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Donald Sauder serves as a CPA and financial consultant for all sorts of small businesses. His clients work in manufacturing, steel fabrication, wholesale and retail distribution, construction, and more. Most of these small businesses start with QuickBooks or another accounting software to manage their books and keep track of assets, liabilities, expenses, and revenue. But for many of Donald’s ...

For the team at e-Bikes of Holmes County, EBMS (Koble's ERP Platform) has long been the backbone of their operations. It holds everything they need to know about inventory, sales, customers, and more. But pulling all that data together in a way that made sense—especially when it came time to make buying or marketing decisions—could be time-consuming.

With all the factors in play, setting fair pricing can be a real challenge. You need to make sure you stay competitive, while still keeping enough margin to make your business profitable. A lot of business owners choose flat pricing – where every customer pays the same fixed price – because it’s easy to understand and doesn’t require a lot of administrative work to oversee. But what happens when ...

Clean Stream Water Inc, keeps the water supply safe and pure for many homeowners and businesses in Lancaster and Chester counties. Water supply issues can cause some serious problems – from hardwater build-up reducing the lifespan of appliances and plumbing to increased health-risks from contaminants like nitrates, bacteria, and other toxins. Clean Stream is committed to providing the best in ...

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.

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.

Think through all the ways that your company sells product. Are your salespeople interacting with customers away from your point-of-sale system, whether in outside sales, sales lots, or through direct delivery? How are your salespeople recording information during those interactions?