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Inventory Management Software for Inventory Tracking & Optimization

To maintain healthy cash flow, inventory levels must be optimized. But there is a huge amount of work involved in inventory, especially in the wholesale or distribution industry. Using EMERGE, online inventory management software can help you solve those inventory problems. Furthermore, with the cloud platform, you can track and update everything in your warehouses in real time.
Product History

Track Historical Activities

Implementing online inventory management software helps you monitor product history, operational activities, and key updates across your entire business workflow.

  • Every adjustment, stock transfer, and inventory update is recorded in the Inventory Movement Report for full traceability.
  • Track your purchase history with suppliers to better understand buying patterns and improve negotiation or planning.
  • Keep a full log of employee activities in Activity History Event, showing who performed which actions in the date range you select. Gain accountability and transparency across your business, this is especially useful for identifying mistakes or process improvements.
  • By using the serial number assigned to each item, you can track the product throughout its lifecycle whether it’s still in your inventory or already sold.
Damage Adjustments

Defective Products Adjustments

Inventory obsolescence, expired goods, or damaged and defective products can lead to financial loss and harm your brand reputation.

  • Using online inventory tracking software allows you to track these products efficiently by assigning a serial number for individual items or a batch number for grouped products.
  • Managers can quickly perform actions such as inventory adjustments or stock transfers with just a few clicks when there are any changes in your warehouse. Real-time updates in cloud-based systems can help you prevent order fulfillment errors such as picking from the wrong warehouse, double-picking, or sending out defective items.
  • All changes are recorded in the Inventory Movement Report and Activity History Event, ensuring full traceability and transparency.
  • For exchanged or returned items, product details remain trackable even if the item was previously sold or returned to the original warehouse.
Reorder Feature

Reorder Reminder

Insufficient supply or supply chain disruptions are constant challenges in wholesale distribution companies. On the flip side, excess inventory or overstocking ties up working capital and limits business flexibility.

  • With the Reorder Reminder feature in online inventory management software, you can set a minimum inventory level and reorder quantity for each product, directly linked to the right supplier.
  • When stock hits the threshold, EMERGE will automatically notify you on the dashboard and generate a Proposed Purchase Order with the appropriate items and quantities, ready for review and sent to the supplier.
  • By using the Inventory Forecast Report along with insights from the Product Trend Report and Product Sales Report, you can define a reorder point formula for each product based on average daily sales and your desired stock coverage period.
Exchange & return management

Manage Exchanges and Returns

Exchanges and returns from customers can be easily managed with software. With a centralized system that is updated in real time and synchronized in the cloud, you can track every product sold and process customer return/exchange requests accurately.

  • If an invoice has been issued before the return, a credit note attached to the invoice will be automatically issued, ensuring the accuracy of the financial statement.
  • Inventory levels are automatically adjusted when an item is returned or exchanged, making sure your stock records stay accurate in real time without manual work.
  • Returned items are placed back into the original warehouse (or marked as damaged if needed), and exchanged products are deducted from the corresponding inventory accordingly. For this, you can do the inventory activities to make sure every change is recorded.
  • Besides, our barcode inventory software integrated into EMERGE speeds up your operations and makes data entry easy. For exchange & returns, simply scan that barcode and your inventory status will be updated automatically.
Adjustment Approval

Approval Workflow

For wholesale distribution companies, communication and collaboration between departments are essential to reduce errors and improve efficiency.

  • Manual inventory adjustments and other critical actions, such as purchasing, selling, user registration, or invoice approval, can be routed through an approval workflow set up in EMERGE. You can define multiple levels of approval to align with your internal controls.
  • Using online inventory management software, administrators can assign approval rights to specific users based on their roles, ensuring the right people are involved in the corresponding decision-making process.
  • Whenever a document is submitted, the approver is notified and can review, approve, or reject the document, increasing compliance and minimizing operational risk.
  • For businesses managing multiple warehouses or locations, EMERGE inventory tracking software provides a centralized platform to streamline coordination. With user-based access control, inventory approvals and changes remain streamlined, even across distributed teams.

Real-time inventory status

In EMERGE, we track stocks in 2 main ways: Physical (In-stock) Qty and Available Qty.

  • Physical inventory that you have in your warehouse also known as stock on hand or physical stocks in your inventory. This is important if your business is a go-to company for immediate stocks
  • Available inventory is the balance inventory after committed sales stock.
  • It takes into consideration all purchases and sales that may not be physically in your inventory.

Successfully controlling that information can help you prevent problems that shouldn’t happen when running your business. Examples such as making incorrect assumptions about how much product you have before closing a customer order.

Adjustment Approval

Seamless Sales Process

Ensuring that your sales process is a seamless one, with no room for delays or waiting, time and flexibility are valuable factors here.

