automakers — for everything from data collection, cloud storage, and analytics to in-car navigation to voice assistants to autonomous driving capabilities.”
That said, these companies are trying to capitalize on an opportunity of the automotive industry’s own making. Car companies have been providing notoriously bad infotainment systems for years, with sometimes clunky and confusing in-dash offerings that pale in comparison to the maps and music people can pull up on their phones. Ford even agreed to pay $17 million in 2019 to settle a class action lawsuit over how awful its Microsoft-powered MyFord Touch system was. Now, they’re increasingly turning to Big Tech to provide what they can’t or won’t.
“Carmakers need to use Big Tech’s digital ecosystem in order to offer more and better digital features to their customers,” Pedro Pacheco, a car industry analyst at Gartner, told Recode this past summer.
That’s why almost every new car sold has support for Google’s Android Auto, Apple’s CarPlay, or Amazon’s Alexa, if not all three. Industry analysts believe Google’s Android Automotive Operating System (AAOS) will be in 70 percent of new cars by 2028, a huge and rapid leap from the less than 1 percent of new cars it’s in today. (Android Auto and AAOS are not the same thing; Android Auto runs on your Android phone, which connects to your car; AAOS is built into the car itself.) When you’re in the driver’s seat, Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are riding along with you.
Warren says that while people “deserve lower costs and greater choices” in their cars, she believes allowing Big Tech to dominate that space will “likely have the opposite effect” in time.
The letter accuses Big Tech of using some of the same tactics it has used in other industries to solidify its place in this one. Amazon boasts that its Alexa Auto makes it easy for users to order Amazon products from the comfort of their car while they’re waiting at a red light, or listen to an audiobook from Amazon’s Audible while they’re sitting in traffic. If a carmaker wants to offer Google Maps, it has to purchase Google Automotive Services, which includes Assistant and Play Store, a practice Warren likens to Microsoft’s bundling of Internet Explorer and Windows, which gave Microsoft a huge share of the internet browser market but also got it in a lot of antitrust trouble in the late 90s.
Google and Amazon have entered into agreements with carmakers to include their offerings pre-installed and by default, which Warren compares to Google’s agreement with Apple to offer Google Search as the default search engine on Apple’s Safari browser. And, she notes, Apple forces third-party developers to go through and get approved by it before their apps can be offered to users through CarPlay, just as it does with the App Store on mobile devices.
“Allowing Big Tech companies to cement their exclusive control over the terms of auto app competition could stifle a nascent industry,” she writes.
Warren also touches on the data that these companies can collect from our cars, and how it may give them a rich and exclusive source of data they may use to assist in their autonomousvehicleprojects. And that, in turn, may well give them a future competitive edge over the same car companies that are using their services now. Big Tech isn’t just trying to get into other companies’ dashboards; it’s making its own, too.
Finally, Warren warns that Big Tech companies are buying up potential and actual competitors, from Google’s acquisition of Maps competitor Waze to Amazon’s interest in self-driving vans and trucks to power its delivery services.
The three companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Warren says this is a chance for antitrust enforcers to get ahead of companies that threaten to monopolize an industry rather than acting only after that monopolization has already happened and when it’s far more difficult to do anything about it. Kanter and Khan both have expressed the desire to be more proactive about anti-competitive threats, but that’s easier said than done. In the US, antitrust laws — or, really, the courts’ interpretations of them — favor businesses, and cases may drag on for years, if notdecades. But those efforts do sometimes get results; after all, Microsoft did ultimately agree to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows.
Warren’s letter won’t do anything on its own. But if Big Tech companies see that their expansion into cars might be checked before it really starts, they may address some of her concerns before they’re forced to. We’ve seen Apple loosen some of its grip over its phones in recent years, like making it easier to pick which search engine you use in its Safari browser and allowing you to delete most of Apple’s built-in apps from your iPhone’s home screen. They may also be more reluctant to acquire companies if they feel that the chances those acquisitions will be challenged are high enough.
We’ve also seen attempts in Congress to address some of these concerns, like antitrust bills that would ban self-preferencing and open up app stores. Those bills appear to be dead for now, but there’s always a chance they’ll come back next Congress.
“The FTC and DOJ don’t have to wait until there’s a problem to take action,” Warren says. “Now is the time to prevent Big Tech from strangling competition in the automotive industry before it’s too late.”
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A federal investigation into corruption in Baldwin Park has revealed that a former councilman allegedly agreed to help the city’s deposed police chief obtain a seat on a Rialto-based water district board in exchange for promises that the councilman would be hired to a high-paying administrative post in the district.
The alleged quid pro quo scheme between then-Councilman Ricardo Pacheco and ousted Police Chief Michael Taylor was revealed in documents unsealed by the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday, Oct. 7, in its case against former San Bernardino County Planning Commissioner Gabriel Chavez.
