Cloud ERP platforms to help you scale your product business
Consolidate the many facets of your product business into a cloud ERP solution that fits your needs now and as you scale. Build the framework to easily sell into new markets, and provide a full over-arching view of your business performance.
e-Commerce
Integrate all of your e-Commerce and marketplace platforms into a unified source of truth. Manage everything from customers, orders, products and stock centrally.
Accounting/finance
Plug your inventory business into cloud-based accounting packages like Xero or QuickBooks Online and automatically sort transactions into their respective GL accounts/tracking categories.
CRM
Provide your B2B sales team with the tools and rich data they need to close deals faster. Feed across information to provide reps insight into how their customers are interacting with the business.
Streamline purchasing
Gain a deeper understanding of your margins by tracking landed costs such as freight, duty and other fees to ensure you are profitable across your entire product range.
Real-time stock levels
Get up-to-the-minute insight into your stock levels across retail locations, e-commerce channels, warehouses and 3PL locations to ensure you have stock where it needs to be.
Maintain accuracy
Readily perform stocktakes and cycle counts to maintain stock accuracy, and easily report on stock variances to find problems in your operational processes and identify retail shrinkage.
Centralised product list
Maintain a centralised product database across your POS, wholesale portal and e-Commerce stores to minimise double data entry and ensure accurate listings.
Review pricing strategy
With up-to-the-minute margin information, easily review pricing across all channels. With a centralised product list, all pricing changes take effect across your business.
Complex products
Tools to manage any variants such as colour and size, down to tracking batches and serial numbers. Your cloud ERP solution takes the guesswork out of product management.
Customer management
Keep a record of your customers to track every time they buy, and group them based on type for reporting purposes.
Supplier management
Store all of your supplier data in a centralised database to perform reporting. Ensure each order is accounted for.
Contract pricing
Handle custom pricing structures for individual customers with ease using advanced promotional matrixes.
Fitting the right system to your business
The first step to take before embarking on the implementation of an inventory solution is to clearly define the rationale behind this decision. Things you should consider will relate to your current system and whether it can foster your business needs now and into the future. You should also consider your processes within your current system and whether they support your staff.
Given that most inventory solutions will handle core business processes well, the key to selection lies at the fringes – these are the functions specific to your industry or business. Keep in mind that you’re not looking for the product with the most impressive features, you are looking for a system that provides a solution to your requirements. We can provide this unbiased view on the options available.
How can ALTSHIFT help?
Our range of services include systems review and selection, digital transformation strategies, complex data migration, implementation, project management, integration and support. We’re here to help you get the most out of your software investment.