
Warehouse and retail layout drives efficiency
	Define warehouse zones so heavy items are picked appropriately, fast pick is easy to access, bulk locations are out of the way and retail is separate
	Plan all warehouse, show room, credit return, back order receipt and retail locations
	Allow space for receipting and plan a good flow of stock from receipting through to shipping areas
	Set appropriate location sizes for your business, from one shelf min to two meters max
	Setup trucks as stock locations if you use the service module
	Set min and max levels for product locations to support stock replenishment from bulk to fast pick or tracks
	Set retail locations to quarantine
	Print bar coded location labels and place them on the appropriate locations. Consider using non-stick shelf talkers as labels
Manage those slow moving products
	Show stock on hand, last receipt date, last sale date and date created on your product list. Then filter to show items created more than three months ago that have stock on hand and a last shipment more than three months ago.
	Review and consider putting on sale slow moving lines that are not parts of ranges
Automate price changes
	For your first price update only. Use price book runs to ensure automatic updates will not cause wild changes to cost or sell prices due to variances in units
	Once you have settled in price book runs, contact Readysell support and have automatic price updates turned on
	Avoid catalogue loads. Even automatic catalogue loads can be replaced by automatic price updates
	Manual loads of flyers might be justified, as flyers need to be reviewed and they don't permanently change any sell prices
	Consider loading spreadsheets to the price book for any ranges that are not covered by your automatic data feeds
	Generate price change labels for your retail area based on last primary sell price changed date
Implement wireless warehousing
	Wireless warehousing using the mobile app on apple, android or windows is just best practice. Change is difficult, your team is probably used to picking from orders or picking slips. But the mobile app is just more efficient. The time has come to move to the best practice and mobile app is it.
	Start by parrallel running sale shipments and move on from there
	Plan on three hours training and implementation assistance. Every hour you spend on training will save you many hours of trial and error
	Buy mobile units that support team viewer so Readysell can provide remote support
	Review hour mobile device hardware guide before you purchase any devices
Save time with automated warehousing, if your business is not purely POS based
	Automated warehousing can benefit every business. Take the time to understand the settings on your site file
	The learning curve is justified, if you are not using automatic warehousing have it turned on
Reduce costs, save time and increase customer loyalty with advanced warehousing features
	Wireless tables for putting away purchase receipts and picking sale shipments
	Scan checking of purchase receipts entering the business. Consider using a large screen so your team can see your receipts display from a distance
	Scan checking sale shipments
	Automated warehousing as noted above
	Drag quantity on sales back order onto the purchase receipt lines view. Then put aside that quantity into a back orders area. This saves a lot of time as pickers don't have to walk to the shelves to collect back orders
	Picking slips with a count bigger than one are for back orders. So picking slips "2 of 2" is for backorders. Train your team to take such picking slips to the back order are
Save time and reduce costs by understanding your warehouse and your team
	Readysell can report on bin hits per hour to measure the effectiveness of your warehouse layout. The fast movers should be near the front of your warehouse Download the List Report: "Shipment lines by location by hour" from the Readysell Store if you do not already have this report to run. You can add any columns onto the report once you've run it for further information if you require them.
	Picker shipment lines per day and credit/error rates can be tracked. Use this information to monitor your team. Perhaps additional training is required.
Save time and reduce costs by preparing for stockakes
	Understand and plan the type of stock you will be using. There are a variety of stocktake methods and a separate group of stocktake stock clearing methods. Make sure you understand the difference between the methods of running stocktakes and the methods of clearing stock.
	Ensure you have a manual checklist to plan and track stocktake progress
	If you are still in doubt use the ad-hock stocktake method.
	Setup locations and location labels before stocktake
	Consider doing a stocktake without counting the stock, just to put the stock in the right locations
	Laptops are best for your first stocktake
	Tablets are best for second stocktakes, once you know all your barcodes are captured correctly for your product range
	Note: If you have been running Readysell for six months and you have established best warehouse and inventory practices, you should not need to do stocktakes ever again. If you find yourself needing to do continuing stocktakes then something else is wrong. Spend the time to identify and correct the cause of the problem. This will normally be some procedure that is not being carried out correctly or is not correctly trained and defined.
Reduce costs by tracking stock adjustments
	Retail workstations can make automatic stock adjustments so that customers can buy stock that they have in their hands but which is not yet receipted into the system. Those adjustments should reverse. Review automatic stock adjustments once a week to check they are being automatically reversed
	Stock adjustments can be made from sales by right clicking on the product, consider applying security limits to this feature. If not review the number, value and created by for stock adjustments each week
	Ensure staff classify stock adjustments to the correct stock adjustment type. "short stock" should only be used where other more defined reasons such as "damaged stock" do not apply
Improve revenue with optimal price options
	Fixed sell prices suit prices that are automatically updated from external data feeds. If the sell price is not updated automatically, do not use fixed sell prices
	The price method for each price level can be adjusted for individual products
	Use markup from cost to ensure you hold your margin as costs change
	Price categories on products can override other price rules. For example on large ranges of low cost consumables that you import without recommended sells
	Price levels can be discounts from other levels, this can reduce your number of contracts and your price maintenance load
	Put customers on price levels to provide incentives without the maintenance involved in contract prices
	Remember, contracts can apply to supplier costs
	Make use of market competitor price levels if they are updated into your system

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