Text Messaging for Manufacturing Industry
Contact suppliers, manufacturers, staff, stakeholders and customers quickly with SMS text messaging.
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Maximise Efficiency with SMS for the Manufacturing Industry
ClickSend is proud to provide premium SMS solution to all areas of the manufacturing industry. Text messaging is a fast, affordable, and economical way for manufacturers to instantly communicate with staff, suppliers, contractors, and consumers.
Staff rostering
Urgent low inventory warnings
Warehouses and manufacturing premises can be noisy, busy places. Using an SMS messaging service for your manufacturing enterprise is the superior way to increase engagement whilst at the same time reducing costs for administration and operations. Mobile text messaging has the highest engagement rate of any remote communication method, as well as the lowest spam rate, and it can be applied in a myriad of ways for the manufacturing industry.
Benefits of SMS for Manufacturing
Some of the ways the manufacturing industry is using SMS.
SMS for Operations and Supply Chain Management
Connect with single people or large groups and send automated stock notifications and alerts instantly. Alerts can be triggered automatically through integration with your stock management system. You can also use short codes to view logistics data, warehouse inventory and sales movement. Deliver critical supply chain messages instantly, all over the world if necessary.
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Outage notifications
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Low inventory warnings
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Automated vendor orders
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Reminders for recurring orders
Text Messaging for Staff and Supplier Management
Use SMS text messaging to alert, inform and manage staff, contractors and suppliers. SMS doesn't rely on web access or WiFi so you know they're being delivered and with a 98% open rate, and 90% of the messages being opened within minutes, you know they're being read.
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Send staff rosters
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Send shift change requests in an instant
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Contractor confirmations
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Supplier reminders.
SMS for Customer Communications and Marketing
Probably the most warmly received SMS messages customers get are order status update ones, especially when providing the hard delivery date. People love being kept informed of their eagerly awaited items and the most efficient way to do this is via SMS. Sometimes you may be the bearer of bad news, delivery delays, stock issues etc, but as long as you're keeping your customer informed it goes a huge way to keeping them happy. SMS is also perfect for sending promotional campaigns to your Opt-in customers.
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Order Status updates
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Delivery date with ability to change by reply
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Immediate delivery delay notifications
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Flash sale (Black Friday) messages with shortcode link
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In stock updates with link to reorder
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Future product notifications
SMS 2-Factor Authentication
Use text messaging to implement secure one time passwords (OTP) and boost the security of your applications and processes.
Find out more about OTP and multi-factor authentication.
Some Favorite SMS Templates for the Manufacturing Industry
Increase operational efficiency and customer satisfaction with our SMS solutions.
Order Received
Order Dispatched
Order Delivered
Flash Sale
Claim Receipt
Marketing Promotion
SMS manufacturing solutions exist to enhance your business, improving your processes, reducing the time and cost of administration, and enhancing customer satisfaction with the ultimate result of growing your business and your profitability.
Integrate ClickSend with Your Enterprise Resource Planning Software
Integrate ClickSend through our API or check out our no-code options. Using an online automations tool like Zapier, you can setup integrations without needing to engage your tech developers. Simply choose which two applications you want to integrate and choose your trigger and the resulting action. This is called a zap.
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Send inventory updates by text message
Simply set up a zap that fires when inventory changes, triggering an SMS to be sent. This can be used to alert contractors or suppliers of stock levels, remind staff of new product lines being launched or for marketing to notify customers when the items they want have been restocked.
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Send documents automatically when orders or invoices are created
Through integrating the ClickSend Online Post, once an invoice, order or quote is raised, you can trigger a letter to be mailed straight to the recipient. From there, our print centre will automatically print, fold, envelope and dispatch your letter, saving you hours in printing and mailing.
With our integration partners, there are so many opportunities to get the most out of your existing software and the ClickSend communications platform.
Let's Get Started with SMS for Manufacturing
There is no better system to streamline operations and communications than SMS manufacturing solutions. Have a play with our free trial!