Chavez has agreed to plead guilty to a federal bribery charge for acting as an intermediary for payoffs from cannabis companies to Pacheco. The FBI raided Chavez’s home in October 2020, and Chavez resigned as a planning commissioner about two weeks later.
The DOJ bribery probe is ongoing, but neither Pacheco nor Taylor has been charged in connection with activities related to the West Valley Water District, which serves 82,000 customers in the communities of Bloomington, Colton, Fontana, Rialto, parts of unincorporated areas in San Bernardino, and Jurupa Valley in Riverside County.
In an unrelated case, Pacheco agreed to plead guilty in June 2021 to a federal bribery charge for accepting $37,900 from an undercover police officer working as an FBI informant in return for voting in favor of the Baldwin Park Police Association’s 2018 contract with the city. Under his plea agreement, Pacheco agreed to continue cooperating in the federal investigation.
Taylor, who was fired as Baldwin Park’s police chief in September 2016 but rehired a year later, indeed captured a seat on the water district’s board of directors with fundraising help from Pacheco. And Taylor subsequently engineered the hiring of Pacheco to a newly created assistant general manager’s post paying nearly $190,000 a year, the DOJ alleges.
Reached by telephone and provided a copy of the DOJ document via email, Taylor — identified as “Person 2” in the document — did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
SCNG investigation
The revelations follow an exhaustive yearlong investigation by the Southern California News Group that began in 2019 and included a review of more than 3,000 pages of financial documents and hundreds of pages of court records.
The investigation uncovered myriad problems within the West Valley Water District, including the employment of consultants without contracts, hiring managers and consultants with dubious backgrounds and legal difficulties, and the spending of more than $740,000 to settle lawsuits with former employees. The findings were later confirmed by a California State Controller’s Office audit.
Plan hatched
It was in July 2017, when Pacheco and Taylor met at Baldwin Park City Hall, that they hatched their plan. Taylor told Pacheco he planned to run for a seat on the West Valley Water District’s board of directors, but needed his help, which Pacheco took to mean fundraising, according to the Justice Department.
Taylor told Pacheco the water district had job openings, and that if he helped get him elected he would try to get him a job there. “Specifically, (Taylor) said that once he got elected to the Water District’s Board, ‘we’ll get you in,’ ” the DOJ stated.
Pacheco told federal investigators he collected $20,500 in monetary contributions for Taylor’s campaign for the water board seat, representing almost the entirety of the $21,797 in contributions Taylor received. Most all the contributions Pacheco secured came from individuals with business before the city of Baldwin Park, according to the Justice Department document.
For example, his California Education Coalition political action committee contributed $7,000 to Taylor’s campaign that came from a marijuana company owner, according to the Justice Department affidavit and Taylor’s campaign finance reports.
About a month later, in October 2017, Taylor sent Pacheco a text message saying, “Okay, we are making our big push and I really need 5K bro. Otherwise I’m completely broke this week and we are done,” meaning that the success of Taylor’s campaign depended on Pacheco’s help with fundraising, according to the Justice Department.
The following day, Pacheco solicited South Gate developer Michael Galanakis for a $1,500 donation to Taylor’s campaign, according to the DOJ affidavit. Galanakis did not respond to a phone call seeking comment.
Pacheco’s PAC also contributed about $4,800 of in-kind contributions to Taylor’s 2017 campaign, which was used for, among other things, “hit piece” mailers against the opponents of Taylor and then water district board President Clifford Young, identified in the document as “Person 5, an elected official.”
The hit pieces, according to the Justice Department, were allegedly created by Baldwin Park City Attorney Robert Tafoya, identified as “Person 1” in the court filings and described as having “served as the Baldwin Park City Attorney since in or around December 2013.” The DOJ noted that Tafoya was seeking a contract for legal services with the water district at the time.
Along with Pacheco’s employment contract, one of Taylor’s first orders of business after his election was nominating Tafoya as the district’s new legal counsel. Tafoya was hired and still serves as an independent consultant providing legal services to the district, said agency spokeswoman Socorro Pantaleon.
The in-kind contributions from Pacheco’s PAC went undisclosed by Taylor’s election committee in an effort to conceal Pacheco’s agreement with Taylor, according to the unsealed documents.
As part of Taylor’s demands, the DOJ said, he told Pacheco that his hiring at the West Valley Water District also was contingent on Pacheco persuading the Baldwin Park City Council to rehire Taylor as police chief.
Taylor wins seat
On Nov. 7, 2017, Taylor was elected to the West Valley Water District’s board of directors. The next day, Pacheco sent Taylor a text pitching the position he wanted with the district: “Assistant GM.” Taylor responded, “Really? We will talk if my contract (for police chief) goes through,” according to the Justice Department document.
The City Council had fired Taylor as Baldwin Park police chief in September 2016 without cause. Council members later said his firing came amid an investigation into allegations that several Latino police officers were passed over for promotions, but an investigation found no evidence of discrimination.
