How to Improve Your inventory Management in Your Overland Business

Inventory management for a major part supplier or even a manufacturer can be one of the greatest sources of inefficiency within the Overland business. Without a proper inventory management system, it’s possible that your business could simply be wasting hours every week which is magnified extensively through multiple employees and locations. Here are some top tips in improving your inventory management throughout the Overland business:

Pruning your inventory: Sometimes there’s a chance where you can identify patterns in your industry. If there are a number of parts that you don’t regularly sell there’s no reason why you should keep them readily available. Creating an area with the most sold products and potentially a warehouse with leasehold products can help to speed up the process of selling items.

Including training: There may be a number of employees that find it difficult to use your electronic inventory management system. Retraining these employees or regularly providing tutorials on these systems can often be far less expensive than scrapping the system altogether or going back to pen and paper inventory tracking.

Loss of data: Make sure that every type of inventory tracking within your business is backed up in some way. One of the best ways that you can prevent the loss of data is to use cloud-based inventory tracking which is available on multiple devices. This cloud-based solution for your Overland business will be available at all times and with minimal chance of data loss. (Pro tip: We use FreeTek Computing for our remote monitoring and backups)

Inaccuracies in data: One of the best ways that you can improve inaccuracies with your inventory tracking involves using a barcode system. Many of the top inventory tracking software today utilizes barcodes and QR codes as well as mobile phones. These can be easy to implement and they can even connect with accounting software to help with financial tracking too.

Keep these ideas in mind if you are trying to improve your inventory management solutions within the Overland industry. Please Visit: https://www.stoutewebsolutions.com/

Website Maintenance is the next Requirement for Successful Websites

Just like any software, websites require ongoing maintenance and updates, to keep the site working properly. Avoiding website maintenance is like not having regular oil changes on your car or truck. You wouldn’t drive your car very long if you didn’t look after it’s routine maintenance, would you? Well, the same process is true for your website too. Your website should always be live, ready for customers and presenting your business at it’s finest.

“Set it and Forget it” – Said no webmaster ever

If you don’t have regular website maintenance services in Portland carried out monthly, you may actually be throwing money out the window. When visitors go to a website and find things wrong with it, they don’t tend to stick around long. Many website owners never check their website to see how it’s functioning. Missed or hidden website issues or downtime can lose you potential customers.

The Benefits of Maintenance

Many people don’t realize the benefits of regular website maintenance:

The website performance, it’s load time, downtime and uptime is all dependant on the WordPress software and plugin functioning as they should. A quick look at just the WordPress changelog (the log of all past changes with the core software) will show the importance of this alone. Take a look at the most recent update which closed three identified security holes below. Check it out here: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Versions

The website growth, it’s fresh content, analytics monitoring and design changes is all dependent on you having someone making sure all updates to the website are done in a smooth and error-free fashion.

Our Maintenance Workflow

At Stoute Web Solutions we take great care to first backup the website and check the website after our updates for any issues. Our software keeps a record of plugins we update so if there is ever an issue we see what plugin version was changed and revert it back. Also included in our monthly maintenance report are the performance and security scans. If in the event we ever catch a plugin issue, it becomes a support ticket and we address it before you ever know there’s a problem.

Dangers of Do It Yourself Maintenance

Maintaining your site yourself could cost you more than you may think. If you use an update from your WordPress admin, you wouldn’t have a record of what was done. If an update to a plugin created an issue a couple weeks later, it would be difficult to know what changed and how you should revert back without restoring a very old backup (and possibly losing content changes, sales orders, contact entries, you name it).

It costs more to fix than maintain

Inexperience and neglect can damage the look and functionality of your website. When that happens, you have a choice to make. One, you try and fix it yourself, in which case you may do further damage. Or two, you can then pay the (sometimes hefty) price for someone experienced to fix it. Just like your car, it costs more to fix it than it does to maintain it properly. Regular oil changes help keep your car running properly, regular site maintenance helps keep your website running properly

Call a Professional

Why not beal with what you know best and let us deal with that we know best? Would you try to fight that court battle without a lawyer? Then why try to maintain your own website if you’re not a web professional? By securing an experienced web professional to update and maintain your website properly you are actually saving potential lost sales and visitors.