One of the most common challenges and hurdles to overcome when taking on any new software, is how to cleanse data from your old system. Don’t let messy data stop you from moving to a more powerful software platform to run your business. This series of blogs will present 5 of the most used groups of Microsoft Excel features for cleansing your data that[...]
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Small and medium-sized companies find some downtime on their hands. This can be an opportune time to work ON the business instead of working IN the business. Business owners might use this time to make necessary renovations or sit down to tackle the mountain of admin-related tasks that they were too busy to address throughout the year. This time should[...]
Running a small food distribution business comes with many challenges. For a start, there are multiple units of measure to contend with – boxes / bags / kilos/ pallets / tins / jars / litres / drums etc. Multiple barcodes from multiple Vendors. Then you have expiry dates, lot or batch numbers to track, customer minimum shelf life requirements to deal[...]
Most small business owners view enterprise resource planning (ERP) software as too complex and too expensive for their needs. On the other hand, medium to large businesses owners would argue they could not function without an ERP in place to manage their business.
Recently in the Business Intelligence realm, we at Key Business Solutions have been encountering more and more SAP Business One (SAP B1) customers. While still somewhat small, this community of users is growing – and they are mighty passionate about their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. On top of that, this group is dealing with a technology[...]
In today’s around-the-clock, around-the-world business culture, we at Key Business Solutions know that flexibility is the key to remaining competitive. More specifically, flexibility in terms of how you access, manage, and analyze your company data should empower on-the-go professionals. Moving past what SAP Business One is offering users in terms of[...]
Recently, Key Business Solutions has been hearing a lot of chatter around the differences, strengths and weaknesses of budgeting and forecasting as two separate processes. We’ve seen the following perspective grow in popularity: forecasting might be more effective to planning for modern business than traditional budgeting. We’re committed to staying on[...]
Budgeting is one of those unavoidable tasks that most of us would prefer to avoid, especially when budgeting and/or forecasting for a corporation of multiple moving parts. At Key Business Solutions, we wonder if it has anything to do with the tool you are using to tackle your planning processes. Any healthy sized organization can likely agree that[...]
As companies begin to scale, they are presented with many operational challenges. Smaller businesses typically have the advantage of ease of communication and organization, but as they grow, keeping departments and multiple staff members interconnected is challenging to manage. To combat these issues effectively, it's essential to incorporate[...]
In this post we'll focus on how to get a solution for a bad budget software implementation.
