Staying organized throughout the year—as a business—is tough. You have official documents and business paperwork to file electronically and in hardcopy. Next, there is the inventory, which includes management of information about costs of goods and the number of items purchased by customers. You also have the physical…
How accurate is your inventory count? Do you have an effective inventory measurement system? Organizations that regularly keep an accurate inventory count find they receive multiple benefits. These are: Ability to deliver excellent customer serviceReduction of operating costsAccurate data for your financial recordsAccurate shipping lead timesPrecise schedule of…
Holiday Shipping 2021 Getting ready for the holidays can be stressful enough! Everyone is busy making travel plans, buying presents, and trying to figure out when they need to ship those presents in order to get them there before the big day. As a thank you, many also…
Image Credit: Amanda Tipton For online merchants, preparations for Christmas time should start as early as July, as there’s a lot to do if you’re planning to profit from the considerably increased e-retail sales in late autumn and early winter. In the first part of this blog series,…
We just took automation to the next level. Ordoro now automatically imports your orders as they come in and synchronizes inventory across your sales channels. Auto-sync works like magic. It will constantly check your sales channels (whether you’re logged in to Ordoro or not) to see if there are…
There are thousands of sellers on Amazon marketplace. Let us say you want to see all the products sold by a particular seller. How do I go about that? Let us walk through an example. Prescribed for Life is an Ordoro user who sells their product on BigCommerce…
A large, unexpected influx of orders is usually good news for an ecommerce company unless they don’t have enough inventory on hand. In which case, things can get pretty stressful. Suppliers may not be able to expedite additional extra raw materials. Employees may not be able to work…
If you’re a small business owner or ecommerce merchant, you may have limited space for your inventory. You may be selling out of your own home and storing your inventory in a bedroom or your garage. Or you may be operating out of a small office building and…
In the early 2000s, Nike had some major inventory management problems. The company lost around $100 million in sales due to these issues. It may be difficult to imagine that such a well-established corporation could have a massive operational failure like this, but they did. As they learned…
In our increasingly digital world, business is changing at every level. What used to take employees and business owners three hours now takes five minutes. Something as difficult as inventory management is much easier thanks to inventory management software and other technological advances. One of the best things…