According to the Justice Department, Pacheco — working to make good on his part of the deal — pressed a councilwoman to vote in favor of a new employment contract for Taylor, which also included a clause that he could be fired only if he were convicted of a felony.
Pacheco texted the unnamed councilwoman, saying, “I just need your support,” “Plus he just won in a large water district” and “Think about the possibilities,” referring to the potential financial benefits Pacheco and the councilwoman could reap if Taylor was rehired, according to the Justice Department.
In November 2017, the City Council voted 3-2 to rehire Taylor, this time at nearly $22,000 more than what he made when he was let go. Councilwomen Susan Rubio and Cruz Baca voted against the appointment.
About a month after the West Valley election, a victory celebration was held on Dec. 7, 2017, at the Sierra Lakes Golf Club in Fontana, where Taylor and Young, a political ally of Taylor’s, told Pacheco they would make good on their promise to provide him with a position at the water district, according to the DOJ document.
On March 29, 2018, the water district’s board of directors, on a 4-0 vote with Taylor abstaining, approved Pacheco’s employment contract as assistant general manager, which called for a base salary of $189,592 and his own vehicle.
The minutes from that board meeting confirmed that Pacheco’s hiring was approved during closed session, and that Taylor had recused himself from voting. The Justice Department said Taylor abstained to conceal the quid pro quo arrangement with Pacheco.
Just more than a year later, in May 2019, Pacheco was placed on administrative leave for undisclosed reasons, then fired in November 2019. Water district officials never confirmed whether Pacheco’s leave and subsequent forced resignation was in connection with the federal corruption probe.
Pacheco’s separation agreement with the district allowed him to walk away with a severance package that included nine months of pay but no benefits.
Water district responds
The latest revelations in the sweeping federal corruption probe in several Southern California cities comes months after Taylor and Young resigned from the water district’s board of directors, Taylor on July 27 and Young on Jan. 3.
Pantaleon, the agency’s spokeswoman, said in an email Tuesday that Taylor did not have a separation agreement with the district.
“We are deeply disturbed by this information and will remain vigilant in monitoring the case,” she said. “Our current board and staff priority is in protecting the ratepayers and providing safe and high-quality water.”
Pantaleon said that the water district is not involved in the federal investigation.
Staff writers Jason Henry and Scott Schwebke contributed to this report.
As we enter the digital era, technology plays an increasingly important role in shaping businesses’ success. Pacheco Information Technologies (PIT) has emerged as an industry leader, offering a range of solutions and services to help companies navigate the rapidly evolving digital landscape. In this comprehensive guide, we will take a closer look at PIT’s offerings and discuss the factors behind its outstanding reputation in the market.
Pacheco Information Technologies was founded in 2005 with a mission to provide the essential services and support needed for businesses to unlock their potential in the digital era. Since its inception, PIT has grown to become an industry leader, helping countless companies leverage technology effectively to drive their growth and success.
Services Offered by PIT
PIT offers a comprehensive range of services designed to cater to the unique needs of its clients. Their diverse portfolio includes consulting services, IT solutions, digital marketing strategies, and training and support. Let’s explore these offerings in detail:
Consulting Services
At the heart of PIT’s service offerings lie their consulting services. PIT’s team of experts works closely with clients to understand their unique challenges and opportunities, devising tailored strategies and recommendations designed to help clients make the most of today’s cutting-edge technology.
Strategic Planning: PIT helps clients develop a clear vision for their digital future, defining achievable goals and establishing the necessary steps to reach them.
IT Roadmapping: PIT assists companies in creating an IT roadmap that aligns with their business objectives, ensuring a seamless transition to new systems and technologies.
IT Auditing: PIT offers comprehensive IT audits that identify potential risks and vulnerabilities in clients’ systems, helping them implement proactive measures to prevent breaches and data loss.
IT Solutions
Pacheco Information Technologies offers a suite of IT solutions designed to streamline clients’ operations, improve efficiency, and support growth. These solutions include:
Software Development: Custom software development tailored to clients’ unique requirements, including mobile apps, web platforms, and enterprise systems.
Cloud Services: PIT helps clients migrate to the cloud, leveraging its immense potential for scalability, cost-effectiveness, and enhanced security.
Data Analysis and Visualization: PIT offers advanced data analysis and visualization tools that empower businesses to harness their data and make data-driven decisions.
Digital Marketing
Understanding the importance of a strong online presence, PIT provides a range of digital marketing solutions to help businesses reach their target audiences and grow their brands:
Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Ensuring clients’ websites rank highly on search engine results pages (SERPs) to drive organic traffic.
Social Media Marketing: Developing and implementing effective social media strategies to engage with customers and increase brand awareness.
Content Marketing: Creating and distributing high-quality content that resonates with target audiences, generates leads, and converts prospects into customers.
Training and Support
Rounding out PIT’s service offerings is their commitment to providing comprehensive training and support for their clients:
Training Programs
Description
IT Skills Training
PIT offers a range of IT skills training programs to empower clients’ employees with the necessary technical expertise to succeed in today’s digital landscape.
