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Transform Fleet Management with Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations

It is easier for businesses having limited vehicles to manage on their own. However, for medium to large scale businesses, it is recommended to opt for unified Fleet Management Software like the one Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations offers. Any business that owns a fleet of vehicles to transport goods from one location to another or from the store to straight at the customer’s doorstep, requires management. In the era of digitally transformed competition, it is mandatory to optimize the latest technology to stay ahead in the race. Even those ventures fall into the category of providing outsourced services for transportation. D365 F&O can resolve fleet management challenges faced by managers such as: Tedious administrative tasks such as invoicing, quoting, dispatching, and keeping customers up to date are time-consuming. Fluctuating fuel costs can add a significant cost to your budget. Unforeseen vehicle breakdowns can cause delivery delays and a downfall in productivity. The inability to reach drivers while they are driving adds another challenge to the list. Inability to maintain driver’s productivity as losing good drivers is an expensive affair. Lack of coordination among fleets scattered in various locations. Scattered data leading to poor decisions is one of the major concerns. How Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations help your Business? Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations delivers unified Fleet Management Software that allows you to manage buses, trucks, delivery vehicles, and a lot more. Instead of directly calling drivers, this solution enables live vehicle tracking, route progress, and even late or missed stops. It allows various robust functions such as: Driver Management D365 Finance and Operations helps manage your driver by automatically recording locations, trips, and driving behavior. Monitoring their activities, driving patterns and vehicle utilization becomes easier. You can easily create and manage a driver’s profile and identify if they have an expired license. You can also access alert emails/SMS for long driving hours. Check if any of them violate the rules. In addition, it also delivers insightful statistical reports on driver management. Trip Scheduling and Route Planning This feature of the single Fleet Management Software allows you to create trip specifying instructions and waypoints. You can schedule trips and predict optimal routes based on traffic. You can get accurate data on turn-by-turn driving directions, estimated driving time, and distance. Besides, it calculates and generates routes for the fastest travel hence saving you fuel. Route planning is automated. You can easily search, plot, assess, and print your route. Vehicle Maintenance With vehicle maintenance, you can create better schedules, and maintenance plans based on industrial rules while tracking vehicles needing sudden attention. In addition, you can track their history based on their type (e.g., four-wheelers, two-wheelers, loading capacities, etc.) You can also track budgeting vs actual maintenance cost. Vehicle Tracking The solution enables real-time vehicle location visibility and tracks historical data on routes, site visits, vehicle speed, idling, and drivers’ behavior. Moreover, you can also claim live traffic updates, excessive speed monitoring, unauthorized vehicle uses tracking, etc. You can also create personalized maps with custom geo-zones as well as landmarks. Track Tyre Efficiency Now you can track tire efficiency through Tyre serial number or Tyre Card No. The Tyre factsheet generated gives out all the transactions and analysis of a Tyre while current running Tyres on the vehicle with actual mileage and life are also tracked. How Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations Favors Your Business? Having all the above-given functionalities eventually works in a business’s favor. With driver management, trip planning, scheduling, and other features, your business is bound to see a difference in productivity. Cuts Fuel Cost With this software, you can manage your fuel costs by identifying every potential aspect that can help you consider every aspect that can save you fuel, be it finding the shortest route, avoiding traffic, or using the vehicle to its full capacity. It can address all the aspects that will help you save costs on fuel. Reduces Vehicle Maintenance cost Since the user can track vehicle history, km traveled, fuel consumption, engine hours, and other factors, you can pre-determine the maintenance requirement and take preventative measures before bigger damage. Improves Driver’s Safety This solution allows you to track your driver’s performance, expertise, background, capabilities, behavior, and other factors before assigning them trips. Make Timely Deliveries You can identify the ideal vehicle for delivering a specific item or a category of items with maximum capacity, followed by customizing routes to the shortest. This way you can boost productivity by delivering more items in a day thus helping you ease up on secondary trip planning. To Sum it Up Having Unified Fleet Management Software like Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations has become a necessity these days. Since logistics usually operate on razor-thin margins, profit depends upon the optimization methodologies you conduct. If you are looking for D365 Finance and Operations implementation, you can Contact Trident Information Systems, a Gold Microsoft Dynamics 365 implementation partner with a massive team of experts and a robots track of accomplishments.

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Curb Food Manufacturing Wastage and Meet Quality Standards with Microsoft D365

