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Why You Need Sales Funnel Software

In this article we look at what sales funnel software is and how it can help you manage your sales process. Once you have sales funnel software, you can also get a good idea of your expected revenue from closing deals.

What is Sales Funnel Software?

Sales funnel software helps you manage the sales process to convert leads into customers. How does it work? First you systematize your sales process into several sequential stages. These stages are defined based on your sales process. The sales stages could include for example: Awareness, Interest, Decision, Action. Leads enter into your sales funnel at the top and move down the funnel as they progress through your sales process. At the bottom they come out of the sales process as customers and closed deals. The analogy of a funnel reflects the likelihood that some leads will drop out along the way and only those that get through every stage become customers.

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How Building Materials Supply Software Addresses Key Industry Trends

Low housing starts and a weak economic outlook are driving some structural changes on building products and materials companies that are being forced to become more efficient. Several key trends have emerged that are affecting building materials suppliers. In this article we look at some of these trends and how building materials supply software can help address them.

Sustainability and Green Building

The emphasis on sustainability in the construction industry continues to grow. Building materials suppliers have to adapt to the demands by regulators for more energy efficient construction using sustainable recycled and reclaimed materials. These eco-friendly and energy-efficient requirements are becoming stronger and are required for green building LEED certification. Building materials suppliers also have to adapt to the additional trend towards off-site construction driven by the need to consolidate demand and create more predictable production runs. Building materials supply software can help distributors diversify traditional vendors to add more recycled and reclaimed building products and materials and adapt to off-site construction.

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Get Access to the Best Wholesale Distribution ERP Software

In this video, we’ll be discussing Accolent ERP software for wholesale distribution! Your business is complex and getting more so every day, so you need to keep your customers, orders, vendors, purchasing, and other processes in sync. With Accolent ERP distribution business software , you can effortlessly manage your entire business from getting orders, managing warehouse fulfillment processes, invoicing, tracking inventory, purchasing, and financial statements.

Accolent ERP is Cloud-based and has extensive reporting and dashboards that give the complete visibility of your business all time. You don’t need any dedicated infrastructure, simply access ERP from anywhere at any time.

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What Features Building Materials Distribution Software Must Have

Building materials suppliers understand the challenges of working with the needs of construction projects. In this article we look at what critical features you should look for in your building materials distribution software.

Project Planning and Scheduling

As with any major project, upfront planning and scheduling can be a particularly important determinant of success. Creating and maintaining a quote or summary of all the resources, items, costs will ensure that you bid on the project correctly. Also identifying all milestones, dependencies, and coordinating all these with the construction schedule is critical to being able to perform, if you successfully win the contract. Your building materials distribution software should allow you to import from quotes for prior similar projects and help you refine your bid price based on multiple different parameters. Also, once a complete quote containing all resources and items is created, your software should help you convert this into a roadmap of all the orders and special orders that have to be created by stage by shipping release date.

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Why Choose Web-Based Distribution Software?

Selecting the right web-based distribution software can be time-intensive, taking you away from other top priorities - or it can be a relatively straightforward task if you know what you are looking for. Knowing your company's functional requirements and having a solid understanding of the technology that differentiates legacy software from true web-based solutions can help narrow your choices. Follow these simple guidelines to choose the right ERP software.

Choose Web-Based Distribution Software Built on Modern Technology

As more and more businesses are enjoying the stability, cost-savings, and convenience of web-based, Cloud-hosted software, many distribution software vendors are delivering web-based look-alikes. These look-alikes are not actually web-based, but just client-server software hosted in the Cloud with a software client on users' devices. So, because users of these look-alikes can click on a remote-desktop-like icon to access their software, they stretch the truth and label themselves as "web-based". Accolent ERP is one of very few ERP systems written completely as a web-based solution, and Accolent ERP is the only web-based solution that was built with the singular focus to serve the wholesale distribution industry.

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Get Access to the Best Wholesale Distribution ERP Software

In this video, we’ll be discussing Accolent ERP software for wholesale distribution! Your business is complex and getting more so every day, so you need to keep your customers, orders, vendors, purchasing, and other processes in sync. With Accolent ERP distribution business software , you can effortlessly manage your entire business from getting orders, managing warehouse fulfillment processes, invoicing, tracking inventory, purchasing, and financial statements.

Accolent ERP is Cloud-based and has extensive reporting and dashboards that give the complete visibility of your business all time. You don’t need any dedicated infrastructure, simply access ERP from anywhere at any time.

To learn more, simply visit https://www.adssolutions.com/ today!

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Selecting Warehouse Management Software for Small Business

In this article we look at some of the key features of warehouse management software for small business. Evaluating the different considerations below will help you to select the best warehouse management software for your small business.

