Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Product Highlight | Parts Inventory Manager

PARTS INVENTORY
Keep your Parts Inventory up-to-date online, all the time with our PBConnect Internet Price Book moduleGot Parts? Get Basic. 

Features:
  • Extensive look-up capabilities (Part #, Category, Manufacturer, Bin, Description, etc.)
  • Custom design your own reports
  • Associate part fees and alternate parts
  • Build and manage picklists and kits
  • Track lost sales
  • Multiple Locations? No Problem! Easily access each location's inventory.
  • Setup promotional discount periods for your next special
  • Conduct your Physical Inventory using our data collection device (optional)
  • Ordering and selling in Units of Measure
  • Notes on parts
  • Associate photos and documents with any part
  • Control taxing at the part level
  • Freeze cost and price at the part level
  • Have up to three bin locations
  • Maintenance tools available (i.e. part number changes, price changes, bin changes, return codes,
    obsolete parts, etc.)
  • Generate stock orders based on sales, bin trips, categories, or part status
  • Customized stored order profiling
  • Seasonal or average ordering per year
  • Unlimited Sales and Quantity History
  • Print system generated bar code labels for your parts and bins
  • Add parts from the price book to control accuracy
  • Know your inventory values by product line
  • Sales reports by part, salesperson, customer, or manufacturer
  • Yearly parts sales comparison
  • Generate part returns

Friday, April 25, 2014

Product Highlight | Point-of-Sale Invoicing

POINT-OF-SALE INVOICING
The Point-of-Sale Invoicing module goes beyond the basics of just selling parts. Integrate with the Parts Inventory and Equipment Inventory modules to look up inventory. Purchase a bar code scanner to make restocking a snap. 

Features:
  • Create a quote and convert to an invoice or retain it for later use
  • Control tax on individual transactions if needed
  • Create transactions for serialized equipment items and parts on the same invoice
  • Display customer balances when initiating payment
  • Unlimited invoice history
  • Multiple levels of pricing
  • Sell inventory and non-inventory items on the same invoice
  • Over Limit and Past due warning messages
  • Hot keys to other options
  • Bar code scanners for quick entry (optional)
  • Automatically relieve parts inventory
  • Place parts on order for customer
  • Add virtually unlimited comments to any invoice with ease
  • Change a customer's contact information, notes, etc.
  • Search for a customer by account number, name, phone number, and location
  • Search for a part by part number, manufacturer, category, descriptions, bin, or memo
  • Move from counter invoicing to service work orders easily
  • Report open counter invoices for review
  • Easily re-print invoices at any time
  • Parts returns

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Product Highlight | Equipment Inventory Manager


EQUIPMENT INVENTORY MANAGER
Let our Business Management Solutions take care of all of your inventory management needs. The Equipment Inventory module integrates seamlessly with our Parts Inventory module, allowing you to include parts and equipment on one invoice. You can also use the Equipment Inventory module with our Rental Inventory module to manage all of your rental equipment. Got Inventory? Get BASIC.

Features:
  • Quick search and sort inventory look-ups
  • Internal control so asset values are always accurate
  • Projected profit before and after the sale is always available for any item
  • Associate photos and documents with any item
  • Equipment receipting made easy
  • Receipt as a group or individual item
  • Salesperson commission report
  • Bar code your equipment with outdoor labels
  • Conduct Physical Inventory using our data collection device (optional)
  • Store last major and minor service repair dates/usage
  • Trade-ins made easy
  • Unlimited sales history
  • Unlimited detail transaction history
  • Keep track of a book cost on equipment inventory, even after it has been sold
  • Unlimited lines for descriptive information of memos and specifications for each item
  • Identify memos on any item to print on the invoice or salesperson price list
  • Easily view open work orders at any time
  • Service history report
  • Salesperson price list
  • Report used equipment by salesperson
  • Reports for your equipment made easy
  • Maintenance tools available (i.e. stock number change, account number change, over-allowance, etc.)





Wednesday, April 16, 2014

A Boy and His Hammer

- A Boy And His Hammer
This is a story about a boy and his hammer. One day there was a boy who lived with his mom and dad in a small quaint town called Hammerville, TX. This young man came from a long line of hammer makers. He would go to the shop where his dad and uncles would make the hammers and he would be in awe of how they could form such a useful tool out of metal and wood. You see, before the hammer you couldn’t nail down anything.

Now years and years of making hammers they started to form the craft and eventually made hammers that could do most of the work for you. For instance, you could load nails in a nail gun and use compressed air to shoot the nails into the desired wood. One day when this boy became a man and ran his own hammer shop, he discovered a real problem. With the education he learned from his dad and uncles, he put his thoughts to work.

He discovered that no matter how much you could do with the hammer it still required someone to lead and guide it. Even the new computer hammer machine he built himself could not function without someone telling it what to do. He really struggled with this dilemma and researched many hours trying to come up with a solution. One day it hit him. I will build a hammer that will run itself! He spent hours trying to build this amazing product. He would work day and night until he finally came up with a device that was sure to work on its own ability. He introduced his new device and it sold like hot cakes on a Sunday morning. He was so happy, but then the bottom fell out.


He started getting complaints that his hammer machine would start nailing at random and started costing his customers money. They were not happy. Being raised to believe in high standards of service, he naturally wanted to solve their problems. So, back to the drawing board. He researched and researched only to find that, without human interaction, no tool is useful. The moral of the story is if you purchase a business system and expect it and the creators to do all the work, then you won’t be using the tool to its finest capabilities. You see, tools are made to help us accomplish a job, not watch it do it for us. With business system software you have to put the time and effort into learning, applying what you have learned and putting action to your knowledge! If you do this, with any business system software, you will have success!