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    Default Looking for inventory management software...

    It can be free or paid, I'm not sure I am looking for anything in particular yet. 50 reps for useful posts.


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    www.google.com

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mach'N'U
    www.google.com

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    I am looking for SPECIFIC programs.


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    you said a useful post, and www.google.com is a useful post! wheres my reps!

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    InFlow woks well. I think its even free, or trial. Does sales, invoicing, and inventory tracking; can calculate re-order points, and auto re-order also (if I recall correctly).

    http://www.inflowinventory.com/

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    Quick books
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    If anyone finds the program that I decide to go with, they will get 200 reps.


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    Hey, if you happen to have the need for a super part-time worker with inventory management experience, PM me please....




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    I don't have anything bar coded. I need a program that helps me track mainly purchases and loss, along with the corresponding dollar value. My inventory consists of tens of thousands of items that are bundled together.


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    still havent gotten my useful post reps! dam slacker!

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    How many items do you have? Would you need daily monitoring? If not, I would just make an excel template and roll with that. Simple, effective, and fully manageable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aaronfelipe
    I don't have anything bar coded. I need a program that helps me track mainly purchases and loss, along with the corresponding dollar value. My inventory consists of tens of thousands of items that are bundled together.
    We use Quickbooks. Seriously. What kind of inventory is it?

    edit: We used excel before QB.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AirMax95
    How many items do you have? Would you need daily monitoring? If not, I would just make an excel template and roll with that. Simple, effective, and fully manageable.

    I am currently using Excell but it sucks ass. At least the one I'm using since I didn't make it. I am looking at either buying a program or making my a new Excell.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tracy
    We use Quickbooks. Seriously. What kind of inventory is it?

    edit: We used excel before QB.
    It's a whole bunch of event equipment. Tables, chairs, china, glassware etc...

    Quickbooks did come up. I would have to look into it. I'm still undecided on what I'm looking for...


    It might be ignorant way of thinking but wouldn't it be simpler and more effective to get a program that ONLY has to do with inventory?


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    Quote Originally Posted by aaronfelipe
    It's a whole bunch of event equipment. Tables, chairs, china, glassware etc...

    Quickbooks did come up. I would have to look into it. I'm still undecided on what I'm looking for...
    Sounds pretty simple. There are different versions, so when you do look, look at all the versions.
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    Try this, or pay me to make one in Access
    You can take this one and add a table with the cost associated with each item and anything else you want it to do.

    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/te...184581033.aspx

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    Quote Originally Posted by aaronfelipe
    It's a whole bunch of event equipment. Tables, chairs, china, glassware etc...

    Quickbooks did come up. I would have to look into it. I'm still undecided on what I'm looking for...


    It might be ignorant way of thinking but wouldn't it be simpler and more effective to get a program that ONLY has to do with inventory?
    Yes, if you are not tracking sales there is no need to add that function, but if purchases are made you can "submit the order" and have the inventory deducted with one click of a button.

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    Quick Books, they have an Inventory Manager version, and QB is pretty simple once you learn how to use it.

    Plus A LOT of businesses use it, so its easy to get help , and its easy to upload your software to say, a bank, if you want to try to get a loan or something

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    I just checked www.inflow.com ... that specific program is designed for inventory management and sales o items. Like retail. All I'm looking to do is keep track of quarterly inventory and have to ability to produce a loss report. Basically an asset report.


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    QB can do that, and so much more.

    You can log PO, Vendors, Sales Orders, Profit and Loss, control your markup, track who you sold it to and how much you made in profit, daily, monthly hourly
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    Oh you can set warnings to alert you when stock is low, or when you need to re-order as well
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vteckidd
    QB can do that, and so much more.

    You can log PO, Vendors, Sales Orders, Profit and Loss, control your markup, track who you sold it to and how much you made in profit, daily, monthly hourly

    I will look into it. The items I will be counting are not sold. They are used until they are either lost of broken. That's why I dont need anything that marks retail sales.


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    AHHH

    SO its not retail sales, you are just tracking goods that your business uses. Im assuming someone checks them out, or uses them for some event, then puts them back. So you arent selling them.

    Gotcha.

    Id ask tracy what she used for Drift Fury, they had cones, vests, flags, etc that they never sold, but im sure they inventoried them. Now you are on a much bigger scale im sure.

    You just want to track your items, you arent selling them. Id still look into the Inventory manager of QB
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vteckidd
    AHHH

    SO its not retail sales, you are just tracking goods that your business uses. Im assuming someone checks them out, or uses them for some event, then puts them back. So you arent selling them.

    Gotcha.

    Id ask tracy what she used for Drift Fury, they had cones, vests, flags, etc that they never sold, but im sure they inventoried them. Now you are on a much bigger scale im sure.

    You just want to track your items, you arent selling them. Id still look into the Inventory manager of QB


    That's it sir, there are about 200 events in each quarter so there is prently of loss. I need a better way to track the loss (and have a monetary value along with it) . I also need to be able to input purchases/ additions to lost inventory (to get us to PAR levels). I have been using Excell but the sheet that I've been using has broken links etc so it's very annoying...


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    well you have to assign value to your goods right? i mean you have to, they come from somwhere, either you or you bought them at some point. Or you can value them at whatever their replacement is.

    You can always set them up in QB , and "sell" them to whoever "checks" them out, just put the cost as "0.00". then refund them when they return it.

    Im sure there is a better way, but that was just off the top of my head
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vteckidd
    well you have to assign value to your goods right? i mean you have to, they come from somwhere, either you or you bought them at some point. Or you can value them at whatever their replacement is.

    You can always set them up in QB , and "sell" them to whoever "checks" them out, just put the cost as "0.00". then refund them when they return it.

    Im sure there is a better way, but that was just off the top of my head
    Everything does have a price value...It would be ideal but doing that after every event returns is not an option. That's why its so important when it's done every quarter.


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    we use a program called peoplesoft

    works pretty well

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vteckidd
    well you have to assign value to your goods right? i mean you have to, they come from somwhere, either you or you bought them at some point. Or you can value them at whatever their replacement is.

    You can always set them up in QB , and "sell" them to whoever "checks" them out, just put the cost as "0.00". then refund them when they return it.

    Im sure there is a better way, but that was just off the top of my head
    Good idea.

    Do you know how to use excel any more than entering in data? Do you know how to set up the tables and sums and such? If not, that's probably why you think it is hard. Do some youtube tutorials and you will have it in no time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tracy
    Good idea.

    Do you know how to use excel any more than entering in data? Do you know how to set up the tables and sums and such? If not, that's probably why you think it is hard. Do some youtube tutorials and you will have it in no time.
    Thats what I was saying. I could build a simple access database to track it. Excel would be even better due to the simplicity of this application. 1 table, couple formulas, job done.

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    Friends business used this one. They changed to QB but they did like this.

    http://www.numarasoftware.com/

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    Quick books is best i am a partner in a machine shop and we use it for everything. just my two cents.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tracy
    Good idea.

    Do you know how to use excel any more than entering in data? Do you know how to set up the tables and sums and such? If not, that's probably why you think it is hard. Do some youtube tutorials and you will have it in no time.
    The equations are there, they just suck. My boss periodially goes in and messes some of the equations... if I stick to Excell, I have to start from scratch.


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