More is not always better.

Indeed, in the world of distribution, a condition of either too much or too little is equally undesirable. Best of all? Just enough.

It’s extraordinary now to conceive of a time when wholesale distribution software was not as prevalent as it has become. Imagine the world when it was populated by order-counting drones who spent the better part of their days chasing and accounting for things. Orders were lost, invoices were miserably delayed, salespeople were too caught up with data entry to sell much, employees spilled coffee on their daybooks. Awful.

Thank heaven someone brilliant came up with the idea of automating the whole affair. (more…)