Category: Operations

Barcode Labeling

There are a number of ways to print barcode labels. Making the label creation process flow within the overall operation is the goal. It should not be a separate process to print a label with relevant data – it should be a part of the form or process the user is already doing. This will…
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Purchasing

When reordering product becomes a task that can no longer be done in your head or via a quick survey of current inventory, you generally have reached the useful end of most inventory software as well. Most low end software doesn’t have any real inventory management features beyond setting min/max levels and spitting out a…
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Cycle Counts

Sometimes it seems there are as many ways to do cycle counting as there are companies that employ it. Directed counts or blind counts. Which items should be counted? What process is followed when a discrepancy occurs? Counting inventory has been done forever, but cycle counting was a vast improvement. Not only did it satisfy…
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Authorize.NET

Credit card processing can be extremely painstaking if forced to do it one at a time. With Kardia, check out what one of our clients did: 1: All invoices marked with Credit Card terms appear in a list for payment. 2. The user checks a box next to each invoice that they wish to charge…
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WordPress & WooCommerce

It is one thing to stand up an on-line presence and eCommerce website. It is far more challenging to efficiently integrate one’s on-line presence with internal operations. But more and more, that is what many small businesses need to do to keep up with customer expectations. Everyone has ordered through Amazon and get emails about…
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Efficient Order Entry

A prospective customer wanted to know if we could match a small but significant feature of the order entry system they were replacing. “If a customer is ordering 3 cases of bananas, we want to enter ‘3C’ in one cell and have it split automatically into the two fields. We can’t be having to press…
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UPS Worldship

So you get a new customer all setup and you go to make their first shipment. Painfully, you have to re-enter all of the customer information into UPS. As well, once a tracking# is assigned, you need to enter that back into the ordering system or in an email to your customer. The UPS Worldship…
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