Leadership Training
PIT provides leadership training aimed at helping clients’ manage their teams more effectively, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
Customer Service Training
High quality customer service training programs that help clients’ staff to provide exceptional support and service to customers, ultimately driving customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Why PIT Stands Out as Industry Leaders
There are several factors that have contributed to PIT’s success as industry leaders in the digital era:
Proven Experience
With over 15 years of experience in providing high-quality technological solutions and services, PIT has an unparalleled track record of success. Their extensive industry knowledge enables them to offer innovative solutions that cater specifically to clients’ needs.
Commitment to Innovation
PIT’s commitment to staying ahead of the curve means its clients benefit from cutting-edge solutions that enable them to outperform their competitors. By constantly exploring new developments in the rapidly evolving tech landscape, PIT ensures that it offers the best-in-class tools and strategies for businesses to succeed.
Exceptional Customer Service
PIT understands the importance of exceptional customer service in driving satisfaction and loyalty. By offering round-the-clock support and personalized attention, PIT ensures that clients’ needs are met and expectations exceeded.
Conclusion
In summary, Pacheco Information Technologies demonstrates an unwavering commitment to excellence that places it at the forefront of the digital services industry. By offering comprehensive solutions and services tailored to their clients’ unique needs, PIT empowers businesses to reach new heights in the digital era. With a winning combination of proven experience, a dedication to innovation, and exceptional customer service, PIT is the go-to partner for businesses seeking to unlock success in the digital age.
How to use Amazon Vendor Central, optimize sales performance, and become a data-driven retailer.
Optimizing your e-commerce sales can be challenging for a brand or business owner. From establishing an Amazon store to leveraging Amazon Advertising products like Sponsored products or Sponsored brands, reaching Amazon customers is critical to success.
This Amazon Vendor Central FAQ covers various performance reports in your Vendor Central account, business metrics, definitions, and areas of opportunity as you optimize sales and operational performance.
What is Amazon Retail Analytics?
Amazon Retail Analytics (ARA) provides reports that let an Amazon Vendor analyze sales and operational data, such as revenue and inventory levels.
All vendors have access to ARA, including manufacturers and authorized resellers.
Amazon Brand Analytics (ABA) is a set of reports that lets you analyze your customers’ buying and search behavior. To access ABA, you must be enrolled in Brand Registry and be responsible for selling the brand in the Amazon store. Brand Registry enrollment is not required for ARA.
You can access ARA and ABA through the Reports menu in your account or the Selling Partner API (see Unlocking Amazon Vendor Central Data With New API) for automation and data unification.
What are Vendor Retail Analytics Reports?
Vendors have access to performance data they need to manage and grow their business with Amazon Retail. Through vendor-specific dashboards, reports, or API, you can monitor your retail KPIs, evaluate your performance, identify operational improvement opportunities, and glean valuable insights to shape your business strategy.
What types of ARA Reports are available?
A collection of specific report types available; Sales, Traffic, Net Pure Product Margin (PPM), Inventory, Catalog, and Forecasting. The Traffic, Net Pure Product Margin (PPM), and Forecasting dashboards are only displayed to manufacturers.
As mentioned earlier, Reports are available via the Vendor Central interface, downloads, or API. See Secret To Unlocking Amazon Vendor Central Reports
Do I have to download Reports manually? Is Vendor Reporting Automation supported?
Automation will automatically generate reports, process, route, and load to your private data destination so you can manage and optimize your sales and inventory. This is accomplished via the Selling Partner API for Vendors.
What are the benefits of Vendor Report Automation?
You can unify your Vendor data to a leading data lake or cloud warehouses like Databricks, Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Azure Data Lake, Ahana, and Amazon Athena for a unified, analytics-ready single source of truth to fuel informed decisions for Vendor insights.
Automated, unified data unlocks the ability to use tools like Google Data Studio, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker, and Amazon Quicksight.
See Code-free Amazon Vendor Central Software for more information on automation opportunities.
Can I select prior reporting periods in the Amazon reporting interface?
Select Trailing in the Time frame drop-down menu to see trailing period options. Trailing period options include four weeks, 13 weeks, and 12 months. To see the prior period, select Show additional filters.
Regular period options include year-to-date, quarter-to-date, month-to-date, and week-to-date. Select Recurring in the Time frame drop-down menu to see recurring period options. To see year over year, select Show additional filters.
What is the cadence of reporting data availability?
Reports may take up to a week to populate data after a reporting period closes. Amazon targets to update all weekly reports within 72 hours and continuously improves its system to get Vendor reports out faster.
Does ARA support the Lost buy box (LBB)?
The Amazon pricing team no longer supports LBB and can’t provide an LBB metric in ARA until an effective replacement metric is available. An alternative metric, the Lost featured offer (LFO), is in development, but we need to guide when that metric is available.
Are Conversion and average sale prices derived metrics?
