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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...