No matter where you are in your purchasing journey, it doesn’t hurt to have some advice along the way. If you’re in search of a point of sale (POS) system for your tobacco store, you’re in luck!
Whether POS Nation is the best choice for your small business or not, our team has put together a buyers’ guide to help you make important decisions about your point of sale solution.
Tobacco businesses have hundreds of systems on the process map, but ones that are using legacy systems can find that up to 80% of those systems aren’t integrated and can’t communicate with each other. Why does that matter? Well, consider the common situation in which your business databases hold all your customer information and your product data resides in your ERP system. If those two data silos can’t talk to each other, the fundamental act of fulfilling a customer order becomes an extra process requiring added, and otherwise unnecessary, steps.
Since the 1990s, one of the themes has been the issue of recycling, and out of the awareness generated by that has emerged the concept of “the circular economy”. The core message of the circular economy is ‘take, make, reuse’, which is in contrast to the traditional (linear) approach of ‘take, make, dispose’
If you’re running a small- to midsize business (SMB) in today’s marketplace, you probably know what ERP solutions are, but you may think they’re too big, expensive, or inflexible for your needs. They’re not.
ERP is short for “enterprise resource planning,” but ERP solutions aren’t just for enterprise-sized businesses. Businesses of any size, in any industry, can implement ERP solutions to increase efficiency and profitability.
In September, the U.S. inflation rate reached 8.2%, exceeding market forecasts and snagging the dubious honor of being the highest rate since November 1981. Unfortunately, the rising prices and the currency’s falling purchasing power are affecting everyone, including small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) already struggling with supply chain and staffing shortage issues.