slippery_gypsy
Plastic
- Joined
- Aug 23, 2021
Gday all,
Is anyone using any inventory management software? We deal with aluminium profiles for commercial windows and doors.
We have 7 suppliers for aluminium which all have slightly different products for copyright purposes so NONE of them work with each other. Each of them has over a 1000 different profiles with a metric sh*ttonne of colours. We cant keep "stock" as we wouldn't be able to keep the cashflow for such an endeavor, so we need to order the material for each bespoke project. But our fabricators love to rob from Peter to pay Paul, the issue there is by the time we get the replacements who knows which job it is for. Or the piece might get delivered and put somewhere, then get re-ordered because it cannot be found. I have ordered some stackable stillages but due to the current lockdown situation on this side of the world the ETA on that is unknown and even then it still wouldn't help with this problem.
The only true solution I have come up with in theory is to QR code every single item on hand (over 10,000) and then scan them "out" as each one gets cut, but the moment our cutters don't scan one out then the whole system is up sh*ts creek. I have attached an image which is about 10% of the current materials we have on the premises.
Cheers,
Gypo
Is anyone using any inventory management software? We deal with aluminium profiles for commercial windows and doors.
We have 7 suppliers for aluminium which all have slightly different products for copyright purposes so NONE of them work with each other. Each of them has over a 1000 different profiles with a metric sh*ttonne of colours. We cant keep "stock" as we wouldn't be able to keep the cashflow for such an endeavor, so we need to order the material for each bespoke project. But our fabricators love to rob from Peter to pay Paul, the issue there is by the time we get the replacements who knows which job it is for. Or the piece might get delivered and put somewhere, then get re-ordered because it cannot be found. I have ordered some stackable stillages but due to the current lockdown situation on this side of the world the ETA on that is unknown and even then it still wouldn't help with this problem.
The only true solution I have come up with in theory is to QR code every single item on hand (over 10,000) and then scan them "out" as each one gets cut, but the moment our cutters don't scan one out then the whole system is up sh*ts creek. I have attached an image which is about 10% of the current materials we have on the premises.
Cheers,
Gypo