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New Release of Kechie ERP Provides Enhanced Financial Modules and Additional Integrations
New Release of Kechie ERP Provides Enhanced Financial Modules and Additional Integrations
SANTA ANA, CA, USA – February 1, 2018 – My Office Apps, Inc. (MOA), an innovator of next-generation, cloud-based inventory management and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solutions, announced today, Release 3 of its Kechie ERP solution. This release adds additional financial management capabilities to the software including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Credit/Collections, Financial Reporting, and other financial-related modules. Kechie will continue to be offered on a subscription basis using the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model to help customers cost-effectively streamline and manage critical areas of their day-to-day operations. By providing these new financial modules in addition to the previous inventory, manufacturing, supply chain, and sales modules, customers will have an even better-integrated platform for more efficiently managing their business.
In keeping with MOA’s design philosophy of maximum flexibility, users will be able to configure the software to match the way they run their business. Measures and processes that are unique to a customer’s business can be configured quickly, while others built into the software which a customer does not use can be turned off to minimize distractions and maximize the ease of use for a customer’s employees.
Mariam Komeili, MOA co-founder and CEO commented, “We are pleased with the continued evolution of MOA to make it even more powerful. Customers have indicated to us that they really want to consolidate their ERP software to one integrated system that is both scalable and flexible to serve all their needs. By having a consistent user interface for their employees to deal with, training for new employees can occur quickly and the benefits of introducing a new system can pay back quickly.”
For information about MOA, to discuss how Kechie may help streamline your business inventory management, or to request a product demonstration, please visit our website at My Office Apps or email us at info@myofficeapps.com.
About My Office Apps, Inc. (MOA)
For more than 25 years, My Office Apps (MOA) co-founders saw the challenges companies have, purchasing and implementing Inventory management and ERP software solutions. One of the co-founders served as the Chief Information Officer of a leading publicly-based technology company with both domestic and international locations. They experienced firsthand the need for efficient and cost-effective inventory management software. Today, the MOA vision is to create unique cloud-based Software as a Service and move forward to a full ERP solution. With the advent of today’s cloud and subscription economy, there is no need for a company to invest in expensive hardware, software or to incur significant upfront costs. MOA software solutions adapt to the customer’s business requirements regardless of size, or industry.
Kechie and My Office Apps are trademarks of MOA. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Media Contact: Doug Finke, Vice-President of Marketing
Email: doug.finke@moaerp.com
Tel: (714) 486-1487
Cell: (949) 302-2488
Web: My Office Apps
The Worst Supply Chain Mistakes And How To Avoid Them
The Worst Supply Chain Mistakes And How To Avoid Them
Supply Chains are improving continuously and rapidly. This means that managers are seeing an increase in challenges that arise with these changes. As these continue, the chances of something going wrong is more than likely. Without minimizing these problems, they are only going to snowball into something worse. Here are the worst supply chain mistakes, and how to avoid them to better streamline your supply chain processes.
Still Relying On Spreadsheets
Many companies start out using spreadsheets when they first start to track their inventory. As your company evolves, however, so does your data. By continuing to track inventory on a spreadsheet, you’re only digging yourself in a deeper hole. As a business grows, so do the problems that start to arise without a proper inventory management software.
It’s time to upgrade when:
- Inventory isn’t being updated automatically
- It’s not accessible on the go
- You are losing track of inventory
- Too much time tracking/ dealing with errors and reports
- You are combining various software together
Prevent these errors by investing in a full enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. The importance of inventory tracking is evident, and essential to productivity. With a good inventory management system you can easily update without having to modify multiple spreadsheets. Not to mention, you will have the ability to project your future inventory needs.
Poor Customer Service
What happens when customers aren’t happy with your service, lack of availability of products, and denied orders? You lose business. The cause always stems down to the unavailability of products.
With problems like inaccurate demand forecasts, late deliveries from suppliers, data integrity issues, unreliable suppliers, lack of or unreliable formal planning system, unreliable production schedules, poor on time manufacturing schedule performance and organizational issues such lack of teamwork, lack of communication and lack of accountability, there’s always something that can go wrong.
Make sure to accurately look at data and predict your inventory. Good customer service depends on the visibility of information. It is necessary to provide and receive the most amount of data as possible to make the necessary changes in the supply chain before it becomes a problem. It takes a good inventory management software integrated with an ERP to fully manage your orders.
