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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.

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.

Operating a single operations location can be challenging on its own; managing multiple locations adds another layer of complexity and difficulty. Even so, many manufacturing companies have factories, warehouses, and offices located across the country, or even the world, to better serve their customers. In fact, multi-location operations is becoming common even for small and mid-sized companies.

Warehouse automation is a key driver for cutting costs and improving profitability. If you haven’t automated your warehouse, now is the time to consider doing so. If you have implemented automation and a warehouse management system, you can find even greater advantages by bringing mobility to your warehouse.

Keeping your customers happy is one of the best ways to ensure increased revenue and longevity for your company. Happy customers are return customers, and repeat business is the engine that drives profitability. The more you can reduce customer attrition, the better. Sales acquisition costs can skyrocket if your churn rate soars. If you are looking for a way to keep your customers happy and improve your company’s ROI, spend more time streamlining your procedures.

If you have a warehouse, chances are you are always looking for ways to cut operational costs, improve productivity and reduce errors. Using supply chain management software or ERP systems can help you achieve these goals by providing the data you need to take control of your operations.

Mobility is a top priority among warehousing and distribution companies. These businesses are integrating mobility with their legacy enterprise resource planning systems or they are implementing new cloud-based systems with built-in mobility features.

Every day, the world gets more mobile. As smartphone capabilities increase, mobility makes further inroads into all kinds of places you might not expect. Smartphones are used in hospitals to track patients. Ordinary smartphones can be used as tour guides in museums and parks. Print ads at bus stops include a tag for smartphones to get more information. You can find a smartphone in a baby’s crib being used as a baby monitor. Mobility is no longer revolutionary, it’s expected; and it’s expected with ERP.

Supply chain management software sheds light on warehouse issues, inventory levels, and changes in customer demand. Using warehouse management tools, managers can better predict demand, ship orders, interact with customers, and invest in the business confidently. Improving inventory management will promote company profitability and success.

Most companies prefer to limit software expenses—that’s understandable. However, when it comes to integrated enterprise solutions, your investment can make good business sense. In fact, enterprise resource planning software, like Sage 300 and SYSPRO, can pay for itself by providing accurate, timely data that can promote better decision-making, and automate labor-intensive processes.

Manufacturing management presents many challenges. Just when you think you’ve solved one problem, the next one arises. Not only does it seem that you are always solving the next problem in manufacturing—the problems are occurring faster than ever. Rapid changes in technology are transforming consumer behavior, customer demands, technical capabilities and even legislation. In order to respond to these changes, manufacturing mangers need to continuously update and streamline their operations.