Thrift Automation & Data Intelligence Consultants
Smart Office Works With Thrift Operators to Make them More Profitable utilizing technology
Key Metrics at Your Fingertips
What are your sales numbers on Fridays between noon and 6?
Why are women's sales DOWN in store 7?
What was production in men's at store 2 over the last 4 weeks?
Using Business Intelligence software (Power BI), you can have quick answers to all of your questions with ZERO work by your staff.
Reporting has been built using data from: Osprey (POS), Vonigo (Truck Routing/Donation Pickup), eBay (eCommerce), Fivestars (Rewards) and more on the way.
Test out a demo here.
The phrase "there has GOT to be a BETTER way"...is almost always TRUE!
Whether it's processing a new hires, formalizing employee writeups, filling in data on a spreadsheet for a report, or updating production numbers by department...
The likely answer is "YES". And the "better way" is likely to save employee time, accuracy, allowing you to get more done with less.
We help answer the "how" of the question. Be it through Microsoft's "Power" platform, Google's Workspace products, Zaps, IFTTT, or some custom programming, the solutions are often both simple and cost effective.
Click here for some examples of tasks we've automated.
A Company's "Data Warehouse" is a centralized place where all of your Company's data is stored.
Think...
- Point of Sale data
- Timecard / Payroll data
- Production data
- Truck / Delivery data
- Bin Collection data
- Accounting data
Now take ALL of your data, put it in one place, and RELATE the data between systems.
A "Data Warehouse" is a great way to ENABLE automation, reporting, and company data backup / storage.
About Smart Office:
The world is experiencing the largest boom in efficiency of our lifetime. Things that were previously possible only with enormous amounts of cash and time investments are now possible at a fraction of the time and cost as similar solutions just 10 years ago.
The time when the “GIANTS” in the industry ruled because they were the only ones that could afford the multi-million dollar software solutions that made their business efficient is GONE.
The number of stores or size of a company’s IT department is no longer an inhibitor to growth.
That’s where Smart Office comes in. We use readily available and supported automation tools and, when needed, custom programming to get you the solutions you need to jump AHEAD of the industry.
Don’t believe us? Ask us for references.
automation Projects we have completed for clients include...
Built instore kiosks allowing customers and potential job seekers to provide customer feedback, complete onsite job applications, and sign up for customer newsletters. Total cost per kiosk under $500 including license and hardware.
Created custom forms for employee job applications. Once completed, the applications are routed to the appropriate party internally based on the job applied for, preferred location, etc.
Created a portal for employees throughout the organization to enter purchases from partners. Addition of required fields and standard process eliminated missing items and enabled timely and accurate partner invoices.
Built website accessible only by organizations managers that provides a consistent location for all company documents, including but not limited to:
- New hire forms
- Insurance forms
- Worker’s Comp forms
- Policies
- Employee and Management Directory
- Safety Surveys
- Automated Store Sales and Production Reporting
Created an employee counseling form for Supervisors to enter details of requested counseling. Upon submission the details are sent via email to HR Director with option to “approve” “deny” or “modify” action.
Created a web page that allowed donors to enter donation info into a form and receive a pdf receipt via email.
In this project, the client provided a vaccination bonus to those who provided copies of vaccination cards. Managers could record vaccination records on their phone and upload employees photos, creating secure storage of the vaccination documentation as well as alerting payroll of the earned bonus.
Implemented a series of surveys with if..then..logic requiring store managers to validate safety conditions were being met, and, when not met, requiring additional feedback regarding status and fixes.
Answers are logged by survey with dates and timestamps regarding completion.
Items that needed to be addressed are auto forwarded to appropriate parties in bright, colorful, obvious font to “call out” issues in need of resolution.