Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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.


Monday, January 24, 2011

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.



Monday, January 17, 2011

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.