May 13, 2021
My kids are year-round swimmers. If you’re not familiar with swimming, it is THE WORST spectator sport. Swim meets usually consist of 3 – 4 days of sitting in a loud, chlorine-gas-filled box waiting for your kids to swim their race, which only last from 30 seconds to 5 minutes… then more waiting. At one of these nasal-destroying weekends, another swim-dad and I were passing the time discussing motivation. What motivates kids to get up at 5 AM to jump in a cold pool (in the middle of the winter)? And how can they […]
May 3, 2021
In life and business, there are many things within our control and just as many things outside of our control. As a 3PL warehouse, the increasing volume of imports is largely out of our control. With the Ever Given container ship fiasco and the port congestion on the US West coast where ships are anchored outside of busy ports, it’s very difficult to predict the volume of products and where those delays may impact the supply chain. What we can control, however, is the quality of service we provide when […]
April 29, 2021
Camelot 3PL Software · Adam Cohen & Geoff Greenhill – Project Management In this edition of the Camelot Podcast, Camelot’s Adam Cohen and Geoff Greenhill discuss how the use of a formal Project Management discipline is the best way to ensure a successful software implementation. Adam is Camelot’s Director of Support and manages new customer implementations and special projects. Adam and Geoff talk about the process of Project Management, why it is important to have a formal project plan, tools that Camelot uses for Projects and how the expense of […]
April 1, 2021
Customer Referrals As a marketer at Camelot 3PL Software, I think a lot about what we need to be doing to grow the business. Are we focusing on the customer? Are we talking to the right companies? Are our prospects aware of us? Do we have the right message? Is our product/service meeting our customers’ needs? Is our brand positioned correctly? Are we spending marketing dollars in the right areas? When thinking about revenue growth there are hundreds of ways to move the needle – but when you boil it […]
March 1, 2021
Over the past 12 months, online purchasing has increased rapidly – up 32% in 2020 over 2019 which was not anticipated to hit these levels until 2025. We are well ahead of the anticipated growth of this market transformation. How can 3PLs adapt to this modern wave of economic disruption and opportunity? Many 3PLs are still not focused on eCommerce yet, despite the fact they already have the storage capacity and staff to get started. Perhaps a 3PL only needs to shift some things around to create efficient pick aisles […]
February 2, 2021
Written by Camelot technology partner WatServ – Tyler Doerner, VP of Sales By now, you’ve probably heard of the SolarWinds malware attack. Highly sophisticated, the attack began in March 2020 and its ramifications to the US government and private companies (including Microsoft) are still being felt today. Here’s what happened: SolarWinds is a Texas-based company that sells software that enables organizations to see what’s happening on their computer networks. Hackers based in Russia inserted malicious code into an update of SolarWind’s software, called Orion. Approximately 18,000 SolarWinds customers installed the […]