As you have likely heard in the news, the Toronto Transit Commission, Newfoundland Health Care Network and Saskatoon Health Care Network were all recently attacked by ransomer. These attacks brought down a large portion of their networks and disabled important services. It is important for your business safety to help users understand how to identify [...]
Hi Everyone; Your grandparents were asked to go to war. You are asked to stay at home on a sofa and watch Netflix. Please encourage everyone around you to take this seriously. Stay home if you can - make no mistake, we are at war and your actions can have a significant effect of your [...]
Hi Everyone; The reality of this pandemic is setting in for people. We need to help manage the effects of financial challenges, social isolation and basic anxiety. You are not alone - we are all in this together. Try now to make a list of additional measures you can take to keep yourself, your staff, [...]
Hi Everyone; You should now have formulated and started execution of your company COVID-19 Action Plan. You will have little warning or planning time once an area for quarantine is announced. It is expected that 70% of the population could be affected in an uncontrolled outbreak. Both Italy and the Taiwan area around the same [...]
Hi Everyone; With all the current news on the COVID-19 spread, it is important for you to remain calm and review with staff your business continuity plan. Don't have a formal plan yet, OK, well now is a good time to put one together. A business continuity plan simply identifies ways to mitigate impacts from [...]
Web based inventory management software is designed to run in a browser. It offers you and your staff many more ways to service your customers, engage your prospects and to manage your daily operations. Here are 5 ways web based inventory management software can improve your productivity: 1. Get up and running quickly Web based [...]
In January, American retail superstore Target announced it will discontinue all operations in Canada and are in the process of closing all its 133 locations as well as laying off over 17,500 workers. Hundreds of millions of dollars of inventory will be cleared in a liquidation sale with items marked down by 30 per cent [...]
Twenty years ago everyone was talking about the paperless office. With the introduction of personal computers, email attachments, electronic document delivery and relatively inexpensive server storage, we were expected to be part of the paperless office revolution. It never happened. Twenty years on and there is still a large amount of paper being generated and [...]
Wholesale Distribution operations spend big money to operate and manage warehouse functions. You have invested in inventory you hope you are able to sell, you bought or leased heavy equipment to move the goods and you have hired and trained competent staff to manage all this movement. Now is a good time to do an [...]
Get Ready for your Year End Inventory Count Yes, it is that time of year that many of us dread. Winter snow storms and the Year End Inventory Count. I can not control the weather, but the inventory count can be managed. Your inventory count can be an easy process that is completed in reasonable [...]
