bisTrack: Enterprise & stock management software

Business control systems

Clearly you need to keep a close eye on the business to keep moving forwards. Controlling your stock, and controlling your costs is a big part of this. bisTrack enterprise management software can help.

Business & stock control

Keeping on top of your figures bisTrack supports stock recording detail for the most demanding of companies:

multiple picking zones (e.g. doors and kitchen worktops in separate warehouses)
multiple bin locations for bulk stock and picking stock
physical stock and free stock
allocations from forward orders
stock on order and stock due, allowing you to sell from shipping documents before stock has physically arrived
stock with third parties, allowing Added Value Operations to be sub-contracted
stock with processing, allowing stock issued to internally to be accounted for whilst work/fabrication is in progress

Stock rotation and test certificates

Stock management may differ from business-area to business-area. Stock may be kept separate by batch received for first-in, first-out rotation and costing. Stock costs may be actual or standard. Test certificates or similar documents can be cross-referenced to batches or individual items and may be viewed from within order screens.

Branch transfers and account synchronisation

Stock may be transferred between branches with automatic generation of the required General Ledger entries. bisTrack is readily synchronised with your accounts package (Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Dynamics GP, Sage, Business Works, etc.). bisTrack includes its own sales ledger.

Keeping track of your stock

All stock movements are traceable from receipt through to issue. Add a reason code for any stock adjustments for management of write-offs, damage, free-of-charge issues, and so on. Build a management picture of why you're having to accept adjustments by analysing returns using our Business Intelligence tools.

Stock takes

Stock takes can be perpetual, by range or full stock counts. bisTrack supports the stock controller with count sheets and variance reports for single blind stock counts. Being a Windows-based product, handheld count devices are simple to integrate with bisTrack. bisTrack mobile and wireless devices really cut down the work in stocktaking as well as reducing errors. As new technology comes along, the software is easily be extended to take advantage. It’s what we like doing.

Benefits: You want to sell stock now, but you also want to be in the strongest possible position to meet customer demand next week, the week after, and the week after that. You need pinpoint control and visibility of your stock at all times. Learn more about management tools and add-ons specific to your business, including eBusiness systems, and product scanning technology.

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Testimonials

"We saw benefits straight away, particularly with the time we saved on monthly stock takes and sourcing information for management reports."

Nigel Williams, Chairman, Premier Forest Products
"Our relationshiip with PSI has been transformed this year. This is due almost entirely to having an Account Manager as a single point of contact, who knows our system and our business."

Eric Jones, IT Manager, Alsford Timber
"We spent a long time evaluating several systems and I'm confident that bisTrack is the best available."

Andrew Laver, Arnold Laver Timberworld
"bisTrack was a big investment for us but it's the best change we've ever made. We've grown so much over the last four or five years, we simply couldn't have carried on using a manual system."

Gerwyn Thomas, partner, TL Thomas (builders' merchant)
"The time was right for a change of software at Alsford's and we selected bisTrack from a shortlist of three. The key criteria was 'business fit'. We wanted a Microsoft Windows, intuitive solution which would best serve our claim to be 'The Timber Experts' in all our 20 branches."

Neil Fuller, MD, Alsford Timber
"With bisTrack we now have real-time information on our profitability, which allows us to continually optimise and make decisions on our business plan."

Stuart Hall, General Manager, Lawcris Panel Products
"Stock counting is one of the best facilities in bisTrack ever. Stock counting across multiple locations is effortless with multiple entries of the same product. Entering a count is even easier. Counting 10,000 lines used to take two of us 4 days. This time it was 8 hours."

East End Group
"I'm happy bisTrack will grow with us. If we find we need something which isn't already incorporated, I'm confident Progressive will work with us to fill the gap."

Operations Director, CF Anderson
"It was obvious the company was being held back by the limitations of the old system."

Operations Director, CF Anderson
"Our relationshiip with PSI has been transformed this year. This is due almost entirely to having an Account Manager as a single point of contact, who knows our system and our business."

