Nurseries & Agribusiness

Consignment Sales
In this paper you will discover what challenges and opportunities are offered by consignment sales. Learn how to add consignment sales to your business dealings with the big box stores and capitalize on this growing business opportunity.

Big Boxes Shift the Risk to you
Partnering with big boxes may present some risks regarding the maintenance of your plants or your inventory control. In this paper you will learn what technologies you could use to better manage these risks and increase profitability.

Production Planning beyond Spreadsheets
Using spreadsheets is not always the best solution for doing your production planning. In this paper you will learn what factors and tools you should take into consideration to efficiently manage your plant production and other resources.

How do you compare against your competitors?
Analyzing a study by Aberdeen Group. Visibility and control of your supply chain is critical to your company’s success. Learn what tools and technologies are used by best-in-class companies in their logistics strategy to set them apart from their competitors.

Your Production Schedule..Are You in Control?
Production scheduling is an essential component in your business. In this paper we give you useful tips to build a production plan and to improve your greenhouse/ nursery production efficiency.

Production Management Software to the Rescue
In this paper we review the importance of implementing a production management system for your agribusiness. Discover how this solution will help you improve control of your inventory, while also planning and scheduling your production activities more efficiently.

Payroll: The Key to Activity Based Coasting
Find out why activity based costing (ABC) is the best solution to define your costs, accounts and activities. In this paper, you will learn how a payroll oriented ABC will help you make more accurate managerial decisions.

Frustrated by Your Delivery Processes?
Delivery management plays a crucial role in reducing your freight costs and maintaining high customer satisfaction. This paper examines the technology tools that nurseries use to successfully meet their delivery challenges.

Eggs.. and Traceability of Your Product
Discover the benefits of lot tracking and learn how using a production management system will contribute to better product traceability.

Credit vs Collections..Who Do You Trust?
Learn how receivable dashboards allow you to keep track of your customers’ payment more efficiently and improve your agribusiness cash flow. Find out how a good collections management system could significantly increase your ROI.

Are You Customer Friendly?
Find out if your farm/greenhouse/nursery management software is adapted to your customers needs. Discover customer oriented strategies that could help enhance your sales and brand awareness.

Purchasing Processes DO Matter
Learn how to better manage your order-to-delivery processes. This paper explains why a proper monitoring of your purchasing operations is critical to improving your vendor relationships.

Integrated Accounting - The Good The Bad and The Ugly?
Implementing a financial management system is a key factor in helping you meet your agribusiness needs. In this paper, we review the elements provided by integrated accounting software to help you boost your productivity.


Supply Chain & Logistics

New Reality Of The 3PL
With the economic recession now behind us, it has become critical for the 3PL industry to adopt a more effective strategy toward inventory management. This paper will show how 3PLs will be affected by this new economic environment and how a lower reliance on storage revenue will help them drive better business performance.

Cutting our costs, reducing errors and improving customer service
Explore the impact of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) on supply chain management. EDI will remove data errors, prevent any loss of information flow, reduce your operating costs and better meet the needs of your clients. In this paper, you will learn to cut your labor costs via information automation!

Exception Management - Are you drowning in the detail?
Using a warehouse management system (WMS) to manage risks and exceptions. This paper will explain how management of exceptions throughout your logistics processes will help you increase your profitability.

Increase Your Services Revenue
This paper gives an overview of a report by Armstrong & Associates analyzing how 3PLs manage to increase their revenue by providing additional value-added services for their warehousing operations.

Add Revenue in Reverse
Reverse Logistics is a critical cost factor for your customers. In these papers you will discover how managing reverse logistics can be a revenue source and drive you closer to your customers.

Are you using the automation available in ABECAS Insight?
Discover some of the capabilities of Task Agent, one of the key components of ABECAS Insight. Learn how to reduce labor and better meet your customers’ expectations by automating software tasks.

WMS - SaaS or Client/Server
This paper analyzes the differences between deploying a client-server system and using software as a service (SaaS). Discover the benefits of each, and the pitfalls.

RF - to Scan or not to Scan?
Using bar code scanning in your warehouse management system will lead to greater efficiency. Read this paper and learn how implementing this cost-effective technology will help you save time and increase the visibility of your supply chain processes.

Are You Customer Friendly 3PL?
Learn how to boost your customer loyalty and satisfaction with the strategic tips provided in this whitepaper. Evaluate how your WMS software can improve your interaction with your customers and keep you ahead of your competitors.

Are you leveraging the Global Economy?
Manufacturers are increasingly outsourcing their supply chain operations to have better access to technology-driven solutions such as EDI, scanning or inventory and order management. This whitepaper will review the benefits gained by partnering with other 3PLs in today’s economy.

How Well Do You Know Your Customers
Analyzing a survey by Eyefortransport. The paper exposes how shippers and 3PL’s vary in their reasons for retaining, or changing 3PL partners. Many assumptions made by 3PL’s are wrong! What are the real motivating factors in this decision?

SaaS as a WMS Option
 Find out if software as a service (SaaS) is truly adapted to the requirements of the 3PL market. In this paper, we will analyze the implications of using a SaaS application for you warehouse management system.