By now, mobile technology has become an essential part of people’s lives. As both consumers and staff trend more toward a younger, digitally savvy demographic, lumber and building materials (LBM) businesses need to take advantage of mobile tools or risk losing to the competition. Mobile technologies can bring incredible benefits to LBM enterprises for delivery and dispatch, field sales, the selling floor, and the warehouse. To better help you seize the mobile advantage, Epicor has identified eight ways your LBM business can leverage mobile technologies to foster growth, including: • Serving your customers with the latest information • Serving your customers with timely, accurate deliveries • Driving revenue with increased efficiency • Streamlining operations Check out this Epicor tipsheet and discover how else your LBM business can benefit from mobile technologies.

To succeed in this new business climate, smart businesses are adapting and realizing that the next frontier is to read and respond to the “Digital Body Language” of their prospects. This new body language is revealed through online activities such as website visits, white paper downloads, and email responses. Find out more about Digital Body Language. Download “Reading and Responding to Your Prospects’ Buying Behavior in the Online World”

Ninety-five percent of companies polled in a recent Gartner survey considered increasing efficiency and productivity top priorities for IT departments when determining future budgets. Of those companies, 43 percent viewed increasing efficiency as a high priority, while 42 percent considered increased productivity a high priority. Many departments—such as sales or service—focus on the company’s profits. And while a smooth-functioning IT department may contribute to the overall efficiency of an organization, it traditionally provides little to no contribution to the bottom line.

Travel agents, tour operators and travel wholesalers are typically spending thousands in unnecessary costs each year. And in a fiercely competitive market operating on high volumes and low margins, ensuring efficiency with sales and purchasing systems is no easy task. Especially when it comes to payments. If you want to find out where you’re losing money, how efficient your platform really is and the simple way to eliminate these costs, read this white paper. It explores the top three areas where you could be overspending. And it reveals the statistics behind your unnecessary costs – giving you the information you need to save money and drive efficiency.

Ninety-five percent of companies polled in a recent Gartner survey considered increasing efficiency and productivity top priorities for IT departments when determining future budgets. Of those companies, 43 percent viewed increasing efficiency as a high priority, while 42 percent considered increased productivity a high priority. Many departments—such as sales or service—focus on the company’s profits. And while a smooth-functioning IT department may contribute to the overall efficiency of an organization, it traditionally provides little to no contribution to the bottom line.

Ninety-five percent of companies polled in a recent Gartner survey considered increasing efficiency and productivity top priorities for IT departments when determining future budgets. Of those companies, 43 percent viewed increasing efficiency as a high priority, while 42 percent considered increased productivity a high priority. Many departments—such as sales or service—focus on the company’s profits. And while a smooth-functioning IT department may contribute to the overall efficiency of an organization, it traditionally provides little to no contribution to the bottom line.

CSO Insights analysts gathered 100+ metrics from 1,500+ sales executives to develop insights on three key areas: • the challenges facing their sales teams • why those problems exist • how they are successfully reengineering their teams to overcome those challenges Based on this data, the whitepaper How to Build a World-Class Sales Organization clearly outlines how to increase productivity and collaboration so reps can spend more time selling.

To compete in today’s fast-paced business climate, enterprises need accurate and frequent sales and customer reports to make real-time operational decisions about pricing, merchandising and inventory management. They also require greater agility to respond to business events as they happen, and more visibility into business activities so information and systems are optimized for peak efficiency and performance. By making use of data capture and business intelligence to integrate and apply data across the enterprise, organizations can capitalize on emerging opportunities and build a competitive advantage. The IBM® data replication portfolio is designed to address these issues through a highly flexible one-stop shop for high-volume, robust, secure information replication across heterogeneous data stores. The portfolio leverages real-time data replication to support high availability, database migration, application consolidation, dynamic warehousing, master data management (MDM), service

"Industry experts predict that successful businesses will soon become 100% digital for all transactions. Sales teams that leverage digital technology close more deals faster, improve the customer experience, and gain clear competitive advantages. Sales professionals are most effective when they’re equipped with the best tools. A mobile-enabled electronic workflow is becoming essential to optimise efficiency and provide teams with true flexibility. This best practices paper outlines eight important ways that sales teams can make meaningful progress in their digital transformations." ake meaningful progress in their digital transformations.

In this brief, we differentiate between SCM and SPM, and outline the components required to accelerate the performance of b-to-b sales teams.

To compete in today’s fast-paced business climate, enterprises need accurate and frequent sales and customer reports to make real-time operational decisions about pricing, merchandising and inventory management. They also require greater agility to respond to business events as they happen, and more visibility into business activities so information and systems are optimized for peak efficiency and performance. By making use of data capture and business intelligence to integrate and apply data across the enterprise, organizations can capitalize on emerging opportunities and build a competitive advantage.

