Blog and News from eTurns

The biggest mistake distributors make? Not using technology proactively

With Amazon breathing down their necks, many distributors are busy trying to defend their revenue against the e-commerce threat. In today’s ...

Case Study: How a Service Contractor Slashed Inventory on Trucks by 30%+

For many years, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based warranty contractor Service America relied on a tier-one ERP system for tracking inventory. That ...

Donald's Column: 3 New Ways eTurns Helps with Service Truck Inventory Management & Work Orders

Distributors who have a large portion of their business riding, literally, on service trucks know too well the inventory and ...

Industrial Supply Magazine Guest Post: When Managing Customer Inventory, Drop That Pencil!

That’s what eTurns CEO Rock Rockwell says about improving the efficiency of inventory control for your customers. The pencil-and-paper method ...

How Automated Inventory Replenishment Can Help Distributors Grow with Existing Customers

For most distributors, growing wallet share among existing customers is a consistent goal – and a constant struggle. But with automated ...

MDM Guest Post: Consigned Inventory Doesn’t Have to Be a Nightmare

Many distributors resist offering consigned inventory; the challenges of managing that inventory at a customer’s site is one of the ...

Donald's Column - Tips for Tracking Wire and Cable Inventory

If you deal with fiber optic cable or electrical wire, you’ve probably had this experience: arriving at a job site ...

How Distributor Bin-stuffing Can Be a Thing of the Past

When it comes to inventory, less is not always more. A centuries-old proverb admonishes that “For want of a nail, ...

Can Consigned Inventory Work for You?

To consign, or not to consign? It’s a question that, sooner or later, most distributors will wrestle with. Many distributors resist offering ...

Industrial Distribution Guest Post: Say Goodbye to Price Shopping

Whether you’re shopping for a new pair of socks or a front-end loader, low price is a good thing. But ...

Case Study: Gexpro Services saves customer $200k/yr by optimizing inventory with eTurns IoT eVMI solution

With its previous supplier, a large Gexpro Services customer in Colorado had no visibility into the inventory replenishment process and ...

How can distributors compete against Amazon? Automate replenishment with eTurns. It’s 10x faster.

Amazon may ship orders quickly, but they don’t do automated replenishment of repeat orders well. So distributors have a huge opportunity ...

Distributors should use ecommerce sites to attract and educate customers, NOT to replenish.

Distributors should create an e-commerce site for only two reasons: attracting new customers and informing existing ones. The biggest mistake ...

Arrow Teams with eTurns to Deliver Optimized Inventories

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Arrow Electronics, Inc. and eTurns, Inc., the leading provider of remote storeroom inventory management cloud software, will team to ...

eTurns can expand the reach of your salesforce with IoT sensor-based inventory management.

When the article appeared in the last issue of American Fastener Journal about how eTurns eVMI sensor-managed inventory provides the ...

The American Fastener Journal features an article about how eTurns eVMI is a cost-effective alternative to vending machines for automating VMI.

Automating Vendor-managed Inventory (VMI) within OEM and MRO storerooms is becoming an increasingly important way for distributors and manufacturers to ...

eTurns Welcomes Z-tronix

Z-tronix is using eTurns VMI/CMI Replenishment Solution with iPhones in their customers’ locations to make the replenishment process faster, more ...

Independent Electric Supply joins the eTurns Family

Independent Electric is an distributor of electrical components. They installed eTurns Remote Storeroom Inventory Management Solution to help their contractor ...

eTurns is Pleased to Announce TEC Equipment as a Customer

TEC Equipment is a distributor of heavy duty truck parts. eTurns helps TEC’s dealer customers track maintenance of heavy duty ...

eTurns Welcomes Assembly Fasteners

Assembly Fasteners is a national fastener distributor. They have purchased the eTurns eVMI Sensor-managed Inventory Solution to monitor the inventory ...