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Accurate, Real-Time Reporting Is Crucial
In this blog we will talk a little more in depth about the benefits of having a Business Analytics Module, highlighting its advantages and mainly why having your information in real time is crucial for the company.
Top 30 Distribution Metric For 2022 Reporting
Being objective and including the most relevant information of the company, is also something that must be prioritized to make the document shorter, going directly to the point avoiding dispersion that flees from the main objective.
In such a remarkably growing trade market, differentiating your business and standing out is challenging, since it is not only a matter of tools, but, most importantly, how to use and implement them within your company. The digital transformation itself can be beneficial only if understood and adopted properly.
The Perfect QuickBooks Integration For Distributors
QuickBooks is an excellent tool as an ERP to monitor your finances, create invoices for clients and pay bills or taxes. As a distributor, we know that your needs are much more specific and demanding than those.
Do You Want To Know The Secret To Make Your Distribution Business Grow?
Have all your departments working towards the same goal!
12 Distribution Terms Every Distributor Or Wholesaler Should Know
Many wholesalers or distributors might focus on only the operative part of their business. They will create strategies, manage the team, look for improvement opportunities, and search for new clients, while leaving behind an essential thing when it comes to starting a new business: learning the basic terminology.
Distribution In The Food Industry
Food distribution has always been a challenge for many distributors, wholesalers and even manufacturers. The biggest question they face is how do you get food from its source to the people who need it, without losing food to spoilage or carelessness?
Benefits Of Having A B2B Platform For Your Wholesale Or Distribution Business In 2021
You will find plenty of different business solutions, but you need to make sure the solution you choose is a complete B2B platform that perfectly adapts to your needs. Anything less will ultimately fall short of your expectations and the expectations of your buyers.
3 Advantages Of A Custom Mobile Solution For Distributors
A custom mobile solution provides businesses with an opportunity to implement a project idea based on specific requirements, allowing distribution businesses to stand above the competition, accelerate their business, and boost the advantages.
How can a mobile sales solution optimize your distribution process?
Currently, mobile solutions are necessary to make the distribution process easier. Therefore, we will answer three main questions to leave you doubtless and start using mobile solutions to optimize all your processes.
5 Opportunities To Increase Your Productivity Through Mobile Sales Orders For Sage 100
6 millions industries utilize is the third-largest accounting software, Sage 100. It administers our partners’ finances, accounting, and warehousing. Learn how we can integrate with Listaso.
How To Keep Coffee Distribution Up With Demand?
Undoubtedly, coffee moves feelings and passions. It provides moments of peace and tranquility between the busy hours of the day and seduces us with its sweet taste and aroma. For this reason, today, October 1st, we cannot fail to celebrate such an important day for all our partners, coffee distributors, and lovers.
What better way to discover and live a culture than to try its food? Hispanic countries have a vast variety of foods, flavors, and spices, making it hard to not get hooked on the fascinating flavors of South American food and the tastes that define the true essence of Latin American food.
4 Little Known Tips To Improve The Performance Of Your Sales Rep
Field sales are challenging. Sales reps constantly visit customers, merchandise products, and work from their cars. They must stay productive and on schedule. It’s hard to stay focused in meetings when dealing with bulky equipment and complicated paper orders.
Why An Order Entry System Is A Must-Have For 2021 B2B Sales Reps
Field sales are competitive, and by keeping your process outdated, you are only making it harder for your sales team to reach their sales goals and provide your clients with a pleasant and personalized experience.
How A Mobile App Can Improve Your Van Sales Process And Increase Overall Sales
Businesses that sell fast-moving consumer products, like food and beverages, make use of this method, but it is also common in other consumer-product industries, like home and personal care.
How A Mobile App Can Help Your Reps Improve The Sales Process From Beginning To End
The most common way of making sales is the pre-sale method. This consists of selling a product or service in advance. The sales rep visits the customer and creates a product order, but does not deliver it right away.
How Listaso Makes QuickBooks Mobile
Listaso’s mobile solutions integrate to any ERP system, including QuickBooks, and make it mobile by enhancing the use of QuickBooks Online or QuickBooks Desktop for distributors, wholesalers or manufacturers.
How To Cross-Sell More Effectively As A Distributor Or Wholesaler In 2021
As a wholesaler or distributor, increasing your revenue streams through new clients can be kind of a handful. The distribution business is a highly competitive one; there are many ways to fall behind! If you don’t take good care of your clients and distribution processes, there’s a very high chance that you might be giving your fellow competitors a higher edge on your potential clients.
The Benefits Of Having A QuickBooks Mobile Sales App In 2021
QuickBooks has been in business for a long time and is one of the most recognized and popular ERP Systems on the market. QuickBooks software has several functions that are great for accounting and management; however, QuickBooks is not enough to meet all of your distribution business’s logistical needs.
6 Must-Have Features For Any Mobile Sales Solution
With the growing need for mobile solutions in the distribution industry, new technologies in this area have focused on improving flexibility, organization, and connectivity for B2B sales reps.
From Retail To Big Distribution: 3 Key Elements That Help Boost Sales
Retail, by definition, is the sale of goods from a business to a consumer for their use, and each transaction handles small quantities of products. Retail is a vast sector, ranging from department stores, coffee shops, and even small local businesses.
How to Assign Commissions to your Sales Team
When planning your commission structure, you need to consider different factors that are key to developing a solid action plan, elements such as the following: The amount of budget considered for the commissions, the different levels of sales output.
How to optimize your sales team efforts
A common problem found in sales teams is the good skills at generating leads but unsuccessfully converting them into paying customers. This is where a well-optimized sales process can help you improve your conversion rates. Helping the company grow, and remain profitable.
