Christmas and New Year Greetings from eStockCard Inventory Software

The eStockCard Team would like to share some news with everyone here. For your information, recently we have released the latest version of Chronos eStockCard v3.1.3. You can check out the release notes here. It's a minor update with enhancements and bugs fixed.

To download the latest version of eStockCard Inventory Software, you can click here and go to the download page to get the latest version.

Not to forget our eStockCard Facebook page too, please "Like" us on Facebook to stay connected with us. We will constantly share the tips and tricks for using the eStockCard Inventory Software and even the Special Promotion for our fans only. Join us now: http://www.facebook.com/eStockCardInventory.

Lastly, the eStockCard Team here would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Announcement: New Support Center and Knowledgebase

March and April have been exciting months for eStockCard Team here. We have many good things to celebrate like we have released the new Chronos eStockCard v3.1.1 Inventory Software, Promotion going on, new Facebook page, Blog, Knowledgebase and Support Center. The best thing is we are getting more and more support from customers around the world and we really appreciate it.

Here is the brief intro of our new Support Center, what you can get here? We have consolidated all the useful resources for eStockCard Inventory Software that we have in this one page, you can easily get the information and documents such as user manuals, data import template, tutorial videos, chat with us and more. Other than that, you can also see our Facebook updates and even join us by just clicking the "Like" button. You can visit the new Support Center here: http://www.estockcard.com/support-center.html.

For Knowledgebase, we have moved all the articles from the previous knowledgebase to http://www.estockcard.com/knowledgebase. We will continue to add new articles from time to time. We hope the new Knowledgebase can benefit you all.

For those who hasn't joined our Facebook page, please join now to stay up-to-date with us. Lastly, the eStockCard Team would like to wish everyone a Happy Easter Day.

Announcement: New eStockCard Inventory Software Blog is Launched

Today we are glad to announce the launch of our new eStockCard Inventory Software Blog. We have moved our blog from http://www.estockcard.blogspot.com back to our website http://www.estockcard.com/blog to improve the user experience.

As usual, we will continue to share the latest news and updates for eStockCard inventory software, tips on the eStockCard inventory system usage, knowledge about the inventory control, how to improve your warehouse operation or any interesting topic with you all.

Feel free to subscribe to our eStockCard Inventory Software blog for the latest news and updates from us. Enjoy!

eStockCard Inventory Software Blog : http://www.estockcard.com/blog

How eStockCard Can Improve Putaway Process

During receiving and put away, you are generally require to enter numeric or alphanumeric information such as item code to your inventory control software, spreadsheet, proprietary software or accounting software.

However, numerous human errors such as typo error and resulted wrong information to be entered if item codes have high degree of similarities. Significant and substantial amount of efforts are required in the later stage to rectify it.

One of the unique feature that deliver by eStockCard is to display the item's image before data is entered and confirmed. This will greatly improve the accuracy of Put away.

Seeing is believing. For more info, just logon to our website www.estockcard.com.

Improve Warehouse Operation via Chronos eStockCard (Tip #2)

Most inventory errors start from receiving. If you make a mistake here, numerous problems such as inventory inaccurate, item misplaced and causing extensive searching will occur in later stage. Numerous efforts and resource must be devoted to rectify it.

Typical problems start from data recording.

How to record crucial information such as Item, Quantity, Lot number, Batch number, Special instruction, Expiry date, Manufacturing date and which particular location to be located during receiving?

Paper and pen can be warehouse keeper’s nightmare. Excel can be inefficient for high varieties but low volume items.

You may consider implement barcode technology at receiving function which may help you to speed up the receiving processes, eliminate paperwork and improve data accuracy.

To further speed up your receiving process, you may further to look into your put away methodology.

Barcode-enabled Warehouse Inventory Software from Chronos, was designed to help warehouse keeper to improve their data entering and recording during receiving.

IN screen was designed to handle single pass transaction, i.e. Single item per order and this is very useful for large volume but less item. User can record data within a second and system will automatically locate the best location for put away.

Goods Receiving screen was designed to handle multiple passes transaction, i.e. Many items per order and this is very useful for low volume but high mixed items. To further eliminate clerical work, single button conversion from Purchase Order to Goods Receiving enable the user reap the benefit and power of Chronos eStockCard.

Chronos eStockCard can be downloaded from www.estockcard.com

Improve your warehouse operation via Warehouse Inventory Software

Have you ever think to improve your warehouse's operation? Prior to identify and develop a viable plan for improvement, you may conduct warehouse’s operation audit regularly which enables you to measure your warehouse productivity with several key performance indicators : -

a. Number of orders processed per warehouse operator

b. Receiving and put-away turnaround times

c. Items picking turnaround times

d. Order processing turnaround times

Once you gather the data and make comparisons before and after, you will be able to develop an action plan for improvement.

There are several tips to be included into your audits.

