Friday, November 22, 2013

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.


MDS Tax options now offer a new choice

Thanks to Will Rogers for the Quote. 

Taxes are a business reality for some and a non-issue for others but as the government needs more money it's going to have to come from somewhere. Amazon is charging tax now and in all likelihood they will start taxing your business in some way soon. The good news is that MDS has you covered and here are a few options for tax setup and maintenance within the MDS systems. 

     

Taxrates.com – Our simplest option,  login to the website and download a spreadsheet of all zip codes you have a tax nexus in. You can them upload into MDS  this will create the tax jurisdictions. Then when setting up customers just key in the zip code to get the correct tax rate, Update as often as needed check with your accountant.

      Alternate Option  – Taxrates.com with overrides for specific product classes in certain zip codes or jurisdictions. This allows you to flag certain product classes as non taxable in certain jurisdictions. however it does require you to setup additional product classes. There is some added time to review your products and segregate.
SalesTax.com

        Salestax.com/Esalestax.com  – This is our most comprehensive method. All your tax liability is entered online and each product can be mapped to a specific unspsc code or taxable class (available on their site/spreadsheet). Then each time an order is place a website call is made to calculate the tax. The website allows options for customer specific exemptions and they map to geo codes based upon the shipping address,  not zip codes so they are  more accurate. They also offer the ability to file your taxes for you with the correct forms for state/local etc Note: There is an added cost from TSH as well on ongoing monthly fees for this service.

          Speedtax com –This is the same method as Esalestax as they were bought out by CCH (esalestax.com) . All your tax liability is entered online and each product can be mapped to a specific unspsc code or taxable class (available on their site/spreadsheet). Then each time an order is place a website call is made to calculate the tax. The website allows options for customer specific exemptions and they map to geo codes based upon the shipping address,  not zip codes so they are  more accurate. They also offer the ability to file your taxes for you with the correct forms for state/local etc Note: There is an added cost from TSH as well on ongoing monthly fees for this service. Speedtax offers s pricing advantages as it's designed for online SAAS models and is not strictly based upon volume or business size. 



For more information on TSH or MDS call The Systems House, Inc. at 1-800- MDS-5556. Or send a message to sales@tshinc.com
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Friday, November 15, 2013

It's so good people won't know it's not their regular coffee..

Direct Fulfillment lets your customer look like a national brand. 

Using the MDS Direct fulfillment option allows you to expand your service offering to make your company more valuable as a business partner, Amazon ships from all over but it's really a combination of amazon warehouses and your third party fulfillment centers.  MDS lets you take advantage of that same technology with our direct fulfillment system. 

Back in the 80's there was a commercial from Folgers where customers were secretly switched from their regular coffee to Folgers, well in our example customers won't know they are getting product from another distributor and with the MDS system they may just like it better. 
Folgers Coffee commercial with "the switch" watch the video.


MDS Direct fulfillment offers: 

  • You the ability ship to your customer’s customers
  • Custom forms & labels with your customer’s logo and packing documents










In our example Scott Medical is doing direct fulfillment for their customer John Smith.
By selecting that customer’s ship to location in order entry, MDS will print packing documents as though the shipment came from Scott Medical. In setting up the packing documents,
MDS offer a library of templates for the shipping forms. You will then only have to select the template for that Ship to location Maintenance. Essentially Drop shipping for your Customer with their Packing Slip



For more information on TSH or MDS call The Systems House, Inc. at 1-800- MDS-5556. Or send a message to sales@tshinc.com
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Reminder: Webinar on Drug Supply Chain Changes


H.R 3204 has passed and the coming changes will affect for your company. Join us for a brief webinar, where we will take you through some of the highlights of the bill,  the coming affect on the Healthcare Supply Chain, and some innovative software solutions to help you navigate the regulatory maze.

This legislation would strengthen the prescription drug supply chain in order to protect American families against counterfeit drugs. The bill also would help prevent increases in drug prices, avoid additional drug shortages, and eliminate hundreds of millions of dollars worth of duplicative government red tape on American businesses that is harming job growth.


"House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) "

Follow the life cycle of a controlled drug through the healthcare supply chain with real world examples with simple and concise explanations using no jargon.  The MDS Medical Distribution System is a cost-effective, enterprise wide system designed specifically to meet the business challenges of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Distributors. Utilizing a single Integrated system to handle pharmaceutical, MedSurg , Drug Pedigree and Unique Device Identification allows you to concentrate on your business operations while staying on top of regulatory and compliance issues. 






For your convenience, this webinar is being offered at two different times on the same date:

Session A   10:00 - 11:00 am ET |  8  am MT  on Tuesday November 12, 2013 http://www.anymeeting.com/PIID=E959D980894731

or  

Session B 4:00 - 5:00 pm ET |  2 pm MT        on  Tuesday November 12, 2013



For more information on TSH or MDS call The Systems House, Inc. at 1-800- MDS-5556. Or send a message to sales@tshinc.com
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Friday, November 8, 2013

She Blinded Me With Science...



The MDS Audit and QC module allows you to audit any document or transaction in the MDS system.







"She Blinded Me With Science" is a New Wave song by British musician Thomas Dolby, released in 1982. 
what does that have to do with this post? The song's chorus, "She blinded me with science", plays upon the colloquial British expression "to blind [someone] with science", meaning to deliberately confuse someone by giving the impression of highly complex knowledge. Well in our own way we now can use the same technique within the MDS system. For those not familiar here is the video. 


This Module is designed to allow your company to comply with   21 CFR 211 - (1) Sample size and test intervals based on statistical criteria for each attribute examined. While there are many methodologies used in sampling, the MDS QC and Audit Module offers "Systematic sampling" as a method of choosing which documents to check. 


Systematic sampling relies on arranging the study population according to some ordering scheme and then selecting elements at regular intervals through that ordered list. Systematic sampling involves a random start and then proceeds with the selection of every kth element from then onwards. In this case, k=(population size/sample size). It is important that the starting point is not automatically the first in the list, but is instead randomly chosen from within the first to the kth element in the list. A simple example would be to select every 10th name from the telephone directory (an 'every 10th' sample, also referred to as 'sampling with a skip of 10').

Once a document or transaction is flagged for audit the system will automatically create a task assigned to a a specific user to complete the function and update any additional steps in your audits. 


By combining a little bit of science with a simplified audit capability the MDS QC and Audit system now allow your company to comply with regulatory concerns, Industry Best Practices and statistically measure and improve and critical processes. 


For more information on TSH or MDS call The Systems House, Inc. at 1-800- MDS-5556. Or send a message to sales@tshinc.com
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Friday, November 1, 2013

Cleaner Easier and Faster, User Meeting 2013


Last week we hosted our annual user meeting and reviewed the latest updates to the MDS System. 



This past year brought us over 140 updates to the Base MDS System, and 37 Customer Specific enhancements, which were requested by customers and integrated into the core MDS functionality.



144 Base Enhancements

37 Customer Specific Enhancements












Customers from all over the US,  from Seattle to Miami attended and 3 clients were awarded with the prestigious TSH 10 year award , marking 10 years of continuing support with the TSH Team.





Thanks all our employees and customers for their participation in making this year's event a great success. 

For those who did not attend please reach out to sales@tshinc.com for your copy of 
our user meeting DVD with our latest guides, videos and a copy of all of our presentations.