Dynamic Pricing Strategy for Food and Beverage Distributors
Traditional fixed pricing models are giving way to dynamic pricing strategies, offering a more flexible and responsive approach to meet the diverse needs of distributors and their customers.
Benefits Of An Online Sales Platform For B2B Business
In a time when information is easier to access than ever, and everyone is constantly connected via pocket-sized devices, people want more convenience.
Why more B2B companies are using E-commerce
B2B companies aren’t just making their transition to online platforms because of their customers’ preferences, they are also making the movement thanks to its benefits, such as: Better management of your orders.
Nowadays, a lot of people purchase goods and services online, and the pandemic has led to a growth in online sales.
Why You Should Do B2B eCommerce in 2023
In 2023, B2B e‑commerce grew significantly, rising from just 9% of U.S. B2B sales to an estimated 17% thanks to pandemic-driven digital adoption
How Inventory Management Can Make or Break Your E-commerce Business
In this blog, we will explore the importance of inventory management for e-commerce websites and share some statistics that highlight its significance.
Cyber Monday is no longer just a day, it’s a shopping phenomenon!
The long-lasting effects of a bad delivery experience
Don’t let a bad delivery experience ruin your business image. Check out how to prevent it with this blog.
Improving Last-Mile Delivery through Route Optimization
Last-mile delivery poses various challenges that businesses need to address:Time and Cost Efficiency: The delivery of individual packages to different locations within a limited timeframe can be highly inefficient…
8 Inventory Management Rules To Unlock Your Warehouse Potential
Inventory management is not easy; there are a lot of moving products, which depend on everything you’ve planned to work in the best way because errors can be crucial in having an excellent operating warehouse or not.
Three Strategies To Speed Up Your Order-Fulfillment Process
In this industry, every order and transfer needs to be 100% accurate 100% of the time. While the example above is the most common order-fulfillment process, it’s also the slowest and most error-prone.
3 Inventory Management Mistakes Every Wholesaler Or Distributor Should Avoid
Inventory translates to cash, so proper inventory management is crucial to ensure you maximize your profits and reduce errors. To do so, you need to make sure that your entire workflow is well optimized from when a sales rep takes an order until the products are delivered to the client.
4 Key Benefits Of Mobile Inventory Control
Mobile inventory control is exactly what big or small distributors or wholesalers need to succeed in this challenging economic environment. Effective inventory control benefits every aspect of your business, from warehousing costs to accurate and timely order fulfillment.
Inventory Management: Best Practices For The Pick, Pack, And Ship Process
The key to good inventory management is an accurate and fast order fulfillment process. This process involves every step from pulling product from your inventory and packaging it to shipping it to your clients.
5 Distribution Pain Points That A Mobile Solution Can Solve
As distribution or manufacturer businesses grow and become more successful, they can face new pain points along the way. The processes that worked well when your business was new become frustrating by the time your business is more established. As your business continues to grow, those same processes become nearly useless.
6 Trade Promotion Examples That Will Boost Your Sales
In the competitive world of retail, pricing strategies can significantly impact your sales performance.
Sell 24-7 this cyber monday: B2B eCommerce strategies to increase profits
B2B eCommerce has revolutionized how businesses buy and sell products and services to one another.
4 B2B eCommerce mistakes you must avoid in 2024
In this blog, we present 4 mistakes you have to stay away from in 2024 so you can implement an effective B2B eCommerce strategy to grow and improve your business.
Managing Seasonal Demand: Strategies for Efficient Deliveries
Strategies for seasonal demand in retail and e-commerce: accurate forecasting, scalability, partnerships, real-time tracking, efficient routing, transparent communication.
How To Calculate Your Return On Investment For An Inventory Management Solution
Before buying any inventory management solution for your distribution business, you should determine if its benefits will be able to cover and surpass the cost. Most commonly this is done by calculating an ROI (Return on Investment).
Case Study: Listaso’s Inventory Management Solution ROI
Inventory management is a critical function of any business, with drastic implications on profit margins. Stock the right products at the right levels and you can reduce carrying costs and mitigate the risk of stockouts. Get it wrong and those risks climb.
Improve traceability with a Warehouse Management System
Traceability is a key factor in the warehouse industry. Check out this blog to learn how a WMS can help you improve it.
Cycle counting is a proactive inventory management approach that involves counting a small portion of the inventory regularly. Check out this blog to learn the basics of cycle counting.
The Great Debate: Plastic vs. Wood Pallets
In this blog, we will explore the environmental impact, cost, disposability and durability of both plastic and wood pallets.
How to Effectively Manage Dead Stock in Your Inventory
In this blog, we’ll explore tips and insights on how to effectively manage dead stock in your inventory.
Best Barcode Scanners for Inventory Management in 2023
In this article, we’ll explore the best barcode scanners available in 2023, each designed to enhance your inventory management process.
5 Inventory Management Best Practices to Improve Efficiency
In this blog post, we’ll discuss five inventory management best practices that businesses can use to improve efficiency.
The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Inventory Management
In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive business environment, effective inventory management plays a critical role in the success of organizations across various industries.
Choosing the Right WMS: A Guide for Wholesalers and Manufacturers
A robust Warehouse Management System (WMS) can be a game-changer, providing the necessary tools to optimize warehouse operations
Elevating Inventory Management: Excel vs. Dedicated Storage Tracking Systems
Efficient inventory management is the bedrock of success for distributors, wholesalers, and manufacturers.
The importance of On-Time Delivery for B2B companies
In the dynamic world of business-to-business (B2B) commerce, On-time delivery is crucial. Timely delivery of product is not just a goal but a fundamental driver of success for B2B companies. This seemingly simple aspect can make or break a business’s reputation, relationships, and profitability.