Inaccurate Planning
Market intelligence is the secret formula to planning a business’s future. Purchasing and selling cannot decided upon without much planning. With the mass amounts of products being sold/bought and money being spent, there is no room to leave out planning. To properly plan, however, a company needs to have accurate data. It needs to know what it already has, how it’s going to sell, buy, and stock on a continuous basis. Sadly, many companies even today do not formally forecast. Many companies employ highly intelligent, highly paid executives to spend their time gathering sales data for them to massage it in an Excel Spreadsheet to develop a forecast – a process that at times takes a few days. More often than not, they spend 95% of this time gathering data and 5% of the time in evaluating results. Get a modern software that will give you the ability to plan properly by tracking ins and outs like it should. Something that will flag you down when inventory is not where it should be.
Keep your supply chain running at optimum efficiency. It can be as simple as applying a few necessary steps to make sure it runs smoothly. Start by upgrading from spreadsheets to something that can actually help and manage your supply chain well. Optimize your customer service and make sure you always have what your customers want in stock. Lastly, use the market intelligence from your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to be aware and plan for optimal performance.
The Hidden Costs of Inadequate Business Management Tools
The Hidden Costs of Inadequate Business Management Tools
When a business is first formed, the management needs to put in place some method of managing their business operations so they can keep track of sales, orders, inventory, invoices, purchase orders, and all the other activities needed to run the business. At first, the business will probably be quite small and there probably won’t be a lot of capital available to purchase and install a complex ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software. Many business startups will often use very simple software tools such as Excel or Quickbooks to keep track of these activities.
This may be adequate for the initial startup of the business, but difficulties start to occur when businesses grow. The volume and complexity increases. The management of the business may believe that the tools they initially installed are still “good enough,” but what they may not realize is that their company has outgrown these initial tools and this inadequacy is creating hidden costs which is hampering the growth of the business.
Examples of hidden costs of inadequate business management tools:
- Not enough inventory available, causing lost sales
- Too much or wrong types of inventory that can’t be sold, leading to waste and scrap costs
- Poor customer service, creating dissatisfied customers
- Pricing which is either too high, or too low, causing either lost sales, or lost profits
- Slow collection on invoices causing potential cash flow problems
Many of these problems can sneak up on you and you may not realize the extent that they are occurring. So it is wise to periodically step back from the day-to-day activities for a brief period and really take a look at these problem areas and see if bringing in more sophisticated software tools is appropriate.
In the past, installing a sophisticated ERP system would require you to install hardware on your site to run on-premise software. And this would entail creating a whole new infrastructure to maintain this software and perform things like data backups, software updates, bug fixes, etc. In addition, to the costs of the software itself, there will be additional capital and operating costs for the computer hardware itself and the necessary power, cooling, and floor space.
Fortunately, with today’s modern cloud-based software tools it is no longer necessary to pay an arm and a leg in order to obtain a good performing ERP tool. My Office Apps offers Kechie ERP, which is a complete, easy-to-use ERP software that runs on the cloud and gets implemented quickly. Kechie does not require any hardware or software installations, or the attendant infrastructure to support it. Since it runs on the cloud, we take care of the servers, backups, software updates, data security, etc. Better yet, using Kechie does not require any up-front capital costs since payment for this Software as a Service (SaaS) only entails a very reasonable, per-user monthly access fee.
So, although you may initially feel that your customer business management software is good enough, we urge you to take a closer look to truly understand the costs of some of the operational problems mentioned above. We think that these hidden costs may actually be larger than you think, while the costs of implementing a cloud-based ERP system like Kechie may be smaller than you think. So you may be able to improve your business’s sales and profits by upgrading your tools.
My Office Apps has business specialists available who can help you evaluate your business and uncover improvement opportunities. Many folks on our team have been using ERP systems for many years under all sorts of different situations. We have been in your shoes and we can leverage our experience to show how much difference a reliable ERP system can make in your operations.
The ROI of Cloud ERP Implementation
The ROI of Cloud ERP Implementation
ROI is the key determiner in deciding which investments give the greatest return. In other words, ROI is a comparison of the expected benefit of a particular investment measured in monetary units, compared to the cost of that investment in the same monetary units.
The lack of efficiency and the great limitations of spreadsheets, basic accounting software, and even paper make running a business at optimum performance a little difficult. Without a proper ERP solution, businesses are struggling to get a greater ROI.
The ROI Benefits of the Various Aspects of ERP Are Greater Than You Might Think
The reduction of costs for IT is massive. There’s an anonymous technology company using a cloud-based ERP software that saved more than $100,000 in hardware and software purchases and avoided hiring at least three full time employees for its IT department.
