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  <description>Practical articles for sales admin teams, finance directors and business owners: the cost of order entry, order errors, EDI, ERP and automation.</description>
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    <title>What does manual entry of a customer order really cost?</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description>A few minutes per order does not sound like much. Added up over a month, with errors and follow-ups, those minutes often amount to a full-time job. Here is how to do the calculation.</description>
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    <title>7 costly order entry errors (and how to avoid them)</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description>Most commercial disputes start with an incorrectly entered order. Here are the seven most common errors in sales admin teams, and the ways to avoid them.</description>
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    <title>EDI, email or B2B portal: how do your customers place orders?</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description>Many companies dream of moving all their customers onto EDI or a portal. In practice, most keep ordering by email. An overview of the channels and what they involve.</description>
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    <title>Preparing your ERP for order automation: the checklist</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
    <description>Automating order entry is all the more effective when the data in your ERP is clean. Here are the points to check before you start.</description>
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