Sarah Dotson

From tariff code lookup to customs documentation, automation is transforming how companies manage global trade compliance. Learn how leading organizations are leveraging technology to reduce costs and risks.

From bonded warehouses to pursuing a more global diversification strategy, here are five supply chain experts on the path forward for brands.

The modern warehouse holds tons of data that often goes untapped — here’s how to use your warehouse inventory management system to gather (and action on) it.

Advice from four ecommerce leaders on tactical ways to protect your brand from order and returns fraud.

From supply chain automation to master COGS files, today’s ops leaders are speaking finance fluently and building bridges between execution and economics.

It’s not hard to find people talking about how to build data-driven teams, but it is hard to find people who are actually doing it.

As Pair Eyewear expanded their wholesale business, an influx of POs were flooding the team’s inbox. Here’s how they tackled purchase order management with Parabola.

With hard-to-predict macro conditions making predictability an impossibility, here’s how the folks leading ops teams prepped for this peak season.

Between managing Seed Health’s expansion into Amazon and Target and building a world-class team along the way, Keith Frymark knows a thing or two about how to launch (and scale) omnichannel fulfillment.

During a particularly busy holiday season, Great Jones experienced stockouts and interrupted engraving service — here’s how they’ve since deployed Parabola to make sure they stay resilient when business is booming.

Despite unpredictable shipping blockages, pressure from execs to cut costs, and planning for holiday in full swing, operations leaders are finding ways to stay afloat.

Between our customers and engineering team, there were a lot of building wins last month. From a new Pull from file queue step to an impressive inbound PO management Flow, let’s get into it.

From whether to outsource automation or do it internally to how to charge your “AI trust battery,” here’s how to incorporate automation and AI into your ecomm operations.

See how JustFoodForDogs uses Parabola to minimize stockouts and customer inquiries, decrease time spent reporting, and fill an additional $130K in orders every week.

On May 23rd, we’re hosting “If you think it, you can build it,” a virtual panel where ops leaders will show the behind the scenes take on how they’ve solved some of the toughest challenges in their careers at companies like Flexport and FabFitFun.

Strategic ecommerce integration can improve SLA performance, prevent revenue leakage, increase data visibility—and even increase top-line revenue.

Inventory reporting can be painstakingly manual. It’s a strategic and operational necessity, but inventory reporting processes are often stuck in spreadsheets.

Automating your inventory on hand report — whether you want to break it down by SKU, by 3PL, by parcel size — is easier than you think.

If you’re a retailer, it is now more important than ever to get the most out of your 3PL warehouse management systems and partners.

Choosing the right ecommerce warehouse management system – or WMS – for your business can yield cleaner, faster fulfillment and heightened customer satisfaction.

With the FLOW Awards, Parabola is championing the do-ers who use their ingenuity to keep businesses running — and who go above and beyond to achieve so much more. We’re finally letting operators win.

A walkthrough on how to automate with Excel Macros and how to get even more out of your Excel automation process.

Conducting a freight audit is a necessary evil when it comes to cutting costs for shippers. Here’s how to make them less manual — and more accurate.

Accounts payable automation benefits teams as much as almost any other corporate function given the chain of command needed for approvals, the repetition of tasks, and the compliance and accuracy needed.

Automating business processes is becoming more essential. RPA and BPA are well-known process automation solutions, but how do you choose the right one?

Here's how Juice Press built Parabola Flows that ultimately save them 400+ hours/week and $200k+/year.

You can now send, parse, and automate PDF data right in Parabola 🙌. Many of our customers have wanted to work with PDFs in their Flows like they do with spreadsheets, CSVs, and Parabola Tables, and today those wishes came true.

Our engineering team decided to see how many features and improvements we could build in just one week. See what we accomplished.

See how our Product Design Lead, Alex Couch, uses Parabola in his free time to run statistics on University of Alabama football games.

Return on Ad Spend, also known as ROAS, is used to gauge the effectiveness of your ad campagins. This metric is necessary when making decisions around ad spend. It can also be used in combination with different reports to get a full picture of how your business is performing.

Having a strong understanding of your inventory at all times is a must. One of the more crucial times to track this is when your inventory first arrives at your warehouse. Auditing your newly arrived inventory ensures that you are receiving the quantity you’ve ordered and are able to fulfill your customers’ orders.

