Spend Less, Make More is Mantra of Interprise Suite and Hips & Curves believes in it....

With growing economy crisis, some decide not to spend, some spend it wisely and they grab the opportunity to scale their business, awaiting to grow as the economy picks, so is our client Hips and Curves located in Santa Monica, California selling plus size lingerie in e-tail (eCommerce) world, targeting niche market of plus size lingerie, hoisery, bras & panties.

Rebecca at Hips and Curves had few challenges with their existing warehouse management erp system before switching to Interprise Suite, they took advantage of Interprise Suite licensing deals by signing on early and having experienced resellers (TechXor and InfoSourcing) take care of their implementation, customizations and support.

Hips and Curves had enoromous challenges moving away from their warehouse erp system and needed a custom Interprise Suite solution.
We were able to customize their website look and feel, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), integration with Cybersource payment, real time stock availability of matrix items, EDI integration and other much needed features to run their ebusiness.

They opened up their business to the rest of the world (www.HipsandCurves.com) this morning, proven by the fact that their first order came from literally the other side of the world, and Rebecca rejoiced saying "Already the new site is paying off :) ..."

We are pioneers in implementing integrated e-Commerce solution for small, medium and large business and our motto is "Bring your web design and coffee, we will do the rest..."

If you want to Spend Less, Make More like Hips & Curves, contact us for a FREE demo and quotes....

SEO Optimization Tips for Interprise Suite E-Commerce

Interprise Suite E-Commerce engine powered by AspDotNet Storefront is powerful integrated e-Commerce package bundled right into Interprise Suite, its real time inventory and order management system makes it easier for business owners to conduct their online business, wait you could do few more extra steps and draw ton of organic traffic from search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and others ....

It's called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and here are few tips on how to optimize your ISE to be listed on organic search results.

1. Always fill in Page Title for your Caetgories, Products, Manufacturers, departments and topics. For eg: "Canon Powershot Digital Camera SD870 | Canon Digital cameras | Yourwebsite.com"
2. Specify pretty good Meta description containing few highlighted keywords or keyphrases that you are targeting for your business. For eg: Buy Canon powershot SD870 digital camera and accessories from YourCompany, lowest price and fast shipping
3. Meta Keywords are not mandatory unlike page title and meta description but its worth adding few keywords like " Canon powershot SD870 digital camera, digital cameras, SD870 reviews, Powershot digital camera accessories"
4. Generate a sitemap for Google, Yahoo and Bing/MSN and submit them so all your product related pages are indexed
5. Make sure to check Robots.txt file exists on your website and its accessible for search engines, robots.txt file specifies whether the website grants/blocks access to engines, and luckily ISE ships robots.txt

Now you might have 1000's of SKU's or products in your catalog and might be thinking its difficult to populate values for each product and its time consuming, wish you could automate the entire process, InfoSourcing's SEOptimizer (Search Engine Optimizer) does this automation for you within an hour you can have your entire catalog search engine optimized, sitemaps generated and ready to submit to engines and you would be amazed with its optimization techniques.

Test drive today SEOptimizer from InfoSourcing and see for yourself how easy it is to optimize your e-Commerce catalog and be listed on search engines and attract traffic like never before and compete online.

ERP Migration - Do's, Don'ts and Tips

Ever tried to migrate your ERP system or tried migrating your non-integrated systems into an integrated ERP s/w, you would have faced with frustration and not knowing what steps to take to go live.

In this segment we will talk about

• What to Migrate?
• What not to migrate?
• How to schedule your migration?
• Testing, testing and testing, remember this is a integrated product
• Go live, finally

What to Migrate?

You would certainly migrate all your master tables such as Customers, Products/SKU's, Categories, Manufacturers, Brands, departments/locations, suppliers/vendors and website data if any for your e-commerce needs.

What NOT to migrate?

Over years you might have transactional records such as Invoicing, payables, receivables, order information, accounting transactions and lots of other transactions that occur under the hood of an ERP system, you won't be able to migrate and never should you focus too much on this either, stay away from transactional records, at the most you can provide some kind of linking between your new & old ERP for example having a customer number stored from your previous ERP system so you could link between two systems if needed. So yeah stay away from migrating transactional records.

Migration Schedule

The most important part in your ERP implementation is how to schedule your list of activity for migration, what comes first and what comes last in terms of data, who does what and when? A detailed Implementation checklist is a must and walk through the checklist with your clients and keep them updated with your tasks and work towards them, and always accept delays in your schedule due to un-avoidable circumstances, have some buffer in your schedule.

Testing, testing and testing...

It's an integrated ERP product, so "garbage in garbage out" make sure to allocate time in your schedule for testing, every time you import data into your ERP system test it, test it again. If you imported customers make sure to create a test order, RMA/returns, Invoicing, CRM communication and if you have e-Commerce website logon and place test web order, request password and check if emails are working, so its really impt to test before you decide to go live.

By testing it helps you to understand the ERP system so you can operate your business efficiently.

Go Live

Something that you were looking fwd too "Go Live", well with couple of months into this project you are now ready to hit the road and expect everything goes smooth.
Having an expert implementation specialist besides you would dramatically reduce your ERP implementation cost and you can feel the ownership of the ERP system for your business

Business owners make the mistake of not scheduling enough time to understand the system, importing non-integrated data, not able to configure the system, no testing mechanism and planning to hit the road will eventually result in frustration and hatred towards the ERP s/w, so spend your money wisely for ERP implementation, spend 50% in buying the ERP software and another 50% for Implementation , Support and training.