Operational Review
Zerion’s consultants are skilled in objectively evaluating your business’s operations to help ensure functionality, productivity, and efficiency, particularly after a recent software conversion.
Zerion will visit your location/s and collaborate with your team to gather information, reports and operating queues that can be used as benchmarks. A follow-up visit will consist of the same data gathering process, which will be reviewed to produce a formal report identifying issues and proposing solutions. With an operational review, you will learn where you’re improving or find areas in need of attention.
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Accounting
Accounting for money in and money out, money owed and money paid, is a core business process. Doing it well is essential to success, but software changes intended to make it better can sometimes make it more difficult. Our team is skilled in understanding accounts receivable and accounts payable and we can help streamline your processes.
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Price Matrix
The price you place on your product is as important as the products you sell. There is a delicate balance between being competitive and remaining profitable. A price matrix can help to effectively and consistently price your offering, while controlling your margins and managing your sales staff’s flexibility. Zerion offers a price matrix installation service, which includes preliminary work, training, and post-live support.
Your company’s key personnel and Zerion’s consultants will work together to determine how to best introduce a price matrix to your business. A planned and phased introduction is required, typically including installation of a matrix for one customer, then for one branch, and then rolling it out to the remaining branches.
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Radio Frequency (RF)
RF technology is a great asset for many companies and often a smart investment; however, installation can be difficult if the time isn’t taken to do it right.
Although RF receiving and picking training may seem simple, preparation for RF is the greatest hurdle. Project planning, UPC code cross references, and bar coding are only a few of the tasks that need expert guidance to ensure they only have to be done once.
Zerion’s approach to RF installation is incredibly hands-on, working day after day in the warehouse environment with your team. Zerion can assess your location for the ability to install RF, determine the best approach to accomplishing this task, and provide unprecedented industry training and support for the installation.
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Purchasing and Inventory Control
Purchasing is considered one of the most complex functions in a product-driven business. In order to be profitable, you must ensure your inventory is accurate and you have the products on-hand that your customers need the most, while not overstocking your warehouse with unnecessary product that costs your company money.
Zerion provides top-notch inventory and purchasing evaluation, as well as specific training programs that are focused on your purchasing staff and processes. Our consultants focus on EOQ analysis, line and order points, min/max settings, UOM and buy package quantities, non-stock products and much more.
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Gap Analysis
When you spend your days immersed in enterprise resource planning software, you become uniquely qualified to evaluate a businesses needs and help them determine the type of software that would best suit them. Zerion fits that bill. With a software neutral philosophy, and experience and knowledge of how software and operations combine, Zerion is able to ask the right questions and find the right answers before you choose a software package. In fact, we’ve developed an 800-question survey and a proven process to do just that.
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RFI and RFP Process Guidance
Choosing a new enterprise resource planning tool can be difficult and confusing. In fact, it can be overwhelming. Zerion’s consultants have been closely involved in the software selection process for a variety of businesses and can act as a resource for you. If you’re considering a change in your software platform, you can call on us to assist you through the process of developing a request for information, reviewing the responses and choosing the best potential options to request a proposal. We can also observe and participate in demos and discussions and provide consulting as you make your final decision.
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Web Site Design and Development
Your presence on the Internet is often the first, and sometimes only way clients and potential customers see your company. No matter what type of business you’re in, your Web site is more important than you realize. Because of our expertise in software and information technology, we are often asked by our clients about our own website, as well as how they can improve theirs. Our answer: Zerion. Though we specialize in enterprise resource planning software training and support, our website design and development skills are a secret that we’re willing to share. We provide strategic development of compelling Web presences for our existing clients, as well as new clients that have an interest solely in this medium. If you would like to find out how Zerion can help you maximize your presence on the Web, contact us for more information.
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Speaking
When you spend a lot of your time talking to people and teaching classes, often on subjects that aren’t considered the most exciting by the audience, you develop a certain expertise in public speaking. Our team members and executives have a knack for engaging audiences and we enjoy the art of teaching. Zerion uses those skills to do good beyond our clients’ sites. In fact, Texas A&M has called on us several times to speak to students in their Industrial Distribution degree program about what we do. We are available for speaking engagements on a variety of topics, such as small business management and entrepreneurship, wholesale distribution, grant writing, software selection, and consulting. If you’re interested in having us speak to your college class, trade association, conference or workshop, contact us.
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More
Zerion’s operational, process and information technology expertise is transferrable to a variety of businesses, industries and issues. If you’re in need of software or operational support in an area not described here, please contact us.
Zerion’s extensive partner and referral networks provide our team with greater opportunities to help businesses succeed, and allows us to provide our customers with a broader range of services. To learn more about our partnerships, click here.
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