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October 14, 2025 8 min read
Your Complete Guide to Shopping The Cin7 Community This Holiday Season
The most unforgettable gifts aren't hiding in big box stores. They come from passionate ...
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May 8, 2024 6 min read
How to execute a year-end inventory count
What is a year-end inventory count? A year-end inventory count is a physical count of all the...
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October 19, 2023 7 min read
Warehouse layout design best practices
There’s more to running a warehouse than just piling inventory on shelves. The design of your...
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October 6, 2023 5 min read
What Is Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) + How to Calculate It
If you’ve been hanging around the accounting department, chances are you’ve heard the term cost of...
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January 4, 2023 3 min read
How to manage inventory for planned and unplanned plant shutdowns
Although not very often, factory shutdowns happen. Whether planned or unplanned, shutdowns cause...
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September 27, 2022 5 min read
Why is purchase order management important?
There are two areas of purchase order management: the number of POs issued and the timing of them....
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September 16, 2022 10 min read
5 elements of an optimized inventory management system
Inventory management is the process of purchasing or gaining, storing, and using company inventory....
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August 29, 2022 9 min read
How retailers can thrive in tough economic times
The last few years have been really hard for retailers. Disruptions from the Covid-19 pandemic...
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August 1, 2022 3 min read
Effective inventory management: The secret to Black Friday success
Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday traditionally kick off the holiday shopping...
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July 29, 2022 3 min read
Top 10 technologies driving ecommerce growth in 2022
New technologies continue to drive innovation in the ecommerce world. How is your site keeping up?...
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July 20, 2022 2 min read
5 things to look for in a retail point-of-sale (POS) system
Customers expect to make purchases quickly and easily. An efficient point-of-sale (POS) system lets...
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July 19, 2022 3 min read
4 Inventory accounting methods for inventory valuation
What do manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers have in common? They all deal with...

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