Recently one of my associates suggested that I take a look at Kiva Systems. I looked them up on the web and watched their demo video. Amazing! They have completely rethought the problem of inventory receiving, storage, picking and packing. With the Kiva system, all inventory is stored on special shelving and the shelves are [...]

Forty years ago on September 2, 1969 an event took place that changed our lives forever … the network which would become the internet was born.
Only a handful of people knew it at the time and I suspect none of them could have envisioned the impact on our society.
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It’s déjà-vu all over again!  Alterity, the company I founded 25 years ago, has just entered into an agreement with EasyBiz, the Johannesburg based distributor of QuickBooks® for Sub-Saharan Africa, to distribute our flagship wholesale distribution software offering, ACCTivate!.
In the summer of 1975, I was asked to go to South Africa and introduce an earlier wholesale [...]

In today’s economy it can pay to be “green.”  As Earth Day approaches I have mined the ACCTivate! customer database and have noticed three trends:  buying “green”, selling “green” and living “green.”
For the most part, these are not companies staffed by people with activist approaches.  They are companies that have recognized the [...]

My friend, Mike Glover, has told me many times, “Cash is cash and everything else is something else.”
That may seem like an odd quote for an inventory management blog, but if you are like most inventory intensive companies, much of your cash is tied up in inventory.  The good news is that with a disciplined [...]