If you are a manufacturer or distributor, no matter what products you produce or sell, you all have the same problem: 

Customers have many options for sourcing products these days and domestic and international competition means that you need to provide the best products possible with shorter lead times and at the lowest possible price! If you’re out of stock when a customer places an order – you probably just lost the sale. If you’re overstock on an item you’re increasing carrying costs. And why waste your raw material inventory and resources making products when there is no hard demand for them? 

In this one hour webinar we will cover 15 very common (and very avoidable) supply chain mistakes that are often made in distribution requirements planning (DRP) or material requirements planning (MRP) and how you can avoid them to gain significant competitive advantages. 

• Supply Problems – inaccurate inventory quantities, incorrect vendor lead times, invisible supplier performance metrics, no ability to establish warehouse transfers to other facilities.
• Date Problems – inaccurate requirement dates, bill of material and manufacturing cycle time calculations, no visibility into queue or move times, limitations on planning dates, inventory calendars, and planning period definitions.
• Forecast Problems – inaccurate demand forecasts and no ability to forecast for customer-specific demand.
• Quantity Problems – min/max order quantities; order multiples; scrap, yield, and loss; safety stock levels; excluded locations (quarantined inventory or staging locations)
• Resource Problems – material, labor, machine, tooling, and other constraints that affect your ability to sell and/or make a product to meet the customer requirement date.

Title:	15 Common MRP Mistakes & How to Avoid Them: Supply Chain Management tips for distributors and manufacturers
Date:	Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Time:	10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT

During this webcast you will learn 4 ways to save time and money with the QuickBooks SugarCRM integration 

1.  Get Orders Entered More Timely into QuickBooks

Enter sales orders in SugarCRM and sync them into QuickBooks in real-time, orders can be entered on laptops, ipads, and other mobile devices by salespeople on the road.  No longer do you have to wait for remote access to QuickBooks or emailing orders into the office.   Orders can be entered right away through SugarCRM, and they will then automaticaily appear in QuickBooks.

2.  Eliminate Redundant Data Entry

Sales orders into Sugar and having them automatically transfer into QB eliminates duplication of data entry and increases the accuracy of orders in QB.    Inventory changes and Customer name and address changes in one system can be instantly updated in the other as well.

3.  Eliminate Need for Expanding Quickbooks User Licenses by Seeing ERP Data in SugarCRM

Sales reps can now see on hand inventory quantities, open sales orders, invoice history, customer credit information, and everything they used to have to either lookup directly in QB or call someone to lookup for them.   Companies can now potentially downgrade QB user licenses, because these “inquiry users” no longer will need access to QuickBooks.

4.  Ability to View QuickBooks ERP Data in the Cloud and on mobile devices through SugarCRM

SugarCRM allows sales reps to view QuickBooks ERP data on the road, on their ipads, and on other mobile devices without being connected to the office.   While Intuit is still getting their act together with their QuickBooks Online product, Sugar is one of the only ways to be able to see QuickBooks inventory, invoice history, and sales history data in the cloud.

If you’ve read the news lately, you know states are strapped for cash and on the hunt for untapped sources of revenue. With thousands of rate, rule, and boundary changes every year in the US and an epic legal debate over e-commerce taxation, managing sales tax has never been more of a hassle. Unfortunately, this trend will only continue to get worse as states hire more auditors to find businesses that aren’t paying attention to the nuts and bolts.

Sales tax is hard; and manually keeping up with changes takes up a lot of valuable time and effort that could be better spent growing your business. All that time wasted looking up changing rates and rules or digging through the filing cabinet to see if a resale certificate is up to date! You already outsource payroll. The time is now to do the same by automating and streamlining your sales tax within your ERP system.

Do you understand:

• The complexities of sales tax rules and regulations?
• How to accurately determine changing nexus rules?
• How much your tax liabilities really are?

Join us for a free informational webinar on May 30, 2013 to learn about 2013 changes in sales and use tax and see how the latest technology for Sage can help simplify your sales tax process. In this webinar, the tax experts at Avalara will introduce 5 sales and use tax tips that will help your business develop an effective, proactive, sales tax strategy long before the auditor knocks on your door.

Title:  5 Sales & Use Tax Tips for 2013 and Beyond

Date:  May 30, 2013

Time:  10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PT

Title:  Save 5 to 35 Hours a Week Calculating Time and Attendance

Date:  Friday, May 31, 2013

Time:  10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PST

Simple manual employee actions, like time recording, that may only take one employee a moment, can create enormous costs if performed thousands of times a year by every employee in the workforce.

Automating the most frequent employee actions yields the greatest cost savings and efficiency improvements.

In this webcast you will learn not only why you should be using time and attendance software to automate the collection process, you will also receive tools to calculate your return on investment. 
During this webcast you will learn: 

* How to capture real-time labor information 
* How to reduce errors associated with manual time collection