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Kitting and Assembly Solutions: How Distributors, Contractors and OEMs Can Save Time and Increase Profit
Many contractors and OEMs are using an inventory management method, called kitting or sub-assembly, to increase efficiency, reduce errors, and ...
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2 Inventory Management Trends to Watch in 2021
It isn’t hyperbole to say that 2020 hasn’t been a normal year. Along with every other business, distributors have been ...
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How to Manage Consignment Inventory: Common Mistakes, Best Practices and Choosing the Right Technology
By Ron Schroeder, VP of Supply Chain, eTurns
When distributors stock and manage inventory onsite with their ...
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Industrial Distribution Guest Post: How Suppliers Use Consigned Inventory to Strengthen Distributor Relationships
Consignment is helping manufacturers navigate complex supply-chain challenges with distributors' help.
Guest article in Industrial Distribution by eTurns CEO Rock Rockwell
Typically, ...
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How Manufacturers Use Consigned Inventory to Strengthen Ties to Distributors
Typically, when you think about consignment, you think of distributors offering the service to manufacturers so they can save cash ...
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Electrical Distributor Uses eTurns to Reduce the Order-to-Cash Cycle from 2 Weeks to 3 Days
One eTurns TrackStock customer, an electrical distributor with $7.5 billion in revenue last year, uses our software in an exemplary ...
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How to Provide Low- to No-Touch Inventory Management
Customer managed inventory (CMI) technology is far faster for inventory replenishment, eliminates price shopping and reduces the risk of error, ...
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No-Touch Medical Inventory Management? It’s Possible with IoT Sensors
Over the past few months, we’ve seen increased interest by medical clinics, EMS organizations and healthcare facilities in our Internet ...
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Automate Your Team’s Manual Inventory Replenishment Tasks with eTurns
It’s surprising that so many companies still manage inventory with paper and a clipboard.
Imagine how much time your team could ...
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10 Ways eTurns Saves Distributors (and Their Customers) Time and Money
Through automated replenishment at the point-of-use, eTurns helps distributors and their customers gain greater visibility into their inventory — and ...
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An Untapped Opportunity to Slash Carrying Costs
An immediate struggle for many distributors is the sudden slowdown of incoming cash flow due to delays of projects, struggling ...
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Embrace Customer Managed Inventory (CMI) in the Era of COVID 19
While the right ecommerce website is necessary for distributors, a Customer Managed Inventory program supported by the right technology is ...
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4 Causes of Forecast Error and How Distributors Can Avoid Them
Reconsider relying on sales history alone, pre-determined inventory agreements, keeping rare items in stock, and depending on sales reps to ...
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How to Prevent Overstocking and Understocking with eTurns’ Min/Max Tuning Slider
When optimizing customer inventory, distributors should use actual customer usage data and realistic scenarios that eliminate unnecessary customer expenditures on ...
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Guide to Inventory Carrying Costs: How to Shrink the Cost of Inventory in Your Business
Holding inventory in your warehouse or stockroom is great for ensuring customers have access to what they need, when they ...
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Case Study: eTurns Inventory Replenishment App Helps Urgent Care Provider Comply with COVID-19 Requirements While Improving Net Profit
Florida Advanced Spine and Sports Trauma Centers (FastMD) is an urgent care center for spine and orthopedic needs with four ...
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Covid-19 Crisis: eTurns offers CA, WA, OR hospitals free inventory management
As far as how we at eTurns are trying to help, we have reached out to our California Governor Gavin ...
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Cash is King: Find it in Your Customers' Inventory and Your Distribution Centers
In the midst of this global pandemic, many distributors are frantically reviewing their business plans and finances to determine their ...
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What is Demand Planning? How Technology Can Help Distributors Improve Service Levels and Cut Carrying Costs
It can be a challenge to know exactly what customers need and stock accordingly. One element of successful supply chain ...
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Reducing the Sales Rep's Role in Forecast Errors
Sales reps tend to hoard customer information, often leading to forecasting errors that can hurt both the company and customer. ...
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COVID-19 Crisis: 3 ways distributors are prepping for what is ahead
While the distributors we talk to daily are thankfully not sensing a huge downturn in business yet, many are preparing ...
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How to Reduce Forecast Error: Focus on Usage Data, Not Sales History
To forecast demand and plan inventory needs in their own distribution centers and at customer locations, distribution companies tend to ...
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Distributors: Consignment Inventory Management Costs Less Than You Think
Consignment inventory, when distributors stock and manage inventory at a customer’s site, is a fantastic way for a distributor to ...
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eTurns Featured in MDM: Beyond the Basics of Inventory Management
An inventory management solution can bring about quick fixes for a distributor, such as cutting back on shrinkage or eliminating ...