Eric Jones, IT Manager, Alsford Timber
"We saw benefits straight away, particularly with the time we saved on monthly stock takes and sourcing information for management reports."

Nigel Williams, Chairman, Premier Forest Products
"Inventory accuracy is higher because everyone is more focused and our staff can see the benefit of getting it right."

Ian Murchie, Operations Director, Howie Forest Products
"It's a very nicely laid out system with easy to follow structural menus and taskpads which, even if I haven't used a particular function before, I find relatively simple to complete."

Chris Pratt, Pratts Timber and Builders Merchants Ltd
"Our staff have margin figures right in front of them now, so they're much more aware of the profit they are making."

Robert Blumsom, Blumsom Fine Timber
"We saw benefits straight away, particularly with the time we saved on monthly stock takes and sourcing information for management reports."

Nigel Williams, Chairman, Premier Forest Products
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"With the time saved we've carried out branch refurbishments and I've taken my first holiday!"

John Cavanagh, MD, Cavanagh Timber
"It's a very nicely laid out system with easy to follow structural menus and taskpads which, even if I haven't used a particular function before, I find relatively simple to complete."

Chris Pratt, Pratts Timber and Builders Merchants Ltd
"We saw benefits straight away, particularly with the time we saved on monthly stock takes and sourcing information for management reports."

Nigel Williams, Chairman, Premier Forest Products
"It's a very nicely laid out system with easy to follow structural menus and taskpads which, even if I haven't used a particular function before, I find relatively simple to complete."

Chris Pratt, Pratts Timber and Builders Merchants Ltd
"Stock counting is one of the best facilities in bisTrack ever. Stock counting across multiple locations is effortless with multiple entries of the same product. Entering a count is even easier. Counting 10,000 lines used to take two of us 4 days. This time it was 8 hours."

East End Group
"Our staff have margin figures right in front of them now, so they're much more aware of the profit they are making."

Robert Blumsom, Blumsom Fine Timber
"We spent a long time evaluating several systems and I'm confident that bisTrack is the best available."

Andrew Laver, Arnold Laver Timberworld
"The reporting capabilities of bisTrack really help the sales department answer day to day enquiries. It gives them instant access to information about purchasing volumes and when timber is due to come in."

Wayne Abrams, Project Leader, Arbor Forest Products
"Good customer service is easier to achieve with good IT systems to back up our staff. Progressive provides us with an efficient system for dealing with customers, and good management tools to enable us to concentrate our efforts in the right direction."

David Dunmow, Group Finance Director, James Latham plc
"There’s no doubt that bisTrack is a good tool. We’ve a fantastic record for growth and we’re getting a lot out of bisTrack now, particularly over the control of our business."

Mike MacLellan, MD, GPH Builders Merchant
"The reporting capabilities of bisTrack really help the sales department answer day to day enquiries. It gives them instant access to information about purchasing volumes and when timber is due to come in."

Wayne Abrams, Project Leader, Arbor Forest Products
"I'm happy bisTrack will grow with us. If we find we need something which isn't already incorporated, I'm confident Progressive will work with us to fill the gap."

Operations Director, CF Anderson
"It's a very nicely laid out system with easy to follow structural menus and taskpads which, even if I haven't used a particular function before, I find relatively simple to complete."

Chris Pratt, Pratts Timber and Builders Merchants Ltd
"I can export information into Excel by right-clicking and manipulate it to my heart's content."
"We chose bisTrack because we needed to move on to the next generation of software."

Stephen Fairbairn, MD, Henry Alty
"We chose bisTrack because we needed to move on to the next generation of software."

Stephen Fairbairn, MD, Henry Alty
"Our staff have margin figures right in front of them now, so they're much more aware of the profit they are making."

Robert Blumsom, Blumsom Fine Timber
"We improved net margin by 3% within 6 weeks of going live on bisTrack."

Andy Halpin, Payne Timber

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