Yes, conversion and average sale prices (ASP) are derived metrics, meaning they can be calculated using other metrics already provided in the sales dashboard. Conversion means the number of ordered units divided by glance views. ASP means the amount of shipped revenue divided by shipped units.
Difference between the Manufacturing view and the Sourcing view
All vendors have access to Sourcing views, which will show the sales data for ASINs sourced from a vendor code in the vendor group. If you are a manufacturer, you will also have access to the Manufacturing view, which shows data for any ASIN manufactured by the Vendor, regardless of who sourced the product to Amazon.
There needs to be ASINs in the ARA dashboard. Why?
Here are a few possible reasons:
Distributor view: Make sure you’ve selected the correct distributor view. The Manufacturing view shows data for ASIN numbers you’ve made regardless of where they came from. The Sourcing View displays data of ASINs directly imported into your inventory system from suppliers’ codes in your Suppliers’ Groups.
No data in the period: A product must have data on one of the metrics in a dashboard to display in that particular DashBoard. For example, a product with stock will show in the Stock DashBoard but not in the Sales Dashboard if there were no sales for that product during the time frame specified.
ASIN mapping: Vendors can create an ASIN catalog to map to ARA. When they do so, they must also configure the ASINs to match the ARA report structure. They must wait until the dashboard reflects the changes before seeing them.
Why are there Unowned ASINs in the dashboard?
An ASIN mapping is a likely root cause. If ASINs are correctly mapped to ARA via the correct vendor hierarchies, vendor groups, and attribute setups, they may appear correctly in ARA dashboards. If you’re having trouble with ASIN mappings, contact your retailers or submit an issue through our Support Center, and Amazon will be happy to assist you.
Data does not match the data from the vendor manager or account manager.
You can use Amazon Seller Central (ASIN) level data parity between Amazon Retail Analytics (ARA) and your retailers’ internal systems to report their sales performance. If you want to know if your retailer has reported you for any issues, contact them directly or open a Contact Us request.
Why are some users able to see a particular dashboard while others can’t?
Users who aren’t admins need Financial Reports permission turned on for them to view their inventory. Admins already have all permissions turned on by default. Only an Administrator can turn off another user’s permissions.
What is the Vendor Forecasting dashboard?
The Forecasting dashboard allows you to identify the future demands for your product so you can plan for production and inventory. It doesn’t promise precisely when your potential buyers may buy your product.
What is the meaning of the different P-levels?
The forecasting tool generates forecasts for an ASIN with different levels of certainty or critical ratios (CR) or probabilities. A higher CR or probability level indicates more significant amounts of inventory. For example, if you set a CR of.80 shows an 80 percent chance that the item will be available within 30 days.
Do Vendor purchase orders match with the units forecast?
The report forecasts unconstrained customer demands, which does not guarantee future purchases. If already on-hand or on-ordered units are available to meet customer demands, these would be considered when issuing buy requests.
What is the Vendor Inventory dashboard?
The Inventory Dashboard lets you monitor the health of the products in your store by providing weekly reports. You can quickly identify any issues and take action accordingly.
What is the sellable on-hand unit calculation?
In the Inventory dashboard, sellable on-hand units refer to the product’s physical condition as recorded in our inventory before we account for any outbound units, such as customer shipments, transfers, or removals. The sellable inventory does not necessarily mean that it is available on the Amazon website, only that it is not considered defective.
Why am I unable to view inventory metrics at the daily granularity
Some inventory reports aren’t available daily, so the “Inventory Dashboard” report has been disabled.
Out-of-stock (OOS) metrics are not replenishable out of stock (Rep OOS).
ARA surfaces procurable consider both replenishable and non-replenishable products. However, Rep OOS only looks at replenishable ASINs. Since there are more replenishable ASINs than non-replenishable ones, Rep OOS has fewer opportunities to surface new non-replenishable ASIN
There are no ROOS or unfilled orders in the Sourcing view.
This is normal behavior because the data from ROOS (returns ordered online) and unfilled orders (orders not filled by the manufacturer) are only available for manufacturers. These are ASIN-level data, so they cannot be attributed to any particular manufacturer.
If the Vendor is a supplier, they will have access to the Supplier Inventory Management (SIM) views, which show ASIN-based inventory levels for each item sold by the vendor code designated in the Vendor’s SIM profile. These views are enabled by default. Retailers can disable them if needed.
What is the Net PPM dashboard?
The Net PPM dashboard identifies which products drive profitability by analyzing net pure product margin (Net PPM). See Automating Amazon Vendor Central Net PPM Reporting
How is Net PPM calculated?
Net pure product margin (PPM) is calculated as shipped revenue minus shipped PCOGS + CCOGS (cost of goods) minus sales discounts, then divided by shipped revenue.
Why is the Net PPM dashboard not visible?
The Net PPM dashboard is commonly offered only to manufacturers.
Are warehouse deals excluded from the net PPM metric?
