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Blue Stuff Improves Order Processing and Saves Thousands of Dollars

Overview Headquartered in Oklahoma, Blue Stuff, Inc. sells and distributes emu oil-based pain relieving creams, health and beauty ointments, and health supplements to over 1.5 million customers. Since implementing Microsoft Business Solutions-Great Plains, Blue Stuff has improved their integration of business systems with tighter cost and inventory controls as a result. Improved reporting now enables them to pull profit and loss statements for each product from one database, thus saving the company hours of redundant data entry each month. The company is now able to break information down into vertical markets.

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Publisher	Microsoft Corporation	File Format	HTML
Date Published	March 2004	Downloads	1
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Business Management

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