Preparing Your Wholesale Distribution Business for Global Expansion

Global Distribution Centre

For most businesses, the ultimate goal is to increase sales—and there are several ways to achieve that, whether by expanding the product line or adding new sales channels. As a business begins to grow, more distribution opportunities will emerge, and it becomes important to evaluate the best strategies for long-term success. Expanding your distribution business … Read more

Understanding the Difference Between Integration and Automation

Integration vs. Automation

In today’s business environment integration and automation are essential for operational efficiency. As businesses increasingly rely on a variety of software platforms to manage their operations—such as ERP systems, CRM platforms, payroll tools, and eCommerce websites—it’s critical to understand the role of integration and how it can be enhanced by automation. While integration connects different … Read more

Understanding eCommerce ERP Integration

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Shipping errors? Poor inventory management? Multiple disparate systems? Data entry errors? If any of these challenges sound familiar, you’re not alone. These are just some of the hurdles faced by many start-up and small-to-mid-size eCommerce businesses that lack proper software integration. While these issues may be magnified in larger businesses, they are common to organizations … Read more

The Definition of eCommerce Software Integration

eCommerce integration defined

Any industry will have its own set of acronyms, industry-specific jargon, slang and terminology that can be difficult for everyone to understand. What’s more, some industry players use the terminology differently which can add to the confusion when trying to make sense of a specific topic. One such area where this happens is in the … Read more

eCommerce and Accounting Software Integration

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When it comes to integrating your eCommerce site with back-end accounting and inventory ERP software, you typically have 4 options: No Integration Simple Integration with Batch Updates Sophisticated Real-Time Integration B2B eCommerce – Online Order Portal One of the biggest mistakes companies make when deciding to implement eCommerce is not considering the implications for their … Read more

Replacing Manual Processes with eCommerce Integration

Replace Manual Processes with eCommerce Integration

Picture This: You started an eCommerce site two years ago, and ever since have had a team of employees dedicated to managing all aspects of the sales, order and shipping process. New products are manually added to the website, and employees are responsible for updating inventory quantities and prices upon receipt of new inventory into the … Read more

Magento Integration with ERP Software

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Guest blog: Ben Burmaster, owner of SnuggleBugz, speaks about Magento integration with ERP software.

At the time we decided to go with Magento there were a lot of, I would say almost, bigger plays in the market than Magento. The unique thing about Magento was that it appeared to have a very active community and the following around it seemed to be r
eally growing. They also had raised a lot of money and it looked like they were going to be serious about moving forward.

The gift registry component that they offer for us was by a third-party and I think that is one of the unique things that gave us the ability to do what we needed to do. It also identified that there is a much tighter developer community around Magento and a lot more third-party companies creating add-ons to the package or allowing you to do things that the base package wouldn’t do because Magento is open source.

Working with Demac has been extremely beneficial to us. The relationship that we have with them has helped us grow and succeed at the rate that we have and Blue Link and their ERP system, has given us the flexibility. It has allowed us to allow us in this integration process to do the things we wanted to do.

So the integration between Blue Link and Demac happens on two levels:

  1. One is inventory, where inventory is updated and synced with the Blue Link ERP system. Everything from descriptions, colours, attributes, pricing – as they change they are automatically synced.
  2. The second component is orders, where an order comes in to Magento, those orders are automatically created via the integration in Blue Link and then the entire shipping process of that order is automated. Once an order comes in, Blue Link owns that order and then Magento is sort of an afterthought at that point, and Blue Link manages that order and then the sync goes back the other way to update Magento. If the customers check their information online they will see the status of the order, that it has been invoiced, the tracking number and that type of information.

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