Month: July 2018

Global Shop Solutions has a long history of listening to its customer base for ideas on new features to improve the software. The company recently continues to improve its listening abilities with the integration of Canny – a software application that lets software companies gather, organize and analyze customer feedback all in one place –…

Here’s How To Fix It Inventory can be the root of all evil when it comes to issues on the manufacturing shop floor. Often when you can’t track your inventory accurately, it’s due to not having a good system in place. Without a fully-integrated ERP software, your inventory will get lost, misplaced, mislabeled, taken out…

Keep it simple. That’s what you want – in life, in your business, and in your labeling. Without a clean and simple labeling process, your labeling will be inefficient, difficult and costly. Follow these simple 3 steps to make your labeling practical and easy to use. Centralize label file storage. It is common for files…

Businesses all around the world have trouble creating uniformity among labeling. It is hard to get all team members to print the exact same labels. At our partner TEKLYNK, they say: “Variety may be the spice of life, but it is the enemy of efficiency!” Set up an approval process. In order to get everybody…

Hiring loyal, reliable, and skilled employees for your manufacturing business is getting harder and harder. More and more people are lining up to gain university degrees (and large amounts of debt) while shunning trade jobs in manufacturing, carpentry, electrical, plumbing and more, finding and hiring the right people is becoming a major pain point for…

As women continue to fill the labor gap and fight for equal pay, Aneesa Muthana, President of our customer Pioneer Service Inc., leads the charge in the male-dominated industry of manufacturing, landing her on the front page of Crain’s Chicago Business. Muthana and her team are on the road working with local colleges, associations, and…

Standard business philosophy views sales as a pipeline. Manufacturing is no different. We want that pipeline running at full blast with sales pouring in. It makes for a happy and healthy business. But want do you do when your sales pipeline has sprung a leak? You’ll want to examine all aspects of your business, especially…

No matter the size of your shop, every manufacturer is striving for growth – adding a new product, offering a new service, increasing production volume and expanding to new markets. You need to be ready for this growth in all areas – including labeling. Learn and live by these 3 ways, from our partners at…

Most manufacturers have the same top three challenges: quality, price and on-time delivery. Of those three, quality can be the hardest one to fix, and often times the most important one – especially for manufacturers specializing in close-tolerance parts or serving industries that require multiple quality certifications and mandates. Regardless of what you manufacture and…