The Importance of Warehouse Management Software
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On a daily basis, I have the opportunity to engage with companies of all different shapes and sizes that provide inventory and fulfillment services.
Some of them are fulfilling thousands of orders a day for their company’s sales force; others are providing fulfillment services for their customers. Many of them are packaging and shipping marketing and sales collateral — binders, brochures, books, trade show displays, etc. — while others are fulfilling product orders that were placed by consumers.
But no matter what their situation might be, they nearly all face the same challenges.
Common Challenges in Warehouse Management
Companies that provide the service of managing inventory, a warehouse, and the fulfillment process often face the following questions:
- How accurate are their inventory counts?
- How can they monitor and improve their turnaround times?
- How can they automate their daily tasks?
A company’s ability to answer and accomplish those items is often directly related to the warehouse management software that they choose to use.
Succeeding with Warehouse Management Software
Many companies understand the importance of managing their warehouse inventory correctly, but too often they settle for simplistic programs such as Excel, Access, or Word documents to track their inventory flow.
While there are benefits to using these programs for specific tasks, they fail to add efficiency, consistency, and quality control to the process. This where the importance of using proven warehouse management software comes to light.
Not only can focused, inventory management software make organizing and tracking shipments and product output easier on your employees, but it can also help you generate valuable reports and analytics for your company and for your customers.
Also, by using an online software application, you can often get very close to a real-time inventory count situation, which should absolutely help to reduce unnecessary frustration in regards to backorders.
There are many other benefits that can come from fully utilizing an online, warehouse management software application.
If you are interested in how interlinkONE could help you out in that regard, register for a free demo of our solutions! Or, please click here to read more about our software.
Tags New Reporting Options for Mobile Websites
I am quite happy to announce that we have rolled out a new feature to the iFlyMobi application.
Users can now easily insert Google Analytics tracking code into their mobile websites. This feature can be used in conjunction with the existing reports that are provided inside of iFlyMobi.
Below is a brief video on how this feature can be used:
If you’d like to learn more, simply head over to the iFlyMobi.com website >>
Customer Tip: Add a File Upload field to your Landing Pages
Within ilinkONE Version 8′s marketing software, users can set up surveys, registration pages, feedback forms, download entry points, and more through our Campaign Management and Landing Page features.
Within that piece of our software, users can easily build Question & Answer forms for a variety of reasons. Most of our customers typically choose from Question Types such as:
- Multiple Choice
- Single Choice via Radio Buttons
- Single Choice via Dropdowns
- Open-Ended
But there is another option available that may assist you in your marketing efforts. That option allows you to create a field on a landing page that enables people to upload a file while they are filling out the form.
Using the File Upload Feature
If you are familiar with how to build campaigns and landing pages in our system, it is very easy for you to use the File Upload feature.
- To create a File Upload field, you’ll want to create/edit a Question for your campaign.
- On the “Edit Question” page, set the Question Type to “Single – Open Line Text” and then check the box for the “Display as File Upload” field.
Once you’ve taken those simple steps, the ilinkONE Version 8 software do the rest of work.
Next time that you view the landing page that those questions are associated to, you will see your web browser’s Upload File utility displayed with that question.
The system will store the images on the FTP server. You will be able to access them by simply finding the folder associated to the Client that you built the campaign for.
We hope that you find this feature useful. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our Customer Support team!
Feature for Organizing Your QR Codes
There is no doubt that QR Code usage has exploded over the past 12 months. Sure, they’ve been around for a long time. But marketers across the entire world have begun to understand them and incorporate them into their printed materials.
We have seen proof of this tremendous growth first-hand. Within our system, we have customers that have created and are tracking hundreds of thousands of QR Codes through our QReate & Track application.
To help serve customers that have experienced that type of growth — or even the ones that plan on doing the same — we rolled out a product feature this year to help them.
QR Code Folders
The “Folders” feature within the QReate & Track application enables registered users to better organize the QR Codes that they have created within our system.
Here is an overview of how this feature works:
Assigning New QR Codes to a Folder
When you are in the process of creating a QR Code, you will see the “Folders” field. Simply type the name of the Folder that you would like to assign the QR Code to.
As you are typing, the system will look to see if you have already created a Folder with that name. If so, it will display them below the input box. If you’d like to assign the QR Code to one of those existing folders, simply select it.
If you are assigning the QR Code to a folder that has not previously been setup, simply type in the full name. QReate & Track will automatically create the Folder and assign the QR Code to it.
Assigning Existing QR Codes to a Folder
If you have existing QR Codes that you would like to assign to folders, that can be done easily as well.
- Find the QR Code on the left-side menu. If you did not previously assign it to a Folder, then you should be able to find it in the System Default Folder that is named “Uncategorized”.
- Click on the QR Code that you wish to edit.
- Click the “Edit” button.
- On the “Edit Codes” page, you will see a field for “Folder(s)”. Simply start typing in the name of the Folder that you would like to assign your QR Codes to. If the folder already exists, the system will display it as an option below the input box; just click on it. If it’s a new Folder, just type in the name.
- Click the “Save” button that is below the “Folder(s)” section on that page.
- The QReate & Track system will move your QR Code to folder(s) that you entered.
Common Questions
Here are answers to a few questions that you may have about this feature.
- Can I assign a QR Code to multiple folders? Yes! Simply separate the name of each folder with a comma.
- How do I remove a QR Code from a folder? Click on it from the left-side menu to edit it. Then, simply delete the name of that folder from the “Folder(s)” input box.
- How do I create new Folders? That occurs as you are typing in the name of a Folder when you are creating a QR Code. If the system does not find one that matches the name you’ve typed in, it will create a new Folder.
We hope that you find this feature helpful! It’s just one of the ways that our QReate & Track application helps you to succeed with QR Codes.
Make Money on Mobile
Are you looking to grow your business in 2012? The answer is “of course”, right! One way that service provider and marketing agencies will be looking to do that is through mobile marketing solutions. As the number of smartphone and tablet owners continues to rise, companies will seek to increase the money they spend to reach that audience.
If you are looking to get a piece of that growing pool of money, we have a product and program that can help.
Watch this two-minute video for an overview of what iFlyMobi’s White Label Program can do for you:
P.S. If you’d like more information on the White Label program, click here >>
