Highlights
Industry: F&B, Retail and Consumer Products
Solution: Customised Sage 300 Stocktake utility
Results:
• Easier stocktake, planning and preparation
• Fast stocktaking
• Focus on the core business
• Eliminate risk of manual data entry error
Challenge
Annual stocktaking was a manual, time-consuming process for a leading writing instrument manufacturer given its sizeable stationery inventory. Warehouse staff had to manually unpack, count, check and repack a multitude of inventory items, presenting a high risk of human error. During stocktaking, all stock movement had to be suspended, negatively affecting operational efficiency. Seeking a way to achieve rapid and accurate stocktaking, the company turned to Stone Forest IT (SFIT) for a solution.
Solution
After assessing the client’s requirements, SFIT proposed a customised Stocktake utility that would be integrated into its Sage 300 system with the following capabilities:
• Rapidly count and track inventory items with barcodes through PDAs
• View and automatically update inventory information in real time
• Automate generation of stocktake report
Results
After implementation, the client achieved the following:
• Easier stocktake planning and preparation
• Fast stocktaking and improved inventory management efficiency with barcodes and smart devices
• Free up resources to focus on the core business
• Eliminate risk of manual data entry error
Businesses leverage SFIT’s customised Sage 300 solutions to enhance productivity and meet their diverse needs with ease.