Inventory Management
Your customers demand their orders filled now, priced correctly and delivered on time.
Inform tells you what products are ready to reorder, how many are needed for the upcoming season
and has advanced support for multi-branch distributors.
The key to profitability is balancing your inventory costs, and maximizing turns while maintaining the highest possible order fill rate.
Inform lets you meet these goals, providing insight and control into every aspect of your inventory status, customer requirements, demand, sales and profitability trends.
Remarkable Insight into your
Inventory
Inform's Product Analysis screen reveals every aspect of any product,
including stock, non-stock, service or labor items. Explore all the
detail of your inventory's
'in-transit' information, including
availability, open orders, purchase orders, backorders, branch transfers,
and returned goods, for a complete picture of your inventory status.
Purchase Forecasting:
Inform's automated procurement system keeps stock levels optimized.
System-calculated
stock minimum
and
reorder quantity
provide sophisticated forecasting. Most distributors using
inform begin to
achieve effective inventory management within months of
implementation.
Inform automatically tracks
product demand,
demand trend,
seasonality,
sales exceptions,
and lead times.
Inventory Analysis Monitors your Biggest
Investment.
Achieve long-term improvements and effective inventory management with
enterprise-level inventory analysis.
Inform
automatically provides easily understood inventory metrics including Branch Overstock analysis, A-B-C Ranking,
Inventory Turns, and
'GMROI ' (Gross Margin Return on Investment).
Effectively Manage Inventory for One or Many
Branches
Inform tracks replenishment requirements, inventory rank and turns at all branches.
Automate branch replenishment
with flexible, parameter-driven stock transfers.
Centralized and branched specific forecasting with purchase-time alerts for branch overstock meet the
needs of distributors with two locations or twenty.