How Your Entire Company Can Benefit from ERP Software

ERP software for your whole team

All-in-one accounting and inventory software (also known as ERP) is designed to manage way more than just inventory and accounting. ERP software is designed to manage all aspects of a company’s operations and will provide benefits to employees in every department. That is one of the main benefits of switching to ERP: the system will … Read more

Sometimes Accounting Inventory Software Bells and Whistles Can Wait

Software Bells and Whistles

As with any large corporate investment, implementing new accounting and inventory ERP software is a time and resource consuming process.  Although this can be daunting when first starting the search process, the benefits gained from properly implementing an automated, all-in-one system, to manage all your business processes across departments will almost always outweigh the costs. … Read more

The Importance of Evaluating Processes during the Inventory Management Software Search

evaluating business processeses

When implementing new inventory management software, a business owner should always take the opportunity to evaluate processes with a view to increasing efficiencies and reducing costs.  A good software vendor will not only spend time discussing their product, but also getting to know your business and current processes to identify potential areas of improvement.  The efficiencies resulting from implementing … Read more

How to Evaluate ERP Vendors

Evaluating Software Vendors

We’ve previously discussed the importance of finding an ERP vendor who can meet all your functionality requirements, and the difference between custom software vs. out-of-the box software, but there are other important factors to consider.  Functionality and cost should not be the only criteria on which you evaluate vendors, given that the software market is somewhat saturated … Read more

ERP Software is not a fire extinguisher

ERP-Software-Put-Out-Fires

Many businesses start looking into new ERP Accounting Software in response to significant and immediate problems. For example, the existing entry-level system has reached its capacity, or a new line of business has caused an extra 10 hours of manual work every week. There’s a burning desire to select and implement a new system ASAP, … Read more

Old dogs? New tricks? Make the most of your Inventory & Accounting Software

new tricks bookkeeper

Learning a new business software system is daunting, even to those with lots of previous experience in ERP Software implementations. How much more so, then, for someone who has perhaps only ever used one system, possibly for a decade or more? That’s often the dilemna faced by the long-term employee of a small or medium-sized company that’s finally … Read more

Do Your Homework Before You Start Looking for Inventory and Accounting Software

Software Search Homework

It surprises me when someone contacts Blue Link looking for new inventory and accounting software and they do not know what they really need out of a new system. Often, there is one specific problem that they want to solve and they have not really considered all the other operational processes that could be improved. … Read more

2 Warehouse Management Tips: Pick Inventory Efficiently

warehouse management tips

Most small and medium sized wholesalers / distributors use a straightforward approach to picking orders. It goes like this: In the office: receive an order, enter it into the wholesale distribution software in use, print a picking slip, send picking slip to the warehouse team. In the warehouse: pick the order, pack it for shipping. … Read more