Is Excel truly meeting your inventory management needs? Small businesses, with a small staff and a small amount of inventory, may successfully use Excel. However, as a business grows, the limitations of Excel become very real obstacles. Moving to a more efficient, cost effective inventory mana
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Managing Inventory in Excel can Result in Disaster
Posted by MikeWasp under FinanceFrom http://www.waspbarcode.com 3761 days ago
Made Hot by: meganG on December 10, 2013 6:00 pm
Inventory Tracking to Manage Black Friday Madness
Posted by BLASTlavon under StrategyFrom http://www.waspbarcode.com 3774 days ago
Made Hot by: bizyolk on December 3, 2013 10:34 am
The holiday season, and Black Friday in particular, is the ideal time for businesses to move inventory and increase revenues. Mismanaged inventory during this time causes frustrating issues, like loss in revenue and upset customers. Here are examples of Black Friday inventory disasters and how your
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Inventory Tracking to Manage Black Friday Madness
Posted by MikeWasp under ManagementFrom http://buzz.waspbarcode.com 3774 days ago
This year top retailers such as Target, Walmart, and Kmart are opening on Thanksgiving Day to give shoppers even more time to start working on their holiday shopping lists. The holiday season, and Black Friday in particular, is the ideal time for businesses to move inventory and increase revenues.
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J.C. Penney: Write-Downs & Write-Offs
Posted by BLASTlavon under StrategyFrom http://www.waspbarcode.com 3775 days ago
Made Hot by: PaulTru on November 26, 2013 8:55 pm
With the holiday season fast approaching, successful retailers will be in control of their inventory. The holiday season is a perfect time to get rid of slow or non-selling inventory through the process of write-downs. J.C. Penney used this strategy to bring customers into their stores.
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3 Holiday Inventory Management Tips for Small Businesses
Posted by MikeWasp under ManagementFrom http://www.waspbarcode.com 3780 days ago
Made Hot by: mikehartman1 on November 23, 2013 5:16 pm
“The holiday season can represent as much as 20–40% of annual sales” for some retailers, says the National Retail Federation. When items are quickly going in and out of stock and returns are being made in larger volumes than usual, small businesses that don’t have an automated way to keep up with t
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Government Shutdown: Impact on Inventory
Posted by MikeWasp under ManagementFrom http://www.waspbarcode.com 3782 days ago
Made Hot by: NanoTechnologyMedia on November 21, 2013 2:00 am
October’s government shutdown cost U.S. taxpayers $24 billion. Although a deal was made to end the shutdown, that deal ends January 15, 2014. As a small business owner, not only do you need to recover from both the short and long-term impacts of the shutdown, you will also need to prepare for the
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Missing and Dangerous: Poor Asset Management and Deadly Risks
Posted by MikeWasp under ManagementFrom http://www.waspbarcode.com 3787 days ago
Asset management becomes a gripping topic when expensive, vital or potentially dangerous items vanish from an organization’s inventory. The more dramatic losses present a clear threat to public safety, as when 2,000 encrypted two-way radios, disappeared from the inventory of the US Marshals Service
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4 Unexpected Tech Tools to Help Survive a Zombie Apocalypse
Posted by MikeWasp under StrategyFrom http://www.waspbarcode.com 3789 days ago
Made Hot by: thelastword on November 14, 2013 2:09 am
Halloween may be over but the threat of a zombie apocalypse transcends far past the spooky holiday. In fact, over the last year, the idea of a zombie outbreak has infiltrated books, movies, and television shows. For those unfamiliar, a zombie apocalypse refers to the breakdown of society as a resul
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6 Inventory Challenges That Can Be Avoided
Posted by MikeWasp under ManagementFrom http://www.waspbarcode.com 3795 days ago
As we detailed in our previous article, Tracking Nightmares, inventory shrinkage is a huge problem in North America effectively robbing retailers of billions each year. It’s bad enough when inventory disappears because of theft by customers, employees or suppliers, but it’s especially frustrating w
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4 Steps to Healthy Inventory
Posted by MikeWasp under ManagementFrom http://www.waspbarcode.com 3796 days ago
Made Hot by: LimeWood on November 6, 2013 11:15 pm
Inventory health is a good indicator of a company’s financial well-being. Unbalanced inventories lead to company chaos in the form of far too much inventory, or not enough inventory to restack shelves – both of which can be devastating to a companies incoming revenue. Monitoring inventory is a proa
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