Business is a difficult activity. Each day you are grubbing for customers attempting to improve profits and build better services. So why are you spending your time rifling through paperwork? This week we want to discuss paperwork and how we can help.
If you are selling goods and services you have to generate invoices. If you are shipping goods you need packing slips and bills of lading. Finally, all the goods and services require labels in order for them to make it to their customers via the mail. Wouldn't it be nice if you could take care of all this without having to hire additional staff?
At E3 systems with our Sully 2.0 system does make this possible. We also use Microsoft Tag technology so that you don't have to purchase expensive bar coding equipment and you can stay on top of what is going on from your office via a mobile phone, tablet computer or laptop.
We want to give you more time to spend on your business and your family. That is why we created this system for you. Business shouldn't have to be difficult.
The key to any successful organization is to do the most amount of work in the least amount of time with the maximum level of profit. It is one of the first principles they teach you in business school and it says with you throughout your entire career. This week at Dirty fingers we want to discuss one of our newest features for Sully 2.0 which makes this possible; label printing.
I have discovered that many businesses which do shipping and receiving spend an inordinate amount of time attempting to print shipping labels for their products. This usually requires a mail merge using Microsoft office and trial and error with Avery forms. We were speaking with a business group and one of the topics which came up was how difficult it was to print Avery shipping labels.
It took us over a year to come up with a good approach but we finally figured out a way to do it and now we support the printing of Avery 8160, 8164 and 22805 forms directly from the web. You do not need Microsoft Office or know how to do a mail merge. Now you just print your labels directly off the web and on to your forms.
This is a huge time savings because now you just point and click. This way you can place Microsoft Tags on products and shipping labels on packages with no effort.
I have spent over a year promoting and blogging about my company E3 logistics systems. What amazes me is as people get to know about my company they always ask me the same questions about what we do. This week, I want to explain what E3 systems does.
We help you stay on top of paperwork. If you have any inventory we help you track the number of items coming and going from your stock with no need to keep track of paperwork. Our Sully 2.0 system helps you keep track of all your items in our web based system. You will never have to go searching around the office for a piece of paperwork again because you can pull up the Sully 2.0 system type in a search and find all the information you are looking for. Not only does this apply to inventory, but to bills of lading, packing slips, invoices and purchase orders. So in one place you have all the information you need to run your business.
Next, we make it easy to gather business intelligence about the progress of your business. Fortune 500 companies have entire teams of people who sift through pies of data to gather information about what products are hot and which ones are not. They can track shipping costs to the penny and find out if they are making a profit with each sale. At E3 systems we give you that ability to make you competitive with big boys. We have a full set of reporting tools so you can track inventory, sales, and other pieces of regulatory compliance documentation. We included this because many software packages make easy to gather data but difficult to make decisions based on that data. Now, at a glance you know what you have in stock and if you are making money selling it.
Additionally, we make it possible to track your information via any type of computing device connected to the web. This means if you have a tablet computer, smart phone or laptop as long as you have a connection to the web you can use our systems in a secure fashion. No more dialing into company virtual private networks or portals. No more messing with synching your data with company systems. All you need is an account and mobile device and you can see your inventory, purchase orders, and invoices 24 hours a day seven days a week. This gives you more time to interact with your customers and less time tracking down paperwork.
Next, we bridge the gap between the world of paper and web with Microsoft Tag technology. Thanks to Microsoft Tag technology, you can scan documents and products. This gives you the ability to instantly communicate with the Sully 2.0 system. Now expensive bar code scanning equipment is obsolete. If you have a smart phone you have what is necessary to track your inventory and systems just like a major corporation. We offer this service free of charge and make it possible to print up these Microsoft Tags with Avery 22805 labels. No more mystery about what is on the shelf now you print out a tag stick it on a product and you have an electronic record.
Finally, we offer this system at about the cost of digital cable television. If you can afford $120 a month subscription fee we can make it possible to manage your inventory, purchase orders, paperwork, business intelligence and make it available 24 hours a day seven days a week on any device with a web connection. There is no software to install. All you need is a web browser or smart phone to access our systems. The data is secure in our server farm located in the Pacific Northwest and you can reach us via e-mail or phone 24 hours a day.
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This week was a milestone of sorts at E3 systems. We had our second board meeting and it was a serious sober affair where over a few bottles of water and some store bought cookies we plotted out our path for the next year. I do not know where I would be without the guidance and support of my board and it was nice to talk about our accomplishments and challenges over the last year.
As always we talked about marketing and sales. Any small business person will tell you that this could always be better. After some back and forth among the board members it dawned on us that our Sully 2.0 is more than a logistics platform it is a business Intelligence Platform. This makes it possible for a small business to manage themselves just like a Fortune 500 company for a minimal cost.
One of the biggest headaches of a business is keeping track of how much you have on hand. Our Sully 2.0 system does this by saving all your information on the cloud and then pulling it down for reporting purposes. This means no matter where you are; at the office, meeting with a client, or on vacation if you have a connection to the web then you can see your inventory at the drop of a hat. Not only do you know how much you have on hand but how much you paid for it and what type of department of transportation regulations cover that material.
We make it possible to print up packing slips, bills of lading and invoices based on this information. We are also proud to announce that it is now possible to print shipping labels with Avery® label technology. No more typing up peal and stick labels for your products Sully 2.0 can print out 5160 and 5164 Avery® labels right off the web without having to use Microsoft Word or a third party program. This speeds up the business and makes it easier to manage shipping and receiving.
Furthermore you get more full frontal business intelligence when you leverage our Microsoft Tag technology which makes it possible to do bar coding without expensive equipment. Now every piece of paper you have can communicate with your mobile phone. This is a free of charge service and we include it so that you can view information about your products anywhere in the world on any smart phone.
Finally, we make it possible to put together purchase orders and incorporate them into your business with our purchase order piece. You order an item and you can e-mail it or fax it out to your vendor and when you receive it they can add it inventory with a click. No more lost faxes. No more playing phone tag with vendors and no more double counting when you get it into the office.
In spite of our board meeting being a very sober affair most of us were pretty excited when it was over. We have a great product. We have a marketing plan. We also have an easy to use and economical business intelligence package which can be used everywhere. We have full frontal business intelligence and we are not afraid to show it off. Contact us to learn more.
