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Whether you own a pet shop, a pub, or a pampering spa, your loyal customers are the heart of your business. Como gives you all the tools you need to keep your business in the hearts and pockets of your customers with a loyalty app as unique as your business.

Offer your customers an app that’ll keep them coming back for more! Boost your sales with a mobile catalog, store, loyalty program, coupons, and your choice of other features.

Loyalty Cards

Turn one-time shoppers into loyal customers by rewarding them for choosing your store time and time again.

Your Mobile Store

Just because you take a break doesn’t mean your sales need to! Stay open 24/7 and make shopping more convenient with your own mobile store.

Push Notifications

Send notifications from your smartphone or computer to instantly grab your customers’ attention and show them what your business has to offer.

In-App Coupons

Give your customers an extra incentive to stop by and make a purchase. Better deals for them, more business for you!

Catalogs

Showcase what’s for sale to encourage your customers to stop by and make a purchase.

Menus & Ordering

Get more business for your restaurant with in-app menus, table booking, and food ordering.

Choose from our dozens of loyalty-enhancing features!

The current focus on multichannel and omnichannel strategies, highlights the need to prioritise investment on the relevant marketing channels for a company. It’s not practical for most to manage all channels and certainly you need to prioritise resources on the channels which will give the best returns. Should you focus on digital marketing channels? Or can offline channels still deliver good ROI? To help the process of channel review and selection, I have developed this list as a starting point for a comprehensive view on all current channels available to organisations.

Deciding which channels to use for what purposes is a critical element of business strategy regardless of whether you’re an Marketer in a B2B or B2C firm. Get it right and you can reap the rewards of reaching and retaining your customers. Get it wrong and you could spend a lot time and money trying to either persuade customers to shift channels or chasing a market that isn’t there.

What is a SWOT analysis and why should you use one?

SWOT stands for: Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat. A SWOT analysis guides you to identify your organization’s strengths and weaknesses (S-W), as well as broader opportunities and threats (O-T). Developing a fuller awareness of the situation helps with both strategic planning and decision-making.

The SWOT method was originally developed for business and industry, but it is equally useful in the work of community health and development, education, and even for personal growth.

SWOT is not the only assessment technique you can use.

When do you use SWOT?

A SWOT analysis can offer helpful perspectives at any stage of an effort. You might use it to:

• Explore possibilities for new efforts or solutions to problems.
• Make decisions about the best path for your initiative. Identifying your opportunities for success in context of threats to success can clarify directions and choices.
• Determine where change is possible. If you are at a juncture or turning point, an inventory of your strengths and weaknesses can reveal priorities as well as possibilities.
• Adjust and refine plans mid-course. A new opportunity might open wider avenues, while a new threat could close a path that once existed.

SWOT also offers a simple way of communicating about your initiative or program and an excellent way to organize information you’ve gathered from studies or surveys.

What are the elements of a SWOT analysis?

A SWOT analysis focuses on Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.

Remember that the purpose of performing a SWOT is to reveal positive forces that work together and potential problems that need to be recognized and possibly addressed.

We will discuss the process of creating the analysis below, but first here are a few sample layouts for your SWOT analysis.

Ask participants to answer these simple questions: what are the strengths and weaknesses of your group, community, or effort, and what are the opportunities and threats facing it?

A fulfillment service is a third party warehouse that prepares and ships your orders for you. Using a fulfillment service is a great option if you don’t want to have to deal with shipping, or if you’ve grown beyond your existing warehousing capabilities to a point where you can’t ship items manually anymore.

Order fulfillment, in general, refers to the steps involved in receiving, processing and delivering orders to end customers.

This general definition can apply to many types of orders, from large business-to-business (B2B) orders, to individual direct-to-consumer (D2C) orders.

Receiving
Whether you outsource your order fulfillment to a company like eFulfillment Service, or you choose to do it in-house, receiving inventory from your manufacturers or suppliers is the first step toward getting orders to your end customers.

Inventory Storage
Once inventory has been received, counted, inspected, labeled, and added to your warehouse management software, it is time for it to be shelved.

Shipping
After an order has been picked and packed, it is moved to a shipping station to prep it for delivery to the end customer.

Returns Processing
When answering the question, “What is Order Fulfillment?,” it’s important not to forget about returns.

For online buyers, the ability to easily return purchased items is an important part of the buying decision. For online sellers, the ability to effectively handle those returns is critical to their fulfillment operations, and to their overall businesses.

If you shop online, most probably you have used a fulfillment Service.

International 3PL specializes in fulfillment.

ProTrac is a Serious Distribution Software

ProTrac distribution software has been specifically designed to meet the demands of the wholesale distribution industry with fast order entry, fast and powerful searching, with accurate and reliable forecasting!

