Why SMBs Need a Dedicated Inventory Management System: Breaking Free from ACMS Limitations

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As a small to medium-sized business (SMB) owner, you’re likely no stranger to the challenges of managing your inventory effectively. When your Account Management Software (ACMS) can’t keep up with the demands of multi-channel orders, warehouse efficiency, and third-party logistics (3PL), it’s time to consider a dedicated Inventory Management System (IMS). In this blog, we’ll explore the pain points of relying on an outdated ACMS and how a modern IMS can transform your business.

The Limitations of ACMS for SMBs

SMBs often face significant challenges when relying on their ACMS for inventory management. The most common pain points include:

  • Lack of real-time visibility across multiple sales channels and warehouses
  • Manual data entry and reconciliation, leading to errors and inefficiencies
  • No automated demand forecasting, resulting in stockouts or overstocking
  • Limited scalability, making it difficult to adapt to growing demands
  • High IT overhead due to custom code maintenance and vendor lock-in

These limitations can have a significant impact on your business, from lost sales and revenue to increased costs and decreased customer satisfaction.

The Benefits of a Dedicated Inventory Management System

A dedicated IMS can help you overcome the limitations of your ACMS and achieve real-time visibility, automation, and scalability. Some of the key benefits include:

  • Real-time visibility: Get a unified view of your inventory across multiple sales channels, warehouses, and 3PLs
  • Automation: Automate tasks such as data entry, reconciliation, and demand forecasting to reduce errors and increase efficiency
  • Scalability: Scale your inventory management with a cloud-based IMS that can adapt to your growing needs
  • Integration: Integrate with multiple e-commerce platforms, 3PLs, and other stakeholders to streamline your operations

How Skubiq WMS Can Help

Skubiq WMS is a cloud-based IMS designed specifically for SMBs. With its plug-and-play architecture, AI-powered demand forecasting, and real-time inventory sync, Skubiq WMS can help you:

  • Reduce inventory reconciliation time by up to 82%
  • Improve order accuracy by up to 99.8%
  • Decrease stockouts by up to 87%
  • Increase 3PL utilization by up to 42%

Take the First Step towards Efficient Inventory Management

If you’re tired of relying on an outdated ACMS that’s holding your business back, it’s time to consider a dedicated IMS. With Skubiq WMS, you can achieve real-time visibility, automation, and scalability, and take your business to the next level. Sign up for a free 14-day pilot today and discover the power of efficient inventory management.

By adopting a dedicated IMS like Skubiq WMS, you can overcome the limitations of your ACMS and unlock new opportunities for growth and success. Don’t let inventory management hold you back – take the first step towards a more efficient, scalable, and profitable business.

Discover how SKUBIQ’s cloud-based WMS can transform your warehouse operations. Request a Free Demo or Contact Sales today.

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3PL

The SKUBIQ is a cloud based Warehouse management system and is designed for third-party logistics companies to manage multiple customers, processes and billing schedules. The system enables access to real-time information and provides integrations with warehouse management technologies, including EDI, barcode scanning, and e-commerce shopping carts. The software scalability helps companies to manage different stock levels in warehouses, streamline business, and satisfy customers.

SKUBIQ is designed to help logistics companies automate processes and bill items accurately. The software provides features which allow the user to easily add and remove customers and products. The software is designed to help logistics providers satisfy customers’ need for updated information and increase profits through process automation.

The SKUBIQ can be integrated with any line of business application or ERP thereby allowing users to synchronize items, inventory, purchase orders, and receipts.

Manufacturing

The manufacturing is a highly regulated industry globally where attention to detail is critical to help ensure stringent requirements for product quality and deadlines are met. Its become imperative for organizations to achieve a lean environment in which they have visibility to and control over these details is where competitive advantage often resides. SKUBIQ partners with major manufacturing companies globally to improve efficiency and reduce costs, such as:

  1. Support of lean manufacturing initiatives by including inventory management capabilities within manufacturing
  2. Initiating supplier re-orders based on demand signals
  3. Compliance with industry requirements for quality, product tracking, safety, and recall management
  4. Integrated RFID, including asset tracking
  5. Quality assurance and inspection
  6. Managing a large product catalog / SKU proliferation
  7. Addressing Customer OEM parts packaging
  8. Core stratification and remanufacturing
  9. Wave planning and small order pick optimization to reduce picker travel
  10. Serialized inventory tracking
  11. EDI / ASN integration

Distribution Center

Distributors normally lack precise and seamless traceability, lot control, and recall management capabilities jeopardizing the inventory thereby putting their businesses at risk of compliance failures and legal liabilities. In addition, they are constantly challenged by the emerging consumer demands for omni-channel commerce, specialized products, and more convenient delivery options

SKUBIQ is trusted worldwide for supply chain management and visibility. But Why? Simply because our uniquely adaptable software solutions help companies like you stay on top of this fast-changing market.