Cloud ERP allowed companies to replace outdated accounting packages like QuickBooks, which, while inexpensive to purchase, were costly in maintenance, integration, and manual data entry.
There’s A More-Than Noticeable Increase in Productivity.
Sales and marketing teams are better able to serve customers. If you have a sales call and want to update the customer database, you don’t have to write a note and remember to do it when you get back to the office; that is very inefficient. You actually can just make the direct changes right then and there, adding notes within the ERP for everyone to see!
Moving from paper, spreadsheets, and accounting packages to cloud ERP solutions helps companies speed up collections, reduce the quote to cash time, and increase the accuracy of their billing. Monthly or yearly financial close has been simplified as well, due to financial consolidation and the ability to more easily access and manage financial data.
Decreasing inventory levels through better inventory planning reduces costs. Inventory management systems improve the tracking for movements. This is not only an important factor, invoice accuracy can reduce collection cycles, which in turn improves cash flow.
The Statistics of ROI for Cloud-Based ERP Solutions
Even though cloud ERP only represents 2 to7 percent of the total ERP market at present, the revenues it generates are expected to double by 2015 compared to 2010. Nucleus calculated the ROI achieved by using cloud ERP, and noticed most companies reported a higher than 150% ROI. One client of Netsuite’s said, “There is information about the customer and what they ordered. They can see history without tracking people down and see a complete picture of sales, ordering, and fulfillment. That has made us 20 to 30 percent more profitable.” Can you imagine how much this benefits customer service? The answer, according to this company, is 20 to 30 percent more profit.
Conclusion
The ROI for a cloud-based ERP system heavily outweighs what a cluster of non-integrated, lacking software offers. Not to mention, the returns are far better on a cloud-base than an on-premise ERP software. With the right ERP system, businesses are able to properly track and measure all of the various benefits of a proper ERP system to see their returns grow continually.
Will Inventory Management Software Really Help My Company?
What is inventory management software?
Inventory management software consists of business applications that track, manage and organize product sales, material purchases and other production processes. The software is used to track products and parts as they are transported from a vendor to a warehouse, between warehouses, and finally to a retail location or directly to a customer.
Why your business is being held back, drastically.
Growing companies can have a hard time keeping track of their inventory data accurately. When things are moving in and out really fast, simple lists and excel spreadsheets just don’t keep up. When someone has to manually enter everything into Excel, it leaves a lot of room for human errors. It also lacks real-time data so what you see on your Excel sheet may not actually match what you actually have in person. This is especially true when you have multiple people touching your inventory, but can only have one person update the sheet at a time. Another common problem is that using Excel to track large quantities is not only difficult, but it also increases the likelihood of the program crashing as your data grows exponentially larger.
Without accurate data, your views into your business are skewed—and you could end up making costly business decisions.
The statistics show that around 45% of American consumers shop throughout multiple channels within the market. As consumer data becomes more challenging and harder to test and analyze, it becomes harder to track manually. With the right inventory management software, however, it becomes much easier to sync the data between your sales and fulfillment.
An inventory management software must be adaptable.
Having an inventory management system that updates in real-time and has access to historical data can provide you with more useful information to make more accurate predictions about how much of a particular item you should stock. An accurate inventory management system will prevent having a bulk of items collecting dust on your shelves, having products that are in high demand on back order, and overall keeping your customers happy. This way you can optimize your inventory levels and replenish items as quickly as possible, so you have as little inventory as possible and your goods are constantly replenishing. Only the best inventory management software will be able to Integrate with other platforms to make management easy to use (Shopify and Salesforce).
So in short, inventory management software will not only optimize your company, it will help and grow with it, exponentially. Get a Free Demo now.
5 Tips That Wholesalers Can Use To Better Manage Their Warehouses
5 Tips That Wholesalers Can Use To Better Manage Their Warehouses
1. Offer special pricing for your overstocked inventory
Building savings campaigns for your overstocked inventory through daily, weekly, or monthly deals, lets you one-up your competition, and move your merchandise quickly and easily. Retailers will watch for these specials and will appreciate the added savings they receive when they deal with your company which means – yes, you guessed it – more orders!
2. Make ordering, delivery, and billing as seamless as possible
Automate your order management and product distribution processes as much as you can. This means less waiting for busy retailers who want a simple, streamlined process, putting your company near the top of their lists of wholesaling firms to bring their business to. It’s important to utilize an inventory management software that can streamline the operations for you!