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In an industry where the margin is limited and the final product is perishable, the manufacturer needs to take certain steps to avoid wastage. Food manufacturers waste food every day in a concerning amount. Lack of proper inventory distribution, storage, and management are key drivers of food wastage. An ERP for Food Manufacturing like Dynamics 365 for Food Manufacturing can help manufacturers tackle wastage and comply with quality standards. Statistically, Food wastage is one of the leading causes adding to food costs and depleting revenue. Proper planning and inventory management can save your business from shutting down. Minimizing waste can save you a fortune, adding considerable value to your profit. However, have you ever wondered about food waste driving factors? One of the most common factors are overbuying, spoilage, Improper Storage, and improper methods: Overbuying is the case due to a lack of an efficient demand forecast. With the inability to identify customer demands, manufacturers tend to purchase certain ingredients which are left unused for a long time. Raw material and final products need proper storage otherwise, they can perish a lot faster than their estimated time. Unused items left for a long time can end up getting spoiled or become unfit to consume, hence they get wasted. Another major factor that counts is being unable to practice proper preparation techniques such as failing to get the most fruit off the grind. Manufacturers can prevent these factors with a suitable Food Manufacturing ERP such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Food Manufacturing. They can forecast demand and allocate inventory better. Proper warehouse management is necessary to boost the shelf life of your raw material and finished products. Also, training your staff to adopt certain preparation methods that ensure optimum ingredient utilization can help this process significantly. How Dynamics 365 Helps Curb Food Wastage and Comply with Quality Standards? Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Food Manufacturing is one of the leading ERP for Food Manufacturing throughout the globe. It tracks raw material, spillage, and food waste, forecasts demand, manages warehouses, and identifies how you can meet the quality standards with minimum waste. Demand Forecasting You can use D365 to predict independent demand orders from sales reports and dependent demand from a decoupling point for customer orders. This upgraded demand forecast is an ideal solution for master planning. Historical transactions are transmitted to Microsoft Azure Machine Learning hosted on Azure. Since this service is not shared amongst users, it can be customized to fulfill industry-specific requirements. You can optimize the supply chain management to view and adjust forecasts and spot the Key Performance indicators (KPIs) on forecast certainty. Inventory Management With real-time visibility, you can manage inventory better, order, and optimize the accurate ingredient ratio. Microsoft Dynamics 365 keeps upgrading its inventory management capacities for more sophisticated supply chain tactics optimization, such as assigning series numbers and locations to different food products, inventory organization for transfer routes, added item carts, and cards creation to classify each product. Measuring available inventory, categorizing added items, and importing zip files for item images. Complete Automation Dynamics 365 for Food Manufacturing ensures Complete manufacturing automation minimizing human efforts as much as possible. Leading to a manufacturing process boost and waste reduction at the same time. For instance, adopting Automatic Visual detection minimizes human efforts and the scope of errors. Or automatic data analysis extracting market demands and production requirements offer quicker reports than your data analysts. sparing you enough time to use it on other productive activities. Avoids Overproduction Under Microsoft Dynamics ERP for Food Manufacturing, you can purchase apt equipment and tools your business needs to avoid overproduction. Waste reduction gets easier with proper inventory control, accurate timelines, and efficient management. With manufacturing workflow process integrations and adjusting production schedules can help reduce food wastage to a significant level. Also, its robust features such as capacity loading, production-driven automation can help you determine the cost of each activity occurring at the factory. Warehouse Management The warehouse management module for Microsoft Dynamics 365 finance and operations manages warehouse operations regarding manufacturing, distribution, and retail companies. You can claim a wide range of features baking up warehouse operations optimally at any given time. The warehouse is completely integrated with other business operations in finance and operations such as manufacturing, quality control, transportation, purchase, sales, transfer, and returns, etc. Lean Manufacturing Optimize lean manufacturing method to minimize waste. Applying this concept can allow manufacturers to cut costs on every business aspect. From accounting to payroll, there are numerous ways to cut activities that do not add value to the business. Similarly, Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Food Manufacturing, an ERP for Food Manufacturing helps you streamline every aspect of manufacturing. The integrated software generates a factory consisting of an unmatched level of efficiency and eliminates non-value-adding activities. What is Vision Quality Inspection (VQI) and How Does It Help in FMCG Manufacturing? Vision Quality Inspection is a technology accompanied by hardware created by our experts to detect defects while manufacturing FMCG products. It is particularly useful for reign particle detection such as stones, metals, insects, small animals, unwanted vegetables, wood, thorns, and so on. Confirm the structural dimension and quality with relative dimension monitoring, check if the necessary components are present and unwanted particles are evaded. Automate color identification and identify if the product is in the right tone of color. Measure and control the product intensity and spectrum of the object’s illustration. Why Would you Choose Trident? Trident Information Systems offers one of the best ERP for Food Manufacturing. After winning multiple awards, we are recognized as the Gold Partner of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and LS Retail. We are armed with 150+ technical resources and have come up with unique services such as Vision Quality Inspections. Optimizing food manufacturing and ensuring quality, this innovation of ours has gained significant recognition among manufacturers. Not every implementation partner provides this add-on. Additionally, we are one of the oldest B2B service providers in India, extending our services to South Africa, America, the

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How does LS Central Help with Store Stock Redistribution?

