Good inventory
control
gary
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We’ve enjoyed using AdvancePro for a while now
mainly because it works really well with
QuickBooks and its more or less cleared up all our
inventory tracking issues. We needed to track
serial numbers for our outgoing orders; we also
needed to use sku #’s, and serial codes, which
this software was able to do. The installation was
fast and didn’t take long to learn which was nice,
and now we’ve had a great relationship with the
company’s tech support team. The software works
like QuickBooks, and updates our information so
easy; with just one button click we can send our
invoices and bills directly from AdvancePro. I
recommend this product to colleagues of mine, and
is definitely worth using, this product’s features
were not only better but more reasonably priced
than the competition.
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A Great Fit for my Business
Charlie Davis
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I needed software that would help me manage the
flow of my inventory as orders came in over the
Internet, and would integrate with QuickBooks.
AdvancePro not only keeps track of my inventory,
but it also automates the Sales and Purchase
Orders as customers order. The icing on the cake
was the ability to easily integrate their shopping
cart with my website. I never expected that I
would find a piece of software at this price, that
would give me so much. It is a perfect fit for me
as I grow my business.
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Excellent program
Zach
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This software works very well for people like us
who have been using QuickBooks for a long time and
were frustrated with inventory tracking. We need
to track serial numbers which this does very well
on both incoming and outgoing orders. The best
part for us though is being able to click one
button to send our invoices and bills directly to
QuickBooks. AdvancePro has extended QuickBooks
shelf life for us and keeps my staff happy as we
don't need to retrain people on a new accounting
program-and their software is very easy to learn
because it looks and feels like QuickBooks too!
Definitely worth a try! Great product with many
features we did not find in competing products.
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Great Software
Sandra Lowe
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We're an importer in Canada and have been using
AdvancePro for over a year now. We highly
recommend you try this if you buy and sell goods.
We love the Freight module and the way it controls
our taxes. It gives us a true reflection of our
landed costs. The software is user friendly and
the consistent updates are great too. These guys
have a built a software that has grown with us and
as we add more users it still performs well on our
network.
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it's about time...
Alison F
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We have been using QuickBooks with a combination
of excel spreadsheets. Too many inaccuracies were
happening with our inventory and then we found
AdvancePro. As a 3PL it is critical that we have
accurate inventory to service our customer’s needs
and AdvancePro does this and more. We can track
each customer through the multiple warehouse
locations, and can easily manage our warehouse
layout internally with the multiple picking
locations feature. Overall the software is stable,
the customer service is responsive and we're very
happy not having to worry about software and
concentrating on running our business. I'd
recommend this software in a heart beat.
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very advanced
inventory management
noel@blackstoneit.com
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Our technology consulting firm was hired to assist
a multi-million dollar distributor with 10,000
product offerings improve their warehouse
management and streamline operations. They have a
very complicated business model and the success of
the business depends on quick and accurate
turnaround of orders. After comparing the top
ranked
inventory management
tools we chose
AdvancePro. Here’s our experience:
Pros:
+ feature packed: allows for custom pricing per
customer (and custom part number per customer
too), custom vender part number, handles product
variants (same product in various sizes, colors,
etc.), multiple warehouses, interfaces with UPS/Fedex
(add-on module), creates e-paper trail of who
changed or acted on the order, creates pick lists,
and allows for barcode scanning in warehouse (and
even order entry).
+ the sales people are quite helpful and have been
available after the sale to help answer questions
+ the technical support is effective and I feel
that they make an effort to help solve our
problems
+ for ‘normal’ orders this tool greatly reduces
the time from order to shipping
+ having multiple UOM for a product is nice
(though manual breaking of cases, for example, is
not as smooth as we would like)
Cons:
-The integration with QuickBooks is not as tight
as we would like: it is not true that changes in
one tool will be updated in the other. There are
probably good reasons for but it is unclear what
really is synchronized and what isn’t. The export
of product list from QuickBooks to AP was easy
though we had our products in a hierarchy in
QuickBooks and the hierarchy was lost in the
importing to AdvancePro(AP). Also, updating
QuickBooks is a manual process from within AP and
since we have to wait to ‘finalize’ an order (see
below) our accounting (AR/AP) person actually
spends much time in AdvancePro when our hopes were
that all accounting could be done from QuickBooks
alone. All of the ordering, product updating, and
most of the reporting has to be done from within
AP, not in QuickBooks.
-the reporting in AP is lousy. The reports are not
customizable (though improvements are expected in
mid-2006) and the standard reports are not very
good. We would have liked to use QuickBooks for
the reporting but because not all of the
information is exported from AP back into
QuickBooks (such as sales orders for example) the
reporting within QuickBooks is crippled due to
lack of data.
-the business logic is too strict in AP. For
example ‘once shipped the item quantity is not
editable on the order’ seems reasonable until you
mistype or send the wrong quantity and then
recovering is painful due to this strict business
logic in the software (and additionally fixing it
usually leaves an ugly paper trail and effects
meaningful reporting, etc). We have chosen to
leave orders un-finalized long after they are
complete just in case we have to change something
when the bill comes in or when the customer
receives the products. QuickBooks has understood
the need to pretty much leave anything changeable
at any time, AP has not. AP has plans to fix some
of this in mid-2006 but they have a ways to go to
match the flexibility of QuickBooks in this
respect.
-the windows don’t refresh the forms as expected.
So for example, adding a part or modifying
customer info doesn’t automatically update the
order window that I am currently using, I must
either refresh or close/reopen the window.
-the setup of the 2ndary warehouse(s) is painful.
You must first add part to your primary warehouse
then perform a transfer. If you ship exactly the
same products out of all your warehouses this
won’t be a problem. We don’t.
-the exporting of info into excel spreadsheets is
useful but when you open the spreadsheet you
notice that there is an extra row inserted between
each row of data. Also there is weird header
formatting and weird ‘merging’ of columns. If you
know excel well you can fairly easily get rid of
these (most of which you must do in order to
re-import spreadsheet changes back into AP).
All said, we are happy with the overall
performance though we are hoping the soon-coming
improvements will soothe some of our problems
especially with respect to billing. It is clearly
not a ‘mature’ tool but we believe it is the best
in its price category and they seem committed to
making it better. We are clearly pushing the
limits as our business does not follow ideal
business models but I believe that we would have
had to spend 3-4 times as money much for a better
tool. We highly recommend using this tool.
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Finally found something that works
geoffspitz123@yahoo.com
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We have tried using other products that say they
manage inventory, and even tried to develop our
own solution and then we found AdvancePro. This
software has really helped us streamline our
apparel distribution business with their matrix
inventory and variant manager. Was very easy to
learn too. Anyone in our industry can use this
software. We also have enjoyed their support-very
patient and friendly which is a rare find.
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