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The Road ahead for Enterprises and their Vendors In India: Insights From The 2023 Union Budget

From increased credit flow to easing compliance burden, the government has proposed various steps to empower Indian enterprises and the trade ecosystem of India in the 2023 Union Budget.

Guide: How to start your export business now!

In the last few years, India has become the hotbed for sourcing and manufacturing for the world. Petroleum products, gems & jewellery, organic & inorganic chemicals, drugs & pharmaceuticals were among the leading export items. India's trade showed strong growth, with overall exports totaling USD 58.22 billion in November 2022, an increase of 10.97% compared to the same period in the previous year. But we can be so much more…

How Business Management Platforms are the Future of MSME Procurement

With the launch of the 5G Network, our government has made it clear that India’s growth will be helmed on the back of digitization. MSMEs and SMEs will greatly benefit from business management platform, specially procurement platforms, with powerful tech features to streamline and automate processes.

Where is MSME Financing heading in India

MSMEs face challenges, such as business financing, small financing, market access, and regulatory barriers that can affect the smooth functioning of a business. Governments and NBFCs often implement policies and programs to support MSME finance and address these challenges. Here are a few more detailed ways to access MSME financing for smooth business operations.

How You Can Lead Your Industry With These Procurement Planning Strategies

To meet your organisation’s core objectives, you need a long-range plan to ensure timely supply of goods and services. That is why procurement planning becomes so important in your business mix. Procurement planning is the process of putting in place an efficient system to optimise and fast-track sourcing.

How Revenue-based Financing Can Ease Production Process During Festivals

Typically, during the holiday season, there is a rise in demand for products and services. For manufacturers to meet this demand, they must begin preparing in advance. During this time, boosting their production processes by obtaining revenue-based financing for the festive season may be the best option for increasing production to meet high demands.

How to find new customers: A simple stratagem for MSMEs

MSMEs wondering how to find new customers need to adapt to the accelerating digital age for customer acquisition. Discovering new customers through digitisation, engaging them with personalization and connecting them through tender discovery platforms leads to higher customer reach and business growth.

Business Credit for Business Diversification: Every MSME’s Way Forward.

Change is an integral part of any entrepreneur‘s journey. In the business as usual scenario, changes are defined by new trends, by the need to introduce new products led by customer requirements or to comply with new government regulations. Diversification at a time with external threats and a rapidly changing economy has to be backed with expertise, financing services, knowledge and calculated risks leading to not just sustainability but also growth.

How Supply Chain Management will Change with National Logistics Policy 2022

Logistics and supply chains have only recently become a part of India’s national policy discourse. The new national logistics policy 2022 is set to ring in, providing seamless and speedy movement of cargo across different modes of transport. With the new policy in place, India can become a global trendsetter in the paperless and digital environment of logistics.

How you can Grow Your MSME Business at 5G Speed with Collateral-Free Credit Lines

It is hard to imagine an industry that hasn’t benefited from the digital revolution. Small and large B2B sectors, online entertainment, SME & MSMEs, and e-retail have advanced massively from this overhaul. One of the great milestones of Digital Innovation is the launch of the 5G network. India’s aspirations for growth and the enthusiasm surrounding the launch of 5G is truly empowering. And it promises game-changing improvements for MSME financing in India.

Combating Business Uncertainty Through Vendor Risk Management

A supplier-centric approach involving vendor consolidation, a robust vendor management system, and vendor risk management practices can help your business build healthier and more transparent supply chains. Treating your suppliers as partners, rather than a commodity can lead to stronger relationships that can help you overcome business uncertainties

How Unsecured Credit Lines Can Help Suppliers Meet their Festive Demands

Demand for goods and services generally peak during the festive season. Suppliers need to start preparing in advance to be able to meet this demand. This is when taking unsecured credit lines for the festive season can be the solution for higher production and stock keeping.

What is vendor leasing? How does vendor leasing benefit SMBs?

Vendors in partnership with business financing companies provide customers convenient, on-the-spot financing using vendor leasing. Vendor leasing is a win-win for all parties involved - vendors, business financing companies, and customers.

7 Measures that Must Constitute Your Vendor Risk Management Strategy

Assessing and managing vendor risk is important to address unforeseen circumstances and protect your business’s reputation. Building a comprehensive vendor risk management plan can help you proactively identify and protect your supply chain against vendor risks.

Complete Guide on Working Capital Financing for Your MSME

MSMEs often face cash shortages and require timely funds to maintain liquidity. Working capital loan for MSME is one of the working financing instruments that helps businesses improve cash flow to keep operations running and enhance business growth.