Function of Warehouse Management Software

Distributors and wholesalers handle tens of thousands of different products. A warehouse management system is used to help organize the storage of these products in one or more warehouses. It also helps streamline and manage the various warehouse operations that take place in the warehouse. The first step in implementing warehouse management software for small business is to lay out the warehouse locations so as to make best physical use of the space and also to reduce any wasted efforts and inefficiencies in performing warehouse operations. Once warehouse locations are laid out, warehouse management software manages the warehouse operations. These include: receiving purchase orders (POs), put-away of POs, picking orders, packing orders and shipping orders out of the warehouse as well as managing periodic inventory counts.

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ERP and CRM Software Together: Can They Integrate?

The Situation: You Need Robust ERP and CRM

You are running your wholesale distribution business on an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software system, which delivers, among other things, your order management and processing, customer management, inventory control and tracking, purchasing management, and general ledger and accounting. You also need customer management software functionality to manage all your customer relationships, track leads, manage a sales pipeline, close sales effectively and run outbound email marketing campaigns – this is also known as customer relationship management (CRM). Many good ERP solutions also offer CRM, but ERP and CRM serve different core markets although they share many features. You really need both ERP and CRM functionality to successfully grow your business in the very competitive wholesale distribution market.

The Problem: Should You Purchase 1 Integrated ERP CRM System, or 2 Systems?

Most good ERP solutions offer extensive customer management software functions that cover the core capabilities of CRM software. There are also a number of CRM-only software solutions that are well known and have established market presences. And…. most sales teams are strongly attached to their known and preferred CRM solution. So, do you need to accommodate the sales team’s CRP preferences in order to get the most out of your sales personnel? Implementing a separate CRM-only solution will certainly make your sales team happy, and it is quite possible that the CRM-only solution includes more capabilities than the customer management software functions embedded in your ERP software. However, this means the two separate ERP and CRM systems need to communicate effectively. Also a big advantage of the customer management software capabilities of a good ERP system is that all the transactions already in the ERP system can easily be linked to calendar tasks or customer records. This is much harder with a separate CRM system.

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Grow your eCommerce business with Accolent ERP eCommerce software for distributors

The transition to eCommerce is underway and it is accelerating. Get on board with Accolent ERP’s eCommerce software for distributors which is directly linked to Magento and many other established eCommerce platforms like Amazon, eBay, or Shopify.

 Choose the eCommerce platform you want to use,  Download the software and arrange to host, or use the cloud version  Select and install the theme … and  Your online store is set up and already connected to Accolent ERP through APIs The Accolent ERP linkage takes care of:  Pushing products, images and product updates to the online store  Pushing inventory updates to the online store after every transaction  Pulling all online store orders into Accolent ERP  As online store orders are fulfilled from Accolent ERP, automatically  updating the orders with delivery information

Congratulations, you are now an eCommerce seller and open for business! You can use all the Accolent ERP functionality to manage your online store

 CRM  Inventory management  Purchasing  AR & AP Management  Full GAAP financial statements  Reporting

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Why Distributors Need Field Service Software for Delivery

Why Distributors Need Field Service Software for Delivery

The economy is in a very weak position, and predictions are that a recession is coming. Many distributors’ customers are seeing their demand drop off, or projects they were counting on, getting cut. This in turn creates challenges for distributors. In addition to carrying the goods their customers need and at competitive prices, distributors also need to be able to guarantee when the goods will be delivered to the customers. To do this effectively, distributors need field service software for delivery.

eCommerce Has Upped the Bar on Delivery

Through the Covid-induced lockdowns, consumers and businesses turned to eCommerce in a big way. And eCommerce suppliers, like Amazon, started competing against each other based on guaranteeing precise delivery dates at the time orders were placed. Then they built robust delivery solutions to meet these guaranteed delivery dates. The eCommerce suppliers were so successful in this that consumer expectations for quick and reliable delivery dates for online purchases have now become essentially ingrained. Statista published a study showing that 40+ percent of buyers expected delivery within 24 hours. That is an extremely high bar to meet. These same expectations have now spilled over into the business market that distributors operate in.

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Why Distributors Need Warehouse Management Systems

What is a Warehouse Management System?

Wholesale distributors purchase goods from suppliers, stock these goods in warehouses and then sell them to customers. A warehouse management system helps distributors track and store goods at specified locations in their warehouses and then, as orders come in, pick the goods from these locations, pack them, and ship them to customers. A warehouse management system works together with inventory management software and purchasing management software to track the stock of products available to fulfill customer orders. Because of the high volume of orders that wholesale distributors deal with, the efficiency of warehousing operations can make the difference between success and failure of a wholesale distribution business.

