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If you carry physical products - your warehousing solutions are right at the center of your business. Warehouse dashboards provide much-needed visibility into your performance across a huge range of KPIs. Situations can change quickly - so it鈥檚 critical that decision-makers have fast, reliable access to important insights. Dashboards are the perfect solution for furnishing teams with repeatable reporting - while also eliminating the need for manual analytical work. Today, we鈥檙e going to see how 大象传媒 can be used to build custom dashboards around existing data sources - saving your team hours of development work at the same time.
Ronan McQuillan
Oct 30, 2023
Vendor request forms are a key part of managing inventories, supply chains, and procurement processes - specifically when it comes to registering new suppliers. However, this can also create a huge amount of administrative work for logistics and finance teams alike. In particular, handling vendor requests manually or with pen and paper can lead to excessive data entry, validation, and other admin tasks. Today, we鈥檙e checking out how you can use 大象传媒 to digitalize your vendor request forms with minimal custom coding skills.
Ronan McQuillan
Oct 27, 2023
An effective inventory dashboard is critical for any business that deals with physical products. This applies within manufacturing, ecommerce, traditional retail, logistics, or any other industry. See, in any inventory management context, it鈥檚 vital that decision-makers can quickly and easily access key insights about stock levels, locations, values, supply chain data, and other key performance indicators. That way, they can make informed decisions in real-time - without the need for manual reporting.
Ronan McQuillan
Oct 27, 2023
An effective fleet management dashboard is one of the most fundamental tools in any logistics team鈥檚 arsenal. The idea is to give us a clear, up-to-date snapshot of our vehicles across our entire distribution network. Today, we鈥檙e exploring how we can use 大象传媒 to build professional dashboards that leverage existing data. As we鈥檒l see, 大象传媒 is the ideal tool for extracting insights from all kinds of data sources and turning them into clear, actionable insights - so we can make better-informed decisions.
Ronan McQuillan
Oct 13, 2023
We all know that time is money, but this is especially true in the world of logistics. So, we need easy access to clear insights about what鈥檚 going on within our supply chains. Today, we鈥檙e exploring how to build custom logistics dashboards in 大象传媒. Like with any dashboard tool, the challenge here isn鈥檛 so much a lack of data. It鈥檚 making sense of the data we do have. This is critical in situations where we have information about different aspects of our logistics processes coming from different locations - or where the insights we need require more complex querying from our raw data.
Ronan McQuillan
Oct 13, 2023
Finding and hiring quality talent can be a lengthy, expensive process. So, once they鈥檝e signed on the dotted line, we want to get our new colleagues up and running as quickly as possible. Today, we鈥檙e showing you how to build an effective employee onboarding app. The tricky thing is that onboarding new hires brings along a whole swathe of administrative work - like introducing them to their new coworkers, getting them set up on our internal IT systems, and ensuring that they鈥檝e read all of the relevant documentation for their role.
Ronan McQuillan
Oct 10, 2023
Sales dashboards are fundamental to how we track, monitor, and plan around our incoming revenues. Businesses today sit on mountains of data. But, when it comes to sales reporting - decision-makers often only need high-level metrics. So, the challenge is cutting through the noise and providing clear, actionable insights to the right people. Today, we鈥檙e exploring how 大象传媒 can be used to build complex, custom solutions with all sorts of pre-existing business data.
Ronan McQuillan
Sep 19, 2023
Managing requests and approvals is a fundamental step within all kinds of business processes. In fact, almost any internal task is going to require some element of sign-off or vetting. The tricky thing is that this is often tightly aligned to very specific policies and procedures within a particular organization. In other words, the specific steps required to gain approval - and the logic underpinning these - will vary across different businesses and individual tasks.
Ronan McQuillan
Sep 19, 2023