With Progident/Inventory, multi-unit management is no longer an issue that weighs down your day-to-day management.

Each item has its own storage, purchasing (or manufacturing) and sales units, managed separately but fully integrated. Store by the dozen, buy in packs of six and sell by the unit, with no constraints and complete quantity integrity!

Each item managed via Progident/Inventory can have several versions, which can be stored in different warehouses.

Whether it's a question of size, color, model or other, it's up to you to choose the coding combination that best suits your business. You have access at all times to the quantity of items of a particular version, in a specific warehouse or branch, at a single glance!

Few software packages offer the same flexibility in sales management as Progident/Inventory, thanks to a price configurator that allows you to respond to the most diverse sales contexts and manage exceptional cases with great operational transparency.

What's more, the software seamlessly integrates the "Business proposal" and "Final sales order" (quote) stages by means of a simple status change. This makes it easy to keep track of the financial status and volume of your sales pipeline at all times, whether it's a file in preparation or a formal sale.

If you need to invoice at the counter, you can integrate this aspect into your Progident management system too, thanks to a function entirely dedicated to this mode of operation and supporting the use of barcode scanners.

As an added bonus, Progident/Inventory lets you transform a sales order directly into either a purchase order or a manufacturing order (make-to-order production) to speed up your operations.

The software includes analysis reports that enable you to apply rigorous monitoring to the most critical element of your future revenues - your backlog of potential and current sales - for proactive management. Potential order volume, by territory, by salesperson or other criteria: it's up to you to define your most effective analysis criteria!

Progident/Inventory provides all the basic reference information and analysis tools to support the work of your buyers.

Minimum quantity, economic purchase quantity, priority suppliers, supplier/manufacturer correspondence, last cost per supplier, etc. everything is there for optimal management.

The software also supports an extended process for managing requests for quotations and purchase orders, including, if required, the insertion of a supervisor's order approval level for confirmation to the supplier.

The multitude of suppliers used for your purchases results in a wide variety of item coding. Without an equivalence mechanism between your suppliers' coding and your internal coding, this diversity can drastically reduce your management efficiency. To address this reality, each product in your inventory can be associated with one or more suppliers, and offers each supplier the possibility of defining a specific part number to be used for ordering, as well as any other specific purchasing parameters for a given supplier.

For maximum operational transparency, Progident/Inventory operates with either code (own or supplier) when entering and processing any purchasing document. You no longer need to worry about the origin of the item code to ensure maximum input efficiency.

All functions offering item entry can be operated with barcode scanners (standard and QR).

Whether taking physical inventory, invoicing at the counter or receiving a purchase order, the use of barcode scanners speeds up information processing and guarantees efficiency.

Critical functions are equipped with a "Mobile" reading mode, specially dedicated to intelligent data entry, i.e. it enables a product to be received both by reading its internal barcode and by reading the supplier's barcode.

To meet the requirements of retail distribution, the "Point-of-Sale" approach enables the integration of barcode readers for counter invoicing. So your sales activities remain a simple process at all times.

If your company has a simple manufacturing component, Progident/Inventory lets you integrate this requirement into your current processes.

Any item managed can be identified as "Finished Product" or "Semi-Finished" and, from there, has its own multi-level material list (sub-assemblies, etc.) if required.

Progident/Inventory then provides the necessary functionalities to exploit these material lists, whether from the usual angle of production planning and optimization, or from that of managing current "Make-to-Order" (custom) requirements.

Progident/Inventory includes a number of statistical reports that enable you to analyze volumes traded by product over an interval of dates, by month or by year.

This enables you to quickly identify less-used raw materials and finished products, and minimize the significant costs associated with obsolescence, warehousing and other factors.

Product usage analyses also enable you to visualize periodic cycles in demand, both internal and external, by item. This is a strategic information function, whether for annual planning of purchases through open orders, or for production planning of specific finished products.

A precise understanding of fluctuations in your key products, as mentioned in the classic Pareto rule (20%-80%), enables you to optimize customer satisfaction while avoiding stock-outs.

The accuracy of your inventory and its value plays a decisive role on two levels: customer satisfaction by having on hand what you need to meet demand, and the reliability of your financial statements for the acuity of your financial vision and the financing of your business.

While inventory management may seem simplistic on the surface, experienced managers know that implementing rigorous and accurate inventory management is a business project that can become complex due to common data entry issues.

Progident/Inventory's powerful utility functions, combined with the use of high-performance barcode scanners, enable you to set up simple validation and periodic physical inventory-taking processes that guarantee the accuracy of your inventory at all times.

To further refine your inventory management, increase the frequency of your validations by leveraging intelligent wireless barcode scanners dynamically linked to your central database. This makes it easy to set up a "permanent" inventory process, and keeps your inventory constantly up to date. No more company shutdowns or overtime for an annual physical inventory.