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Retailers these days are struggling with stock redistribution. Lack of real-time data and appropriate technology, followed by a dynamic market environment leads to such issues. Inability to forecast demands and Retailers using outdated technology have a hard time balancing stock, Reorder Point/ Max inventory, and so on. Hence, they require a solution like LS Retail Software Solution: one of the Best Inventory Management Software. Store Stock Redistribution is a part of the LS Replenishment suite and is completely integrated with LS Central as a key component. It ensures that the correct items are present at the right place at the right time. LS Central can successfully process all this by calculating and offering transfer orders and purchase orders for stores and warehouses. Purchase Replenishment Journals and Stock Replenishment Journals support processing for constantly occurring products that are purchased or delivered either straight to a warehouse or the stores. Generally, demands are either fulfilled with the transfer orders from the warehouse or through the purchase orders for deliveries straight from the vendors to the stores. This suite also introduces Redistribution Replenishment Journals, which support store replenishment from other stores or warehouses. This can be very useful for items that are purchased once, or products that are at the end of their lifecycle. This stock exists in the store and needs to be sold out at minimal discounts. In these examples, the stock is scattered across stores. Some stores might have more products than others, and some might have more demand for stocks than others. This journal calculates and proposes item transfers to states with demand and less stock while eliminating out-of-stock situations. Having healthy stock redistribution technology can deliver tremendous benefits to a business. Since every decision involves the resources in the shape of cost and time, retailers need to analyze requirements and benefits before making these shifts. Optimum store stock replenishment can offer benefits like: Improved inventory health Increased inventory turns Improved stock cover and reduced stock-outs at SKU (Stock Keeping Units) level Increased full-price sell-through Reduced brokenness Improved omnichannel distribution. The Store Stock Redistribution calculates the number of items needed in a store to fulfil demands, followed by the number of items to be transferred from other stores or warehouses. The core process is performed in three major steps: The system calculates the demands and excessive stock within the warehouse or the store. The user then goes through the calculation while narrowing down the items that are to be considered ahead. The system then calculates the overall trips (transfer between stores) to fulfil the demands in the stores. Store Stock Distribution delivers the following calculations in order to calculate the supply and demand in the store. Sales Demands: In this calculation type, the sales demand is calculated until the end of the season, lifecycle, or the end of the calculation horizon for the items throughout the stores and warehouses. In accordance with current stock and expected sales demands, followed by a buffer value, the system classifies locations into locations with demand and supply. Stock Balancing: This calculation type includes calculating the average stock for all the items throughout all stores. According to current stock and average stock value, the system balances stocks between stock and thus classifies locations in locations with demands and supply. Reorder Point/ Max Inventory: In this calculation type, the current stock for the items is calculated in stores and warehouses. In accordance with the Max. and Reorder Point, the system will classify locations into locations with supply and demand. Manual Redistributions: This type of calculation is like the Sales Demand calculation; the sales demand is calculated until the end of the season, lifecycle, or the end of the calculation horizon for the items throughout the stores and warehouses. In addition, the system also calculates the current variant availability to spot broken units. This calculation does not endorse the classification of locations in locations with demand and supply. Nevertheless, it lets the user determine how the variants shall be redistributed across stores manually. Ls Retail Software Solutions are one of the Best Inventory Management Software solutions. LS Central delivers an LS Replenishment suite that delivers Store Stock Replenishment. If you are looking to implement LS Central for accurate stock replenishment, contact Trident Information Systems. We are a Gold LS Retail and Microsoft D365 implementation partner.

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Why are Manual Inspection Methods Not Effective Nowadays?

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Have you been implying manual Defect Detection in Manufacturing so far? Don’t you think it is high time to switch to Machine Vision Applications for faster and better-quality products? You are most likely to fall behind in the competition if you keep putting most of your time and resources into manual testing that does not even guarantee accuracy in some cases. Manual testing might work in some areas, but it is not preferred every time since it comes with various drawbacks such as: Low Accuracy Humans are prone to make errors, and manual testing is more likely to make more errors than an automated solution. For example, in the case of glass manufacturing, human eyes might miss dust particles in a hassle, or they miss subtle scratches appearing on the glass surface. As soon as they notice it, there are chances the defective pieces have already found their way ahead. Mandatory Human Interactions In current times, where social distancing is the topmost priority, we need to avoid human interactions as much as possible. Batch testing (executing a series of tests) is possible. However, in each test case execution, human interaction becomes inevitable. If you switch to a Defect Detection Computer Version, everything gets automatic and needs no/less human interference. Demands More Time and Resources To cover each application area, you need to perform more Manufacturing Defect Detection tests. Creating test cases and their respective execution eats up a great deal of human effort and time. Checking up on each product, and informing the person concerned to take relevant steps, and taking the same tests, repeatedly, can be exhausting and time-consuming. Impractical Data Collection Unnecessary data collection is one of the biggest drawbacks of manual inspections, collecting and comparing substantial amounts of data is impractical without automation. Preparing reports on products and reporting them to the relevant personnel can be time-consuming and prone to errors. How Does an Automated Intelligent Machine System Help? The demand for higher productivity and better-quality output within the manufacturing industry has demanded an upgraded production inspection. A Visual Inspection in Manufacturing is more beneficial; you can assure better and faster defect detection. A Machine Vision Inspection can offer tremendous benefits such as: Boost Manufacturing Output With automatic vision inspection, you can detect defects faster and make necessary modifications, you no longer must put your time and efforts into manual testing and reporting, instead spend it on other productive tasks and get a boosted ROI. The inspection is done in one station and there is no need to set multiple inspection sections. Minimizes Inspection Time In visual quality inspection, everything is done by the machine itself, so you do not have to fuss about its accuracy and speed. There is no doubt that the machine version surpasses human vision at every level provided by its speed, repeatability, and speed. Machine vision can easily identify small objects and detect defects with lesser errors and reliability. Machine vision can inspect thousands of products and their parts in a minute on a production line. Better Perception Machine vision has a high resolution depending upon the technology and hardware that are being used for the object’s illustration. Automatic Defect Detection in Manufacturing has a better spectrum of visual perception. Moreover, the system is more reliable and can be programmed as required. Anywhere Deployment Such systems can be deployed anywhere, even in locations that are hazardous for humans. It is best for manufacturing products or solutions that may cause serious health hazards or injuries to humans. Production Optimization With this technology, you can easily interpret defects and solve them in the closest time possible. Analyze first output and resolve the core issue of the quality defects. You may as well use the permit fixers to highlight defective components and effectively digitalize the defect reporting process. Promotes the Desired Outcome With a Machine Vision Inspection, you can optimize your products and workforce. You can also eliminate the need for sampling products while using this technology. Also, you can revise all the defective products from the data storage and identify the root cause of defeated data in real-time. Automating these activities can make your production goals easier to achieve. Minimize Future Costs You can easily cut costs with a digital quality inspection (including rejected or returned items that could be damaged due to shipment-oriented packaging defects). Remove them before getting shipped and improve the end customer’s product quality experience. Final Words Manual Defect Data Detection in Manufacturing has become outdated. Automating your quality inspection can eliminate all the issues arising under manual quality inspection. Trident Information Systems is one of the best Vision Quality Inspection service providers. Contact us for a demo.