Tip #1 Warehouse layout and planning

Warehouse layout has a significant effect on put-away and picking processes. If the warehouse is not properly laid out, considerable amount of efforts such as searching, walking and traveling may be required to go from one item to the next.

Traveling time is dependent upon distance. One way to reduce distance is to locate the fast moving items near the frequent accessing point. If we follow Pareto's Law or the 80-20 rule, then we can put 20% of the items close to the frequent access point, they may account for 80% of picking.

80-20 rule are designed and embedded in Chronos eStockCard which helps warehouse operator to identify the frequency of moving (picking) for every item after a period of time. This will help user to assign the fast moving items to frequent access point to improve productivity by cutting picking time.

Free version of eStockCard, one of the powerful warehouse inventory software, can be downloaded from www.estockcard.com for trial.

Small Business Inventory Tracking Software

The biggest challenge that facing by small businesses are having limited resources. To avoid early failure, they must plan and allocate their resourceful carefully and wisely. It is particularly important when comes to inventory planning and controlling.

In today fast moving business environment, small businesses will reap significant advantages if they are opting for right inventory tracking software to keep track of their inventory. The essential features should include the following aspects :-

1. What, How much, When to be ordered and purchased.

2. What, How much, Where has to be stored.

3. Sell to Who, When, How much.

4. Reorder quantity, When, How much.

5. Invoicing, Delivery Order.

6. Payment Collection.

7. Warehouse Activities.

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A simple or legacy system such as paper & pen, MS Excel or MS Word has limitation and less efficient.

eStockCard, is a complete business inventory tracking software that manages your sales, purchasing, warehouse and invoicing. It will simplify and streamline your workflow to achieve greatest operational effectiveness.

Sales module handles Quotation, Order, Picking, Delivery Order, Invoicing, Shipment and Payment Receipt.

Purchase module handles Request, Goods Receipt and Put away.

Inventory module handles Receipt, Put away, Issuing, Quarantine, Cycle Count, Transfer, Movements.

Many value-added and powerful features such as barcode design & printing, intelligent alert, powerful reporting tools, data management are embedded in this software. This will help business owner in achieving better operational efficiencies, making fast and right business decision, identifying room for improvement.

Another superior feature must be highlighted – Product Serialization. This feature allows you to track your inventory movement from start to end. Critical items can benefit from this tracking mechanism and this will greatly improve Recall Management.

This software can be found and downloaded by going to http://www.estockcard.com.

FREE EDITION is available (with some limitations) which is going to cost you almost ZERO.

Sample Tracking and Management

Good sample management is critical and important for many industries, for instances, food and beverages, chemical and pharmaceutical industries, just name a few.

Samples are used and referred during goods receipt, production, quality management and sampling. Hence, proper and effective sample management system and procedures must be established within the organization to keep track of the flows, quantity, expiration of the physical samples.

Several common issues and challenges when managing samples:-

1. High varieties and large variation

2. Low volume but vast amount

3. Expiration management

4. Validity management

5. Space limitation

6. Identification

eStockCard, being one of the most successful inventory tracking software, has been deployed successfully in several chemical coating companies with the prime objective of achieving excellent sample management.

The simple and easy-to-use IN and OUT screens will help to record the movement and flow of the samples. You can enter auxiliary information such as batch or lot numbers, EOL (end of life) and many more for further analysis.

Simple but powerful and resourceful reporting function will provide user with greater visibility of the any sample about its validity, quantity, movement, history, where to store and more.

Intelligent alerting module will trigger and alert user automatically for any about-to-expire sample. This is essential for good quality management.

Comprehensive barcode design and printing feature is embedded to help to simplify data entry and reduce human error.

Customizable screen layout capability is another value-added feature which allows user from diverse industries to customize their screen layout and further improve their operational efficiencies.

Track your product by serialization

A simple inventory tracking software, with serialization capability from Chronos eStockCard, enables small and mid-sized companies to manage and track their products beyond the four walls.

The major benefit that can be reaped from serialization is to provide the firms with greater visibility about the movements either within or beyond the firm’s premises. The ultimate goals are to improve or achieve better shelf-life control, product recall, and operational efficiencies, just name a few.

eStockCard, barcode-enabled inventory tracking software, has promised:

1. Simple, almost-zero-cost and easy to use tracking system

Technology-advanced solutions such as RFID can be very costly and not viable for many companies. Paper and pen recording is ineffective and inaccurate which is widely used in many small and mid-sized companies.

By switching to eStockCard, you just need a piece of barcode label which just cost you a penny.

2. Better shelf-life control

For limited shelf-life products, the unique identifier that generated by eStockCard can be used to determine the end-of-life (EOL) of the products and this will help to facilitate the put-away and distribution processes.

3. Alert

Automatic alert triggering system is embedded to help firms to identify and segregate the about-to-expire products.

4. History

Many powerful reporting are built and allow firms to trace product’s history and movement.

At Chronos, we believe this superior inventory tracking software will help you to achieve better control. You can download the Free Edition immediately.