What does it take to have the highest level of quality control in your business? For every mistake made on your manufacturing floor, for every piece of work that needs to be reworked and either gets reworked or doesn’t before it’s sent out, your business loses valuable time, materials, and customer satisfaction.
Managing your entire manufacturing, production, and distribution process can be a huge chore. Significant changes take time and training to implement and mistakes in your processes can take weeks to be discovered, dramatically decreasing your efficiency and increasing both your labor and management costs.
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ERP,
Sage,
sage erp x3,
enterprise resource planning,
john shepperson,
oates co,
customer service,
quality control,
total quality control,
tqc,
productivity
Sage ERP X3 is a type of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. It is designed to help you monitor your business processes more closely. With this software, you can boost your profits, find new markets, and change the way you organize your business. There are numerous reasons to start using this piece of distribution software.
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ERP,
Sage,
sage erp x3,
business intelligence,
enterprise resource planning,
X3 ERP,
john shepperson,
oates co
Companies who are struggling to remain competitive may be feeling the pain of a host of bottlenecks, from too much downtime to an inability to fill customer orders to not meeting shipping or delivery schedules.
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ERP,
Sage,
sage erp x3,
enterprise resource planning,
data management,
john shepperson,
oates co,
globalization,
delivery schedules,
bottlenecks
In order to stay competitive, distributors need to increase customer loyalty while still keeping their operational costs to a minimum. Any company that wants to grow needs a solution to help them solve this problem – better customer service with good inventory and product control.
To accomplish this with data available at your fingertips, Sage ERP X3 distribution software uses modules to help with finance, sales, customer service, purchasing, inventory, shipping, and receiving.
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ERP,
Sage,
sage erp x3,
customer relationship management,
enterprise resource planning,
inventory,
john shepperson,
oates co,
customer service,
inventory tracking,
marketing campaign
In the past, keeping track of the manufacturing cycle would have relied on legacy methods such as notations in an Excel spreadsheet or emails sent to managers and supervisors.
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ERP,
sage erp x3,
john shepperson,
oates co,
manufacturing,
distribution,
database,
legacy software
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.
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ERP,
Sage,
tracking,
enterprise resource planning,
integration,
john shepperson,
modules,
oates co,
sage erp,
sales orders,
credit card processing
We love our enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and we espouse that love frequently, so it might be surprising that we admit they aren’t perfect. While searching for an ERP system to buy, you may find that some of the things you want to do – like tracking warehouse inventory and specific lots via barcoding – isn’t automatically done by the ERP. Sometimes a third-party system is necessary to collect data and bring it back into the ERP platform.
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ERP,
Sage,
sage erp x3,
enterprise resource planning,
inventory,
integration,
john shepperson,
modules,
oates co,
data collection,
cycle counting,
barcoding
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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Topics:
ERP,
oates and co,
automation,
enterprise resource planning,
integration,
john shepperson,
distribution,
foreign currency,
globalization,
distributors
Factory and plant supervisors who are responsible for moving product down the line to warehousing and then through the distribution chain require an accurate way to identify both products and routes, which is very difficult to do manually.
Sage 100 ERP’s bar coding system, however, can help.
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Topics:
ERP,
Sage,
enterprise resource planning,
Sage 100 ERP,
john shepperson,
oates co,
manufacturing,
warehouse,
distribution,
database,
bar codes,
bar coding
Process manufacturing businesses are those that create products that cannot be returned to their original form. This can include many things, like soda, which, once mixed, cannot be separated back into its original ingredients.
Since the economic decline in 2008, process manufacturing facilities worldwide have struggled to make a comeback. Each company has unique issues, but there are common problems that affect the entire industry.
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Topics:
ERP,
Sage Software,
enterprise resource planning,
business solutions,
john shepperson,
oates co,
manufacturing,
process manufacturing,
economy
