Check Out These 13 Examples of Real Life Flexibility

An exotic leather tannery needed to improve order fulfillment accuracy for its reptile skins – each of which have numerous unique attributes of size, color, grade, etc.

We added these additional elements to each inventory item’s definition and they are then validated against the sales order during picking and shipping.

At a manufacturer of test equipment for the paper industry, workers sometime lost or forgot to include the requisite “Certificate of Analysis” when shipping the product.

We wrote an input screen for entering the requisite data, and customized their system to print the correct certificate when each serialized product is shipped.

A distributor of trading cards has consigned inventory at more than 10,000 retail locations and needed help tracking their products. 

Now their system gives them instant visibility into their inventory at each store so they know what to replenish.

A client which maintains and services water filtration systems discovered employees regularly not invoicing filters.

We set their system to trigger frequent cycle counts for “high turn” items, which helped them quantify the problem and secure their inventory.

A large plumbing supplies distributor has a long lead-time for delivery of many of their products from international manufacturers, and thus they can’t afford a stock-out.

We overlaid a custom demand-forecasting tool that incorporates historical seasonal demand curves of their critical items.

A produce distributor orders cantaloupes by the carton. Quantity varies per carton depending on fruit size, so a PO requesting 16-count cartons may result in 24-count cartons being received.

We modified their system to reconcile carton counts, unit counts, cost per unit and other attributes for items like cantaloupes.

A regional musical instruments retail chain requires items like guitars and amplifiers to be traceable by serial number from purchase to stock to sale.

We set them up with AccountMate’s built-in serial number functionality which gives complete traceability through purchase, stock and sale to customer.

A manufacturer of automated welding equipment has Spanish speaking employees at their facility in Mexico, working with English speaking employees from their offices in the U.S. 

We configured their system so each user is presented all menus, screens and reports in their preferred language.

When a manufacturer of surgical instruments greatly expanded international sales, they needed their shipping to handle the tracking of products to all corners of the globe.

NexLAN integrated a shipping solution that includes “cartonization,” which tells their customers exactly what each carton contains when orders are split across multiple boxes.