The right software
For timber traders, choosing software carefully reaps benefits.
Progressive Solutions' bisTrack software offers powerful functionality for merchants who trade timber. In particular, the units of purchase, stock, pricing and sale of timber can all be different. A product can be bought in pack quantities, stocked per hundred metres, priced in ten metre lengths, and sold per metre!
As well as managing sales, simplifying purchasing, and gathering intelligence, bisTrack stock controls timber accurately, including accounting for it at any stage of the works order process. Progressive's MD, Arthur Duffy, says: "Many timber companies have told us that trying to accurately stock control timber on a system is just not worthwhile because the effort is too great, but part of the problem is they haven't had the right software to do it. Using bisTrack lets smaller companies have better consistency of pricing and an absolutely reliable record of what stock is held, while larger companies trading on a national level can guarantee next day deliveries to site and meet strict OTIF targets. bisTrack's functionality supports an increasing number of our customers who want to track stock on order and sell from shipping documents before the stock has physically arrived."
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