Professionals in the lumber and building materials (LBM) industry know that getting the job done right is all about having the right tools. Lumber and business materials manufacturers and distributors need intuitive software that’s smart enough to simplify the complexities of your business, leverage data to gain valuable sales insight, and deliver exceptional customer service. Epicor BisTrack software is uniquely optimized to help LBM retailers, pro dealers, and distributors grow your business. Learn about the LBM industry-specific functionality that BisTrack offers, like: • Supporting pro dealers and distributors • Optimizing inventory and purchasing • Managing and tracking customer relationships • Improving delivery dispatch efficiency • Introducing mobility and mobile access Take the tour today to see how Epicor BisTrack can help your business.

By now, mobile technology has become an essential part of people’s lives. As both consumers and staff trend more toward a younger, digitally savvy demographic, lumber and building materials (LBM) businesses need to take advantage of mobile tools or risk losing to the competition. Mobile technologies can bring incredible benefits to LBM enterprises for delivery and dispatch, field sales, the selling floor, and the warehouse. To better help you seize the mobile advantage, Epicor has identified eight ways your LBM business can leverage mobile technologies to foster growth, including: • Serving your customers with the latest information • Serving your customers with timely, accurate deliveries • Driving revenue with increased efficiency • Streamlining operations Check out this Epicor tipsheet and discover how else your LBM business can benefit from mobile technologies.

In order for brand promotion activated at retail by POP materials to succeed, it must drive sales. However, retail activation materials aligning with and supporting your national brand are just as important. Many marketers fail at this due to a lack of reliability, effectiveness and value. In this white paper you’ll learn about: • Reinforcement of your brand • Faster speed-to-market • Improved quality & consistency • Cost savings Increasing efficiency

More sales. Cost efficiency. Higher profits. – Every marketer wants these, but over-emphasizing unit cost of POP materials over the total cost of production makes them miss out on chances to achieve them. Taking a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) approach to supply chain management for brand activations enables marketers to grow their business more quickly and profitably. It entails, however, embracing new ways of thinking that can involve “unlearning” the status quo. This piece looks at factors comprising the three main categories contributing to Total Cost of Ownership: Direct Costs, Indirect Costs, and Post-Purchase Costs.

For many B2B companies, the best way to generate new business is the old fashioned one – a team of telemarketers hitting the phones to make sales appointments for their more experienced colleagues. But they are losing money every time a telemarketing agent calls somebody that doesn’t want to buy from them. This ebook will explain: • Why you could be wasting 97.6% of your time • The root of telemarketing’s targeting problem • A better way to classify companies; and • A smarter way to go to market

Like fine-tuning the sales process itself, managing your Pipeline requires you to closely inspect (and clearly define) each opportunity stage, carefully track the right sales metrics, and keep a close eye on the opportunities that your reps are working on.

If you want to improve your sales team's results, you need to start by asking the right questions. Download this new best-practices eBook to learn about the 12 key questions for data-driven Sales Managers. This informative guide will help you: - Determine Key Metrics For Sales Management - Improve Sales Team Productivity - Closed-Won More Deals Download a free copy of "12 Must-Ask Questions for Data-Driven Sales Managers" today.

How confident are you in the accuracy of your sales forecast? If the end of every quarter is a surprise and you're never sure if you'll hit your number, you probably need to change the way you forecast.

Despite the digitization of business today, most organizations continue to rely on paper hard copies to get the job done. A great deal of printed information drives the fundamental workflow and success of nearly any business, especially in highimpact, high-touch areas like Marketing and Sales; Planning, Engineering and Design; and Human Resources. As a result, companies continue to look for ways to manage the ongoing cost, workflow and efficiency of using printed documents.

Listen to this free podcast at your desk or on the road and learn the business challenges and problems causing B2B companies to look at marketing automation ... the near-term and longer-term ROI benefits to expect... what key features and capabilities you should look for in a B2B marketing automation system... and more.  Find out what marketing automation can do for your organization—and how to choose the system that’s right for you. Download this free 15-minute podcast now.

In this free IDC analyst report, discover why coordinating the activities of marketing and sales—from day one of the revenue cycle—is essential for profitability. Learn how to stop the revenue loss that occurs during a prospect handoff; how to give sales the freedom to target more efficiently, while enabling marketing to build better prospect relationships; and how to choose software that tightens the marketing/sales alignment. Download your copy of this insightful report now.

Companies emerging from the recent economic downturn must stay competitive, maintain cost reductions and support virtual workplaces for employees while improving communication between Marketing and Sales. Sound like a tall order?

2014 sales success will be dictated by increasing efficiency and effectiveness of our sales teams. And important to note is how reps are currently spending time. We see that closing, processing and fulfilling orders takes about 50% of the time to get to yes in the first place. Read this whitepaper and explore advances in CRM 2.0 technology to optimize this aspect of selling.

The corporate end-user community provides vital cogs in the wheel of a healthy organization. Users include the call centers, the retail assistants, the service desks, the sales offices and the people who deal with order processing. Yet many of these users are often faced with outdated user interfaces (UIs), and struggle to cope with the levels of efficiency and throughput needed. Worse still, these old systems typically only run on a connected terminal - or ‘green screen’ - but more and more these days, users need web and mobile access. Micro Focus Rumba+ dramatically improves business efficiency by providing a better user experience. It can also now be accessed from a variety of devices. Let’s take a look at five top reasons to move to Rumba+.