Thursday, March 13, 2014

Are You Ready to Keep Tabs With Your Sunglasses Inventory?

Today’s technology market is flooded with hundreds of available software programs to help you on your wholesale sunglasses business, particularly in the area of keeping tabs with your inventory.  Choosing from among them is something that is needed to be done by the business owner or entrepreneur, and in this choice, it is imperative that the system that would match his or her company’s specific needs is the one chosen.

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Among factors to consider when choosing this system would be the initial price of the package, the ability for easy updates, scalability, the matching of what the company needs with what the software is capable of producing, and of course, the features that the software offers.

For business owners and entrepreneurs like owners of wholesale sunglasses looking into these software options for controlling inventory, they should know what their common features are.  Among these traits are purchase order history, status of purchase order in real time, tracking of levels of inventory stock and standard tables for pricing.

There are more advanced software models that may offer features not easily found in the more basic software, like bill of material process, tables for volume pricing, tracking of items’ expiration dates, automatic points for reordering, tracking of serial numbers, methods for multiple cost, and separation for inventories found in various locations.  There are a number of firms that would benefit from these added features, but it must be remembered that they’re not really necessary for all businesses.  Moreover, inventory control software models that have these added features are expectedly pricier.

It should also be remembered that legitimate versions of these inventory control software will incur recurring charges for the business owner or entrepreneur.  This includes upgrading fees, license charges and charges for possible troubleshooting.   These fees are also separate from the one-time upfront price of the software upon purchase.  The “extra charges” are different from one software supplier to another, so it is essential for the buyer of these software to know which of the models are really beneficial with features that are really useful to his or her business, and not just nice or hi-tech sounding ones that’s supposed to add prestige.

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