Businesses generate success through a combination of daily operations. Merchandising, bookkeeping, staffing, marketing, and customer service are crucial to promoting stability and growth. While most business owners understand how important it is to keep track of what goes on in their establishment, the amount of data to collect and sort through can be overwhelming.
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Posted by John Shepperson | Sep 16, 2015 11:00:00 AM
Starting a business involves a long list of “to-dos” – choose a location, hire employees, obtain building or operating licenses, advertise, etc. Once you are up and running, you must manage employees, organize shipping and receiving schedules, handle inventory, deal with customers, and more. With so much work to do, many businesses are utilizing inventory management software to make at least one task easier.
Topics: automation, inventory management, inventory, john shepperson, oates co, inventory management software
Successful production-based businesses often spend significant amounts of time trying to streamline production. Aligning your product output with consumer consumption will improve efficiency as well as reduce overhead operating costs. The secret to this is successful inventory management techniques.
Identifying the right processes and tools for successful inventory management is a difficult task. There are a few common inventory management mistakes that businesses make. They include:
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Process manufacturing software is a type of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software that focuses on streamlining your manufacturing processes. Using an ERP can change the time and energy your company puts into analyzing manufacturing and improving your numbers.
The right ERP software can improve your systems and save you time and money the following 4 ways:
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In the world of distribution, the tiniest of glitches has consequences. Tracking your supply chain on one end and shipping on the other is a monumental task, and it's likely that you have multiple departments with multiple employees. How can you ensure the right product gets out at the right time to the right customer?
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Posted by John Shepperson | Mar 3, 2015 11:00:00 AM
Customer relationship management (CRM) software is useful to any business that markets to, sells to, or interacts with a large number of consumers.
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Posted by John Shepperson | Feb 17, 2015 11:30:00 AM
Managing the vast amount of information that you receive on a daily basis and processing it fast enough to stay competitive should be a major concern for any operation.
Sage ERP X3 distribution software is the solution.
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Posted by John Shepperson | Jan 20, 2015 11:00:00 AM
Manufacturing and distribution trends are changing all the time. (You can see some 2014 trends here.) Though the trends fluctuate, it always stands that small and mid-sized distributors must continue improving their quality control, productivity, and competitiveness in order to level the playing field between themselves and larger distribution companies. To do so, many companies are looking at automation and software integration programs like Sage ERP X3. These ERP (an acronym for enterprise resource planning) systems offer increased control over all aspects of running a distribution company.
Here are some tips to use Sage ERP X3 to increase quality and competitiveness:
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When your distribution company starts to grow, gaining local and global customers alike, your accounting department will find it more and more time consuming to prepare invoices.
It’s going to be especially difficult and time consuming if you aren’t using the latest software. If you’re using software that houses information in individual silos – Office, Excel, and/or Outlook, for example – creating invoices that need support documentation will take too long. This is because the information is only available in its silo and not “out” where it’s easily accessible for everyone.
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Posted by John Shepperson | Nov 4, 2014 11:00:00 AM
Today, business partners work together from multiple continents, spanning multiple time zones – facing multiple challenges. This is especially true when it comes to accounts payable and invoicing. In the past, working with a legacy accounting system was perfectly acceptable and certainly quite common. Now, however, legacy accounting systems that are not scalable, interconnected, and without cloud access are no longer going to cut it for a company that wants to compete in the current economy.
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