3. Give your sales reps what they need to succeed
Do your sales reps have all the information they need going into sales appointments? Forward-thinking wholesalers, manufacturers, and distributors are understanding that in order to make sales in this day and age, sales reps need to add value to their sales conversations, not just go through the motions of writing down a reorder. Using a capable CRM is the next best step to creating more sales, and maximizing the sales process.
4. Differentiate on customer service, not price
Wholesalers who can differentiate their brands by providing great customer service are seeing returns. Think about how you can create a modern, convenient experience for your customers. How can you fulfill orders more quickly and replace transactional activity with strategic value? The short answer, is increased customer service. By tracking what your clients are purchasing and how often they do it through a sales order management software, you can get an insight into making sure you are their go-to distributor.
5. Get your inventory under control
You can’t run a profitable wholesale distribution business if you don’t have a good handle on inventory management.
Tracking incoming/outgoing inventory, doing regular physical inventory counts, and implementing a great inventory management software, are all key in keeping your inventory in good standing.
Wholesalers can optimize their business by implementing these strategies within their warehouses today.
KECHIE INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SOLUTION FROM MY OFFICE APPS, INC. SELECTED BY WAHIKI COCONUT CREAMERY AND ALSO SOURCELY, LLC.
Kechie Software-as-a-Service on the Cloud Enables Customers to Streamline Inventory Management and Customer Fulfillment
SANTA ANA, CA, USA – October 23, 2017 – My Office Apps, Inc. (MOA), innovator of next-generation, cloud-based inventory management and enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions, announced today it is gaining additional traction and has been selected by two additional users. WaHiki Coconut Creamery, creator of dairy and gluten-free, vegan ice cream products and Sourcely, LLC., a provider of parts and services to mobile electronics stores have chosen MOA’s Kechie Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Inventory management solution to cost-effectively streamline their rapidly growing inventory management, fulfillment and operating processes.
MOA’s mission has been to design a Software-as-a-Service offered on a subscription basis to help customers cost-effectively streamline the tracking and management of inventory and other critical resources. MOA delivers the following features and benefits:
- User friendly interface with easy navigation
- Scalability
- Streamlined operations
- Customizable modules, search filters and reports
- Real-time alerts on low inventory
- Barcode scanning
“Our company started using the Kechie system in October 2016,” said Haman Shahpari, Wahiki’s Co-founder and CEO. “The team at Kechie was extremely helpful, assisting us to set up and customize the system so it is tailored to our business. Fair to say that the system is very comprehensive, user friendly and easy to work with. The Kechie support team has been very responsive all along the way, helping our personnel with training and troubleshooting whenever needed.”
“Integrating MOA/Kechie with our online store through Shopify for inventory management has turned out to be instrumental to growing our business efficiently and profitably,” commented Justin Finkelstein, Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Sourcely. “The support staff is awesome and always helps in a professional and timely manner. I would definitely recommend My Office Apps to any business looking for an innovative, easy-to-use, highly customizable, inventory management software.”
Mariam Komeili, MOA co-founder and CEO remarked, “With a true cloud-based subscription solution and our experience supporting both small, private businesses and larger public companies, we felt that we could develop solutions that enable our customers to streamline the operation of their businesses. Our dedication is to absolute customer support and the success of our customers. Even though WaHiki and Sourcely are much different businesses, we are so pleased with the fact that both have benefitted from Kechie and it is a testament to the adaptability and ease-of-use of the cloud-based software.”
For information about MOA, to discuss how Kechie may help streamline your business inventory management, or to request a product demonstration, please email us at info@myofficeapps.com.
About WaHiki Coconut Creamery
A successful sports trainer and an avid, innovative entrepreneur with a common love of good quality, pure food and a desire to create a delicious tasting ice cream alternative for those unable to consume dairy or gluten have team together to form WaHiki. The company was started in 2016 and today WaHiki is expanding rapidly. Its products are sold throughout New Zealand, Australia and parts of Asia. For information about the Company and products, please visit www.wahiki.co.nz. Love WaHiki, love your life.
About Sourcely
What happens when four entrepreneurial, long-time friends and former coworkers share an idea and develop a platform to power the secondary or re-commerce mobile device market to help repair stores grow revenue, decrease costs and increase profits? This is Sourcely! The company is expanding rapidly since being founded in 2013 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona. For information about Sourcely, please visit www.sourcely.com.
