Warehouses are struggling to make optimal use of labor and space, while ensuring that efforts to control cost don’t compromise their commitment to top-notch customer service.

If there is one lesson that the economic downfall has taught us is that businesses must learn how to do more, with less.  Warehouse managers, like many others across company ranks, are pressured to streamline processes while maintaining a high level of customer service.  Staffing, product picking and shipping, and being flexible enough to handle upticks or downturns in volume can quickly become a tricky balancing act.  To keep up with workload, with less labor force, warehouse managers are cross-training employees, working with temp agencies for extra labor during busy cycles, and are looking to IT to help control the chaos.

Business intelligence and labor management software can streamline warehouse operations, improve employee productivity, and manage the swing between busy and lean times.  This software will help the warehouse manager do more with less, all while improving customer service.  Labor management software can reveal performance targets, based on worker tasks and abilities.  By tracking worker’s tasks and how they affect warehouse traffic, you can quickly discover inefficient processes and take steps to make improvements.  Software can also predict when the warehouse might be busier, so the warehouse manager can schedule workers to staff the busier times, without having to scramble and find unqualified labor.

When the warehouse functions smoothly, customers are happy.  Warehouse managers have a challenging task to deliver goods to customers with less labor.  Though cross-training and temp agencies can fill in the gap, IT solutions can help warehouses work more efficiently now and for the long run.  Contact Pangea Business Solution for more information about optimizing your warehouse.

By Alexandra Gonzalez with PANGEA Business Solutions, Florida Microsoft Dynamics Partner

Business growth is a very exciting time, but is also a little scary in most circumstances. As a Microsoft Dynamics partner, we come in contact with companies who are a bit leery of moving to the next step of the growing cycle. They have chosen solutions that ultimately stunt their growth. It’s a common problem to have. Most companies start out small-scale, but many grow into larger organizations that require more complex financial reporting and management functionality.

So how do you realize it may be time to take the next step? If you feel you current solution isn’t keeping up with your business, then that is the first sign that it may be time. If transactions are slowing down your database, you are limited in what you can provide and unable to grow any more than your solution allows. If you struggle every month with system hiccups or inaccuracies, then it is definitely time to take that next step and Microsoft Dynamics GP is an optimal transition.

Read more about how transitioning to Microsoft Dynamics GP from a small business accounting solution is the best choice and contact us to learn how we can help you get there.

By Alexandra Gonzalez with PANGEA Business Solutions, Florida Microsoft Dynamics Partner

Most companies are focused more on how to get new prospects and customers, but often forget about their current customer database! When you already have a good stock of customers that remain loyal to your company, make a point NOT to ignore them.

No salesperson at your company wants to be stumped by who they’ve worked with in the past and if those customers remember you, then you should remember them and what they purchased in the past.

Microsoft Dynamics® CRM reveals all this information in an easy to read format for your salespeople so everyone at your company can leverage this “secret” weapon. In reality, it’s not so secret after all; it’s right under your nose. If you’re one of the many companies out there that overlook their customer database, think again and look into how Microsoft Dynamics CRM can help you take a closer look. Once you do, you’ll be amazed at the multiple points of revenue generation it can unfold, including customer loyalty, returning customers, referrals, and much more.

Contact us at Pangea to see how Microsoft Dynamics CRM can help reveal your secret weapon.

By Alexandra Gonzalez with PANGEA Business Solutions, Microsoft Dynamics Partner out of Florida

Increasing and decreasing rates in taxes are inevitable. Sometimes a good thing and sometimes a bad thing, but either way, Microsoft Dynamics® GP adapts easily to these changes. Your financial reporting and management will not suffer with GP in place.

For example, recently the Future Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) rate decreased from 6.2% to 6.0%. Sure this is an inconvenience to employers, but the change is relatively easy to update in Microsoft Dynamics GP and with these last minute tax changes, we need a scalable solution that can adapt well. The worst thing you can do as an employer is ignore these tax changes and risk the change of being incompliant.

Microsoft Dynamics GP helps reduce the costs of keeping up to date with government regulations and eliminates the chance of being incompliant. If you have questions on how to update your current GP solution with these tax changes, please contact us for more information.

By Alexandra Gonzalez with PANGEA Business Solutions, Florida Microsoft Dynamics Partner