5 Tools for Wholesale Inventory Management

Warehouse Inventory Management Tools Explained

As a wholesale company, inventory is your livelihood. What inventory to buy, where to source product from and how to sell product to customers are all important factors to consider in managing your business for growth.  In order to sell inventory, you must also properly track and manage inventory. Streamlined picking, packing and shipping processes, … Read more

Warehouse Management System: What to Look For

WMS Features

All wholesale and distribution businesses will have to manage their inventory one way or another.  For small and start-up companies, this can often be a manual process when order volume is still low.  However, as your business grows, there will come a time when inventory management and accounting ERP software is the next logical step.  … Read more

Better Inventory Management

Better Inventory Management

Business owners are constantly striving to improve inventory management in their warehouses – but how can they do this? The answer is of course dependent on the company as well as specific problems, but in general, businesses trying to solve inventory problems will typically choose one of 3 approaches; hire additional staff, invest in a proper inventory management … Read more

Blue Link Attends OAFB Conference

OAFB Conference

A Recap of the Ontario Association of Food Banks Conference By Samantha Hornby A couple of weeks ago, Blue Link attended the annual Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB) Conference for two days of workshops, networking and round table discussions.  This year’s conference was held in downtown Ottawa and was hosted by the Ottawa Food … Read more

Food Bank Software

Man packing food for a food bank

Post Updated: April, 2020 – Blue Link no longer supports Food Banks Please note that while much of the functionality listed below is still relevant to Food Banks and Food Pantries, Blue Link ERP software no longer supports food bank organizations and has stopped developing the system for that specific target market. Instead, Blue Link … Read more

Warehouse Inventory Software and Barcode Scanning — New Industry Trends

Warehouse Inventory Software with Barcode Scanning

I wrote previously about the implications of eCommerce for distributors as a major technological trend impacting the distribution and wholesale industry. A growing recent trend in small and medium-sized Wholesale and Distribution companies is the adoption of new technology to improve warehouse operations, specifically Warehouse Inventory Software with Wireless Barcode Scanning. Barcode scanning systems have been around for quite … Read more