About My Office Apps, Inc. (MOA)
For more than 25 years, My Office Apps (MOA) co-founders saw the challenges companies have, purchasing and implementing Inventory management and ERP software solutions. One of the co-founders served as the Chief Information Officer of a leading publicly-based technology company with both domestic and international locations. They experienced firsthand the need for efficient and cost-effective inventory management software. Today, the MOA vision is to create unique cloud-based Software as a Service and move forward to a full ERP solution. With the advent of today’s cloud and subscription economy, there is no need for a company to invest in expensive hardware, software or to incur significant upfront costs. MOA software solutions adapt to the customer’s business requirements regardless of size, or industry.
Kechie and My Office Apps are trademarks of MOA. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
The Importance of Choosing The Right ERP Solution The First Time
Is It Really Important to Choose the Right ERP Solution the First Time?
These statistics seem to say it is.
- 80% of customers are unhappy with their current ERP.
- 60% of ERP projects fail.
- 90% fail to deliver any measurable ROI.
- 95% of failure companies dedicate less than 10% of total budget to education/training/change
- 41% of enterprises fail to realize less than 50% of all benefits.
What can go wrong if you don’t?
The System implementation can take longer than expected. The Lack of training causes lack of confidence and efficiency. The system isn’t as easy to use as predicted, causing a loss in time and value. The system isn’t cloud-based, meaning sales people can’t work on-the-go. Companies fail to realize less than 50% of all benefits because of a lack of training and efficiency that over-complicated and expensive ERP systems.
Great ERP systems need to be able to prevent and avoid these problems at all costs.
The solution is to make sure the ERP you choose has: a good price, ease of use/customization, scalability, and is cloud-based/accessible everywhere.
Don’t miss out by getting a complicated ERP system that you will hate; get a sophisticated ERP system that’s easy to use, and the entire company will love.
Kechie ERP – The next generation of Cloud-based ERP solutions.
Kechie ERP is ready to go and easy to use. Get training along the way with built-in, specific training videos. It is the most customizable ERP system that adapts around your business, not the other way around. Not to mention, Kechie ERP is the most affordable ERP compared to the other top-named brands. With a 100% user satisfaction rate, Kechie continues to provide the very best for all businesses looking to increase their ROI’s, grow, and expand.
Try it for free now at no risk, and see how easy and essential it is to any growing company.
What have you got to gain? A complete revision on how efficiently and easily your teams can manage your company collaboratively without any of the downfalls.
My Office Apps, Inc. Announces Kechie™
My Office Apps, Inc. Announces Kechie™, A Next Generation Cloud-Based ERP Software Solution
SANTA ANA, CA, USA – April 10, 2017 – My Office Apps, Inc. (MOA), an innovator of next-generation, cloud-based inventory management and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software solutions, announced today the release of its Kechie™ ERP software product. This product will be offered on a subscription basis using the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model to help customers cost-effectively streamline and manage Sales & Marketing, Inventory Management and other critical areas of their day to day operations. The SaaS, cloud based nature of the software significantly reduces the capital and operational cost of ERP software compared to on-premise choices.
Kechie’s key module offerings are:
- Customer Relations Management (CRM)
- Order Management
- Inventory Management
- Supply Change Management
- Multi-warehouse
- Logistics
- RMA
These customizable modules provide a flexible, highly scalable and user friendly interface that can streamline operations and provide real-time alerts for critical conditions in your business.
Mariam Komeili, MOA co-founder and CEO commented, “MOA has taken a fresh approach for providing a modern cloud-based ERP software. Instead of taking an ERP software originally developed for on-premise legacy server installation and converting it to run on the cloud, we have created a ground-up design that has been optimized for use on the cloud that also fully supports mobile devices. The software is designed with flexibility in mind and can be easily customized for a customer’s particular business. This allows for very quick user implementations so customers can rapidly start reaping the benefits of having a better tool to manage their business.”
For information about MOA, to discuss how Kechie may help streamline your business inventory management, or to request a product demonstration, please visit our web site at My Office Apps or email us at info@myofficeapps.com.
About My Office Apps, Inc. (MOA)
For more than 25 years, My Office Apps (MOA) co-founders saw the challenges companies have, purchasing and implementing Inventory management and ERP software solutions. One of the co-founders served as the Chief Information Officer of a leading publicly-based technology company with both domestic and international locations. They experienced firsthand the need for efficient and cost effective inventory management software. Today, the MOA vision is to create unique cloud-based Software as a Service and move forward to a full ERP solution. With the advent of today’s cloud and subscription economy there is no need for a company to invest in expensive hardware, software or to incur significant upfront costs. MOA software solutions adapt to the customer’s business requirements regardless of size, or industry.
Kechie and My Office Apps are trademarks of MOA. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Kechie and My Office Apps are trademarks of MOA. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.