History of Just-In-Time Inventory Management Long before eCommerce or inventory management software, businesses attempted to meet consumer demand by manufacturing surplus quantities of products and stockpiling inventory. They manufactured just enough inventory to satisfy anticipated demand or they heavily relied on their sales and marketing teams to generate more demand to sell the overstocked inventory. […]
Managing product and inventory data can get messy when selling on multiple channels. There’s data that comes from merchandise planning, your various suppliers, sales channels, forecasting, and kit building, and if you’re manufacturing your products in-house, there’s work-in-process data too. Eventually, all of this data (most likely stored in a spreadsheet) gets imported into your […]
GUEST POST BY ROBERT RAND, CTO RAND MARKETING Choosing a version of Shopify is all about balance. Your shopping cart software should fit into your business plans comfortably and logically. Every business has its needs, and you’ll want to select an eCommerce platform that will support your goals, while not sapping revenue that you need […]
GUEST POST FROM OUR PARTNER, BARCODING In the past three years, there has been a significant rise in the use of radio frequency identification (RFID). In a recent survey of 60 wholesalers and retailers with revenues exceeding $500 million in 2014, 34 percent of respondents said they were currently implementing RFID or had already done […]