How are Tech-enabled Business Financing Companies Changing Supplier Marketplaces?

Supply chain management and financing are undergoing a complete transformation due to technological advancements and innovative, accessible financing solutions. The tech-enabled business financing companies are rapidly changing the supply chain landscape, making it easier for all businesses to thrive and grow.

Complete Guide to the Vendor Selection Process

Vendor selection must be done right for businesses to reap its benefits. Digitized solutions, such as electronic vendor discovery and digital vendor management, can play their part in optimizing the vendor selection process.

Challenges with MSME Business Financing in India

Despite being a vital part of the Indian economy, MSMEs continue to face financing challenges. Supply chain financing can help resolve the challenges with MSME financing in India, leading to inclusive economic growth.

What is the Difference Between Invoice Financing and Invoice Discounting? Which Option Should You Choose?

Several businesses and entities may use the terms invoice financing and invoice discounting interchangeably. However, there are specific and subtle changes between the two. Businesses can choose the alternative from the two that can help meet their objectives by understanding these differences.

What is the Importance of Procurement Planning in Supply Chain Management?

Procurement takes up much of the total supply chain costs. Its sheer significance in every aspect of business operations makes procurement planning in supply chain management a necessity today.

Top 5 Government MSME Schemes You Need To Know

The Indian Government has introduced several schemes to assist MSMEs, a vast contributor to India’s GDP over the years. Some of these schemes have multiple minute details that are worth exploring.

5 Benefits Of Digitizing Your Vendor Management

Vendor management is much more complicated than what it was a few decades ago. Digital vendor management helps businesses navigate such complexities and streamline their supplier management efficiently.

Invoice Discounting Vs Factoring: Which Is The Better Option For MSME Financing In India

MSME financing in India provides a plethora of options for businesses in need. One of the choices includes invoice discounting vs factoring. There are a few factors — namely, the working, differences, and pros and cons of each alternative — that must be considered before being able to come to a conclusion in this regard.

Ukraine-Russia War: Combating The Increase In Raw Material Prices

Businesses everywhere are feeling the effects of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in the form of exorbitant procurement costs. There are several measures that could be taken to offset such costs during the ongoing phase.

How MSMEs Can Dream Big: A Roadmap To ₹1000 Crores Turnover

All businesses aspire to eventually make it to the holy grail of ₹1000 crores in revenue annually. A combination of technology implementation, crafty investment, and risk-taking are key for businesses to have a real shot at this arduous but achievable objective.

4 Financing Options Your Business Can Avail For A Steady Working Capital

Businesses have a multitude of financing options to choose from to stabilize their cash flows and working capital management. Opting for a tech-led financing solution can ensure their long-term survival and growth.

How To Make Supply Chains More Cost-Efficient

MSMEs incur the highest supply chain costs due to an aversion to using technology. Data-driven, digitized supply chain management can significantly reduce the spending of MSMEs.

What MSMEs Can Learn From Amazon About Digital Procurement

Amazon’s path-breaking business strategies, investment choices, and technology adoption have made it the biggest conglomerate of the 21st century. Some of the retail giant’s strategies, especially the ones related to sourcing, can be emulated by MSMEs to make their supply chain operations more efficient.

How Tech-led Supply Chain Financing Bridges The Finance Gap In India’s Agri Industry

MSME agribusinesses find it routinely challenging to secure credit from banks and other financial institutes to sustain their operations. Technology-based solutions can offer avenues to correct this problem.

E-Auctions or RFPs? What MSMEs should choose for Efficient Procurement and Why

E-auctions help businesses control their procurement costs, create long-term vendor partnerships and strategies, and make their logistics operations smoother — things that can be difficult or impossible by going down the RFP route.

Role of Supply Chain Finance in Fueling MSME Growth in India

MSMEs are an important source of growth for India's economic development, yet just 10% of the country's MSMEs have access to institutional financing. Learn how SCF can save the day.

Top 10 Secrets of B2B Procurement Revealed

A detailed explanation of the top 10 essential features you should look for in a B2b procurement software offering Live Bidding. Read to know more.

Supply Chain Finance Hacks To Transform Your Sourcing

Developing a robust supply chain finance plan is vital for streamlining the working capital and cash flow of an organization. Read on to know more.

Why E-Auction Is The Future Of Smart Sourcing?

