S4 EP07 - Simplifying Inventory Using Automation with Kim Congleton and Shawn Sissenwein, Warehousing

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No more manual counting and searching.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kim Congleton and Shawn Sissenwein of New View Strategies are here to share their success stories in resolving clients’ warehousing and distribution problems using Business Central.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hours of work and sheets of paper were saved – all thanks to the power of automation.</span></p> <p><strong>Essential points covered in this episode:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">✔️</span> <strong>New View Strategies helps you improve inventory accuracy and speed.</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">We recommend turning on advanced warehousing, continuously doing cycle counting, and utilizing a mobile component for scanning barcodes.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">✔️</span><strong>Document your process.</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">New employees struggle to familiarize inventory – especially with businesses with multiple locations. With our solution, it only took the client 12 weeks to get all 25 locations running!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">✔️</span> <strong>Commit to the project.</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Ready to automate your warehousing department? Kim Congleton advises: Set aside enough time to do it. Treat it like a project. It requires commitment. It doesn’t just take a flip of a switch.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">✔️</span> <strong>Automation will make your job easier.</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Finding products quicker. Paperless records. Mobile device scanning. Having enough products in stock. What more can you ask for?</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">✔️</span> <strong>Have the basics in place before innovating.</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Before automating your inventory, have you barcoded all your products? Standardized the process? Prepared your employees?</span></