Thread: Re: Inventory Management on a Shoestring

See Full Story Fidelitone Logistics works with large retailers to manage their inventories and ship consumer goods worldwide. Mike Schoenfeld, an executive VP at Fidelitone, recently gave a group of executives from a venture capital firm a tour of the company's operations. No, the VC model hasn't changed so radically that it includes the actual shipping and distribution of goods. Rather, these VCs were thinking of the small firms in...

Internal auditing massively reduces technology overhead and costs on several different levels. - Auditing discovers weaknesses in your infrastructure that can be costly to fix, if left undiscovered - Auditing reduces the time, effort, and resources required to maintain your IT production environment - Auditing discovers surpluses of software licensing - Auditing reduces liability, from 3rd party auditors like the Business Software Alliance...

The article refers to SMBs, but leads off by talking about representatives of their venture capitalist investors. If VCs are part of your definition of SMBs, then what do you call the vast number of REALLY small companies that make up a substantial percentage of the retailers doing business on the Internet? Our company's software, which includes inventory management and real-time integration with 30+ shopping cart systems, is used by...

I have to agree with Barney Stone that all of the small and medium sized businesses I've worked with in setting up inventory and order management systems have no venture capital. In fact, many SMBs these days are starting with little capital at all which makes it difficult for these businesses to invest in even the cheapest software systems for their business. Ben Johnson Darby Software http://blog.mydarby.com