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IoT Inventory Management: eTurns SensorBins vs Actylus Smart Bin System

    Summary: Next-gen VMI software allows distributors and their customers to manage inventory-on-hand with IoT weight sensors. Keep track of supplies ...

Cycle Counting Methods: 4 Tips for Greater Efficiency

  Quick Take: Manual cycle counting methods are time-consuming, inefficient and prone to inaccuracies. With digital automation, you can perform stockroom ...

6 Effective Inventory Reduction Strategies for Stockrooms

  Stockroom and service truck inventory managers have typically stocked inventory so there’s always product to meet demand, even if it ...

What is PunchOut? How eTurns Digitizes PunchOut Order Management for Stockroom Replenishment

  If you’re the stockroom inventory manager for an organization with special supplier pricing agreements, you know how labor-intensive it can ...

How IoT-Driven Inventory Management is Transforming Stockrooms

  The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of physical items with embedded sensors that exchange data with other systems ...

Automated Supply Replenishment Systems Are Key To Efficient Stockrooms

  Since COVID-19 hit, demand for essential items skyrocketed, customers closed their facilities to outside sales reps, labor shortages worsened, and ...

Best Inventory Formulas and Ratios to Boost Efficiency in Stockrooms

Optimizing inventory on hand in a point-of-use location takes knowledge of inventory principles and formulas, as well as the tools ...

Key Inventory Metrics for Contractor Service Truck Fleets

    If you’re a contractor with a fleet of service trucks, how do you manage your truck inventory and measure whether ...

Case Study: Electrical Distributor, SMC, Moves From Pen and Paper to Automated Inventory Replenishment

  Andy Wolfe, SMC’s Director of Inventory Management Services, noticed many of the distributor’s accounts followed the same pattern: “Fire drill” ...

The Benefits of Lean Inventory Management for Stockrooms

  Lean management originated in Toyota’s quest for the perfect manufacturing process in the auto industry. In the 1940s, Toyota implemented ...

How to Calculate Optimal Inventory in Stockrooms and DCs

  Summary: Inventory optimization software replenishes stock automatically and manages inventory levels to cut carrying costs and eliminate the risk of ...

Guest Post in Manufacturing.Net: What to look for in an inventory management app

When implemented correctly, automated replenishment systems help guard against being over-stocked or under supplied. With the significant disruption in the supply ...

The Benefits of Min/Max Inventory Management

  Summary: By setting min/max levels based on actual usage data from the point-of-use in stockrooms and trucks, modern VMI replenishment ...

Guest Post: How Distributors Can Meet Consigned Inventory Cost-Reduction Targets

With the volatile supply chains sparked by COVID-19, many distributors were forced to thoroughly analyze inventory levels and reduce expenses ...

Guest Post: How Contractors Can Benefit from a Kitting Program (and How Distributors Can Help)

Well-managed kitting services allow distributors to add value and contractors to work more profitably. What is a contractor’s most expensive asset ...

Inventory Management and Replenishment Apps: 10 Must-Have Features

  In the wake of the significant disruption in the supply chain this past year, many companies are looking to invest ...

Kitting and Assembly Solutions: How Distributors, Contractors and OEMs Can Save Time and Increase Profit

  Summary: Kitting involves pre-assembling two or more related parts into a kit to sell as a single product. Kitting and assembly ...

How to Manage Consignment Inventory: Common Mistakes, Best Practices and Choosing the Right Technology

  By Ron Schroeder, VP of Supply Chain, eTurns           Summary: Consigned inventory has the potential to be a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...