BAASS Insights Technology Blog

Manufacturers often use the terms preventative and planned maintenance interchangeably. Routine maintenance is perhaps a more accurate term. It refers to scheduled maintenance for your equipment and facilities that can prevent equipment from prematurely breaking down.

Have you ever heard the expression, “Success leaves clues”? It means that successful people learn from previously successful people how to do their jobs smarter or better. It means learning from past mistakes and triumphs, and incorporating the best into your current action plan to improve upon it.

BAASS Connect is our annual conference which provides a space for industry professionals and decision makers to come together, talk shop and share ideas.

The conference gives you access to incredible resources, like one-on-one time with BAASS Product Managers, Technical Experts, Sage Specialists, and Executives — but why should you go? How can you attend? We answered some common questions about the long-running function.

Inventory management may not be the most exciting topic in the world, but it can be one of the most important to a business. Without solid inventory management practices, you can lose sales due to out-of-stock notices.

As technology evolves faster than ever, it is important to keep up with the growing trends. Adapting and leveraging new technologies to your business processes is becoming more essential to remaining competitive and being innovative. In tune with this year’s BAASS Connect’s theme of “Future-Proofing”, we decided to compile a list of technological trends to get on board for the future:

Can you name the top pain points in your warehouse? If you are like most warehouse managers, these warehouse management “pains” are generally not far from your mind.

“By changing nothing, nothing changes.” – Tony Robbins

In business, change is often a notion that comes with reluctance. The old saying goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” applies to many of us as each fiscal cycle passes. Sometimes, an opportunity for improvement is among us and as technology becomes a more integral part of business, we must look to the future and challenge tradition with innovation.

For those of you brave enough to delve into the Crystal report-writing world, here is a helpful tip for reports that have many lines of details.  Don’t you find them hard to read sometimes? 

Wouldn’t it be nice if, like in the newer versions of Sage ERP, the lines alternated colour – white, grey, white, grey...?  It’s easy.