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Need of Business Intelligence for Business Growth & Decision Making

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The age of technological advancement has turned regular lives to a completely new page, let alone businesses. Companies these days can access Business Intelligence Tools and related strategies to tap into their customer’s mindset and read patterns. These insights are no less than a treasure for a business; this data can easily transmute to loyalty programs. Suitable Power BI Implementation Partners can guide you through the methods you can optimally utilize this technology. So, What Exactly is Business Intelligence? Business Intelligence is a compilation of technologies, tools, practices, and applications that helps an organization collect, integrate, analyze, and display raw data in the form of insightful and action-driven business data. BI (Business Intelligence) is comprised of the following aspects: Data Mining Querying and Reporting Analytical Processing BI aims at helping business managers, cooperative executives, and other operational heads to make more insightful and logical decisions. BI is a great tool for cost-cutting, identifying new business opportunities, and shunning inefficient business operations. However, not everyone is benefiting from the same. Owing to time and budget limitations, some managers perceive that BI might not be worth the investment. Some may consider it as saving on their budget. However, little do they realize it causes more harm than good to a business. You might also address it as a ‘leaky bucket’ the bucket represents your business and water represents your customers. Considering the fact that you cannot add more customers since your bucket might overflow. BI, like Microsoft Power BI Integration, collects and compiles data on your sales and customers so you can see customer loss as it happens. You may also end up understocking. A warehouse manager can develop a business instinct for company trends. However, instincts are just subjective. You may end up understocking or overstocking inventory without having current market analytics and proper knowledge of customer demands. This is where BI comes forward and plays its part. You no longer must rely on the quarterly or monthly reports since you can get real-time data and analysis of what customers are demanding so you can stock in balance. One of the major drawbacks of not using a BI is the skyrocketing expense of your resources, staff to manage your IT department. With BI you can print and share the relevant reports yourself. This saves your time and budget on the IT department, and they can do something more productive instead. How does Business Intelligence Help in Business Growth? Business Intelligence serves the businesses the purpose they are derived from in the modern business scenarios. A Power BI Integration can help your business with Making more effective and insightful decisions Optimizing Internal business operations Increasing operative efficiency Better Return on Investments Upper hand over the competition Identifying Current Market Trends Spotting Business Problems More Insightful Decisions If you are a business owner or at the managerial level, you may want to stay current with the latest updates. Having data at hand is not enough, even worse if it is all scattered. Business Intelligence Integration helps your business data get structured and better analyzable. Having a centralized system that keeps your business data up-to-data leads to more insightful and better decision-making. It directly impacts your team performance, productivity, sales cycles, customer product or services preferences, and revenues. Better Business Visibility With Power BI, you can have better control over your business. Gone are the days where you had to skim through massive data logs. This technology allows you to have it all in one go. It aims at providing better insights into your business so you can identify the areas that need more attention. It illuminated all your business aspects and helped you make better strategies and optimize internal business operations. Boosted Productivity With centralized data, transmit inputs across the management via the cloud, and cut time on the administration. The management doesn’t have to dial their office and ask for the necessary data manually. All they have to do is add their data to the application and they are good to go. No need to put in extra effort. They can easily get rid of bottlenecks, automate their daily tasks, redefine their business implementation processes, be more organized and prioritize their to-do tasks with no extra manual efforts. Better ROI Every business runs on profit and expects a good Return on Investment since it encourages them to start generating extra income and scale a bit further. Business Intelligence Tools help a business collect, integrate, and analyze a bulk of data and present it in a more readable and logical format without eating too much time. It helps the decision-makers to create relevant sales-oriented strategies and draw more customers in. This entire process plays a vital role in providing a good customer experience. Also, it impacts how they carry out their after-sales services. Business Future Planning Investing in BI enhances a business’s efficiency while identifying market trends and customers’ purchasing patterns. As soon as an organization masters reading their customer’s purchasing pattern, it can easily compare their old buying algorithm with the one BI has generated. By doing so, they can attain better customer knowledge and optimally utilize their resources. Competitive Advantage Above all, the most substantial advantage BI can offer your company is analyzing how your competition is executing its strategies. Having such data shared as dashboards, you can easily create more effective blueprints than your competitors. Tracking your competition is as important as understanding your customers and their spending patterns. Final Words Business Intelligence Tools have become one of the business necessities. Those who do not recognize its value face certain losses. It becomes hard for them to keep up with their competition and retain their customers. You can opt for Power BI Implementation Partners such as Trident Information Systems. We provide one of the Best Power BI consulting Services. For further queries and a demo, contact us.

