Clients First knows their software, but they are also astute business people, and they really understand manufacturing and distribution in particular.
Jimmy Witcher, COO, Merrick
When we think about “Going Green” we tend to visualize conservation, protecting nature and our fragile environment. Businesses and technology play a very important role in the Green initiative where the definition can be extended to include:
Reduction of operating costs resulting in increased profits
There are three kinds of people: those who watch things happen, those who make things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
The world is in crisis. Some countries are hit harder than the others, some markets have sunk deeper than the others, but the effects of global economic recession are obvious, and if the crisis didn’t hit you yet, fasten your seatbelt—it surely will.
With the whole world wondering what’s going on, the winners will be those who learn to navigate the troubled waters and make things happen. This is much easier with a piece of good business management software, such as Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
Recession is more than skin deep, and no small or medium-sized business can possibly mitigate the macroeconomic cause-and-effect avalanche that led to current situation. Instead of prescribing a cure that’ll save the world (maybe another time), I’ll focus on three elephant-obvious symptoms that affect everybody:
Declining sales: lack of money clogs the wheels of perceived obsolescence, and people stop buying unless it’s necessary. From consumers, this symptom quickly cascades all the way up the supply chain, and suddenly everyone is affected.
Decreasing profitability: less sales means less revenue, which means lower margins. Unless you find a way to decrease operating costs, you face a serious profitability issue. Corporations can lay off thousands to save billions; small to mid-sized businesses cannot.
Illiquidity: less profit means less cash to operate. As if this is not bad enough, less sales can easily mean more cash trapped inside excess inventory of both raw materials and finished products. Unless you harness your demand/supply balance forces.
These three are are linked together tightly, and tend to spiral around in endless cycles. But there is good news for you: Microsoft Dynamics NAV can actually help you tame the recession beast.
I give Microsoft credit. They are pulling out all stops in their new campaign to generate buzz around the forthcoming Office 2010 suite. There is a full site called www.office2010themovie.com and we’ve got one of the ‘trailers’ here!
The FDA makes available a wide variety of resources for food/beverage producers and processors to analyze their operations and develop procedures to help keep our food supply safe.These are free tools that every company involved in food or beverage processing and production should get and use.
The free Clients First Navision (microsoft dynamics NAV) Newsletter has arrived. It took some time to do it right, but we will now be publishing a regular newsletter for our clients who use Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) solutions.
This newsletter is free to anybody who is interested, existing client or not.
by Sheldon Kralstein
There are three kinds of people: those who watch things happen, those who make things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
I give Microsoft credit. They are pulling out all stops in their new campaign to generate buzz around the forthcoming Office 2010 suite. There is a full site called www.office2010themovie.com and we’ve got one of the ‘trailers’ here!
The free Clients First Navision (microsoft dynamics NAV) Newsletter has arrived. It took some time to do it right, but we will now be publishing a regular newsletter for our clients who use Microsoft Dynamics NAV (Navision) solutions.
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