Logistics firms exist at the crossroad between supply and demand. Having to service a wide-ranging variety of client and customer requests, the need for efficient, hassle-free communication and project management is a must. If client shipments cannot be fulfilled and sent to customers in a timely manner, your logistics firm will eventually be overlooked for more capable competition.

Working in a small company comes complete with its own unique set of challenges. These challenges are only magnified when your company is as small as it can get – a single person. When you only have yourself to count on, managing the time that you put into projects becomes of the utmost importance, and as more customers are brought on board, this time-management becomes tricky to deal with.

For small teams, using managed software solutions is an easy way to provide functionality without investing in resources to build it. However, managed solutions can also be restrictive when customizations are needed. It then becomes a burden trying to find other tools that will seamlessly integrate. In particular, content management systems (CMS) are streamlined to help companies create, manage, and deliver content, handling much of the scaffolding for users.

The October 2021 release of OneDesk went live on October 2nd, 2021 and included the following new features.

For an expanding enterprise resource planning (ERP) firm, providing quality service is of utmost importance. ERP covers a wide range of day-to-day business areas—from procurement to accounting and everything in between—so staying organized and on top of everything is the key to success. Bringing the management of these needs all into one tool makes it easy to find everything in one centralized spot. With this in mind, one ERP firm came to us with a few priority requirements.

This update to OneDesk was released on August 28, 2021, and added the following new features.

For companies that have very established workflows for their ticket and project management, it can be difficult finding the right software to properly reflect them. In certain instances where the workflows are a little less traditional, it can be even more of a challenge to ensure the right customizations are possible. When a translation company came to us with some specific use cases in mind, we knew that this would be a great test of OneDesk’s abilities.

You can establish task dependencies with successor and predecessor links. Dependencies define relationships among tasks that determine their order. Predecessors identify tasks that must be completed before their successor task can be started. Using predecessor and successor relationships can help you improve project scheduling and allows you to determine how to shorten the critical path of the projects you are working on.

Now you can get OneDesk to automatically create an item for you as a result of an automation.

Services and requests are two concepts that go closely hand in hand. Even for internal requests, once a service is requested, there is a certain level of agreement that must happen between the two parties involved. This is often handled via terms and contracts, but these can be easy to mismanage or lose sight of. In most software used for managing work, these aspects are not captured or part of the workflow.