Rich Dale

Rich founded Flowlens to provide user-friendly cloud software for equipment manufacturers and dealers. As one of the UK's most experienced manufacturing experts he has helped hundreds of small manufacturing businesses map their processes, improve their production and inventory management and massively grown their business through the successful implementation of MRP software. Rich created Flowlens to be as intuitive, easy to learn and easy to use as possible and has built a suite of tools such as Job Cards, Sales Pipeline Management and Service modules that are custom-built for SME manufacturers.

Benefits of ERP Systems

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Benefits of ERP Systems Considering the Benefits of ERP systems? An ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system plans, manages, and centralises all core business functions such as manufacturing, supply chain, and often finance in one place, providing real-time visibility into all processes. The system comes with many features to enable you to streamline business operations and information … Read more

What Is An Assemble To Order System?

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What Is An Assemble to Order Software? An Assemble To Order System/Software provides you with a vital manufacturing strategy. You must have seen a number of unsold vehicles in an automobile showroom and wondered if it’s costing the owner anything.  The truth is, holding inventory, including automobiles, incurs a business a significant amount of carrying costs. … Read more

5 Strategies to Grow Manufacturing Sales in Uncertain Times

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One of the most robust methods to continue driving sales is to employ fresh and effective growth strategies supported by manufacturing CRM and the reliable data it produces. So what strategies can you add to your arsenal? Rather watch? This article was inspired by our webinar on Manufacturing Growth Strategies, watch on Youtube. Increase market … Read more

Product Updates – March ’22

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We have made an enhancement to Job Cards so it is now possible to bulk update asset serial numbers against input and output assets, helping users enter data into the system more efficiently. For Output Assets – this can either be done manually (as before) or by using the new ‘Bulk Actions’ options where serial … Read more

Why Digital Business Software Create Competitive Advantages for Subsea Engineering Companies

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The oil, gas and offshore renewables industry is highly competitive. This fact is even more pronounced in specialist engineering fields like the design and manufacture of subsea equipment. This article highlights the key competitive advantages available for subsea manufacturers when making use of cloud manufacturing software like Flowlens integrated MRP software and manufacturing CRM, with … Read more

Product Releases – February 2022

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Purchasing & Goods Received We have added the ability to download PO returns as a PDF, allowing them to be printed if necessary. We have made an update against the cancellation workflow around approved GRNs, making it now possible to cancel GRNs with a status of ‘Approved’ (as well as ‘Received). Once a GRN is … Read more

Drive profit with Flowlens Dashboards

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In this video we look at some of the ways manufacturers can use Flowlens Dashboards to drive success. Whether it’s keeping on top of manufacturing sales CRM growth and forecast data, manufacturing analytics, historical performance or day to day tasks, dashboards make it easy to focus on the right things. Similarly for operations managers and … Read more

Product Updates – Jan 2022

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Forms Against forms we have added the ID on both the index page of each response and the form tab. We have added a new report for all Form responses. This can be found under Reports > Activity Levels > Form Response Report. Parts We have added a Cost History tab against Parts so you … Read more

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