OGL Blog
- Home
- OGL Blog
Latest from our blog
Here you'll find the latest technology and software stories, news, advice, tips and ideas to help you transform the way you do business.
Business Software
Is your business performing as it should?
Is your business performing as it should? Ideally, your business will be performing at its full potential, achieving the maximum amount of sales, customers and profits. In an ideal world, your business will be the most time efficient, cost effective, high quality, customer focused company in your industry. But how would you know if you were? We all know the key...
Company
OGL’s initiative ‘Opening Doors to Business’ helps the NWedR & RSA Academies win award
North Worcestershire Economic & Regeneration Development (NWedR) and RSA Academies have won the award for Innovative Partnership of the Year in the West & South West by the Careers & Enterprise Company. The award highlights how the organisations support young people in their careers education to inspire and inform them before entering the world of work,...
Business Software
Staff absence during the holidays causing disruption?
Staff absence, especially during the summer months, can cause significant disruption to your business. More often than not, individual employees maintain control over particular clients and all the associated files are stored on the individual’s device. This works well most of the year until they are absent from the company for holiday or sickness and the docu...
Company
OGL senior manager instrumental in Thai cave rescue
A senior manager at OGL played a key role in the rescue of the 12 young boys and football coach trapped in a Thai cave for nearly two weeks. Emma Porter, our Head of Legal and HR, is Secretary of the British Cave Rescue Council and she was running the control centre for the UK operation, organising manpower and equipment to be sent to Thailand at short notice...
Business Software
Warehouse Management Systems bring greater control, accuracy and visibility.
WMS can offer significant improvements and savings for your business, right from implementation. Investing in a system can revolutionise a warehouse and turn overly complex processes into simple tasks that can be automated at the click of a button. Warehouse Management Software is not a new product to the market and has been around for many years but finding a syste...
Company
Industry and education work together to enhance learning for local students
An entrepreneurial student from Baxter College, Toby Ferris, approached us to ask if we could provide valuable equipment to enhance his, and his fellow IT students’, learning. Toby, who is currently studying for his GCSE in IT & Computing, wrote to us. saying: “I am in Year 10 and wish to help my classmates understand more about the hardware side to c...
Company
Charity swim in aid of Daisy Garland
On Friday 27 July Software Operations Manager, Charlie Grant, will be embarking on his yearly swimming challenge to raise money for the Daisy Garland charity in memory of his son, Teddy Grant. This year, Charlie will be attempting the Padstow to Rock swim in Cornwall, accompanied by a few of his colleagues and friends at OGL. Charlie commente...
Business Software
How reliable is your business software?
There comes a point in time when every distribution, wholesale or stockist business reaches a level of growth that is no longer supported by their current system. This can lead to all sorts of issues, including loss of revenue, disgruntled employees and missed sales opportunities. Equally, your system may be missing vital functionality needed to enhance your busines...
Company
OGL employees climb Mount Snowdon to raise funds for colleague
A group of OGL employees got together on the May Bank Holiday weekend to climb Mount Snowdon to raise funds for a friend and colleague who is battling cancer. The budding mountaineers set themselves a target to raise £1000 for Senior Credit Control Assistant at OGL Computer, Emma Selby-Pugh, but have already smashed that having raised over £1800 to enable ...
Speak to our software experts
To find out how our Profit4 ERP software can transform your business, arrange a call-back with one of our ERP Consultants.