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Part X — Do You Know Where Your Vendors Are?

And finally concluding our 10-part series of “10 Ways Inventory Management Can Make or Break You” we’d like to close with: 
#10: Do You Know Where Your Vendors Are?
Who are your vendors? How many vendors have you purchased your inventory items from? Are they late delivering orders? If so how often? Do quoted prices differ from prices […]

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Published by Terri on March 6th, 2008 tagged White Papers | Comment now »

Part IX of a series — Can You Automate Ordering?

At last we’re beginning to wind down on this 10-part series — 10 WAYS INVENTORY MANAGEMENT CAN MAKE OR BREAK YOU.  In Part IX we’d like to pose the question, “Can you automate ordering?”
Part IX:  Can You Automate Ordering?
If your business has a lot of inventory, then regularly ordering and purchasing those items is something […]

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Published by Terri on February 13th, 2008 tagged White Papers | Comment now »

Part VIII — Can You Identify Trends?

Continuing with our 10-part series — 10 Ways Inventory Management Can Make or Break You — is Part VIII: Can You Identify Trends?  Do you have a software that can track in detail the movement of your inventory from the time you order/input the information into purchase order, receive and record the item in inventory […]

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Published by Terri on January 29th, 2008 tagged White Papers | Comment now »

Part VII — How Sophisticated is Your Pricing?

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 
Well it seems to be time to get back into the “work swing” of things and finish up this 10-part series, “10 Ways Inventory Management Can Make or Break You.”  Part VII asks you to think about how sophisticated or complex is your pricing, or maybe your current system cannot handle any degree of complexity […]

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Published by Terri on January 11th, 2008 tagged White Papers | Comment now »

Part VI — Do Changing Costs Go Unnoticed?

As we continue  our 10-part series — 10 Ways Inventory Management Can Make Or Break You — we now look at how changing costs in inventory can impact your bottomline if you are not aware of the new costs soon enough.  This is where a purchase order module integrated with your inventory, and POS, would be of […]

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Published by Terri on December 17th, 2007 tagged White Papers | Comment now »

Part V — 10 Ways Inventory Management Can Make or Break You.

Our next topic, ”Do You Know How Turnover Can change your Profit Margin, Part V” in our series - 10 Ways Inventory Management Can Make or Break You — will show you that product movement can be deceptive if you do not look closely at the profit margins assigned to each product.  Continue reading below to find […]

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Published by Terri on December 3rd, 2007 tagged White Papers | Comment now »

10 Ways Inventory Management Can Make or Break You — Part IV

This week Part IV of 10 WAYS YOUR INVENTORY MANAGEMENT CAN MAKE OR BREAK YOU, we’ll take a look at what eye opening facts your profit margin reports can illuminate and to what level of detail.  To review previous parts I-III of this white paper click here.  Or read this white paper in its entirety.
Part IV: What is […]

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Published by Terri on November 20th, 2007 tagged White Papers | Comment now »

10 Ways Inventory Management Can Make or Break You — Part III

Many apologies, seems I forgot to post Part III of our white paper — 10 Ways Inventory Management Can Make or Break You — last week.  Part II discussed the various costing methods — LIFO, FIFO, Weighted Average and Standard Cost — and the impact they can play on your balance sheet, income statement and cash […]

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Published by Terri on November 12th, 2007 tagged White Papers | Comment now »

10 Ways Inventory Management Can Make or Break You. — Part II

Last week we introduced our 10 part series “10 Ways Inventory Management Can Make or Break You.” Part I asked the question whether you knew what the value of your inventory was, right now, so that you can effectively plan and assess your financial position.  If you didn’t see it, here it is again — Part […]

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Published by Terri on November 1st, 2007 tagged White Papers | Comment now »

Inventory Management: 10 Areas that can Make or Break Your Business — Part I

 We thought we’d try something a bit different this time.  Instead of asking you to find time out of your very full day and ask you to read a lengthy white paper, we decided to give this white paper to you in pieces.  There are 10 parts to this information on Inventory Management.  We plan to […]

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Published by Terri on October 26th, 2007 tagged White Papers, Products, Marketing | Comment now »