Category: Morse Data News and Events
New White Paper: Ten Tips for a Successful ERP Implementation
Have you been considering adding an ERP (enterprise resource planning) system to your business (or maybe changing over to InOrder?).
If you answered yes, then you’ll want to download our new white paper, Ten Tips for a Successful ERP Implementation: A Guide for Multi-channel Merchants, Internet Retailers, Publishers, and Fulfillment Solutions Providers.
In this 13-page white paper, you’ll learn the 10 strategies needed for a glitch-free ERP software implementation – everything from appointing a project manager and developing a top-down communications strategy to setting a realistic go-live date and scheduling user testing and training.
In our more than three decades of business, we’ve learned a thing or two about ERP implementations. The biggest mistake we see companies make is not creating an action plan that covers all aspects of the implementation – including helping people within the organization accept change. The implementation then gets bogged down with delays and setbacks – and costs increase.
Whether you’re considering a new ERP system or you’re just beginning an implementation, this white paper will help you keep your implementation within budget and on time.
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Morse Data Adopts Ducks to Benefit the Special Olympics
Quack! Quack! 35,000 yellow rubber ducks will splash into the Chicago River from the Columbus Drive Bridge in downtown Chicago and race down river towards the finish line starting at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 9th, 2012.
The Rubber Ducky Derby is the annual signature fundraising event that benefits the Illinois Special Olympics.
This year we’ve adopted a duck for each of our employees and you can adopt one, too — just visit www.duckrace.com/Chicago to learn how to enter the race. The cost to adopt a single duck is $5.00 or you can purchase a Quack Pack at $25.00 which consists of buying 5 ducks and getting 1 duck free.
In addition to the pride and glory of winning the race and beating out 34,999 ducks, you also have a chance to win several nice prizes including a 2012 Chevy Equinox LS and a Caribbean Vacation.
Please join us in supporting the Special Olympics and the Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby. Hopefully the 35,000 yellow rubber ducks will “Get InOrder” and ours will swim the fastest and win the race. Wish us luck — and please do join in the fun for this great cause!
2012 Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby Promo With Athletes
2010 Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby – Duck Drop
Lancaster Archery Supply Visits Morse Data
Based in Lancaster, PA, Lancaster Archery Supply is the respected leader in the industry — having fueled the growth of archery by providing archery equipment to businesses, organizations and individuals worldwide since 1983.
Lancaster Archery relies on InOrder to manage its online, catalog and retail orders — and a group from the company were in town last week for InOrder upgrade training and project design. In the picture below are (left to right): Ted Houser, Director of e-Commerce, Eric Eschbach, Operations Manager, and Mike DiClemente, Magento Developer.
Once work was done, Morse Data VP Tony Marchese took the Lancaster crew out for some Chicago fun.
Mike DiClemente, Eric Eschbach and Tony Marchese
The tour included a visit to Millennium Park in downtown Chicago where everyone enjoyed a free concert by Third Coast Percussion.
Eric Eschbach at Millenium Park
Then it was on to Grant Park where alternative band Death Cab for Cutie was playing. The group also managed to squeeze in a visit to the John Hancock Center for dinner and a view of Chicago from the 95th Floor. Whew!
Thank you, Ted, Mike, and Eric for visiting Chicago! We enjoyed having you. And, thank you for the ongoing partnership with InOrder.
The breathtaking view from the John Hancock Center.
Did You Get Your Duck at IRCE 2012?
We’re back from IRCE — three days of learning, connecting, and schmoozing with customers, partners and friends. Now that we’ve dug out from under email, we’re ready to post a few pictures.
Traffic was brisk to the InOrder booth where people stopped to pick up their Blues Saxaphone duck to add to their collections. (We frequently have customers stop by just for their duck!) We also gave lots of demos of InOrder version 9.1.
Also exhibiting were InOrder partners Advanced Pricing Logic and Kalio. In the photo below is David Leonard, CEO of Advanced Pricing. He attended IRCE to showcase his Pricing Promoter Software that works with InOrder. (He also owns Original Parts Group, an InOrder client).
Pricing Promoter allows you to intelligently analyze and set your inventory sales prices on thousands of SKUs, based on actual product data.
The next photo is of Kalio’s striking new booth. Kalio is a front-end e-commerce platform that offers an InOrder integration option. According to their IRCE 2012 write up, their new booth featured a 14′ tall arch, various demo stations, and a “Speed of Change Challenge” presentation backdrop.
The company wanted to make sure people got to know Kalio, what they mean by “Speed of Change,” and what their new “Zero Upfront Fees” business model is about. Be sure to take a peek at their fabulous video if you meander over to their blog.
We also were happy to see our partners Avalara Tax and Magento! Be sure to catch Avalara’s “crowd-sourced” IRCE wrap up. The top tweeted words, according to their Twitter hashtag analysis: ecommerce, online, Internet, retailers, and mobile. That just about sums it up!
Do you have a picture of your InOrder duck collection you’d like to share? Let us know! We’ll feature it here on the blog.
Wear a Button, Win $100.
In the picture above, Morse Data VP Tony Marchese (left) is collecting his prize for simply wearing a button — $100. Sweet!
INetU exhibited at last week’s IRCE conference. For the contest, representatives from the company randomly selected people in the crowd wearing their button. Nice contest!
The company offers managed hosting. If you’re an InOrder client and want to store your servers in the cloud, let Tony know. He can introduce you to someone at INetU.
Welcome to the Get InOrder Blog!
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is continually changing – especially as more business functions move online. Choosing the right ERP software can be a tough process. Meeting the demands of today’s online consumer can be tougher still.
Our goal with this blog is to educate you about ERP software, with a focus on the Order Management side of ERP. This blog talks about how you can put it to use in your business – whether you’re thinking about ERP or you’re an InOrder client.
We’ll be offering our own “from the trenches” insights about things from real-time inventory and shopping carts to m-commerce and more. We’ll also be posting quick tips you can put to use immediately to get more from your InOrder software.
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