ProTrac™ and PDSI understand that the Cut Flower Distributor has specific needs, and with 7 years of holiday rushes under our belt, you can trust ProTrac software to fulfill them!

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An Enterprise Resource Planning System, commonly known as an ERP system, is a set of business software tools designed to facilitate the flow of information between all departments or functions within a business.  The ERP system integrates information seamlessly throughout the rest of the company.  When the first ERP systems were designed over 25 years ago companies both large and small, used function-driven software for each area of their business.  For example, the accounting, purchasing, inventory, and sales departments each used a different software package which frequently didn’t talk or integrate with any of the other systems.  Reporting and tracking of even the most basic business activities across these different ‘data silos’ was tedious, error prone, and unreliable.  A well designed ERP solution has the ability to process information from every part of the organization, and any type of transaction, within a single, integrated-solution which can track–in real-time–business operations and provide timely, accurate information to business managers. No more need to export data from multiple systems do extra computations and arrive at the results from last month’s sales or production run. With a modern ERP system each person within the company has the information they need to do their job and it is available now – or as the technology folks like to say it “in real-time”.

The world’s largest container ports

Ports are hubs that welcome marine vessels so they can dispatch or discharge cargo. In terms of value, seaborne trade carried by container ships is the most important category of waterborne freight, and container handling is one of the key sources of revenue produced by the operation and management of a port. Intermodal containers usually have a capacity of one or two twenty-foot equivalent units, a standard unit of measure which is often being abbreviated to TEU. On a global scale, the busiest ports are located in Asia, the largest ones being Shanghai, Singapore and Hong Kong. The Port of Los Angeles and the adjoining Port of Long Beach together form the largest port in the United States. The cities of Rotterdam, Hamburg and Antwerp are home to the largest ports in Europe.

Understanding the Difference between 3PL Providers and Freight Forwarders

In the world of global transport, understanding the differences between supply chain management, freight forwarders and 3PL Providers (3PL) is key. In order to make the best decisions for a company’s transportation and supply chain needs, knowing the difference is vital to the safe and successful transportation of goods from the manufacturer to their end destination.

Freight forwarders move freight from one destination to another, be via road, rail, air or ocean.  Third party logistics companies may perform freight forwarding services simply by providing their common services: moving, storing and processing inventory. Both services relieve a company of managing the minutia of transportation, its paperwork, changing of freight providers, adhering to regulations and for some, paying of duties.

Freight forwarders specialize in the moving of freight.  They are experts in this part of the overall supply chain.  Freight forwarders are not always the transportation companies themselves (although they can be), but more often than not contract with various carriers to ensure maximum options for their clients.  Freight forwarders may choose to work both domestically and globally, therefore working with all modes of transport.  Or they may choose to specialize even further and only work within the domestic space or international space.

Third party logistic providers help move the cargo as mentioned above, but then add extra services, such as storing cargo between transport steps and processing shipments.  Many clients ship their cargo from arrival to various warehouse or distribution centers.  3PL Companies will take items from the transport vehicle and package it with an invoice per each client drop off.  Like a freight forwarder, 3PL providers also work with various authorities and carriers to process paperwork, waybills and invoices as well as paying any fees on behalf of the client.

Both providers will perform the necessary service of ensuring cargo arrives in good condition and meets all regulations and any duties or fees are paid.  But 3PL Providers will perform additional services based on client need.  There is a need for both in the supply chain and deciding which is best is based on company needs, budget, current orders and forecasts.  As with any other service provider, the company must first perform an internal analysis to see what is truly needed and where possible cost savings by outsourcing will come.

Many clients may find that working with a freight forwarder partner who also provides 3PL services is a beneficial way to manage transportation needs when working with an outside vendor.  Knowing that basic freight needs will be accomplished, but there is also the option to add services creates a value added benefit.

Does your company need to outsource?

The decision to outsource is a strategic one. Most companies hesitate or feel threatened to reliquish control. Some believe that doing it yourself is easier and faster which raises the question: ‘Why consider outsourcing?’

1. Reduce and control operating costs – Small business owners need to “think big.” Just like Fortune 50 companies, the small business owner needs to identify his/her strengths and then find someone else to do everything else – outsource it.
2. Improve company focus – By outsourcing non-core functions, a small business owner can focus on growing the company.
3. Gain access to world-class capabilities – For small start-up businesses seeking investors and partners, showing that the company outsources its financial functions to a professional, bonded, insured service provider firm with secure technology will help potential investors realize the start-up owner is running the business well.
4. Free internal resources for other purposes – Business owners who are great at their business but realize they are weak at finances or are too busy and don’t have time to do the books or have tried but failed and as a result have a financial mess to clean up.
5. Resources are not available internally – Knowing what the finances really are at a given moment gives a small business owner much more capability, not only for real-time decision making, but also for accurate decision-making and confidence in the decisions.

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