Our Team continues to improve the DCWarehouse Automation Suite with extremely important supply chain, manufacturing, and distribution features. Our goal is to help our clients better compete with time savings, inventory accuracy and modern technology! Our latest release 7.90.048 includes very important features and improvements.
Credit Cards and the Cost of Doing Business
Every Thursday at 1:00 pm Central Time, please join us for the USA Manufacturing Hour Twitter chat. Simply go to Twitter and search on the hashtag: #USAMfgHour and follow along! This week’s host was Adam Baker, owner of Schooley Mitchell in Erie, PA. Schooley Mitchell helps manufacturers across North America reduce operational expenses without impacting their people, processes, or culture. Adam began the chat by saying, “Welcome to this week’s #USAMfgHour chat. Today we’re chatting about credit cards and how they impact businesses. Introduce yourself, and let’s start out with a simple question – “what’s in your wallet?”
Marketing Touch Points in the Industrial Buyer Journey
This #USAMfgHour Twitter chat “Marketing Touch Points in the Industrial Buyer Journey” was led by Paul Kiesche, President of Aviate Creative, a branding and creative agency with an edge in manufacturing located in NJ.
Kiesche began by saying, “Let’s get a good brainstorm going here about the industrial buyer’s journey. There’s no “correct” answer. Bring all your thoughts and ideas to the discussion. Your buyers have problems and you have the solution. However, selling to them is not that simple. Often buyers don’t know you exist, can’t find you, need convincing, reminding, etc. Let’s walk through the buyer’s journey together to see where marketing can help. A buyer goes from being completely unaware, to hopefully becoming a customer. All the steps in between, and even after they leave, is part of their journey.”
What is a 3PL?
A Third Party Logistics Company helps distributors, manufacturers and eCommerce retailers by managing their inventory, storing it in their facility and shipping products out. There are many reasons you may choose to work with a 3PL. These include a better location to quickly ship goods from. Improved order and shipment handling. Using an outsourced vendor for their skill-sets, automation capability and especially nowadays, human resources may also help you to grow your business. It is a common challenge to be able to hire, maintain and develop your warehousing workforce.
USA Manufacturing – Effective Strategies for Growing a Virtual Team
Every Thursday at 1:00 pm Central Time you are welcome to join the USA Manufacturing Hour, #USAMfgHour, Twitter chat. This week’s host was Pavel Stepanov of VirtuDesk, a virtual assistant company that helps entrepreneurs, real estate agents and other professionals with marketing, prospecting, admin, and more. Pavel and team shared their insights on Effective Strategies for Growing a Virtual Team
DCWarehouse New Release 7.90.046
Our team continues to improve the DCWarehouse Automation Suite with extremely important supply chain, manufacturing, and distribution features. Our goal is to help our clients better compete with time savings, inventory accuracy and modern technology! Our latest release 7.90.046 includes very important features and improvements.Read More
Great Information Systems Managers
A great Information Systems Manager, also known as an Information Technology (IT) manager, is really invaluable to your company. I have worked in the software business for close to 30 years and sometimes IS Managers can be the largest obstacle for modernization and progress. Sometimes it may be their personality, their upper management, over-all workload or even politics behind some of the reasons they slow progress. However, I am impressed by how many AMAZING IS Managers are in our working force today. Let me share the qualities they possess.
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Here’s to 2022 – A Recap of 2021
2021 Another Doozy:
There is no doubt that 2021 was another challenging year for many businesses especially for manufacturers and distributors.
Customer Returns, Let’s Talk About This
According to the National Retail Federation close to 428 Billion in merchandise was returned by consumers in 2020. Although more lenient customer return policies including free returns are almost expected today, let’s think about ways to possibly avoid problems from both a distributor or consumer stand-point.Read More
Supply Chain Trends that May Stay
Wow, we’re now into 2022 and let’s just say everyone is learning that half of business is staying in the game and the other half is innovating so you can continue growing. What a roller coaster ride for supple chains. So with all of these changes, there are a few trends, that in my opinion, may be here to stay. Let’s look into these.
