Consignment

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...