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Simplify your Order Management with Zoho Inventory Order management refers to receiving all of your customer’s orders and fulfilling each one of them successfully. A typical order management workflow can be split into 3-stages that we talk about in detail in our  basics of order management  guide. But in brief, Stage 1  is where your customer places an order with your business. For  ecommerce  orders, this is also the stage where  online payments  are made. Stage 2  is where the order is actually fulfilled which involves  picking  the order’s items from the  warehouse ,  packing , and finally shipping them. Stage 3  is dealing with the post-sales procedures like collecting feedback from your customers, and handling  returns  and refunds. With all of these processes and subprocesses required for a single order, managing and fulfilling all the orders that you receive manually can become a little tricky as...

Reading Time:  3  minutes In a  warehouse , putaway refers to all the processes that happen between receiving goods from vendors and having them all put away into their assigned places. Having a putaway system simplifies the process of storing items, reduces the risk of misplacing or losing items, and keeps your warehouse clean and organized. Learn more about  putaway. Any putaway system helps, but an efficient one is a lot better for your business. In this guide, we will be talking about what you should do to optimize your putaway process and get even better results. Don’t put off your putaway Busy warehouses naturally tend to focus on major processes like picking, packing, and shipping, since they’re the ones that actually get orders out the door and money coming in. Because of that, they leave their putaway process for a later time. But this only means that they end up with boxes of items lying around, unaccounted for. A word of advice: ta...