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Systems should work for people, not the other way around. If you built your business using entry-level business solutions (like Quickbooks) then you know they can be great for starting out. They gave you what you needed to get up and running - but now may be the time to ask yourself: Are my systems still supporting my people and our workflow?

If you are a small business owner you know what it's like to juggle a thousand moving parts. Hiring, filing, analyzing, reporting, tracking, and ordering are enough to make your head spin, and there just aren't enough hours in the day for all the work that needs to be done. An ERP system is designed to help you manage the mayhem. In this article: Defining ERP Who needs ERP? How do you know if ...

Learn what's new in the latest version of EBMS, including: Multi-codebase Services Bank Feed Customization Designer Change-logging Reverse Manufacturing and more View our Version Enhancements page for more details

We're excited to announce a new name - Koble - to build on our mission of making business growth easier by putting the right software to work for the hundreds of small business clients we serve every day.

Inventory management is a challenge for many companies. It’s hard to keep track of inventory, especially when it is spread out across multiple warehouse locations. The more locations you have, like supply trucks or sales lots, the harder it gets.

Keeping track of product pricing and availability from your suppliers can be even more time-consuming and cumbersome. For a parts supply company that handles thousands of inventory items, as well as special order parts, it’s downright overwhelming.

You know that your roll-forming company is growing. Your customers are demanding more from you. You need to ramp up production to meet this demand, but your team is at maximum capacity with your current processes. Even though you’ve posted on every job board imaginable – you haven’t been able to find the right people to expand your team and keep up with your company’s growth.

The complication with selling, manufacturing, or servicing equipment is that so many things can vary from one piece to another. You can have two tractors that are the same year, make, and model but depending on how often either one was used and how well they were maintained, those two pieces of equipment are going to perform very differently and hold different resale values. You need to be able ...

As your business grows and you continue to move product, keeping track of inventory trends and knowing how much to order becomes too complex to manage well. You could just purchase a whole load of inventory, but that ties up cash on the shelves and overfills your warehouse.

Does making good business decisions become more complex and confusing as your company grows? As you bring more leaders and stakeholders into the process and the channels of communication begin to multiply – it’s important that you can clear through the cloud of confusion, see what’s really going on inside your organization at every level, and communicate clearly with your team. As we continue to ...