Order fulfillment includes picking, packing, and shipping products to customers. There’s a manual way and an automatic way to handle order fulfillment, and we’re going to go see which one delivers the right results for your company. (more…)
Tag: automation
Manual vs. Automatic Business Processes
This blog post marks the beginning of a new series of posts comparing manual and automatic business processes. While manual processes may work for startups and other less tech-savvy companies, there are some major advantages to automating as many tasks as possible.
Over the next few months, we’re going to cover the following topics: (more…)
Whiteboard Wednesday: What Is a Business Automation Platform?
In this Whiteboard Wednesday James Shores explains what a business automation platform is. It’s a tool you use on a daily basis that integrates with all of your other business solutions and helps you simplify and automate complex tasks.
Fishbowl is an excellent business automation platform. It integrates with dozens of software, hardware, and other solutions. It acts as a central hub for information from e-commerce websites, accounting software, CRMs, and more to pass through and be stored in. It imports and exports information on a daily basis to keep orders flowing smoothly in and out of your warehouse(s) while also tracking data and helping you make the most of your warehouse space and money with automatic reorder points and other tools.
James explains all of this and more in the video above. Check it out, and start automating your business with Fishbowl!
How to Make Your Manufacturing and Shipping More Streamlined
Every day, small and medium-sized manufacturers search for ways to streamline their processes. From constant headaches in the shipping department to bottlenecks in the production line, plant managers never seem to find a constant way to trim costs and save time. Here are some tips that will help managers streamline their manufacturing and shipping departments from top to bottom, according to Manufacturing.net. (more…)
How Your Warehouse Can Run More Efficiently with a Few Tweaks
The world of business operates on the efficiency of movement. Your clients depend on quick and reliable delivery of the products and supplies that they need on a daily basis, not to mention the goods that consumers want to get into their hands as soon as possible. For this, the most prudent way of storing goods to prepare for delivery is the warehouse. If this is your business, then keep reading to discover five simple tweaks that you can implement to help your warehouse run more efficiently. (more…)
How Thinking Like an Engineer Can Help Your Business
When it comes to running your business, inspiration and lessons can come from unlikely sources. While an engineer might not seem like the first person that would come to mind as a case study for business, engineering methods can be a useful way to improve outcomes for all kinds of businesses. (more…)
How to Speed Up the Most Inefficient Processes in Your Company
Workflow and operational processes are only as efficient as their weakest component. Identifying, targeting, and improving the most inefficient processes within a company can have numerous benefits. Eliminating bottlenecks can help to lower operational costs while ensuring workers and staff face fewer obstacles, which improves both individual and overall efficiency.
Assessing the processes involved in day-to-day operations can turn up several components that may be less than efficient or in need of improvement; a few key concepts may be all that is required to improve efficiency across the board. (more…)
How to Keep Your Warehouse Organized Like a Pro
According to Entrepreneur magazine, inventory management is one of the most important parts of a business, but it is often the least understood. Here are four ways to keep your warehouse continuously organized. (more…)
Unique Use of Inventory Management Software: Automated Microscopes
It is fascinating to put businesses under a microscope and analyze how they make use of inventory management software. We’ve been doing that for three months now, and the results have been enlightening.
We’re going to keep pressing forward and seeing how, no matter what companies sell, they can all be more successful with the help of a good manufacturing and/or warehouse management software solution.
Let’s take a close look at this week’s business: Nanotronics Imaging. (more…)