Your retailers’ internal systems may include “warehousing” deals. Because these deals aren’t included in Brand Analytics, they’re excluded from the metric. Since the Vendor does not collect proceeds from Warehouse Deals sales, they do not account for these transactions.
What is the Vendor Sales dashboard?
The Sales Dashboards allow a Vendor to quickly identify opportunities by showing you how your team is doing against others and where they’re falling behind. The performance reports help companies improve their sales process and increase revenue. The data provides a single view of all data related to sales activities.
Do Vendors have access to Sales Dashboards?
Yes, Vendors can see their own offers’ sales reports, including the number of units sold, the total revenue generated by each offer, and the average price per unit.
Are warehouse deals excluded from sales metrics?
Your retail partner’s internal warehouse deal reporting tool may include Warehouse Deals. However, ARAs do not report Warehouse Deals in their reported metrics.
Because the Vendor does not collect revenue from warehouse deals sales, we don’t count them when calculating our gross profit margin.
If you need to know whether warehouse discounts are included in your internal metrics, contact your retailer or open a Contact Us case.
Will shoppers who return products and receive refunds are counted in shipped items and sales?
ARA accounts for customer returns and refunds in shipments and revenues. When a customer returns their product, the date they returned and canceled orders are attributed to them. Based on the original order dates, sales orders are adjusted for customer returns and cancellations.
What is the Vendor Traffic Dashboard?
The Traffic Dashboard allows you to see trends in traffic-related metrics. See How To Use Amazon’s Glance View As A Key Performance Metric.
Why can’t I see the traffic dashboard?
Suppose the Vendor is an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer). In that case, they will have access to their ASIN-specific views, including ASIN-specific data, such as traffic and forecast, for any ASINs they manufacture. Contact retail partners to enable these views.
How does Amazon define a glance view?
GV measures customer traffic and is defined by the number of times someone has viewed the products’ details pages.
How can brands calculate “glance views” (or “looks”)?
When using Brand Analytics reports, GVs are calculated on the ASIN-featured-seller-retailer-product-detail-viewed-by-user-session basis. We expose raw GVs for each session so that retailers can see which sessions were converted by their products.
Because the brand analytics reports show impressions, but the brand analytics metrics don’t include any impression data.
Glance metrics can vary depending on the type of report being run. For example, advertising reports track impression and click data to determine whether an advertisement effectively drove shoppers to the shelf.
However, brand analytics reports measure conversion rates to see if a campaign successfully moved customers to a product detail screen. These two types of reports may differ significantly in calculating glance metrics.
Can you use glances to calculate conversions?
Conversion is the percentage of times a glance view was converted into a sale. It is a derived metric calculated by dividing ordered revenue by glance views.
What is the Vendor Catalog dashboard?
The Catalog Dashboards let you access the latest product details for your items.
How do you access the Catalog dashboard?
This Dashboards module is available to all vendors who have access to ARA regardless if they have additional permissions. Vendors can choose between two views: the manufacturing and sourcing views. Only manufacturers will see the manufacturing tab. Retailers will not see any tabs unless they are a retailer.
Some people don’t see the manufacturing view in the catalog dashboard, while others can’t.
All users will have full access to the Sourcing View if they have access to ARA.
Only administrators can view manufacturing reports for their accounts.
Admins will already be given all permissions by default. An administrator can only grant or remove permission to another user.
What is the Catalog dashboard update frequency?
The reports will automatically refresh every time an updated ASIN attribute becomes available. You cannot manually change the report’s refresh interval.
Do Vendors have access to Amazon Advertising performance reports and data?
Amazon Vendors have direct access to their digital marketing analytics data for each Amazon Marketplace they advertise. The data can be used for Amazon SEO efforts, campaign sales diagnostic, brand lift analytics, and other performance analysis. See Amazon Vendor Central Advertising.
What is Seller and Vendor Brand Analytics?
Brand Analytics reports in-depth cover sales, marketing, operations, customer behavior, and enhanced trends to enable you to make more informed business decisions, assess your market share, identify new opportunities, and monitor factors that affect sales. See Why Amazon Brand Analytics Fuels Growth
Data is generally available in Brand Analytics within 72 hours of the close of a given period.
The key features of Brand Analytics are:
Search: See how customers (in aggregate) find your products and other products on Amazon, including each product’s relative search popularity, click share, and conversion share.
Market basket analysis: Learn what other products are bought along with your products.
Repeat purchase behavior: This shows the number of orders received for each product or brand and the unique customers who placed the orders.
Brand Analytics is located under the Reports tab. This feature is only available if you own your brand and are responsible for selling the brand on Amazon. It would help if you were internal to the brand and not a third-party company supporting it.
If you don’t have access to Brand Analytics, you have not been identified as a vendor who meets the Amazon Brand Registry criteria. You must be a brand owner for an Amazon Vendor Central ( or Amazon Seller Central) account.
