- You have high carrying costs.
- Inventory is inaccurate.
- You order items already in stock.
- Uncertain how to determine what to purchase.
- You perform a physical cycle account often.
- Unknown delta between actual inventory.
- You have too many of the wrong items in stock.
- You cannot determine what to order.
- Uncertain average turn.
- Uncertain how much it cost to carry items that don’t move.
- Uncertain as to which warehouse to have items shipped to.
- You find you often transfer between warehouses.
- Unknown cost.
- You carry an over abundance of kits in inventory.
- You assemble kits and commit to demand.
- You cannot explode kit components on purchase and sales orders.
- It is manual.
- Unknown Time/Cost.
- You have an issue with shrinkage.
- You cannot track inventory form receipt to shipment.
- You cannot track item movement performance.
- When you take ownership of items offshore, it takes long before you have visibility within your system.
- Uncertain as how to audit transaction history.
- There is an increase in shipping charges.
- You are unaware of inventory in all warehouses so you are forced to ship from alternative stores.
- You have no visibility of products being transferred.
- You need to expedite goods because you do not know the receipt date.
- It costs you.
- The back orders need to be expedited.
- This costs extra.
- Uncertain if they can offer substitutes.
- You have an increasing bad debt due to delinquent customers.
- Order desks take orders which put customers over their credit limit.
- Uncertain whether they take orders for customers who are delinquent on payment.
- Uncertain what happens to those orders.
- Uncertain how often you can collect.
- You maintain multiple systems.
- Order processing, distribution and shipping are not integrated.
- Uncertain how orders are created.
- Uncertain pick tickets.
- Uncertain bin labels.
- Uncertain documents and packing lists.
- It takes long.
- It costs.