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How to Select the Right Implementation Partner for ERP/CRM of Your Business?

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You must be very careful while looking for an ERP Implementation Partner for your business, as everyone poses as the best. It can become a long and tedious project since there are hundreds of partners out there. Choosing the wrong implementation partner can cause ERP implementation to fail. Look for a partner with extensive knowledge and a stellar reputation in the market. Also, they must have relevant experience with companies of your kind. How to Choose an Implementation Partner? Before choosing an implementation partner, there are a few things you need to take care of. Since this is expected to be a long-lasting business relation, thorough research is necessary. Follow the steps given below before considering a partner. Identify Suitable Software The first step is to identify the software that your business needs and address your industry well. Analyze your business requirements and decide what software would suit you best. Spot your business’s weak points and keep a list ready for the software offering solutions for the same. It is recommended to pick a unified solution such as Microsoft. There are many MS Implementation Partners, but we suggest picking someone with one of the oldest bases such as Trident Information Systems. Define the selection Criteria With system stakeholders, you may want to define the selection criteria. Ask yourself questions like: If geographical proximity is important If you need to customize development abilities What is the support turnaround you are looking for? What are the other capabilities your service provider can offer? What is the financial viability of your service provider? Finally, identify which one of these requirements is a must-have or nice-to-have. Discuss with Your IT Team Sit with your IT head and discuss the best viable option you could have for your business, according to the budget. Your IT team can best elaborate on the issues they face with the current technology and the most appropriate options you could pick from. Make sure your team can create an effective and open communication channel with the service provider as it is most likely to be a long-lasting relationship. Be Open and Receptive While Taking Demos Many employees resent changes; your team might react the same. However, while you take the demo, be open about the process. Even if it seems a bit different than how you operate. It might completely shock you how you can make things even better and easier. Additionally, if it has already been included in the software you may save customization, maintenance, and support costs. Identify Your ERP Project Costs Once you are satisfied with the demo, the next step is to identify your ERP Project costs. There are many stories about how ERP implementation costs go out of hand and set a bill up to threefold of the original costs. Unfortunately, these scenarios happen in real life but don’t have to be. You can ask for a phased approach. You can break down the costs over a longer period and make it easier for your staff as well. Ask How Their Customer Support Looks like Once you go live with an implementation partner, you want to know what their customer support looks like. Their primary role is to help you achieve your goals, if you encounter issues, do they have a help desk for you? Or can they provide additional training for your team if required? Apart from this you would want to give regular reviews of your business needs, right, what about that? Importance Of a Good CRM/ ERP Implementation Partner It is important to have a good implementation partner since ERP/ CRM Implementation Services play a huge role in how your business is going to operate in the next five years. The following are the reasons why you need a good implementation partner for your business. Increases Resources Once you associate with an ERP Implementation Partner your business gets progressively robotized and executes a better synchronization among multiple business divisions. Data can steam smoother throughout the organization. And the best part is it eliminated postponements of data and miscommunication. Creates Better Strategies You can understand your clients better with real-time data and analysis. Understand your clients in-depth and identify their purchasing habits. With this data, you can make better strategies to retain current customers and lure new ones to the business. Saves Time Once you join hands with the technology partner, you tap into the abundant expertise services. It is more time-consuming to switch your in-house experts to a new CRM/ ERP tool. You no longer have to pull your people off their current projects. Instead, it is time to train on your new completely implemented system. Greater ROI When you outsource CRM/ERP implementation you are bound to get a higher ROI, training a partner cut you the time on getting your system up and running your team. Instead, now your team gets enough time to carry out the tasks they are best at in the meantime. This ends up boosting your business productivity and profit. Automatic updates You no longer have to worry about the upgrades, your Implementation partner is now responsible for it. You will never fall back since you will always be on the latest technological version. Optimize the latest ERP and CRM tools to boost business productivity. Why Trident? Being Microsoft ERP Implementation Partner and AX Implementation Partner, we offer strategic business and technology services, such as integration, implementation, migration, support to D365(AX), Business Central (NAV), LS Retail (LS Central), IoT, Mobility & Visual Quality Inspection. Armed with 150+ certified technical resources and experience of over two decades, we have set solid ground services for retail, hospitality, eCommerce, logistics, manufacturing, oil, and energy, duty-free, and education industries. We have won several awards and are recognized as Microsoft and LS retail Gold partners. For further inquiries or a demo contact us.