Should I use the Amazon Retail Analytics API or the legacy EDI?
APIs are the preferred integration solution compared to EDI and will offer more long-term functionality. APIs have lower infrastructure and development costs relative to EDI, are easier to use, do not require specialized knowledge, and enable efficient near-real-time processing.
Benefits of the SP-API vendor retail analytics report types include:
Source data for the API reports are from the same source used by Amazon retail category teams
Data parity across API reports and Amazon Retail Analytics dashboards in Vendor Central
Enabling integrators to specify and request data from different time range aggregations, such as daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, and trailing four weeks
Easy-to-access data backfills for historical data
Openbridge is a cloud-based Amazon Vendor Central software tool designed specifically for Amazon Sellers and Vendors. It allows you to simultaneously automate API data feeds across multiple accounts, monitor sales performance across all channels, and automate inventory management and shipping processes.
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Past a question, blog writing has a brilliant future. It’s alluring to obtain lugged away by all the vitality being created.
Expense Gates claims blogging “will essentially alter exactly how we record our lives”. Technorati’s CEO David Sifry states that there are 11 article being made every 2nd!
While this might well hold true, we should withstand the lure to obtain lugged away. Allow’s assess blog writing’s leads as a ‘individual innovation’, or a modern technology that people utilize to enhance their efficiency or efficiency, or just to have a good time.
All effective individual innovations that get prevalent usage (be it the modest pen, the ipod or the telephone), bear specific characteristics: they are simple to make use of, satisfy a fundamental demand, as well as give a brand-new means to share an existing actions or behavior. Technologies that make it on these 3 aspects have a tendency to ‘liftoff’, with their usage rising outstanding *.
Blogging definitely satisfies a fundamental demand, the demand for self-expression as well as social communication. It is likewise a lot more effective in lots of areas than various other modern technologies that fulfill comparable requirements – the e-mail, telephone or online chatting – in that it is a lot more ‘long-term’, as well as enables exposure to any person that can access the Web.
Well, that leaves simplicity of usage. I hesitate blog writing is rather much less outstanding in this regard – while it is less complex than developing individual Web web pages, it still delays much behind the telephone as well as e-mail in simplicity of usage. Convenience of usage is the initial point that requires to boost regarding blog sites (I really hope the blog site tool-makers are paying attention).
If one is attracted to suggest that blog writing is currently extremely effective, one just requires to stop briefly to take into consideration the numbers: by the majority of quotes there are around 80 million blog sites worldwide since today, while the variety of telephones global (mobile as well as fixed-line) is around 2 billion. This is not to take anything far from the success of blog writing, however just to develop (an unquestionably rather unrefined) standard!
We’ve looked at just half the image so much – ending up being effective. Success brings its very own troubles, as well as indeed, blogging also will certainly require to get over a number of difficulties that success brings with it:
Much better methods to take care of ‘blog site mess’.
Despite the existing variety of blog sites around, it is ending up being challenging for individuals to browse the blogosphere. Telephones or e-mail do not require to resolve this trouble as they are ‘press’ innovations, which suggests that you * desire * to limit that can call you making use of these modern technologies. If blog sites are to absolutely live up to their pledge of enabling the ‘exploration’ of similar individuals, after that blog site search engines must (as well as will certainly) obtain smarter.
Browse is obviously not the only method to handle mess – as an example, Business Week’s Heather Green speaks about developing ‘prominent blog writer’ listings.
Blogging requirements to discover methods to allow varied interaction requirements
Blog writing devices currently do a half-decent task of enabling the sharing of electronic material. As cam phones multiply, sharing flicks as well as photos will progressively end up being mainstream. Blogging from heterogenous gadgets (phones and also house devices come to mind) is most likely to require assistance.
Certainly, this item just deals with blog writing as a ‘individual modern technology’. Evaluation of its potential customers in company – which are fledgling currently – is the topic of a various conversation entirely!
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* This is driven by Metcalfe’s Law, which holds that the effectiveness of something boosts significantly as the variety of individuals rises.
Blogging absolutely meets a fundamental demand, the demand for self-expression as well as social communication. I am worried blog writing is rather much less excellent in this regard – while it is easier than producing individual Web web pages, it still delays much behind the telephone and also e-mail in convenience of usage. Simplicity of usage is the initial point that requires to boost concerning blog sites (I wish the blog site tool-makers are paying attention).
Telephones or e-mail do not require to resolve this trouble as they are ‘press’ innovations, which implies that you * desire * to limit that can call you utilizing these innovations. Blog writing devices currently do a half-decent work of enabling the sharing of electronic web content.
Minister of Health Kim Wilson recently presented STARS certificates to three of the seven providers that received a 5 S.T.A.R.S rating – Lillian Butterfield, Davika Furbert and Chiquita Smith.
A Government spokesperson said, “The additional 5 STAR providers are Maria Pacheco, Gillian Medeiros, Antonia Paynter, and Jocelyn Richardson, who could not attend the presentation.