EAuction on B2B platforms add efficiency to your sourcing, bring suppliers online & simplify price discovery. Read on to know how.

Transforming Businesses through Timely Vendor Payments in 2023

It is imperative for everyone to understand in 2023 and beyond that, even the smallest of businesses would require timely working capital influx to keep themselves afloat and profitable. Read on to delve deeper.

How to Make it Easy for Your Vendors to Go Digital?

Digital vendor management is the thing of the future with the dominance of technology rising. To help your vendors adopt technology easily & without hesitation, you need to be a bit strategic. Let us tell you how.

3 Levers to Build a Winning Supply Chain Network

Implement these supply chain strategies to ensure improved productivity, reduced inventory & savings via cash discounts.

Warehouse Sanitation: During Coronavirus & For Later

With the coronavirus pandemic affecting us all in 2020, sanitation becomes even more significant especially in warehouses as anything stored there comes in contact with the world one way or the other. Here are some tips to keep it spick & span.

Struggling With Packaging Stock-Outs? Here's What You Can Do

Without the required packaging, products don’t reach their final destination. In this article, we’ll discuss how packaging stock replenishment can help you in the long run.

Merchandise Packaging: Keep Pace With Fluctuating Trends

Merchandising isn’t new but it has evolved. Brands see fluctuating product demands not just throughout the year but sometimes, from week to week. Here's a way to keep merchandise packaging planning smart and effective.

Becoming Sustainable: Overcome Packaging Inventory Ageing

With so many headlines focusing on how to cut down on packaging waste, let’s talk about how inventory control can help & explore how to cut down packaging inventory ageing.

7 Easy Ways to Reduce Packaging Inventory Replenishment Costs

By cutting down on the inventory replenishment cost, businesses save time and money. In turn, they can prevent packaging stock-out. We have listed down 7 methods to optimize inventory replenishment cost.

Work Smarter: Make Digital Asset Management Part of Your Workflow

Using digital asset management can help you to work smarter & better. Learn more about the topic & increase the efficiency of your workflow.

Artwork Flow Can Help With Changes In Packaging Regulations

Packaging rules & regulations are ever-evolving. Brands need quick processes to comply with any changes & roll out products that are safe.

How to Plan A Successful Product Launch (Holiday Calendar)

Marketing doesn't happen overnight. Plan your product launch marketing with this handy guide. Free 2020 holiday calendar included.

5 Ways To Make Sure You Save Costs On Corrugated Boxes

With their unique blend of cushioning and structural rigidity, corrugated boxes are indispensable when it comes to storage, bundling or shipping. Read more to know how to save costs on corrugated boxes.

3-Step Guide To Begin With The Best Artwork Management System

We're here with a guide on Artwork Flow to get you started with our artwork management system. 3 simple steps & you are closer to efficiency.

5 Common Artwork Management Failures that Delay Product Launch

Supercharge your product launch strategy with Artwork Flow - a powerful system that will help you resolve common artwork management failures.

7 Free Artwork Proofing Tools You Need to Bookmark Today!

Marketers can now work smarter with free online proofing tools. Get results faster & deliver accurate artwork files.

Ditch Emails For A Seamless Artwork Management System

Emails might be making you unproductive. Artwork Flow, a cloud-based artwork management system is here to solve your problems.

Why is the Demand for Recyclable Laminates Increasing?

40% of the plastic produced is packaging, used just once and then discarded. This is why there is a dire need to find alternatives to single-use plastic. One such option is recyclable laminate.

E-commerce Packaging Innovations: Revamping Logistics

E-commerce has transformed business models in the world. This article enlists the noteworthy e-commerce packaging innovations that walk in-line with the new-age dynamic retail industry.

Ace the Shrink Wrap Packaging Game!

Shrink wrap is a versatile packaging option that can be used for bundling, labelling, weatherproofing, tamper-proofing and more. Here's everything you need to know about shrink wraps.

Color Consistency In Packaging - A Game Changer

Packaging is the first thing that comes to a consumer’s notice and through the color he’s able to identify the brand’s product. In this article, we will discuss how a lack of color consistency in packaging hampers the brand identity.

Packaging Design Review: Sugar Alternative Brands

Diabetes and weight-consciousness are the main drivers for the sugar alternatives market. Here's a review of the leading sugar alternatives packaging designs and their effectiveness in the consumer market.

A Handy Guide on Packing Unusually Shaped Products

Packing unusually-shaped products can get tricky. Therefore, pack smart so that the shipping overhead is minimum. Here’s a handy guide for packing unusually shaped products.

