How to Build Your Own SOS Inventory

Organize inventory by bins and aisles for warehouse management

Maintain detailed cost history for items including lot/serial distinctions

Calculate costs through assembly levels for accurate product costing

Support for FIFO, LIFO, and Weighted Average inventory valuation methods

Perform cycle counts to verify inventory accuracy without full shutdowns

Set up contract pricing agreements with customers

Automatically calculate pricing based on cost plus margin

Create credit memos and process customer returns

Create estimates and quotes that can be converted to sales orders

Create and manage tiered pricing structures for different customer levels

Build assemblies and kits with unlimited BOM levels, auto-build on shipments, and track work-in-progress

Manage contract manufacturing workflows with vendor production tracking

Track job costs and labor tracking for manufacturing operations and project-based work

Support for process manufacturing with variable-yield manufacturing and co-products/by-products management

Create and manage work orders with work centers and track work-in-progress inventory

Assign multiple vendors to items for supplier flexibility

Create purchase orders from sales orders, generate POs based on stock levels, manage blanket POs, and handle partial receiving

Generate reorder lists based on inventory levels and historical data

Calculate reorder points automatically from historical sales data

Manage drop shipping workflows with seamless order processing

Handle full or partial shipments from sales orders and manage multiple sales orders for the same customer

Create pick tickets from sales orders or invoices, manage shipments, generate packing slips, and update inventory on shipment

Generate, scan, and track inventory items using barcodes in multiple formats to speed up counting, receiving, locating, and shipping

Manage movement of batches by date of receipt and expiration with full traceability

Track individual items by serial number with comprehensive cost history and forward/backward traceability

Track and manage backorders with automated notifications

Create and manage RMA processes for product returns

Create sales orders, generate full or partial shipments, and create full or partial invoices that synchronize with QuickBooks Online

Create custom dashboards for viewing key business metrics

Analyze items with profit/loss reports and historical data

View real-time inventory with Ready to Pick/Ship status reports