How Onboarding Can Improve Employee Retention

Have you ever been in this situation: You take pain-staking measures to find the best qualified candidates for an open position at your company. Finally, after receiving scores of resumes and conduc

The New Complexity of Warehouses

The world of e-commerce has rapidly and completely altered how we as consumers think about shopping. Massive retailers like Amazon offer almost every conceivable product, and most of them can be at

How Small Businesses Can Work With Working Parents

In just one moment, life changes. A baby is born, and nothing will ever be the same again. You are now a parent, but you are also a working professional. Juggling parenthood and a career is somethin

What You Need To Know About Telecommuting

Telecommuting is more often than not a boon for both the remote worker and their company. Telecommuters are less likely to quit their job, very likely to have high morale and more likely to not only

How Suppliers and Retailers Improve Supply Chain

Most will agree that when there is cooperation between retailers and their suppliers, a more profitable and leaner supply chain is the result. Take these stats, for example: -Revenue has increased

The Pros and Cons of DIY Data Warehousing

As the world becomes increasingly digital, from the way we as individuals communicate and learn to how businesses engage their customers and their partners to create a supply chain, one often overlo

The Overlooked Costs of Running A Small Business

Anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit and a great idea can start a small business, the trick is staying profitable and successful past the honeymoon stage. Only about half of all small businesses wi

Two Crucial Steps When Entering the E-commerce Arena

If you’re a small business owner in 2016, you’re likely aware that you need not just an online presence for marketing and advertising, but an e-commerce presence as well. Entering the world of e-com

How Schools Can Stop Wasting Money on iPads That Eventually Go Missing

Schools, whether public or private, elementary or secondary, have always had to conduct asset management in some capacity, tracking the locations and numbers of textbooks and other supplies using sp

How Inventory Management Helps Restaurants Improve Online Sales

Few urges are as difficult to satisfy as the craving for a certain food. Many of us know how it feels to want a late-night sushi roll, or a mid-afternoon dessert to power through the rest of the wor

Barcode Labels That Beat the Heat

Businesses of all sizes and across all industries are increasingly coming to the same realization: Barcodes and barcode labels are incredibly helpful tools, great for keeping inventory and assets or

The Importance of Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace

Diversity is, “The collective mixture of differences and similarities that include, for example, individual and organizational characteristics, values, beliefs, experiences, backgrounds, preferences

Getting Back To The Basics of Customer Service

Customer service can make or break a business. Just as stellar service can keep customers coming back, bad customer service can send clients running for the hills. Unfortunately people have become

Before a Disaster: 3 Things to Ensure

You can control your business approach, you can control your business location, you can control the software you use; but there’s one thing you simply cannot control: the weather. Natural disasters

6 Kinds of Inventory Control That Work Best

Properly managing inventory may sound like tedious, draining work, especially when there are so many other seemingly important tasks to tend to, but doing so is key to a business’ financial health.

3 Ways Predictive Analytics Can Harness Your Big Data

An inventory management system provides you with a plethora of data. You can gather information on everything, from real-time stock levels to customer behavior and trends. The problem is many compan

How IKEA Keeps Track of Their Massive Inventory

When you’re the world’s largest home furnishing retailer, offering roughly about 9,500 products and bringing in $36.3 billion in sales, some kind of automated inventory management system is a must. Fo

8 Ways to Accomplish Improved Employee Engagement

Organisations all across the board do their best to ensure employees are committed to the organisation’s goals and values, remaining motivated, contributing to the company’s success and maintaining

How Brexit Will Affect Small Businesses In the U.S. For Years To Come

On June 23, 2016, in a controversial decision that shocked the world, 51.9% of Brits voted to leave the European Union. No matter what will end up happening (Britain has two years to finalize negoti

Asset Management and Education Compliance - The More You Know

Using Barcode Technology For Education Grant Compliance Innocent mistakes and minor thefts can often add up to big losses. An investigation by CBS in Philadelphia uncovered $88,000 in missing equip

Zebra TC8000 vs. Motorola MC9200

The Zebra TC8000 is the most talked about device to hit the rugged mobile computer market in the last 20 years. It is everything the MC9200 is (a rugged, purpose-built workhorse) with a “new school”

Utilizing Social Media to Promote Your Brand

When over 75% of all online users are on social media, your small-to-medium sized business can choose to utilize media marketing tactics for your advantage or simply slip through the crack and miss

The Benefits of the Cloud and Why You Should Switch To It

We’ve been hearing about the cloud for years, decades even. The first cloud computing concepts first arose back in the 1950s, when academics and workers in large corporations realized how useful acc

How Barcodes Are Revolutionizing Consumer Nutrition

If you’ve been to the grocery store, you’re familiar with 1D barcodes: They’re the pattern of vertical bars and spaces that represent a numerical code, which in turn corresponds to a file in the sto

The Top 7 Inventory Management Mobile Apps You Should Check Out

As a small business owner, you’re going to be on the move. You’re likely helping with outside sales, traveling to trade shows to network, or visiting your other locations. So how do you keep on top of

Is Your Business Tracking these 6 KPIs?

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are benchmarks that help identify growth areas within your business. In other words, they’re basically the gages that tell you how your operations are functioning.

Learning 3 New Reasons to Improve Asset Management

A place of education is responsible for providing students with the lessons they need in order to learn and improve academic intelligence. A place of education, just like any other organisation, is

Making Inventory Markdowns Work For Your Small Business

Customers of all types look forward to seasonal clearances. Why wouldn't they? The drastic markdowns save them a lot of money. In fact, I walked into my local dollar store and noticed it still had

What Do Drones Mean For the Future of Warehouses?

It’s been years since Amazon first publicly floated the idea of using drones to deliver orders to the homes of their customers. We’re likely still years away from drone delivery as common practice.

Four Things You MUST Think About Before a Disaster Strikes Your Business

Remember that time when the tornado sirens were blaring and you didn’t take cover? Why was that? Did you think the odds were in your favor and it wouldn’t happen to you? Hopefully, you were right

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