IT can be a very expensive and long-term commitment, especially if you make the wrong decisions.
We have seen numerous customers start with spreadsheets, word documents and emails and we have helped them to understand what they need to do for the future. This is crucial to our approach, whereby we don’t think the first thing a growing brand needs to do is buy an off the shelf package that soaks up cash-flow, we look for solutions that fit your stage of the growth cycle.
So, if we think you don’t need to put vast sums into IT, what do you need to do? Central to answering this is to work out exactly what you are looking to do in the first place.
The business strategy needs to be understood and articulated first, before any investment is made into software. Then, once your supply chain and routes to market are known, we think we can help you put a cost-effective set of processes together to manage this. IT solutions these days come in many different forms and there are many good-value products to help growing businesses thrive.
In amongst all this, we do have systems to offer. We run our own Supply Chain Management system called “River Run” that is an excellent entry level product that is fully integrated into our Warehouse Management system.
This gives you the functionality to set products up, take Sales Orders, create Purchase Orders, allocate stock and manage returns, amongst a whole host of other benefits. If you need a system set up, aligned to an excellent Warehouse operation, this could be just what you need to get your business growing.
As you grow, there is always further development to do. In our portfolio of successful and growing brands, we are working with many of them on new ideas to constantly improve.
At Mode, we have access to an excellent development team that can help you specify what you need, as well as process management experts to get the best out of your resources. IT is more than buying software and expecting it to work as soon as it is on your office computers, let us help you put all this together.
Having worked with a number of different logistics providers over the years I can say that Mode are by far the best.
With a vast knowledge of end to end supply chain and always proactive, a company I have complete trust in to handle our logistics as well as make my life easier.
It’s great to be able to speak to the owner of the business at any time, and also have a manager designated to our account who is always contactable and really cares.
“Since working with Mode, we have always enjoyed a fast and accurate service which is provided with a positive and personal attitude. We’re very happy to be with them.”
We’ve worked with larger logistics companies in the past – but since discovering Mode we’ve found that the day to day stress of logistics has been removed from our business.