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Why Do You Need a Unified Commerce Solution to Boost Sales and Customer Services?

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Boost sales and customer services with the help of Unified Retail Management Software. With LS Retail ERP Software you can understand your customer psychology and make sales strategies accordingly. Get greater visibility and make more effective marketing campaigns to attract more customers. A modern Retail ERP Software works as a Unified Retail Management Software, helping to avoid the downsides of patchwork. Such solutions integrate multiple departments within the same environment and help businesses build solid foundations. Optimizing multiple software solutions can be a pain, such as building complexities with IT. It can hamper your management and drain resources. Therefore, your finances are engaged in doing the technical patchwork and keeping your staff tied up. As for data management, it gets quite hard to take care of data throughout multiple software systems. It is complicated to manage your data as the system allows it, different software follows different patterns. Hence, you are all entangled with multiple software management formats While using multiple software systems, financial reporting becomes a real pain. Data extraction followed by data standardization of calculation and formulae into a single accounting template from different applications, sub-ledgers, and transactions is not ideally recommended. It is complicated to extract data from a soiled database and when these databases do not coordinate, it hampers your efficiency to improve and enhance. Failing to share the required document throughout the departments can become a potential threat to the overall productivity of your organization. Boost Sales and Customer Services with a Unified Commerce Solution: LS Central. You need the right Retail ERP Software, effective customer service, and excellent quality products. LS Central being a Unified Retail Management Software commerce solution built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central ERP. It is easier for the retailers to meet exceeding customer demands for exceptional services. This is how LS Central helps to boost profit and customer services: Centralized Control As Unified Retail Management Software, LS Central incorporates your overall business from back to front, POS, ERP, inventory, sales, promotions, and offers. The data drawn from the key areas are combined on the same platform while ensuring centralized control of the retailer. You no longer have to move your data from ERP to eCommerce/ in-store or you need to import files: the system automatically takes care of it. Effective Customer Service With LS central, draw customers back and get repeated business, allowing secure and contrasting payments. Compare replenishments with the real market demands, allowing customers to check real-time stock availability. Integrate customer shopping data and use their preferences to personalize interactions. Allows self-service shopping and checkouts. Give the first hand to customers to return your products online or in-store as per their preferences. Allowing one on one appointments, consultations, and personalized services. Loyalty Programs Loyalty programs can boost your sales like magic. Having an insight into your customer preferences and their spending pattern, you can utilize that data to generate exclusive offers, discounts, and other schemes to lure customers in. As the name suggests, these programs ensure customer loyalty and contentment with your services. Omni-Channel Deliver an out-of-the-world shopping experience, also encourage your customers to invest their loyalty and engagement both in-store and online. Allow them to create and maintain shopping lists, address personalized offers straight on their phones. Boost brand awareness and customer retention hand in hand via the omnichannel. Compute customer data, profiles, and spending patterns to create business strategies. M-POS With M-POS, retailers and merchants can accept various payment methods on their phones. Additionally, you get value-added services that help with your business productivity. You can make card payments, online payments, and cash withdrawals and wallets, etc. It is another method to track customer data and use it for your benefit. Only a few companies offer a comprehensive solution to accept payment with the M-POS. Unified Data To get a holistic view of the customer experience, you need to adopt a Unified Retail Management Software in Retail CRM Software, containing everything from the contact center, website data, sales information, and marketing information and analysis on everything touched by your customers. With LS Central get an overview of your business via a centralized platform bringing all the necessary data within the same environment. Make better decisions with the bigger picture now available. Final Words A Unified Retail Management Software solution like LS Retail can help you boost sales and get delighted customers. We recommend researching through Retail ERP Software and finding a suitable LS Retail Implementation Partner. Trident Information Systems is a Gold LS Retail partner and earned experience of over 22+ years. Armed with 150+ technical resources, we have successfully served multiple businesses.

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6 Ways How LS Central for Hospitality is Revolutionizing the Restaurant Experience

