Newsletters

Maintaining an accurate inventory level is hard enough when everything is going right. However, when unexplained inventory shrinkage occurs, problems arise. Find out some of the causes of inventory shrinkage and some possible solutions in this newsletter.

Your warehouse operations are critical to overall success. While there are many ways to lay out your space, there are a number of fairly simple "efficiencies" you can implement to help reduce labor costs, back tracking and errors. This newsletter will address a few of suggestions you might want to implement. Making your warehouse more efficient helps make you more profitable.

Managing your Accounts Receivables the same way you have for the past 20 years gets you in a rut. Try some creative thinking. Offer your customers alternative methods to pay your invoices faster while increasing your sales volume. Abe "Walking Bear" Sanchez, President of A/R Management Group, Inc., explores a very creative idea in this newsletter.

Ranking your customers can be very beneficial to your overall success. Not all customers are the same, and some contribute more to your bottom line than others. This newsletter will give you some ideas on how to rank or classify your customers. Having this knowledge and using it internally might create more profit generating opportunities for you in the future.

All distributors deal with dead stock. Managing your dead stock in a proactive manner is essential to your overall success. This newsletter describes the issues distributors face and a number of helpful hints on managing your dead stock. Learn how to be proactive instead of reactive when it comes to your dying and dead inventory.

Looking for ways to increase your bottom line profits? This newsletter looks at key areas inside your business to help increase overall profitability. From top to bottom of the organization, there are many small changes you can make to help realize a greater return on your investment. To read the entire newsletter, click on the PDF icon.

A tough economy calls for tough decisions throughout the organization. There is not just one sure fire cure to help turn things around quickly. While everyone in the supply chain is being challenged at this point in time, you can do things a little smarter to help your cash flow. To read the entire newsletter, click on the PDF icon.

When was the last time you did a thorough review of your vault layout? Many distributors make changes to their vault layout based on the need for additional space or the requirements of a new product offering. Most distributors do not find themselves in the luxurious position of having way too much space. The fact of the matter is that most distributors are cramped for space, and have become very creative in how they manage their vault.