Inventory

[advancedsteamway]

Does anyone have a magic way of tracking Inventory?

 

[Ken Snow]

Not magic but yes, through the Inventory Module on our host software.

 

[advancedsteamway]

What is your software you use? We're just trying to figure out how the Technicians in the shop need to "track" what they use so that the office knows what is left and when to order.

 

[Ken Snow]

Navision financials- prob not a software to consider if you don't have at least 20 plus computer users. I would think that virtually any accounting software would have some type of inventory module, if you even need one for what you are trying to accomplish. Perhaps an easy to use excel spreadsheet would suffice?

 

[truckmount girl]

Quickbooks has several versions which track inventory.

Take care,
Lisa

 

[The Great Oz]

Ever call somewhere to make sure they have an item in stock, then go there and find their "system" says they have four but they don't have any? Even the big boys like Boeing and Ford have put away their scanners and computerized inventory tracking systems to go back to flag systems where a guy raises a flag on the bin to call attention to low inventory.

Tracking product used (for ordering purposes) is better done by having an organized shelf and bin system and just having someone look at it to order more stock the way they do at grocery or big box hardware stores. Your designated "order clerk" should quickly figure out how much of what items are used in a particular time frame and will learn the lead times between order and get.

Keeping track of what, when and how much you bought can be done using the invoices and is what software is for. If you aren't ordering very large amounts this can be done with an Excel-type spreadsheet.