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IWF News

Woodworking Inventors Share Their Strategies: IWF 2014

A rapt audience of woodworkers listened intently – and questioned at length - as a panel of their peers revealed their approaches to developing new products and business opportunities. The full-day session, “Woodworking Inventors,” was one of several Tuesday symposia that heralded the start of the International Woodworking Fair (IWF).

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Fletcher Wood Makes a Case for ERP Software

During the mid 2000’s, Fletcher Wood Products had an information problem. In some areas, we had enough data being collected but the only access to it was through a text-driven, DOS-based database program. In other areas we were in the same boat as everyone else (and many still are today): information locked up in spreadsheets, printed papers, and key personnel’s brains.