Business Automation and Software Blog

The New Year is fast approaching. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a plan in place that would help grow your business without having to pour more money in? The question is, is this possible? The answer is yes, but only with careful planning. Make sure that you are using your ERP software, like Sage 300, to its fullest potential. Make sure that every aspect of your company is looking towards promoting expansion. We’ve listed some measures to help you achieve this.

Have you spent sleepless nights worrying about shipping costs? Have you seen a significant rise is carrier-shipping costs in 2016? Have FedEx and UPS’s new dimensional weight rules chipped into your profitability? You are not alone. Shipping costs can be a large portion of your product sales expenses. You can eliminate some of those sleepless nights worrying about shipping by optimizing your shipping mix using Sage 300 shipping software. Implementing this software can decrease your shipping costs.

Have you ever heard of the saying, “A day late and a dollar short?” Well, we don’t want you to feel that way with your ERP selection. Choosing the right ERP system from the start can save your company time and money. 

Sage continues to impress us with their drive to stay up to date and fresh with their products.  We are excited about the new features of Sage 300c, but we are still guessing what that “c” will stand for.  Sage has not settled on that yet, but the choices are “connected”, “collaborate”, and “complete."  As we reviewed the product, we thought that they all fit in quite nicely. They may or may not be able to select a single meaning for the “c”, but we love the three main additions they have added to Sage 300 to make it even better than the original.

If you start back at the Industrial Revolution, it’s hard to imagine the many changes that manufacturing has gone through.  Some changes have been small and some are so big that it has changed the way we do business altogether.  Manufacturing automation, lean manufacturing, and e-commerce are just a few practices that have changed the way companies do business.  Today, we are preparing for the fourth wave of manufacturing; is your business prepared?

It seems that you can’t look in any direction without seeing someone on the phone, iPad, or laptop these days. It’s not only for personal use any longer. Enterprises across the globe are adopting mobile solutions into their businesses. These apps, deployed on tablets and smartphones whenever employees want and wherever they are in the world, have greatly impacted almost every business function there is. Enterprise resource planning is certainly no exception to this new app driven world. Let’s take a look at how mobile ERP solutions like SYSPRO can drive greater efficiency across the enterprise.

Sage 300 at the Top of the List as a Great QuickBooks Replacement

Ready to make a change in your accounting software, but not sure where to start? With 4,000 QuickBooks replacement reviews just a click away, it's hard to know what to believe. We found a breakdown of the most popular QuickBooks replacement alternatives based on actual user reviews. These users considered over 500 product options before formulating their opinions. Do I have your attention yet? I hope so. Let’s start with a tidbit that caught our attention. One of the top three ERP systems buyers considered when they were ready to move beyond QuickBooks was Sage 300.  Not excited yet? Well just wait and you will see why making a move might be right for your company.

In most manufacturing and distribution companies, inventory is the largest component of business capital. When 45 to 90 percent of your capital is tied up in inventory, every improvement you can make in your warehouse practices has a large impact. The more you can take control of your inventory costs, the more you can invest in other products or even expand operations.

You’ve probably noticed a lot of talk about the cloud lately. Cloud technology started with simple applications like photo storage, but lately enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors have been rolling out updated, cloud versions of their software. New cloud-based ERP systems are arriving on the business scene as well.

As you move from your ERP selection into implementation, one area that must be addressed is the spreadsheet. While spreadsheets have their place, a sound ERP system will replace the need for stand-alone data collection and manipulation.