Zero Waste Packaging: Eliminating Plastics to Level Zero

The zero-waste philosophy encourages the reuse and recycling of packaging. Here are some of the most commonly used zero-waste packaging solutions.

Fashion Retail Packaging: Moving Out of the Box

Fashion retail brands face quite a lot of packaging challenges. Following are the recent innovative fashion retail packaging, which are wooing the customers.

Game of Thrones Fervour: Packaging Beyond Branding

Let’s have a look at the admirable examples of Game of Thrones themed packaging by well-known brands like Adidas, Mountain Dew, Oreo, Jhonny Walker & Urban Decay.

A Handy Guide to Packaging Glass Products Safely

Packaging brittle and fragile products can be quite challenging. Here are some handy tips on packaging glass products for easier handling while shipping.

Conquering The Consumer Durables Packaging Challenges

Packaging consumer durables for storage, shipping and transport can be quite a challenging task. Here are some of the major consumer durables packaging challenges & solutions.

Create Global Impact with Language Specific Packaging

Majority of tourists face hassle communicating at duty-free stores, local markets, and pharmacies. Hence, language-specific packaging is necessary to eliminate the gap.

Learn from Zomato : The Need of Tamper-Evident Tapes?

After a viral video of Zomato’s delivery boy eating food from customers’ packages and repacking them to deliver, many e-commerce retailers are keen on using tamper-proof packaging. Especially the Food and Beverage industry.

Thermochromic Tape Used in Temperature-Sensitive Packaging

In packaging, if there’s a contender that adds a new dimension to taping, it is a thermochromic tape that is temperature-sensitive & changes colour with temperature changes.

Overcoming Pharmaceutical Packaging Industry Challenges

Complications are run-of-the-mill in the pharmaceutical packaging industry. Here a list of the common challenges of the pharmaceutical packaging industry & the solutions to overcome them.

Celebrating High-Spirited Women at Bizongo: Women's Day

This year we wanted the women at Bizongo to cherish their womanhood. This is how the celebration for International Women’s Day went.

An Extensive Consumer Durables Packaging Guide

Consumer durables are high-value goods. This consumer packaging guide lists all types of consumer durables packaging to protect such products.

Innovations in Packaging Security Features

We today face the challenge to incorporate packaging safety features sustainable with the scale of production. Following are the remarkable innovations in the packaging security features.

Why Does Your Commercial Warehouse Flooring Need a Makeover?

Warehouses floor need to bear massive weights and go through everyday rough handling. Read on to know why your commercial warehouse flooring needs a makeover.

How Safe is the Biodegradable Food Packaging Market?

With sustainability at its core, food packaging is moving swiftly towards biodegradable options. But is the biodegradable food packaging market really safe? Read ahead to know more.

Simple Packaging is Ruling the Market. Read Up to Know Why?

Brands spend hours and weeks and days brainstorming to come up with a packaging that’s simple yet attractive. The present trend favors simple and minimalist packaging. We tell you why.

A Detailed Guide for Ancillary Packaging Materials

The ancillary packaging materials add value to the primary packaging in the automotive industry. Here's a list of types of auto-ancillary packaging materials and their importance for packaging in the automotive industry.

Why Is Chemical Packaging a Mindful Task & How to Best Do It?

When it comes to chemical packaging, the challenges are manifold. Here are some of the main concerns regarding chemical packaging & how to put them to rest.

Save Time & Manpower With Packaging Automation Systems

The benefit of packaging automation is it saves time and accuracy is impeccable. Let’s have a look at noteworthy innovations in the field of packaging automation.

This is How Mood Boards Help In Packaging Design

When you have to convey your style and quality as a designer, it often becomes tricky to describe that in words. This is how mood boards can help.

Why You Need a Good Label Design to Upscale Your Brand Identity?

The role of packaging is to draw attention followed by customer’s curiosity towards your product and finally the purchase. Here are a few reasons why labels might be a big deal than you expected.

Packaging Trends From 2018 That Are Here to Stay

Necessity is the mother of innovation and the year 2018 thoroughly emphasized the need for smart and environment-friendly packaging. Let’s sum up the packaging trends from 2018, which are expected to stay.

The Story Behind Bizongo’s New Avatar

We introduce to you, the brand Bizongo. All our past experiences, our values and our aspirations have led up to this moment. This is the face of our present and our future. It gives expression to everything that Bizongo encapsulates.

What Should You Consider Before Changing Your Office Space?

