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Benefits from Automating Your Accounts Receivables – Part III: Using Overdue Interest to Encourage On Time Payments

Do you know what the credit control policy of your company is? Do they have credit policies? It is sometimes revealing to ask these questions. Firstly many companies do not have any written credit control policies – apart from the need to be paid as quickly as possible. Often companies that do have credit polices do not disseminate them through the company, as often sales as well as credit departments need to know what these are. Again management often think that they have good credit control policies in place, but when junior staff are asked they tell that they are not allowed to follow the polices or that they are unworkable.

Benefits from Automating Your Accounts Receivables – Part II: Credit Policies

Do you know what the credit control policy of your company is? Do they have credit policies? It is sometimes revealing to ask these questions. Firstly many companies do not have any written credit control policies – apart from the need to be paid as quickly as possible. Often companies that do have credit polices do not disseminate them through the company, as often sales as well as credit departments need to know what these are. Again management often think that they have good credit control policies in place, but when junior staff are asked they tell that they are not allowed to follow the polices or that they are unworkable.

Benefits from Automating Your Accounts Receivables – Part I: Overview

Collecting Accounts Receivable is one of those jobs that no one wants, but it's a necessary part of doing business. Anyone running a business knows that if you don't get paid, you can't pay your employees or vendors, and that's not good.

5 Things Food & Beverage Processors & Distributors Should Demand from their ERP

Effective Order Placement

Being efficient at taking orders and making the process easy for the customer is the first primary item. Today customers want to be serviced…and they should be! The sales rep should know the customer and their buying habits. To this end, an “Order Guide” can be made available to the customer, detailing their purchasing history, broken down by product group, with the usage per period and their favourable pricing and the SRP.

Using the Order Guide as a basis for placing orders, the internal sales person can easily take customer order over the phone, or from a faxed or e-Mailed order. Optionally, the outside sales rep takes the order at the customer’s location using their laptop or I-Pad. Orders are transmitted to the warehouse and a confirmation e-Mailed to the customer. All these situations typically use the order entry/invoicing method for order placement. If the customers pick […]

Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP)

Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) is an approach to food safety that is systematic and preventive. It is recommended by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, the United Nations international standards organization for food safety. HACCP is used by most countries around the world. It has been in use since the 1960s.

In the early 1960s, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) asked US food-product giant Pillsbury to develop food for astronauts. They wanted food that was not only tasty, but safe to eat in zero gravity. HACCP was originally developed for this project.

HACCP goes beyond inspecting finished food products. It helps to find, correct, and prevent hazards throughout the production process. These include physical, chemical, and biological hazards.

HACCP is not just used in food production. It’s applied in other industries around the world, such as cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

There are seven universally-accepted HACCP principles. Every country that uses HACCP follows […]

Amity

Amity Insulation Group Inc. (Amity) has grown to be one of the larger 'one stop shop' distributors in the industrial insulation industry, but its owners and management team have not rested on those laurels. To generate savings and speed up Amity’s workflow, the company began an upgrade of its accounting system several years ago. Working directly with Jon Mainwaring, the co-founder and vice president of Oneir Solutions, Amity has put Oneir’s remarkably nimble, Linux-driven, accounting, sales, and inventory controls to profitable work.