Why Distributors Need Warehouse Management Systems

Why do distributors need warehouse management systems? Warehouse management systems organize and control all of the warehousing operations processes that take place in a warehouse. These warehousing operations can get complicated and are also very labor-intensive. They have to deliver high efficiency and work well even at scale, with few errors and quick turnaround. Warehouse management systems are designed to help maximize warehousing operations’ efficiency and throughput to fulfill orders and get goods to customers as quickly as possible.

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Streamline Your Distribution Business with the Best Order Management Software

Are your increasing orders creating backlogs? is it taking too long to enter orders? if so, your search ends here! Accolent ERP is the leading order management software for small businesses with time-saving features for order entry, invoicing, and billing. Accolent ERP’s order entry and order processing allows small and medium-sized wholesale distributors across multiple industries to improve order fulfillment and drive customer satisfaction.

Accolent ERP is 100% cloud-based order management software and can be accessed from anywhere using a web browser running on any device. It delivers the reliability and security of AWS, the leading cloud platform.

Benefits of Accolent ERP 

 Process orders one-at-a-time or in batches

 Process orders using handheld barcode scanners

 Complete visibility into all orders at each stage

 Keep your customers updated

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How Building Materials Supply Software Addresses Key Industry Trends

Low housing starts and a weak economic outlook are driving some structural changes on building products and materials companies that are being forced to become more efficient. Several key trends have emerged that are affecting building materials suppliers. In this article we look at some of these trends and how building materials supply software can help address them.

Sustainability and Green Building

The emphasis on sustainability in the construction industry continues to grow. Building materials suppliers have to adapt to the demands by regulators for more energy efficient construction using sustainable recycled and reclaimed materials. These eco-friendly and energy-efficient requirements are becoming stronger and are required for green building LEED certification. Building materials suppliers also have to adapt to the additional trend towards off-site construction driven by the need to consolidate demand and create more predictable production runs. Building materials supply software can help distributors diversify traditional vendors to add more recycled and reclaimed building products and materials and adapt to off-site construction.

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Why You Need MRO Parts Inventory Management Software

In this article we look at what MRO parts are, what MRO parts inventory management software is used for, and how some of the processes for managing spare and replacement parts differ from the typical inventory management for raw materials and products held for sale.

What is MRO Parts Inventory Management Software?

Most businesses have maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) activities that require them to keep stocks of spare parts, replacement parts, consumables, and tools, sometimes referred to collectively as MRO parts. Unlike raw materials and products that distributors and manufacturers stock and then sell, MRO parts are used internally rather than sold. Businesses use these MRO parts to maintain and keep their operations going smoothly. MRO parts inventory management software helps businesses keep track of their inventories of these MRO parts.

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Increase sales with Accolent ERP distribution software and integrated CRM

Accolent ERP includes integrated CRM (customer relationship management) software which centralizes all your marketing, sales, customer and prospect activities in one place. With our small business ERP software solution, tracking and follow-up on leads become easy and you will find more leads, close more deals, and grow your revenue.

Accolent ERP CRM allows

 Comprehensive customer & prospect records  Customer dashboards  Mining your customer & product sales data for leads  Managing email marketing campaigns  Salesperson calendars  Creating/sharing calendar tasks for salespersons  Assigning/reassigning calendar tasks  Tracking notes on all calendar tasks  Tracking emails to customers and prospects  Monitoring salesperson follow-ups  Managing overall sales pipeline

Accolent ERP is 100% cloud-based so that salespersons can access CRM from anywhere using a web browser running on any device even smartphones. With Accolent ERP you get all the tools you need to efficiently manage your sales process and make it more productive. If you’re already using a third-party cloud-based CRM, Accolent ERP software for wholesale distributors can easily link to it.

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How to Improve Your Warehouse Inventory Management

Building Materials and Industrial Equipment suppliers that don’t have current warehouse inventory management software struggle to manage inventory successfully. They face significant challenges in supplying to building and construction trades that frequently have nowhere to store supplies and need their goods delivered on a just-in-time basis to match the construction schedule. These challenges have been significantly exacerbated by the global supply chain crises of the past few years. Worse, many building materials and industrial equipment suppliers are using outdated technology and struggle to tie things out across multiple software solutions and even spreadsheets.

Do You Have the Right System?

The first and most important consideration is whether you have the right warehouse inventory management software system in place to track your inventory. If you are using multiple systems and/or manual methods and spreadsheets, you don’t have the right system.

Putting in place the right warehouse inventory management software can lead to many benefits for your business.

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warehouse management system software for small business

Accolent ERP warehouse management system for distributors delivers full support for all warehousing operations including; picking, packing, shipping, Purchase order receiving and put-away as well as physical inventory. All warehousing operations can be conducted using wireless handheld scanners, if desired.

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