Understanding your customers is incredibly important when planning for and maintaining your business. When considering how much to spend to acquire new customers, your current customers’ average LTV is an important metric to keep in mind. It is often easier to maintain a relationship with a current customer than it is to acquire a new one.

Even if your organization has a really excellent data science and engineering team we think you should still be excited about Parabola. It gives everyone the ability to customize data workflows in a way that's safe. When the workflows are legible between the team everyone starts to get better ideas. And finally, you will save lots of valuable data- and engineering-team time. To illustrate why, let’s look at a simple use case involving inventory.

Traditionally, workflows tend to live in a few “analog” locations: spreadsheets, co-workers’ brains, and sometimes literal paper and sticky notes. Let’s talk about why moving workflows into the Browser, instead, is a huge deal!

Even the best plans regarding freight tend to change when the boats hit the water. But that’s no reason you can’t have a complete, real-time view into your in-transit freight — by SKU and by destination, no less. Watch this 5-minute walkthrough to find out how.

Dealing with data from HR or Workforce Management software isn’t always easy, which is why it often ends up siloed away from all the other critical info within your business. But it doesn’t have to be that way! Watch this 5-minute tutorial to learn more.

Managing pending ecommerce orders manually is no fun. In this 5-minute tutorial you’ll learn how you can set up a repeatable, shareable, automatic flow to grab all your stuck orders and turn them into actionable team AND customer alerts.

Have you noticed that the number of new customers Facebook and Google say they’re sending you each day don’t always align with your ecommerce sales data? Here’s how you can use Parabola to automate a true-up. Get the right answer quickly and automatically every day.

Inventory forecasting isn’t easy, but Parabola makes this often-complicated process repeatable, understandable, and automate-able. Read more to learn about Inventory Forecasting, and to see a breakdown of a Parabola Flow that automates the process.

Running an inventory process for an ecommerce business is a drag… but Parabola can help! Take a look at this video walkthrough to learn how you can move your manual inventory work into automated Parabola Flows:

In-transit inventory, also known as pipeline inventory, refers to inventory that has been purchased and is en route to a physical store, warehouse, or distribution center. Though this inventory hasn’t been received at a physical location, it is still included as part of a brand’s overall inventory levels.

As we look ahead to 2022, we look back on our major investments of 2021: bolstering team collaboration, making Flow building more delightful and powerful, and launching new integrations.

We can't quite believe it's already November and the holidays are around the corner. The team released some big product updates in the last few months to make Parabola a more powerful place to work together with your team.

It's been an exciting month of product updates at Parabola HQ, with some highly anticipated feature releases, not to mention visual & performance improvements! Headlining these feature releases is our new "Send to Airtable" step, along with our new FTP integration. Make sure to also take a peak at our new website!

We're wrapping up 2020 with some new features and offerings, and putting a bow on some projects that have been in the works for a while. Fresh visual update to steps, new Shopify features, updated find and replace, and more!

As the end of 2020 is quickly approaching, our whole team is heads down working to make steps even easier and more intuitive to use, improve the early experiences for new customers, and supplement all of that work with revised, consolidated educational resources to help all customers get more out of Parabola (more to come on this one very soon!).

It's been an exciting month at Parabola, with some major launches and various product improvements to show for it!First, we introduced out Facebook Ads Integration, which gives you the ability to pull in over 400 unique metrics from Facebook.

Our Shopify integration is officially out of beta and now available to all users! Not only that, but we also made some useful updates to make it easier to work with dynamic dates, to be able to filter for unfulfilled orders, and we improved the experience of pulling in order-level data. That's not all! We also added support for calculating and issuing refunds with our Send to Shopify step. Now you can take a list of items, and their orders, and issue refunds automatically.

Summer is in full swing and we've been hard at work continuing to improve Parabola for our users! Here are some highlights of what we've been up to: invite links, improved math step, email attachment step, and a new What's New page.

We recently launched a handful of new features that make building in Parabola even easier and more fun. This month we focused on new resources to help customers get more out of Parabola, quickly.

We've been hard at work this month bringing you significant updates to make Parabola better and better. This post is all about sharing those updates, both big and small, with you! We're so excited because all of these updates make Parabola an even easier productivity tool for everyone to use.