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Thinking of switching to LS Central? Do not delay! Get a reliable LS Central Partner in India and get started with the Best Restaurant Management ERP. Let us explain how it can revolutionize the restaurant experience. LS Central is a unified software solution for cafes, restaurants, and other foodservice businesses with a bigger perspective in real-time. LS Central is an extension to Microsoft Business Central, letting you process POS (point of sale), financials, supply chain management, operations, online channels, inventory, and customer loyalty within the same platform. However, many businesses tend to rely on using multiple software but, they can end up causing complexities instead, such as: Issues with integration and implementation. Large restaurants have many vendors making management tough. Establishing coordination with the software service providers. Getting support and services of the software. As the restaurant business expands or acquires new buildings the service provider might not upgrade its services for scaling. Difficulty with providing on-premise and cloud solutions together. You can replace all the multiple software solutions you are using now with a centralized solution. Get ready for more effective business operations and minimum waste. You can get a spot-on view of your business and make more sensible decisions with LS Central. LS Central as a Revolutionary Measure LS Central can do tremendous benefits to your business. With this centralized solution, you can manage the kitchen centrally, handle tables and optimize mobile POS. LS Central integrates your headquarters and restaurant operations with ERP. Better Table Management Use LS Central’s intuitive visuals and graphics display on every dining table depicted with different colors table availability, making guest management and tables a straightforward and error-free process. It further addresses the number of guests for registered tables and the staff they are currently serving. It ends up saving time and enhancing the overall dining experience. Transfer orders or parts of orders throughout different tables or different sections of the restaurant quickly and easily. For instance, you can easily book tables from both reception or bars. Hence, allow easy order transfer across the restaurant. Loyalty Programs You can uniquely connect with your customers, identify them, and understand their likings and preferences. This way, it will be easier for you to create personalized services and products based on your earlier preferences. Your business sales swear by it. Additionally, the product’s upselling and cross-selling. Let your customers earn points on purchases throughout your channels. This will allow them to use these points as a part of their transactions or access exclusive deals designed for them. You can launch special meal deals or hold happy hours accordingly. Data Visibility With LS Central you can manage prices, ingredients, menus, the campaign offers, and manage all the data up to date on touchpoints such as websites and apps. Get real-time data on your operations, stock, guests at hand and optimize it on your analytics and insight. Create data-driven strategies to minimize waste and cut costs wherever possible, increase profit as well as customer loyalty. Centralized Control You can oversee and manage your chains from the headquarters, control prices, recipes, menus, and campaigns. also, trace staff performance and communicate with your employees. Analyze current costs and revenues and identify trends and potent opportunities. Access detailed reports and data in real-time and make more logical decisions. Configure your system to each region’s fiscal and region requirements. Minimum Waste Use real-time data to minimize waste and inefficiencies, with LS Central you can price your dishes accurately and extract maximum profit. Smartly order the accurate quantities and distribute them. You can ensure your customers receive exactly what they ordered. Speedup table turns and upsells growth. Optimize floor space with table bookings. You can also plan your meals and rationalize your ingredient ordering. Minimize manual work and scope of errors with automation. One of the best benefits of LS Central is using single software throughout the business. Repeated Business LS Central offers exceptional customer service while ensuring repeated business. You can make contactless payments and orders with a mobile POS or self-ordering device on the table. Your guest can customize their orders like adding or removing something according to their preferences. There will be an accurate display of allergens and ingredient data at the POS and self-ordering devices. Also, you can align menus and pricing to real-time demand. Your customers can order food either online or on their preferred services. Lastly, you can generate loyalty programs for you and your customers. Conclusion LS Central is a tool for revolutionary measures for a business. Trident Information Systems is a LS Central Partner in India, and have been serving many successful businesses so far. Being armed with 150+ technical resources, they have won multiple awards. For further queries or a demo contact us.

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Cutting IT Costs: 5 Ways to Minimize Ongoing Costs

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Is your IT sector eating up a lot of your company’s time and money? It is time to say no to money drain. Instead, we have rolled out the top five tips that can help you get rid of that excessive money loss. To tackle these, businesses are opting for cloud computing like Microsoft Azure Cloud, like Microsoft Business Central. Businesses these days are looking for every measure to reduce their costs in any way without even considering how much their IT demands investments. They keep their IT staff engaged in constant upgrade, maintenance, and other time and money-consuming jobs. Little do they realize how much they can save only if they shift their approach and embrace what the modern market has to offer. You can save a fortune if you adopt the right strategies and invest it into something more meaningful or you can simply increase your profit margin. You need to consider if your current system provides satisfactory ROI (Return on Investment). If not, it is time for an ultimate shift because your system is not taking you anywhere else. We have rolled out the top five strategies you can implement and save a fortune. #1 Move to a Cloud-Based System On-premises software is going to demand a lot of your time and monetary investment. From implementation to maintenance to upgrades it is a time and money-consuming process. The implementation itself is costly and then comes the costs of hardware and maintenance. It is all too much to handle. Instead, we recommend you switch to a cloud-based solution where you do not need to engage your IT staff in its maintenance and other activities, you can encourage them to work on something more productive. A cloud-based system has proven to provide a greater ROI than an on-premises solution. Therefore, it is wiser to invest in cloud-oriented solutions. #2 Automate Updates When it comes to updates, make sure you do not have to make your IT staff spend tons of hours on it. It is better to opt for services that take charge of the updates automatically, for instance: Microsoft Business Central is one of the providers who take responsibility for your system’s update, implementation, and maintenance. You do not need any hardware and you only pay for the implementation. Microsoft holds updates now and then and twice a year it conducts major updates for which you will be notified beforehand. This process will not hamper your operational fluency at all. #3 Ditch Disparate Systems It is best if you adopt an all-in-one ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution (Enterprise Resource planning) for your business. You will no longer have to manage and maintain different systems for sales, marketing, and finances. Instead, you can get it all under the same system. Microsoft Dynamics 365 is one such software provider that collects data in a sole source and displays it through insightful reports. You have no idea how much time it saves you. This not only saves costs but also boosts your human resource potency. You can fill the labor gap, which is also a widespread issue these days. #4 Ensure a Post-go-live Support Make sure who-so-ever you are contacting to implement a solution, they must provide after-implementation support to your business. Because no matter how efficient a system is, it is still likely to face some downtime at least once. You do not want to be left on your own and make your business suffer when that time comes. Thus, who you prefer for the implementation is a vital process. Choose someone with a robust record of accomplishment and solid experience in your field. Trident Information Systems is a Gold Microsoft Dynamics 365 Partner with experience of more than 2 decades. Reinforced with a massive team of experts, it has managed to accomplish a robust record of accomplishment so far. #5: Implement DevOps and Agile practices DevOps and Agile are collaborative practices that typically break down an organization’s silos between software developers and IT operational personnel. Orienting quicker time-to-market, low failure rates, quick updates, and fixes as well as faster recovery from system issues. They deliver an application-centric infrastructure built around boosting service and application delivery rather than managing switches, servers, telecommunication lines, and firewalls. One of the best ways to save on your IT is to switch to a cloud-based solution like Microsoft Business Central, which takes charge of your implementation, maintenance, and upgrades while making sure you are always on the latest version. If you are looking for an implementation partner, contact Trident Information Systems, one of the Gold Partners of Microsoft Dynamics.