  • For wholesale distributors who also handle retail or direct sales, EMERGE offers Quick Sales Order Creation, designed for quick transactions and includes thermal printing support, all built into inventory tracking software.
  • If an order is approved but some items are not in stock, you can easily create a Backorder for your supplier or initiate a Partial Shipment, ensuring flexibility without stopping the process.
  • Invoices and Shipments can be created directly from the Sales Order window, making the whole process transparent.
  • After-sales services like managing returns, replacements or warranty claims can all be managed within the CRM module integrated within the online inventory tracking software.
Adjustment Approval

Streamline Production Process

With EMERGE’s manufacturing module, you can easily manage and monitor your manufacturing operations from start to finish.

  • Set up production templates based on your product formula or bill of materials. You can also assign access rights to ensure sensitive manufacturing data is secure and only accessible to authorized personnel.
  • All work orders are listed and organized in the Line Work Orders feature, where you can track the real-time status of each order and keep track of every activity in the manufacturing process.
  • Use the Line Report to view both in-progress and completed orders, with granular tracking over the date range you select, giving you full visibility into your production and performance.
  • If you need to manufacture a product on a sales order, you can create a production order directly from the sales order, seamlessly connecting sales and manufacturing for a smoother workflow.
Performance Tracking

Performance Tracking

In wholesale distribution, building a strong network of sales reps and consignment stores is key to growth. That’s why tracking performance at every level is critical to your business’s success.

  • With Commission Reports in EMERGE’s CRM module, you can easily track each rep’s leads, opportunities, and conversions over time, helping you evaluate productivity and reward top performers.
  • Not all suppliers perform the same. EMERGE helps you track supplier delivery performance, so you can identify delays, errors, or patterns that impact your supply chain and make smarter decisions about who to continue working with.
  • Want to know who your most valuable customers are? EMERGE keeps real-time records of customer spending, outstanding invoices, debits, and payment history, so you can build better relationships and reward loyalty with confidence.

Gold Features

Request for Quotation (RFQ Report)

EMERGE offers a helpful feature called the RFQ KPI report. This feature lets users record quotes they get from suppliers. It helps compare prices, minimum order quantities (MOQ), and estimated delivery times between suppliers. The goal is to find the one with the best terms to boost company profits.

This is especially useful for wholesale or trading businesses that deal with lots of quotes and orders from suppliers and customers.

With the RFQ Report, you can make your operations smoother, saving your employees time and making your business more efficient overall. Specifically, with this data, users can easily create purchase orders using the RFQ report. It helps you assess how well your staff is doing in finding the best suppliers/products through the RFQ KPI Report.

Here are the specific functions:

  1. RFQ List: Records item prices and purchase conditions for easier quoting.
  2. RFQ Report: Combines RFQ data for comparing conditions across suppliers and historical data. It helps with bulk purchasing.
  3. RFQ KPI Report: Collects metrics on purchaser performance, showing how successful they are in buying.

For only $19 per month or $99 per year, do you think it could significantly improve your staff’s performance in decision-making?

Trading workflow

With this feature you can issue year-long sales/purchase commitments to customers based on signed contracts. Multiple sales lots are then issued throughout the year, each adjustable within the total commitment. Lots are tracked with unique numbers assigned for easy monitoring.

This workflow suits businesses with contractual commitments:

  • Farms & plantations that can only give estimated output every month but are contracted for an entire year
  • Government contractors with total commitment but are required to fulfill at smaller quantities throughout the year
  • Maintenance companies with contracts with suppliers to "reserve" products on a year-long contract that requires supplies to be fulfilled weekly, monthly or on demand.

Starting at $99/month or $829/year, this feature provides an affordable solution for managing contractual obligations and supply chains efficiently.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • What makes EMERGE one of the best Inventory Management Software in the market?

    There are various factors but we’ll rank a few based on reviews from existing users 

    1. Affordable cost of adoption – wide range of inventory management features which previously only available on an expensive traditional ERP solution. 
    2. Great personalized support & no bots used.
    3. Highly accessible via Wifi or Mobile data, Integrates with any barcode scanner / printer & other accounting applications such as XERO and QBO.
  • Can I use EMERGE with my barcode scanner?

    Yes, EMERGE offers flexible options for incorporating barcodes into your inventory tracking. If your products already have barcodes or QR codes, you can easily scan these directly into EMERGE’s product module.

    For products without existing codes, EMERGE’s built-in barcode generator allows you to create new barcodes effortlessly when adding products to the system.

  • What if I do not sell our product and only want to use EMERGE to track my inventory?

    Yes, Just use the modules in EMERGE that relates to Inventory management and ignore the other modules:

    1) Product Module

    2) Inventory Adjustment

    3) Inventory Transfer

    4) Stock Take

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