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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Magazine Delivery & Storage

Paying for storage is way more useful than one might think to start with.  Outsourcing your periodical storage actually pays for at least 3 important services.  They include;

Receiving
Distribution
Storage
  1. Receiving is the ability to receive pallet-ed materials delivered by large trucks.  It also allows for easy unloading and storage within a covered & secure storage space.
  2. Distribution allows for multiple drivers and other permitted people access to the periodicals over a wide period of time.
  3. Storage provides safe and secure place to store your materials over the near and long term.  It also provides storage space for ancillary materials like racks & archival materials.
By sharing a self storage locker Customers save the expense of providing their own storage as well as management of that space.

We offer monthly storage costs that are considerable cheaper than providing you own rented space. We manage the space and keep it simple for you.

Monthly Costs; (based on annual rental)
1 Pallet = $50/mnth
2-3 Pallets = $100/mnth
4-8 Pallets = $140/mnth
Month-to-month = $75/pallet

Monday, February 1, 2016

RouteTracker - Distribution - Sales - Community

RouteTracker 
is a fully integrated Distribution Information System (DIS) that helps to streamline your distribution tasks.  It provides up to the minute, paperless distribution lists for delivery drivers, sales and other Staff.  Drivers can share feedback to the system through sharing on the Google sheet distribution list.

It is comprised of 3 elements;
  1. Shareable, secure distribution list that is hosted on the Cloud using Google Sheets
  2. Integrated and dynamic mapping for visualizing & understanding your distribution
  3. Dynamic Mobile mapping app (iOS and Android) that allows for efficient, accurate and paperless delivery
The system is extremely flexible including;
  • The distribution list is a standard spreadsheet format using Google's free & open source application, Sheets.

  • The list is secure and can only be accessed by people who are Shared the document
  • Shared Users can have different access privileges (edit, view only etc)
  • The list is a simple spreadsheet that can be filtered, sorted and otherwise manipulated however the User sees fit
  • Each item on the list is geocoded with it's exact latitude & longitude location so that it can be located on the maps and app 

  • Dynamic maps are beautiful representations of the data on the list that can be used for many purposes including;
    • Drivers distribution maps including display of multiple different magazines for each route  
    • Sales presentation maps for Advertising
    • City zipcode distribution for purposes of defining demographics
    • Advertiser maps
    • Specialty purpose maps for websites & blogs - Local Dining Guide
  • Maps are dynamically linked to the list such that changes made to the list automatically update the map
  • Maps are simple HTML web page format and can be integrated into websites in many simple ways

  • The app is a full featured iOS Android app with all the simple great features and gestures that people love in apps
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    • The app can upload the distribution list at any time, and also works without connection to the web
    • Each item can be displayed in a group or singly on a map including the User's location
    • Directions to the stop can be accessed
    • Each location is also displayed in a table view that can be sorted, filtered and searched
    • Each location has it's own detail page with all of the data contained on the sheet
    • A simple web based version of the app is available for Android devices



     We provide these 3 things integrated into a single product we call RouteTracker and provide this to our Customers as a subscription service.  The service is a standard Software as a Service (SaaS) product.  Pricing is based on the size of your distribution network.