From warehouse workers to retailers, inventory insight is crucial to doing business right. Not only do you need to see everything, you need to see everything in real-time. With how fast things move in and out of your warehouse, there’s no more effective way than to bring in mobile devices so warehouse workers can scan and keep the main office up-to-date at any given moment.

There’s no denying it; mobile devices give you more visibility and flexibility. With these capabilities, benefits start streaming in…

• More visibility allows you to make crucial decisions about your inventory. You can see what products you need during certain times of the year, increasing your profitability. It also helps you answer customer questions and fulfill orders with ease. This improves customer loyalty and ensures people keep coming back…to YOU.
• More flexibility allows you to make changes as needed. No warehouse is a static operation. There are fluctuations in pricing, vendors, products and orders. Flexibility helps you maintain a high level of operation while adapting the changes around you.

If you’re looking to gain more visibility and flexibility in your warehouse, please check out WMS Express, a leading warehouse management software that integrates seamlessly into your current ERP Solution.

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

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

According to this article, recent studies claims enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems used to manage the manufacturing, packaging, and transportation flow of many different kinds of goods may not be keeping up with ever-more complex demands being placed on those processes.

Some ERP systems may actually be leaving manufacturers with disjointed and inadequate technology and reducing enterprise agility. Manufacturers today demand an ERP solution that changes easily as their business model is no longer static; it changes often and sometimes in a large scale.

Microsoft Dynamics® ERP solutions meet the scalability requirements that manufacturers demand. They work like and with familiar Microsoft software. They also automate and improve financial and supply-chain management in the following ways:

Integrate collaboration and communication

• • Deliver a single, real-time view of data from multiple facilities and departments
  • Synchronize communication between engineering, manufacturing, and subcontractors
  • Optimize planning to minimize inventory while meeting customer requirements
  • Share information within your systems through the Web

Efficiently manage projects

• • Provide an accurate overview of project status
  • Track activities and resources at many levels of detail
  • Leverage knowledge and content from existing or prior projects

Estimate and quote accurately

• • Provide accurate quotations based on a real-time view into operations
  • Align customer requirements with your capabilities
  • Record customer requirements accurately

Provide flexible production planning

• • Use data from the entire supply chain to respond effectively to changes and problems
  • Access data through familiar desktop tools
  • Support various manufacturing modes, such as engineer-to-order, make-to-order, make-to-stock, and mixed/hybrid

Visit our website to learn about our Warehouse Management Systems and how Microsoft Dynamics ERP can meet your own complex industry needs.

By Alexandra Gonzalez, PANGEA Business Solutions