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Optimizing business performance for construction companies can be an overwhelming job. Enhancing performance requires careful planning and efficient production to fill orders for time-sensitive construction projects. Increased efficiency in every department from purchasing, to warehouse management to sales and finance is required to meet the growing demands of clients in the construction industry. Below is a summary of the primary responsibilities facing manufacturing companies and the ways that SocrateCloud ERP for construction increases efficiency for construction projects.  

For distributors and other businesses touching inventory, a great enterprise resource planning system like SocrateCloud ERP provides significant advantages over managing your business through in-house and piecemeal solutions. 

Supply chain management focuses on the process of getting a product from the ground or delivery of raw goods into the hands of the consumer. However, in practice that requires a lot of complicated procedures to manage closely, and doing so efficiently and cost-effectively requires a powerful software tool.

Whether you're managing a warehouse or a group of warehouses, here are the requirements for a robust supply chain management software program.

When they conclude that they needed an ERP system, companies face a big dilemma: what solution should they choose?

Some time ago I learned from one of our collaborators with wide experience in the field, that the implementation of an ERP system degrades; in other words, in this case, too, the entropy law applies! His statement has caught me by surprise because the ERP implementation was not a piece of cheese left in the fridge left there to rotten. Although I had an extensive experience in the field, I haven’t had the time to think about this, because each time I finish an implementation I pass to another and so on until the final victory.

Regardless of industry, the KPIs are tools for measuring performance, for knowing if your business improves or degrades and if an intervention is required.

There are several types of KPIs: strategic KPIs (market share, profit, turnover, customer satisfaction), management KPIs (resource availability, costs, budget), operational KPIs (individual performance, processes performance, products, specifications, efficiency).

Have you ever wondered what having a successful business means? A successful distribution business, like any business, starts with a successful business plan, with hard working and involved people, to help it grow "organically". This "organic" growing requires time and attention.

But how do you know if your distribution business is moving in the right direction? How can you make sure that you know at any time what happens to your money? What are the signals that you need systems for business growth? After 22 years of experience and thousands of discussions with distribution business people,

SocrateCloud ERP and SocrateBI support Handlopex Romania in developing a multichannel distribution network of tyres and rims. In its first year of operation, Handlopex Romania generated a turnover of 1.5 million Euro and was positioned as a reliable supplier on the Romanian market.

Handlopex, a European leader in the distribution of tires, with a turnover exceeding EUR 170 million and sales of over 3 million tyres annually at group level, chose SocrateCloud, complete solution for distribution, to manage the entire activity of the new Romanian branch, which generated a turnover that exceeded 1.5 million in the first year of operation and has positioned itself as a reliable distributor on the Romanian market.

Cross-docking is a warehouse activity, a transfer of goods from trucks that come from a distribution center (from manufacturers in most cases) onto trucks that go to the final customers. Cross-docking means reducing or partially removing the storage activity, reducing the stock activities (inventory, putaway, transfer, etc) and, finally, the costs.

As mentioned previously, late last year I had the opportunity to meet a few Logistics Managers, to reconfirm the most important challenges in their field. The conclusions of these meetings were made from both the interviews and my personal observations, and among the most important challenges in logistics management was the lack of flexibility.