Multiple Dimensions of Inventory Management
By Mark Stair

Inventory management can be simple or complicated. As you want to manage and control more aspects of inventory the complexity can rise quickly. Let’s give a few examples from simple (no) inventory management to the most complete and complex inventory management.

Is SME an ERP?
By Mark Stair

SME has gotten to be such a great solution for service companies, that we recently asked ourselves “Is SME an ERP system”? Just like any interesting question, it really made us think…
First we had to ask, what is the definition of an ERP system? So of course we jump over to wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_resource_planning to get the definition. Here are a couple key points:

People and Parts for Service Management
By Mark Stair

There are many different software products in the market that handle service dispatch and many other products that handle inventory management. However, an efficient service management company needs to efficiently manage both people AND parts.
The people are the field technicians doing the work. The parts is the inventory management and getting the right parts prepared, ready and to the job site.