Tools
Tools
Management Tools
In the course of our day to day work with our clients we use a variety of tools from project planning, time tracking, costing and pricing to customer relationship management. As all our tools are defined for clients and are usually set up especially for them, we are not able to showcase them here. However there are a number of very good providers of tools and templates and the following links provide some great tools that can be used in small businesses.
Free 21 Page SEO Guide — Trying to increase traffic to your website? Do you realize the importance of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), but have trouble taking actionable steps to improve it? This guide offers useful tips to get found online by more prospective customers.
Free Small Business eBooks — A simple, free registration will give you access to nearly 200 free small business ebooks.
Free Trade Magazines — Anita Campbell, Founder of Small Business Trends, offers an extensive list of free small business magazine subscriptions, eGuides, downloads, podcasts and white papers.
FormNet — Use this free business forms download service available on Entrepreneur.com.
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Free eBooks, Guides, Manuals and Legal Documents — Publish and share your small business documents FREE at Scribd.
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Free Small Business Guides and Government Forms — Business.gov is your gateway to official U.S. Government federal forms and business guides.
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Alternative to Microsoft Office — .LibreOffice is Free and Open Source Software, available for everyone to use, share and modify, and produced by a worldwide community of hundreds of developers.
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Free Quick Reference Training Guides — Custom Guide offers free downloadable quick reference computer training guides. These free pdf files are downloadable and printable for your office needs.
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Free Small Business Letters and Forms — Freebusinessforms.com provides a large selection of free small business letters and forms.
Free Business Calculators — Bplans.com offers 9 different business calculators that are free for anyone to use. You can even add these calculators to your own website with the provided HTML code.
SewEasy®
Our SewEasy® Quick Garment Sewing Data system is used for measuring the Standard Minute Value (SAM, SMV), the labour content for garment costing and efficient sewing. SewEasy® allows you to implement lean systems and methods by quick identification and subsequent elimination of waste. This will lead to balanced production lines, improved work-flow in the value stream resulting in higher productivity and profits. For decades, we empowered sewing teams to guarantee sustainability and growth.
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Walmart, TESCO, H&M and leading Apparel Buyers
SewEasy® is amazingly inexpensive and repayment times are very quick. Top retailers such as Walmart, TESCO, H&M, M&S, GAP, and international brand owners along leading buying houses as well as compliance oriented manufacturers recommend Industrial Engineering (I.E.) for accurate pre-production product costing and helping to raise productivity, performance and profits within their supplier base.
Such companies could use I.E. systems to increase supply chain flexibility, product development and innovation to stay competitive in the 21st century. Using Manchester University recognised SewEasy® Quick Garment Sewing Data, the industry can swiftly realise training and skill development in apparel, show and other sewn product manufacturing
Production Control Systems
PCS is a Windows based Production Control System for the smaller manufacturer, using barcoded work orders to track progress throughout the manufacturing process.
PCS provides an integrated system that will make running your manufacturing business more efficient. Key features are:
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Billing & Invoicing
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Inventory Management
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Order Processing & Sales
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Pre-Production Management
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Product Development
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Purchasing
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Raw Material Management
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Returns Management
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Shipping Management
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Supply Chain Management
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Warehouse Management
Contact Dr. Peter Wilson at +44 776 476 3958 for more details or send us an email