Let us take you through the things we took into account when Bizongo changed its office space and you could consider too.

Packaging Prototypes Decoded - What You See Is What You Get

Prototyping is an important part of the package designing process and they are created for a wide variety of reasons. Here are different packaging prototypes that are used in the industry to explore new packaging designs.

Picking the Right Packaging Printing Method for Cartons

Since cartons are rigid and flat, you can get a lot of printing options that other flexible packaging materials do not have. Here are some of the common printing technologies that are available for printing cartons.

Plastic Bans Around the Globe That India Can Learn From

Plastic has become a threat to the environment. Let’s have a look at remarkable plastic bans across the world and the factors that drove them.

8 Innovations are Reshaping Automotive Packaging

The automotive industry is a pioneer in designing packaging to optimize space utilization. In this read, we bring to you noteworthy innovations in the automotive packaging industry.

How to Boost Sales through Point of Sale Merchandise

According to your business, you can plan out your point of sale marketing strategy. Read ahead to know a few point of sale merchandising strategies.

Flexible Packaging Testing Methods for Reliable Packaging

To monitor how packaging behaves under different kinds of stress, flexible packaging testing is quite important. Let's discuss some of the flexible packaging testing methodologies

6 Packaging Trends Influencing Decisions at Leading Brands

The packaging industry trends of 2018 clearly depict that manufacturers have recognized packaging as an important branding asset. Let’s have a look at the new market trends influencing the $851 billion packaging industry.

Child-Resistant Pharmaceutical Packaging to Ensure Safety

As per the World Health Organization, child-resistant packaging has provided high success rates when it came to the prevention of unintended poisoning in children.

Dose of Innovative Pharmaceutical Packaging You Surely Need

The pharmaceutical packaging industry is driven by the factor of safety for both- drugs and patients. In this series of packaging innovations, we bring to you the recent trends in the pharmaceutical packaging industry.

Understanding Standard Methods of Testing for Rigid Packaging

Rigid packaging testing is something that needs extra care hence is divided into two sections. Here are some of the testing for rigid packaging methodologies categorized as per the ways of testing.

Choose the Right Blister Packaging for Your Business

Blister packaging, commonly known as unit-dose packaging, is used in the pharmaceutical industry for packaging medicine. Here's everything you need to know about blister packaging.

Innovative Chocolate Packaging Concepts You Must Check Out

With the increasing popularity of chocolates for personal taste and gifting, companies are especially conscious of their packaging. In the August series of Packaging Innovations 2018, here we bring the innovative chocolate packaging appealing to every taste bud.

Role of Packaging Through Key Stages of a Consumer’s Journey

Packaging imposes an impression on consumer’s likelihood to purchase the same product again. Here's how packaging impact in 3 consumer journey stages - before, during & after buying.

Optimize Packaging Cost to Improve Your Company's Bottom Line

Organizations whose main business is not packaging tend to sideline it, causing unnecessary increment of packaging cost and brand name deterioration. So, here are a few tips to curate a smart and cost-effective packaging procurement strategy?

Innovations in the Packaging Industry | July 2018

Millions of tons of packaging waste contribute to landfill every year. Thus arises the need for biodegradable packaging. Let's have a look at some remarkable environment-friendly packaging innovation.

9 Prerequisites to Packaging Design & Development

Packaging can get tricky. Given is the list of 9 things you should be aware of before you kickstart packaging design & developemnt.

9 Reasons Your Business Needs Frustration Free Packaging

Frustration-free packaging is beneficial for both, the consumers and the manufacturers. We've listed 9 reasons you should opt for frustration-free packaging too.

Innovations In The Packaging Industry | June 2018

With the aim of reducing this landfill, many manufacturers are switching to plant-based and recyclable raw materials for packing their products. In this series of packaging innovations, we bring you some of the recyclable food packaging worth notice.

Update: Plastic Ban In Maharashtra & Alternatives Available

The Maharashtra government, on 28th June, revised the ban on the initial ban issued on 23rd March. The following article has all the details mentioned related to the ban along with the alternatives present on the Bizongo platform.

5 Guaranteed Benefits of Localised Procurement for Every Business

Localising the packaging simply means sourcing packaging materials from vendors that are closest to a client’s location. Here, we have highlighted the complete benefits of how localizing packaging supply can be beneficial.

7 Reasons Your Business Needs a Packaging Procurement Software

Move over the manual procurement process. Packaging procurement software is here to stay. Here are 7 reasons why your business needs it too.

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