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eTurns Named a Top Performer in G2 Crowd and Capterra Reports
Irvine, Calif. Dec. 11, 2019 – eTurns, which offers the TrackStock mobile inventory app for automated replenishment to distributors and ...
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Distributors: help your customers optimize their inventory with eTurns Minimum/Maximum Tuning Dashboard
What if you as a distributor could give your customers a tool to tell them exactly how much cash they ...
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Supply House Times article: "Rock Rockwell: How to Compete Against Amazon"
Imagine if a distributor's “Very Important Customers,” comprising around 80% of revenue, used automated inventory replenishment technology to manage their ...
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Donald's Column -- eTurns TrackStock Tip: Use Our Customized Barcode Labels
Say goodbye to boring black-and-white, simple barcode labels.
Take advantage of customized bar code labels within the eTurns TrackStock automated inventory ...
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The Metrics Distributors Need to Optimize Their Distribution Centers
Rather than view the last 10 feet of the supply chain as the end of the road – what if ...
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The Power of Precise Demand Planning™ to Compete Against Amazon
What if you viewed the last 10 feet of the supply chain differently? What if you saw it instead as ...
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Donald's Column: Save Even More Time Using Touch ID or Facial Recognition with the eTurns TrackStock App
If you’re like most of the world, you feel you have too many passwords, and too much trouble remembering which ...
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Want to Sell Your Distribution Business? Increase Your Value with Digital
The pace of mergers and acquisitions in the distribution industry doesn’t appear to be slowing anytime soon. A Deloitte report ...
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Distributors Should Build a Moat to Keep Customers from Amazon
As Warren Buffet famously said, “A good business is like a strong castle with a deep moat around it. I ...
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For Medical Suppliers, Automated Inventory Replenishment Saves Time, Money and Headaches
Two years ago, Lakes Region EMS in Minnesota typically carried 73 percent more inventory than it needed.
And Smilebuilderz, a large dental, ...
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MDM Guest Post: Going Digital Is Not Just About Webstores
Customers' desire -- really, their demand -- for an efficient transaction may have roots in the Amazon experience. But distributors ...
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Case Study: How eTurns Helped Lakes Region EMS Reduce Inventory by 73%
eTurns Automated Inventory Replenishment Saved An EMS Provider Thousands of Dollars and Countless Hours – and May Even Help Save ...
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Case Study: Smilebuilderz: 70 Percent Less Time Spent on Inventory Replenishment
How eTurns TrackStock Automated Replenishment App with barcode scanning helped a large dental practice gain insight into its inventory, enabling ...
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Takeaway from the MDM Digital Distributor Summit: You Need More Than An eCommerce Site
Our takeaway from the MDM Digital Distributor Summit, which we were proud to sponsor this month in Denver, was this: ...
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Donald's Column: 9 Tips for Making the Most of Your eTurns TrackStock
9 eTurns Hidden Gems For Maximizing Inventory Efficiency.
eTurns TrackStock has many features that can help distributors and their customers work ...
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What Is RFID? Can It Automate Replenishment In My Customer's Stockrooms?
RFID, or radiofrequency identification, uses information electronically stored in smart barcodes to track and identify inventory items. When used along ...
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Why Distributors Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Give Customers a Multi-supplier Mobile Replenishment App
It’s amazing how many distributors out there are afraid.
They acknowledge that having real-time visibility of inventory and having automatic inventory ...
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eTurns Sponsors MDM Digital Distributor Summit
eTurns is proud to be a sponsor of the upcoming MDM Digital Distributor Summit, June 18-20, 2019 in Denver.
Designed especially ...
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The Volatile Electronic Component Supply Chain: Take Advantage of a Moment of Calm
Distributors whose businesses depend on electronic components know a thing or two about supply chain uncertainty.
In recent years, skyrocketing demand ...
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eTurns Passed a Rigorous SOC2 Audit, Proving the Security and Availability of our Automated Replenishment Service
At eTurns, we’re not big on bragging. But we do want to share something we’re pretty proud of: We’ve earned ...
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Donald’s Column: Reduce PO and invoice costs by over 95% with TrackStock’s consolidated invoicing for consigned inventory
Imagine your customer has 1,000 widgets sitting in consigned inventory in a warehouse. And let’s also say that over the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How Automated Inventory Replenishment Can Help Distributors Grow Existing Customer Revenues
For most distributors, growing wallet share among existing customers is a consistent goal – and a constant struggle.
But with automated ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Rexel Canada joins longtime Customer Rexel US in using eTurns
Rexel Canada uses eTurns VMI/CMI Replenishment Solution in their remote territories. They also use eTurns Remote Storeroom Inventory Management for ...
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