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<blockquote data-quote="Graham Wakefield" data-source="post: 32897" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>Re: What do you want from inventory software?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'll chime in here, as this touches on my day to day work. I think the important thing is the way current systems look at "inventory". In something like quickbooks, Inventory is bought and sold, and not a "service" so to speak, where as in rental software we look at items as things that are sent out and sent back in. </p><p>In my day job, I deal with a huge warehouse of 5000 organic and natural food products, we are the primary distributor to whole foods on this side of the country, and we have to deal with keeping track of 4 warehouses full of product. </p><p>The way our software looks at items or inventory is unique in that it does not care about money until it exports data up to our invoicing/CRM system. Items are there, but they can not be deleted or sold per say. They can be picked and marked external, but are not considered sold or removed in any other meaning that they are moved out of available inventory. The system does not do money, it just does what it says, warehouse management. </p><p></p><p>The system i use is HireTrack with lots of modifications, patches, and other fun changes, and I'm happy to talk to anyone who wants to know more about software or hardware for their shop.</p><p>Here are a few of our changes</p><p>-Suggested Kit's /additions</p><p>like what Silas described, I add 100 feet of truss and 4 motors, it suggests 10 spansets, 20 shackles of appropriate rating, etc</p><p></p><p>On the Fly add,</p><p>when we are scanning an order out, if we scan something else it is added when it hits our CRM if we tell it to.</p><p></p><p>Substitution</p><p>Systems are setup in Kit's and category's. If my K12's are all on rent it will suggest a pair of passive 12's and an amprack.</p><p></p><p>Cross rental requests:</p><p>electronically send a request for a cross rental when I add the items to a quote and I don't have them, adjust price as needed.</p><p></p><p>LOCATION STORAGE:</p><p>this is the biggest one, all our storage areas are labeled as such : 1M100A00, where 1 is the floor, M is the zone, 100 is the section, and A00 is the shelf. This makes things easy to find and makes it easy to set up and stage a show or rental neatly and faster</p><p></p><p></p><p>there are more but it's all stuff that has been implemented over time. I really should just hire a coder or 2 to wrap what I've done into a usable package, because as it is now there's a lot of fidgeting in it. </p><p>The list that people have come up with here looks good however.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Graham Wakefield, post: 32897, member: 17"] Re: What do you want from inventory software? I'll chime in here, as this touches on my day to day work. I think the important thing is the way current systems look at "inventory". In something like quickbooks, Inventory is bought and sold, and not a "service" so to speak, where as in rental software we look at items as things that are sent out and sent back in. In my day job, I deal with a huge warehouse of 5000 organic and natural food products, we are the primary distributor to whole foods on this side of the country, and we have to deal with keeping track of 4 warehouses full of product. The way our software looks at items or inventory is unique in that it does not care about money until it exports data up to our invoicing/CRM system. Items are there, but they can not be deleted or sold per say. They can be picked and marked external, but are not considered sold or removed in any other meaning that they are moved out of available inventory. The system does not do money, it just does what it says, warehouse management. The system i use is HireTrack with lots of modifications, patches, and other fun changes, and I'm happy to talk to anyone who wants to know more about software or hardware for their shop. Here are a few of our changes -Suggested Kit's /additions like what Silas described, I add 100 feet of truss and 4 motors, it suggests 10 spansets, 20 shackles of appropriate rating, etc On the Fly add, when we are scanning an order out, if we scan something else it is added when it hits our CRM if we tell it to. Substitution Systems are setup in Kit's and category's. If my K12's are all on rent it will suggest a pair of passive 12's and an amprack. Cross rental requests: electronically send a request for a cross rental when I add the items to a quote and I don't have them, adjust price as needed. LOCATION STORAGE: this is the biggest one, all our storage areas are labeled as such : 1M100A00, where 1 is the floor, M is the zone, 100 is the section, and A00 is the shelf. This makes things easy to find and makes it easy to set up and stage a show or rental neatly and faster there are more but it's all stuff that has been implemented over time. I really should just hire a coder or 2 to wrap what I've done into a usable package, because as it is now there's a lot of fidgeting in it. The list that people have come up with here looks good however. [/QUOTE]
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