Many businesses are still keeping a close watch over budgets and looking for ways to cut costs. Cutting personnel may look good on the books, but could lead to bottlenecks because there simply aren’t enough hands to manage manufacturing and distribution operations. Instead of cutting labor, cut labor costs by implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.
Budgets feel like they get tighter every year and businesses often feel the need to do more with less. A quick cost savings, such as the large value of worker salaries, might seem like a good solution, but could lead to more problems in the long run. With fewer hands, you have less people to handle the workload. It may take longer to get products down the assembly line, packaged, and shipped out the door. The added pressure on remaining employees to work more or faster could also cause mistakes anywhere from physical inventory counts to shipping the wrong products to customers.
Instead of cutting your valuable team, find an appropriate ERP solution like Microsoft Dynamics® GP to pick up the slack. This solution will provide new insight into your operations that you can use to improve labor productivity from the front office to the back warehouse. This single, integrated solution houses all of your important inventory, manufacturing, and financial data, as well as other core business data. Your team can share information faster, reducing common bottlenecks that lead to poor productivity. For example, data can be shifted from a sales quote to a purchase order to a bill once your products were sent to the customer. At each point from sales to manufacturing to accounting, your team saves valuable time from having to re-enter the same data. Microsoft Dynamics GP also streamlines inventory management so your team spends less time handling incoming and outgoing boxes and taking physical counts. You can keep closer tabs on inventory levels and cut costs associated with overstocking or handling expensive backorders.
Technology like Microsoft Dynamics GP can be just the tool you need to improve productivity and cut costs throughout your business. Both of which can lead to a healthier bottom line. The experts at Collins Computing can provide additional information about Microsoft Dynamics GP and other ERP solutions that can help you find the cost savings you are looking for. Contact Collins Computing to learn how you can cut costs without cutting jobs.
By Collins Computing, a Microsoft Dynamics GP Gold Certified Partner out of California
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