Retail employees dread inventory. They spend three hundred sixty-four days a year thinking about the tedious, mind-numbing work of counting every item in their stores. The bigger the stores, the more they hate it. Counting items at a big box store such as a grocery store can take hours. Sometimes, it takes all day.
Retail Inventory Management Systems Saves You Money
Not only do your employees hate inventory day, your bottom line hates it as well. To complete inventory without interrupting your normal workflow, you probably have to bring in extra employees. This means that they’ll be working a full day more than usual. This mean you probably have to pay them overtime. Spending that much money on overtime gets very expensive very quickly. A retail inventory management systems company saves you money by freeing you from paying all of that extra money. You can avoid overworking and overpaying your employees.
Retail Inventory Management Systems Saves You Time
If you try to complete the process by yourself, you will spend all day (or multiple days) compiling a bunch of raw data. Once you are done, you will have spreadsheets full of unorganized information. That’s not what you want. The specialists who enjoy this kind of work use handheld PCs connected to major electronic databases. These databases provide information such as price, availability, UPC, and value of your products. You don’t want a pile of raw data. You want a finished product, and that is what you pay for when you hire retail inventory management systems experts.
The point of sale information comes in multiple formats, including PDF, RTF, or hard copy. You can rest assured that the finished product will be compatible with the system you have in place.
The Experts Know What They’re Doing
Very small errors can throw your inventory completely off and set you back by several days and very much money. Small errors such as confusing the pack sizes of certain items can ruin the entire set of data. Also, something as simple as writing down the wrong number once can alter the entire spreadsheet. These mistakes, though remarkably inconvenient, are to be expected if you recruit your employees to do inventory. You know that someone untrained in your organization cannot do an effective job. Similarly, someone untrained in inventory cannot be expected to a quality job his or her first time. That’s why you should hire someone whose job it is to do inventory.
Experts such as Quality Inventory Services are experienced enough that they do not make those mistakes. Also, they have access to online databases that make comparing pack sizes very simple. If you want it done quickly and want it done right the first time, you should hire experts.