If you are like a lot of pallet companies, way too much of your important business data is tracked on spreadsheets and paper. This leads to a lot of inefficiency and can make it harder to identify ways to improve your operations. Now, you can manage your entire business with Pallet Connect, a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) management system built specifically for the pallet industry.
Manage and connect your clients, vendors, warehouse and financials in real-time, while simplifying your workflow. Ditch the paperwork and spreadsheets, this ERP system connects your entire company in one place. It’s perfect even for small or mid-sized operations with smaller budgets. One user can utilize the system for free. Or really improve your communications with a three-user package for only $79 per month or a 20-user license for only $239 per month. Pallet Connect also offers a mobile app for viewing and accessing core information on your smartphone. The system is designed to work for companies of all sizes from small to large, and one location to multiple sites.
Philip Varley, vice president of Pallet Connect, said, “With our cloud-based pallet management application, you can view and run your business from anywhere on any device. Our system is designed to work across all levels and sizes of pallet companies from the smallest of locations up to mid-sized and larger multi-purpose lumber and pallet facilities. Manage and connect your clients, vendors, warehouse and financials in real-
time, while simplifying your workflow.”
Key features include: online pallet ordering through a secure system, simplified reports for billing and scheduling, full customer relationship management functionality, inventory management, warehouse overview screens, and pallet quoting tool using average recent lumber costs. Also, Pallet Connect optimizes dispatching with driver schedules and confirmation signatures upon delivery.
You can easily turn any overhead TV screen in your facility into a real-time production dashboard for employees to easily see how they are doing on daily or monthly goals. Pallet Connect makes this possible using an Amazon Fire TV Stick. Real time intelligent analytics showing you in real time the information that you need and want to see.
Owners and managers like the reporting capabilities: multiple revenue and expense breakdown options, a dashboard that contains the at-a-glance info you need, auto-populating charts to help visualize data, and analysis for customer purchase behavior and trends.
Pallet Connect offers functionality for operations, admin/billing, sales, warehouse, dispatching and supervisors.
Varley added, “The pallet business has struggled to keep up with technology, compared with other industries. In fact, the pallet business has become more complex, competitive and overwhelming. Pallet Connect’s aim is to fill the gap and make it easy for all pallet companies to access the latest technology, at a competitive price…Our clients keep offering advice and feedback helping us continually evolve and upgrade Pallet Connect. That’s the big advantage with a cloud-based system; it keeps getting better.”
Pallets haven’t changed in over 75 years. But the pallet business has. Take Pallet Connect for a free 30-day test drive. Pallet Connect is currently offering a special discount of two months free for NWPCA, WPA and CWPCA members.
You can create a demo account at www.palletconnect.com or call 844-220-1110 for more information.