Dr Alison Daniels, Programme Manager, Child Care Regulation Programme, Mr David Kendell, Director, Department of Health, Minister Kim Wilson, Chiquita Smith, Davika Furbert, Lillian Butterfield
“STARS is a new comprehensive inspection tool utilised by the Child Care Regulation Programme [CCRP], designed using the Children Act 1998, the Day Care Centre Regulations 1999, and the Child Care Standards 2018.
“STARS stands for –
“The inspection tool considers the Health and Safety, the learning environment, teaching practices or caregiver competencies, and other industry standards and best practices.
“31 local daycare providers went through the STARS Inspection, with 71% receiving 3 – 5 STARS:
“9 providers are on provisional certificates and will have their inspections at a later date.”
Minister Wilson said: “STARS is designed to ensure compliance with the regulations and standards. All daycare centres and providers must undergo the STARS inspection to renew their licences and registration certificates.
“It is estimated that 9 out of every 10 children in Bermuda are cared for in a daycare setting at some time in their first four years. These daycare settings are a crucial environment for our children’s development.”
The spokesperson said, “All Day Care Centres and Day Care Providers in Bermuda must be licenced and registered to care for children in Bermuda. To be licenced or registered, the Day Care Centres and Providers must comply with the Children Act 1998and the Day Care Centre Regulations 1999. The Child Care Regulation Programme is the Section within the Department of Health that licences Day Care Centres and Registers Day Care Providers [persons who care for up to three children in their home].
“The STARS inspection will occur every two years. However, their STARS inspection is deferred within the first year of operation with Newly Licenced Centres or Newly Registered Providers.
“Along with their application, every Centre or Provider must also submit supporting documentation such as a fire certificate, liability insurance and staff educational qualifications, and current CPR certificates.”
Minister Wilson added: “The Ministry of Health takes the safety and development of our children extremely seriously, which is why we have dedicated resources to this area. It is also why the Ministry is appealing to parents to join our efforts. We need to hear parents’ concerns about their children’s care. We will investigate any issues with a daycare centre or home confidentially.
“Parents should expect good, safe care for their children. Please ensure that your home daycare providers are registered and daycare centres are licenced by the Ministry of Health. If they are not registered or a Day Care Centre is not licenced, there will be no way for us to guarantee quality in the environment and the person caring for your children. Licensed centres and registered home providers are listed on gov.bm.”
The spokesperson said, “For more information visit: https://www.gov.bm/child-care-regulation-programme.”
Premier Boxing Champions heads to the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California for a loaded boxing card featuring Sebastian Fundora vs. Brian Mendoza in the main event on April 8th, Live on SHOWTIME. A Free live stream preliminary card and countdown show will air on Showtime’s officially YouTube page prior to the main card.
Sebastian Fundora is known as the Towering Inferno because he is 6 foot 5 inches tall and fighting at the 154-pound division in boxing. He towers over all his opponents and is the height of a star shooting guard in Basketball.
Being so tall makes him a difficult opponent to go up against especially in a division where the average height of the fighters he faces are 5 foot 7 to 5 foot 10. He is also a lanky southpaw which adds more difficulty for his foes. Brian Mendoza will have the tough task of trying to solve the Fundora puzzle and beat the first to defeat the tall light middleweight contender.
The Free preliminary countdown show is stacked with three matches featuring former world champion and rising stars.
Former world champion Devon Alexander will continues his career in hopes of getting another world title shot opportunity. Tonight he must first take on the talented Gabriel Maestre in a 10-round welterweight bout.
Super Featherweights Adrian Corona and Jerry Perez will go toe to toe in an 8-round scrap and undefeated rising Cuban heavyweight contender Frank Sanchez will open the live stream broadcast against Daniel Martz in an 8-round showdown.
Showtime Main Fight Card
Light Middleweight – Sebastian Fundora vs. Brian Mendoza
Junior Welterweight – Brandun Lee vs. Pedro Campa
Featherweight – Luis Reynaldo Nunez vs. Christian Olivo
YouTube Preliminary Fight Card
Welterweight – Gabriel Maestre vs. Devon Alexander
Super Featherweight – Adrian Corona vs. Jerry Perez
Heavyweight – Frank Sanchez vs. Daniel Martz
Undercard Prelims
Heavyweight – Federico Pacheco Jr vs. Felipe Torres
Super Featherweight – Gabriel Garcia vs. Marco Diaz
Super Featherweight – Justin Viloria vs. Sirdarious Smith
Heavyweight – Chris Arreola vs. Mathew McKinney
Women’s Flyweight – Gabriela Fundora vs. Maria Micheo Santizo
Lightweight – Viktor Slavinskyi vs. Juan Antonio Lopez
The Fundora vs. Mendoza Free Fight Prelims and Countdown Show begins at 7:30 PM ET / 4:30 PM PT on Saturday, April 8, 2023 on SHOWTIME Sports YouTube Channel.
