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Three systems that are usually bought separately are often one system, built in phases - starting with the part that pays for itself first.
Three systems that are usually bought separately are often one system, built in phases — starting with the part that pays for itself first.
The reason to treat them as one is the data. Stock, cost and movement are the same facts viewed three ways, and buying three products means paying to keep three copies of those facts in agreement forever.
Each piece is a system in its own right. The order is the recommendation — start with the first and the rest stay optional.
One accurate record of what you hold and what it cost. This is first because it is where cash disappears without appearing on any report, and because every other module reads from it.
/systems/inventory-managementPurchases, sales and payments posted from the stock movements that caused them, so the ledger and the shelf stop being reconciled by hand.
/systems/accounting-managementLocations, picking, putaway and transfers. Worth adding once volume or floor area makes 'where is it' a question people ask out loud.
/systems/warehouse-managementInventory first is not a preference, it is a dependency. Accounting posted from stock movements requires the stock movements to be trustworthy, and warehouse operations are meaningless without an accurate picture of what is held.
It is also the order of payback. Inventory accuracy usually shows up in cash within a quarter — shrinkage found, over-ordering stopped, dead stock identified — which is what makes the second phase easy to justify.
Each phase ends at a working system in daily use, not at a milestone. If phase one has not changed how people work, phase two will not either.
It is not universal, and two situations call for something else. If your accounting package is well established and your accountant works in it daily, integrating with it is usually better than replacing it — phase two becomes an integration rather than a build. And if you hold very little stock but a great deal of work in progress, this is the wrong starting point entirely and a project or job-costing system is the one that pays first.
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