The Access Group Australia Blog
Articles to help you focus on the success of your people, your customers, and your organisation.
We often overlook how fortunate we are to live in a time of transparent banking, so that transaction data is easily accessible for finance professionals.
- Topic:
- Finance
Learn about warehouse KPIs to benchmark and regularly review to improve operational performance and inventory accuracy.
- Topic:
- ERP
Inventory management and warehouse management systems both play a critical role in helping ecommerce businesses save time, automate processes and gain a competitive edge.
You may think these systems serve the same purpose, and while there is some overlap between them, there are key differences in the capabilities and benefits of the two.
In this article, we explore what makes a warehouse management system (WMS) different from inventory management systems (IMS), the benefits they share and how you can combine both in one easy-to-use solution.
- Topic:
- ERP
Payroll is often considered a back-office administrative function of finance or HR, but did you know that the actual value of payroll is the payroll data?
This sentiment is echoed in Access Group's 2024 Payroll Research Report.
The Report highlights that 43% of business leaders believe their payroll is only used for record-keeping, paying employees and compliance.
'Human Capital is arguably the largest cost centre of an organisation and typically the most difficult to manage without supporting data.'
- Topic:
- Payroll
Access COINS is experiencing significant growth in Australia, with the announcement of eight new industry-leading customers.
- Topic:
- Construction
On the 27th of February, The Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) released data on gender pay gaps (publicly available here) which was collated based on the findings of 5,000 individual private sector employers with 100 or more employees, and the evidence is compelling and unequivocal.
While the publication of gender pay data represents a critical milestone for gender equality in Australia, the subsequent actions, particularly within the recruitment industry, hold greater significance. To understand these implications, we consulted with several leaders in our community for their insights.
- Topic:
- Recruitment
Delivering orders accurately and on time hinges on your picking and packing process. Read on to discover the most effective strategies for boosting efficiency.
- Topic:
- ERP
It can be tempting for an accounting firm to offer general accounting services to as many clients and industries as possible, with the aim of casting a large net.
- 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 in 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 supply chain today? Read on to learn all about the increasingly advanced robots changing the way fulfilment warehouses operate.
- Topic:
- ERP
