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For businesses with any delivery operations or direct store deliveries (DSD), the news that the Windows Mobile platform will no longer be supported in the coming years could bring uncertainty about the hassle and expense of replacing your company's Windows-based mobile devices. Yet, rather than focus on the challenges of the impending upgrade – why not focus instead on the benefits. Here are four good reasons to embrace the change.

In our 33 plus years of experience helping DSD businesses run more efficiently, we have seen and assisted all kinds of business models in making their operation run more smoothly and efficiently. After all, that's the goal of our Solid Route Accounting™ software. In all these businesses, though, one thing is constant. The faster a salesperson can move through a customer's site, the more stops they can make in a day. This translates into real dollars for your business that can be seen near immediately.

How to improve your salesperson's efficiency is what this article is all about. What you might find surprising, though, is that this will actually have very little to do with your salespersons! This report will show you how to make small changes within your Solid Route Accounting™ software to shave seconds, minutes, and by week's end hours off of your salesperson's work without having to increase their responsibilities.

In our 33 plus years of experience helping DSD businesses run more efficiently, we have seen and assisted all kinds of business models in making their operation run more smoothly and efficiently. After all, that's the goal of our Solid Route Accounting™ software. In all these businesses, though, one thing is constant. The faster a salesperson can move through a customer's site, the more stops they can make in a day. This translates into real dollars for your business that can be seen near immediately.

Keeping track of inventory in a growing retail business is tricky. Along with using a dedicated inventory management system like Solid Route Accounting™, these tips can make it easier. From handling purchases and receipts to using barcodes and stock counts, they'll put you in charge of your inventory — and your business success.

These days distributors focus on getting products to their customers and try to maximize the number of customers serviced in a day's work. Not to mention to contend with competitors in an ever-increasing competitive environment.

When it comes to delivery and sales routes, efficiency is a key driver of profitability. The more stops the driver can successfully service in a shift, the higher the revenue that route can generate.

Now that Microsoft has ended the extended support for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 and is phasing out all its Embedded operating systems, many businesses need to rethink their mobile OS strategy.

Over the last few months, we have realized that distributors are becoming increasingly more focused on adopting route DSD software technology to gain an edge in their respective markets. This newly found technological focus centres on replacing mobile computers that run Windows Mobile with Android or iOS or updating their ERP system (QuickBooks, Sage 100, SYSPRO) to the newest version.

On September 6th, 2012 the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce announced its list of finalist in the 2012 Achievement in Business Excellence (ABEX) Awards. Solid Innovation Systems Inc. has been nominated as a finalist in the Innovation category. A total of 46 businesses across Saskatchewan were selected as finalists within 10 ABEX categories.

On April 10, 2012 the Prince Albert Chamber of Commerce awarded the Samuel McLeod Prince Albert Business Award in the category New Product 2011 to Solid Innovation Systems Inc. The prize is awarded to a company for demonstrating business excellence in the creation of an original product or service with exceptional commercial potential.

Solid Sales Pro™ from Solid Innovation® offers retailers a mobile POS system designed for remote sales transaction processing including field sales, showroom sales and tradeshow ordering. Solid Sales Pro™ easily handles both customer ordering tasks and contains inventory management capabilities.