The Access Group Australia Blog
Articles to help you focus on the success of your people, your customers, and your organisation.
With the Australian construction industry under continuing pressure, technology is crucial to forecast, manage and operate a successful business.
Technology designed to carefully manage the challenges of the construction industry provides peace of mind that COINS’ customers have the information they need to run projects efficiently and make decisions confidently.
From finance and operations, project delivery and time management, to controlling supply chain and service management, all core functions of a construction company can be managed in one system.
- Topic:
- Construction
At Access COINS, we value our collaborative customer relationships, with an average customer life span exceeding 10 years. This shows that successful construction companies not only select and implement Access COINS but continue to expand the capability and utilisation of their Access COINS solution over many years.
- Topic:
- Construction
It’s become a bit of a myth in recent years amongst the uninitiated that there’s only one type of accounting in business. If this is what you thought, then you’ve got a shock coming!
- Topic:
- Finance
Construction projects are complex, so an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software solution used across a civil or commercial contracting business should be developed specifically for the construction industry.
- Topic:
- Construction
In recent years many of the biggest construction companies in Australia have made the move to a cloud-hosted platform, so how do you know if it’s right for your business?
- Topic:
- Construction
Moran Chartered Accountants, one of Melbourne’s leading accounting firms, has recently made the decision to switch back to Access Accountants.
- Topic:
- Accountants
From software that manages inventory, to platforms that focus on warehouses and others specifically catering to order fulfilment, there are now so many solutions available that target every aspect of ecommerce.
In this article, we will focus on comparing inventory management and order management systems – two types of software that while sharing some similar features, are also different in very important ways.
Read on to learn all about these two solutions, their specific use cases and how they can work together. By the end, you should have a clear idea which one is the better fit for your business’s needs.
- Topic:
- ERP
Today’s online customers not only have higher expectations but also hold more power than ever before. Spoilt by the choice of myriad online retailers all vying for their custom, it only takes one late or incorrect order to see them make their next purchase with the competition.
Nothing short of impeccable service is expected from Australian and New Zealand online retailers and third-party logistics (3PL) providers. But for many, the fulfilment process is often complex, messy, error-prone and time consuming.
Managing a growing number of orders across multiple sales channels is one challenge; then there is also the need to constantly maintain ideal stock levels. Only adding to these challenges are the many manual processes that the average ecommerce business relies on – processes that only become less time and cost-efficient, and more error prone, as orders increase.
These difficulties are why more and more online retailers and 3PLs are turning to cloud-based order management systems (OMS) to automate manual processes, improve order accuracy and gain every operational advantage, no matter how small, to outperform the competition.
Here, we explore the most common order fulfilment challenges Australian and New Zealand ecommerce businesses face and how they can be easily solved by an OMS.
- Topic:
- ERP
If you're reading this article, chances are your accounting practice is beginning to see the benefits of employing a remote accountant. Need more convincing? Well, don't worry; we've got you covered.
- Topic:
- Accountants
Step into a fulfilment warehouse today and you are likely to see an array of robots performing tasks that would otherwise drain the valuable time and effort of workers.
From autonomous vehicles that roll around the warehouse floor transporting items, to robots that pick and pack items with impressive speed, warehouse automation technology is advancing fast.
However, robots in warehouses, distribution centres and factories are nothing new, with those used today the product of over seventy years of evolution.
Vehicles that followed wires embedded to the factory floor first emerged in the 1950s. A decade later, bulky storage and retrieval systems were automating item retrieval in warehouses. By the 1980s, hydraulic robotic arms were picking and assembling items with impressive dexterity.
Now, companies like Amazon have over 750,000 robots working alongside staff. The fulfilment giant will soon even debut a bipedal humanoid robot ‘Digit’ that can walk across the warehouse floor picking and packing items just like a human.
So besides those of the humanoid variety, what other forms of robotic automation are fulfilment companies using in their warehouses today? Read on to learn all about the increasingly advanced robots changing the way fulfilment warehouses operate.
- Topic:
- ERP
