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The Digital Imperative for Manufacturers

It’s ingrained in the American psyche — the scrappy, hardworking individualism, resourcefulness, and sheer determination that leads to entrepreneurial success. The only trouble with that trope is that scrappy is just not scalable. While brute force and a commitment to…

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How Manufacturers and Distributors Can Build an Agile Supply Chain for the Post-Pandemic Era

Slowly but surely, the world is reopening. Factories are catching up on backlogs, and supply chains are rumbling back to life. Despite these positive signs, no one is suggesting we go back to business as usual. Wholesale distributors and manufacturers…

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The Strategic Supply Chain Role of the Post-Pandemic CFO

Manufacturers and distributors find themselves amidst a new set of post-pandemic challenges. Demand is sky-high, costs are volatile, labor is scarce, and over-stressed supply chains struggle to get back up to speed. In fact, with so much disruption to global…

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The Supply and Demand Roller Coaster — How Manufacturers and Distributors Can Stop the Ride

At the height of the pandemic, demand for many goods and services tanked. Restaurants and retailers shuttered and millions were out of work. Today, we seem to have the opposite problem. Demand is sky-high, supplies are limited, and skilled workers…

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Post-Pandemic Supply Chain Challenges: How Manufacturers and Distributors can Grow Amidst Uncertainty

The pandemic revealed significant vulnerabilities in supply chains around the world. The challenge now is to build them back — better. The coronavirus pandemic disrupted supply chains around the world. Almost instantly, we saw lead times and prices jump while…

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Where Does it Hurt: Top Inventory Management Pain Points

Product-based businesses face many inventory management challenges that can impact all aspects of their business — from customer satisfaction to gross margin to return on investment. Whether it’s a lack of real-time visibility across locations or manual processes that result…

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Are You Losing Money with Inefficient Warehouse Operations?

Whether you’re a small distributor, a mid-size manufacturer or even a large retailer, warehouse optimization should be the top-most concern as no other area of the business can deliver greater gains in efficiency, accuracy, speed, customer service, and ultimately profitability….

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How a Warehouse Management Solution Provides Competitive Advantage

As e-commerce sales continue to increase, drop shipping becomes the norm and overall expectations around shipping make customer satisfaction more difficult to achieve, competitive advantage for companies that sell or distribute products ultimately comes down to a warehouse’s ability to…

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Why You Need Lot Traceability for Your Food & Beverage Business

The food and beverage industry has certain standards when it comes to keeping track of products. But when you’re talking about tracking thousands of products, the task becomes pretty difficult to manage. That’s why Sage X3 is a must-have for…

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Welcome to the Age of Smart Manufacturing

The industrial internet of things promises to be pivotal to the next industrial revolution in manufacturing. How? By harnessing all the power that digital technology offers through artificial intelligence and advanced machine learning. Still very much in its infancy, IoT…

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How important is the IoT to the future of your business?

The internet of things (IoT) is being heralded as a breakthrough technology that will be instrumental in enabling other next-generation technologies, such as AI, driverless cars and robotics. So far, much of the hype has focused on consumer items like…

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Inventory and Warehouse Management Software Buyer Trends 2018

As the year 2018 continues to roll along, there are technology trends that businesses need to be aware of if they are to stay ahead of the game this year and beyond. Some of such trends are the Warehouse Management…

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The Immense Value of ERP for Wholesale Distributors

The continued shift to a more distributed environment and global trade relationships is inducing change in every industry and wholesale distribution is no different. There are both benignant and malignant aspects to this change. On one hand, with technological advances…

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WMS for the SMB: Factors to Consider When Implementing a Warehouse Management System

In a previous post, we highlighted ten signs that indicate it’s time for a SMB to invest in a warehouse management system (WMS). This post will examine some attributes to look for when implementing a WMS, to reduce the risk…

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