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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 ...

What Are The Best Inventory Replenishment and Approval Workflow Models? Punchout, Quotes, etc.

  With today’s labor shortage, it is important to make stockroom inventory replenishment as efficient as possible.    Automating this process with actual ...

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

  The cost of storing inventory is much more than the cost of the product itself – it involves carrying costs ...

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 ...

Cycle Counting Methods: 4 Tips for Greater Efficiency

  Summary: Manual cycle counting methods are time-consuming, inefficient and prone to inaccuracies. With digital automation, you can always be up-to-date ...

Distributors and the Shift to Digital Self-Service for VMI and CMI

  We all know that Covid-19 has caused many companies to increase their online presence to meet growing demands from customers ...

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 ...

Guest Post: 3 Ways Distributors Can Improve Productivity and Reduce Overhead for OEMs with Kitting

  Many progressive OEMs use kitting to increase efficiency and productivity. With kitting, or prefabrication, OEMs save time, eliminate bottlenecks in ...

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 ...

How effective min/max inventory management can help your customers optimize their inventory

  What if you as a distributor could give your customers a min/max inventory management tool to tell them exactly how ...

Carrying Costs in Inventory Management: A Guide to Reducing 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 ...

Medical Inventory Management Solutions Buyer’s Guide

  Summary: Manually tracking inventory takes valuable time and energy away from your staff. Medical inventory management software improves this process ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...