- You have high carrying costs.
- Inventory is inaccurate.
- Do you order items already in stock?
- Uncertain how to determine what you purchase.
- You often do a physical cycle count.
- You have to shut down the warehouse.
- It costs.
- Uncertain where is the delta between actual inventory.
- The system often says you have something that you don’t .
- It is difficult to track time.
- You need to identify specific inventory by lot or serial numbers.
- You assign your own serial numbers.
- Manually.
- It takes much time.
- It is error prone.
- Uncertain what happens.
- You carry inventory past its life cycle/expiration date.
- Uncertain what are your write offs.
- You are not ordering the correct items.
- You cannot determine what to order.
- Unknown average turn.
- Uncertain how much does it cost to carry items that don’t move.
- Uncertain to know what warehouse to have items shipped to.
- You find you often transfer between warehouses.
- Unknown costs.
- The order desk takes orders for items that are out of stock or not enough inventory.
- Uncertain how often.
- Uncertain whether they can check across multiple warehouses.
- Uncertain whether you can ship from alternate locations.
- Uncertain what is in the warehouse but already committed.
- Uncertain what is in transit.
- Uncertain whether partial orders can be filled.
- Uncertain whether it can be put on back order.
- You are unable to offer substitutes.
- Orders are canceled.
- This causes inventory to remain in stock.
- The order desk is unaware of promotions or special discounts for customers.
- This costs your business.
- This causes you to be overstocked on promotional items.