SKUBIQ helps address the complete process of fulfilling complex, multi-temperature home delivery orders. SKUBIQ has the inbuilt flexibility in helping emerging online retailers and distributors a wide range of specialty products through traditional eCommerce fulfillment models.

As one of the market leaders in warehouse management (WMS) for cold-storage, third-party-logistics companies that play a critical role distribution, we bridge inventory and distribution between some of the world’s largest producers and their customers.

Fashion and Retail

The SKUBIQ is a cloud based Warehouse management system and is designed for third-party logistics companies to manage multiple customers, processes and billing schedules. The system enables access to real-time information and provides integrations with warehouse management technologies, including EDI, barcode scanning, and e-commerce shopping carts. The software scalability helps companies to manage different stock levels in warehouses, streamline business, and satisfy customers.

SKUBIQ is designed to help logistics companies automate processes and bill items accurately. The software provides features which allow the user to easily add and remove customers and products. The software is designed to help logistics providers satisfy customers’ need for updated information and increase profits through process automation.

The SKUBIQ can be integrated with any line of business application or ERP thereby allowing users to synchronize items, inventory, purchase orders, and receipts.

Fast-moving Consumer Goods

The manufacturing is a highly regulated industry globally where attention to detail is critical to help ensure stringent requirements for product quality and deadlines are met. Its become imperative for organizations to achieve a lean environment in which they have visibility to and control over these details is where competitive advantage often resides. SKUBIQ partners with major manufacturing companies globally to improve efficiency and reduce costs, such as:

  1. Support of lean manufacturing initiatives by including inventory management capabilities within manufacturing
  2. Initiating supplier re-orders based on demand signals
  3. Compliance with industry requirements for quality, product tracking, safety, and recall management
  4. Integrated RFID, including asset tracking
  5. Quality assurance and inspection
  6. Managing a large product catalog / SKU proliferation
  7. Addressing Customer OEM parts packaging
  8. Core stratification and remanufacturing
  9. Wave planning and small order pick optimization to reduce picker travel
  10. Serialized inventory tracking
  11. EDI / ASN integration

Automobile

Distributors normally lack precise and seamless traceability, lot control, and recall management capabilities jeopardizing the inventory thereby putting their businesses at risk of compliance failures and legal liabilities. In addition, they are constantly challenged by the emerging consumer demands for omni-channel commerce, specialized products, and more convenient delivery options

SKUBIQ is trusted worldwide for supply chain management and visibility. But Why? Simply because our uniquely adaptable software solutions help companies like you stay on top of this fast-changing market.

SKUBIQ helps address the complete process of fulfilling complex, multi-temperature home delivery orders. SKUBIQ has the inbuilt flexibility in helping emerging online retailers and distributors a wide range of specialty products through traditional eCommerce fulfillment models.

As one of the market leaders in warehouse management (WMS) for cold-storage, third-party-logistics companies that play a critical role distribution, we bridge inventory and distribution between some of the world’s largest producers and their customers.

Pharma & Surgical

The SKUBIQ WMS Software is a cloud-based Warehouse management system and is designed for third-party logistics companies to manage multiple customers, processes and billing schedules. The system enables access to real-time information and provides integrations with warehouse management technologies, including EDI, barcode scanning, and e-commerce shopping carts. The software scalability helps companies to manage different stock levels in warehouses, streamline business, and satisfy customers.

SKUBIQ WMS Software is designed to help logistics companies automate processes and bill items accurately. The software provides features which allow the user to easily add and remove customers and products. The software is designed to help logistics providers satisfy customers’ need for updated information and increase profits through process automation.

The SKUBIQ can be integrated with any line of business application or ERP thereby allowing users to synchronize items, inventory, purchase orders, and receipts.