Inventory optimization is all about having just the right amount. When it comes to optimizing inventory, the key factor to consider is "what is optimum - how is this determined?" The market is full of many methods and claims. Not all solutions are the same.
For most small businesses, this has been just a guessing game. QuickBooks, as well as the many QuickBook addons, use manual settings to set inventory levels. Some solutions, such as EZ Analytics, set inventory levels to a set number of days of supply. This is a very common approach - in fact 28% of businesses order monthly just because it is easy. The problem with this approach is that lead times vary and you could easily get into an overstock or understock situation. This is still a manual setting and is especially dangerous for businesses that import or export goods.
Fortune 500 companies have been optimizing inventory at the lowest possible cost for many years. In fact their expensive and complex systems are using an approach developed in 1913. The problem with this approach is that it does not factor in cash flow. Cash flow is especially important for small businesses.
It is for this reason that Excel is the number one solution on the market - for businesses of all sizes all over the world. The world is profilerated with home grown custom solutions to set inventory levels. The problem with this approach is that this is time consuming and complex. This is why we created Phitch. To make it easy to optimize inventory at the point of maximum financal performance.
Phitch optimizes inventory at your maximum economic profit using patent pending technology. Phitch is the only software on the market that can optimize inventory to maximize your economic profit. Phitch seamlessly integrates with QuickBooks to improve the financial performance of small and medium businesses by optimizing inventory at maximum economic profit.