Entries by Bizowie

What Is ERP Software? A Complete Guide to Enterprise Resource Planning

October 27, 2025 in /by

Every growing business reaches a tipping point where spreadsheets, disconnected applications, and manual processes can no longer keep pace with operational demands. Information silos emerge between departments, data accuracy suffers, decision-making slows, and customer service deteriorates despite everyone working harder than ever. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software addresses these fundamental challenges by integrating all core […]

Economic Order Quantity (EOQ): The Complete Guide to Optimal Inventory Ordering

October 27, 2025 in /by

Every business holding inventory faces a fundamental question: how much should we order at one time? Order too little, and you incur frequent ordering costs, risk stockouts, and frustrate customers. Order too much, and capital sits idle in excess inventory while storage costs accumulate and products risk obsolescence. Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) provides a mathematically […]

Warehouse Management System (WMS): Complete Buyer’s Guide

October 27, 2025 in /by

In today’s fast-paced distribution environment, managing warehouse operations manually or with outdated systems can cost your business thousands of dollars in inefficiencies, errors, and missed opportunities. A Warehouse Management System (WMS) transforms chaotic warehouses into precision operations, but choosing the right solution requires careful evaluation. This comprehensive guide walks you through everything you need to […]

Barcode Scanning for Warehouses: Complete Implementation Guide

October 24, 2025 in , /by

Your warehouse team processes 200 orders daily using paper pick lists. Pickers walk the aisles with printed sheets, manually locating products, checking off items with pencil marks, and returning to the packing station with completed picks. The process works, but errors creep in regularly—wrong items picked, quantities miscounted, items missed entirely, and constant questions about […]

WMS vs. ERP with Warehouse Management: What Distributors Actually Need

October 23, 2025 in , /by

Your warehouse operations are straining under growth. Pick times are increasing, errors are creeping up, and your team is drowning in paper pick lists and manual processes. You know you need better warehouse management technology, but you face a fundamental decision that will shape your operations for years: invest in a standalone Warehouse Management System […]

Managing Foreign Currency Contracts: Protecting Margins in Global Distribution

October 22, 2025 in /by

Your European supplier sent the quote: €250,000 for a container of products with 60-day payment terms. At the exchange rate when you placed the order, that translated to $270,000—giving you comfortable margin when selling to U.S. customers at your standard pricing. You confirmed the order and began taking customer commitments. Sixty days later when payment […]

eCommerce Distribution: Managing High-Volume, Direct-to-Consumer Fulfillment

October 22, 2025 in /by

For decades, distribution followed a predictable pattern: large orders to business customers, pallet quantities, scheduled deliveries, and forgiving delivery windows. A typical B2B distributor might process 50 to 100 orders daily, each with 10 to 50 line items, shipping to commercial addresses with loading docks during business hours. Then ecommerce changed everything. Now that same […]

Wholesale Distribution to Retail Chains: Managing EDI and Retailer Requirements

October 22, 2025 in /by

The call from Walmart’s buyer was exactly what your distribution company had been working toward: a major purchase agreement that would triple your revenue overnight. After years of selling to independent retailers and regional chains, you’d finally landed a national account that would transform your business. Then came the 47-page routing guide. And the EDI […]

Data Migration for Distribution ERP: What to Bring, What to Archive, What to Leave Behind

October 22, 2025 in , /by

The ERP implementation was progressing well until the data migration team opened the customer master file. What should have been 8,000 active customers turned out to be 23,000 records spanning 30 years—including customers who’d gone out of business a decade ago, duplicate entries for the same companies with slight name variations, addresses that were outdated […]