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Las empresas españolas de la mano para frenar el hurto comercialThe Spanish companies of the hand to brake the commercial theft
18 November 2011
According to the Association of manufacturers and Distributors (AECOC), the “loss descocida” (thefts and administrative errors), that supposes 1% of the annual turnover of the Spanish companies is one of the sources of ineficiencia that is subtracting productivity and competitiveness to our companies. Proof of this are the 400.000 annual hours that the companies devote to manage this type of questions. Nevertheless, although the companies are more concerned that never for debugging his processes to save unnecessary expenses, of the 130.000 incidences that register annually in this sense, so only reports 13%, had to especially to the excess of bureaucracy and the obstacles in the processes. No in vain, 92% of the companies of Spanish distribution consider the penal code too indulgent to the hour to “punish” the subtractions. All these data were treated yesterday Thursday 17, in the XIV Seminar AECOC of Prevention of the Loss, in which it offered a complete radiografia of this situation, as well as the clabes for paliarla, of the hand of expert analysts and employers.
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