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How to Build a Vendor Request Form

Vendor request forms are a key part of managing inventories, supply chains, and procurement processes - specifically when it comes to registering new suppliers. However, this can also create a huge amount of administrative work for logistics and finance teams alike. In particular, handling vendor requests manually or with pen and paper can lead to excessive data entry, validation, and other admin tasks. Today, we’re checking out how you can use Budibase to digitalize your vendor request forms with minimal custom coding skills.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 27, 2023

How to Build an Inventory Dashboard in 7 Steps

An effective inventory dashboard is critical for any business that deals with physical products. This applies within manufacturing, ecommerce, traditional retail, logistics, or any other industry. See, in any inventory management context, it’s vital that decision-makers can quickly and easily access key insights about stock levels, locations, values, supply chain data, and other key performance indicators. That way, they can make informed decisions in real-time - without the need for manual reporting.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 27, 2023

How to Build a Fleet Management Dashboard

An effective fleet management dashboard is one of the most fundamental tools in any logistics team’s arsenal. The idea is to give us a clear, up-to-date snapshot of our vehicles across our entire distribution network. Today, we’re exploring how we can use Budibase to build professional dashboards that leverage existing data. As we’ll see, Budibase is the ideal tool for extracting insights from all kinds of data sources and turning them into clear, actionable insights - so we can make better-informed decisions.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 13, 2023

How to Build a Logistics Dashboard

We all know that time is money, but this is especially true in the world of logistics. So, we need easy access to clear insights about what’s going on within our supply chains. Today, we’re exploring how to build custom logistics dashboards in Budibase. Like with any dashboard tool, the challenge here isn’t so much a lack of data. It’s making sense of the data we do have. This is critical in situations where we have information about different aspects of our logistics processes coming from different locations - or where the insights we need require more complex querying from our raw data.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 13, 2023

How to Build an Employee Onboarding App in 7 Steps

Finding and hiring quality talent can be a lengthy, expensive process. So, once they’ve signed on the dotted line, we want to get our new colleagues up and running as quickly as possible. Today, we’re showing you how to build an effective employee onboarding app. The tricky thing is that onboarding new hires brings along a whole swathe of administrative work - like introducing them to their new coworkers, getting them set up on our internal IT systems, and ensuring that they’ve read all of the relevant documentation for their role.

Ronan McQuillan

Oct 10, 2023

How to Build a Sales Dashboard with Budibase

Sales dashboards are fundamental to how we track, monitor, and plan around our incoming revenues. Businesses today sit on mountains of data. But, when it comes to sales reporting - decision-makers often only need high-level metrics. So, the challenge is cutting through the noise and providing clear, actionable insights to the right people. Today, we’re exploring how Budibase can be used to build complex, custom solutions with all sorts of pre-existing business data.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 19, 2023

How to Build Complex Approvals with Budibase

Managing requests and approvals is a fundamental step within all kinds of business processes. In fact, almost any internal task is going to require some element of sign-off or vetting. The tricky thing is that this is often tightly aligned to very specific policies and procedures within a particular organization. In other words, the specific steps required to gain approval - and the logic underpinning these - will vary across different businesses and individual tasks.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 19, 2023

How to Build a CRM with Budibase

Building a CRM is one of the most common custom software projects you’re likely to encounter. See, every customer-facing business needs a repeatable way to manage relationships with current, potential, and previous clients. The trouble is that the market here is so thoroughly cornered by a handful of big players - like SalesForce, Dynamics365, HubSpot, and others. This creates two potential problems. First, with such market dominance, these vendors can often present comparatively high recurring licenses.

Ronan McQuillan

Sep 5, 2023