Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Trend: Domestic Production Makes a Comeback

The next trend in our series focuses on domestic production. According to Entrepreneur magazine, factors like more affordable labor, higher shipping costs, a better financial climate and a surge of homegrown innovation mean the U.S. manufacturing startup universe is experiencing a rebirth. Early this year a New York Times poll revealed that 52 percent of the public thinks it's "very important" that products they buy are made in America. With a surge of domestic production, it is imperative that a manufacturer is on top of their job life cycle. With Sage 100 and JobOps, this is a win-win  solution for automating job management functions for manufacturing. As all manufacturers are aware, it is imperative to be on top of your business and to provide better service to your customers. With better management tools, your company can soar in 2013. For more detailed information, contact Michelle at 860.399.4215 x.202.

Visit: http://www.jobops.com/job_estimating_software_literature_center/jobops_brochure_web.pdf

Thursday, January 17, 2013

New Year with New Trends: Outsource Simple Tasks

Happy 2013 from everyone here at CMS. We are happy to have you a part of the CMS family and look forward to a very rewarding and success year ahead.

For the New Year, we will be sharing some new business trends that you may find of value. This is our first installment of our series:

Outsourcing Simple Tasks

As you look for new strategies to grow your business and gain efficiencies in 2013, you may find recent article in USA Today interesting.

In this front page Money section story, USA Today reports how businesses looking for an edge can “free up capital and manpower.” Companies are turning over necessary but mundane tasks to firms like our partner, Avalara, to gain efficiencies and reduce risk. For example, one controller used to dedicate one of its 15 full time employees to manage sale-tax collection and payments – until he discovered Avalara’s end-to-end sales tax technology. Now one person spends just a day on this critical requirement, giving them the rest of the month back to address other important functions.

By outsourcing processes that take time and effort and don’t contribute to building value, precious staff resources can focus on tasks directly related to growth and execution.

Sales tax processing doesn’t need to be hard. Or risky. There’s technology for that. Avalara’s easy-to-use sales tax solution is affordable for the smallest business, yet scalable for the largest.

To learn more, please complete this brief sales tax assessment tool, and we will help you determine which sales tax solution is best for you: http://www.avalara.com/understanding-your-sales-tax-needs.