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How to Choose Technology for Effective Hi-tech and Electronics Manufacturing?

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The pace that the electronics industry is at is unmatched. The top ten electronic brands in the industries debuted hardly ten years ago. Hence, this industry is growing at a crazy speed that you need to match! Most of the business are adopting ERP for Electronics Manufacturing. Electronics manufacturing is ideal for tech-savvy people who can be as flexible and fast as it demands. Backing up with the right technology is the most important thing. Having a unified solution like Microsoft Dynamics 365 can help you beat electronics manufacturing challenges and competitions. Electronics are subjected to faults the most, therefore, their manufacturing can become even challenging. With shrinking operating margins, global competition and innovations are lowering the prices. Hence, it becomes a necessity to become more cost-effective to balance profit. It gets even tougher to comply with the ever-changing customer preferences. Therefore, EMS companies and contract manufacturers have to establish a New Product Introduction (NPI) process. Closed-loop communication among sales, engineering, and manufacturing are essential to meet the dynamic demands of the target audience. Economic dynamics and customer cyclical demands cause production fluctuations. Customers’ preferences influence the production of a device or a certain brand on a granular level. Hence, effective lean capabilities should be established to keep up with the demands. When it comes to electronics manufacturing, sustainability is the first thing that comes to mind. Having new regulations popping up concerning social responsibilities, companies are becoming accountable for sustainable production. Since E-waste is a hot topic nowadays, the federation is more concerned about the impact it has on the environment. How To Spot Perfect Technology for Hi-tech and Electronics Manufacturing? While choosing the right technology for your electronics manufacturing you need to make sure it is a centralized solution, which provides all the necessities within the same platform. Check out groundbreaking factors the ideal software solution must have, which never ditch the manufacturers. Hit demands to the and operates business more effectively with a suitable technology such as Microsoft Dynamics: Component Purchasing and Sourcing Component sourcing includes locating, managing, and acquisition components of each important input necessary to operate your business. It may include raw material, parts labor, and production in all its forms, services, and location. Purchasing is one of the most crucial parts of any manufacturing industry. Make sure the software allows organizations to automate their source to pay cycle comprehensively. The software must manage everything related to the supplier. From sparrow messages to quotations, it must cover everything. It must manage, supplier, and keep a keen eye on the stock level. Bill of Material Management It is a must-have feature in the software solution you are about to acquire. Bill of Material is a full-fledged list of components acquired addressing the name and details of the manufacturer. BOM (Bill of Materials) is a comprehensive list of raw materials, components, parts, assemblies, and sub-assemblies placed in a hierarchical order to produce a single unit of products. The better and more detailed the Bills of Management are, the better manufacture-oriented decisions you can make with the real-time accurate data at hand. It allows production, R&D, procurement, logistics, pricing, and sales analysis within a centralized platform. The inventory management system must integrate with the ERP system to minimize mistakes and make faster and more logical decisions. It suggests the most efficient stocking methods for your inventory and enhances internal business operations overall. You can claim a well-structured reporting mechanism with ERP systems within your store and warehouse. This helps manufacturers to plan their production accordingly. You can tackle common inventory management issues and minimize overhead costs. Production Planning and Sourcing Resource planning is considered one of the most effective planning methods of all. It includes operational planning, financial planning and has a simulation capability to answer. The planning includes machine hours, man hours, storage, standard cost dollars, inventory levels, shipping levels, and so on. Visual Quality Inspection An automatic visual quality inspection boosts the manufacturing process and minimizes the manual efforts of your employees. Having this software complementing with the right hardware, defect detection gets easier. Only a few software service providers such as Trident Information System provide this service. Inspect dimensions, color, the texture of the component and remove the defective pieces right away. Why Trident Information Systems? Being the Gold Partner of Microsoft Dynamics 365, we have been serving numerous successful business ventures. Backed up with an experience of over 22 years and 150+ technical resources, we conduct thorough research, assemble different tools, and customize a suitable software solution as per your business requirements. You can save time and build an adaptive business network, generate more revenue, and adapt quickly to market dynamics. For further queries or a demo contact us.

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