Best Bar is a leading Australian steel reinforcement supplier, delivering a diverse range of reinforcement solutions to the civil, commercial and residential construction industries. In just over 15 years Best Bar has experienced an immense amount of change, growing from start- up to become a market leader. Along the way it has had to continually reassess processes to keep pace with the company’s maturing operations. One of the processes most recently targeted for updating was the company’s inventory and procurement management.
An analysis of transactions relating to the movement of inventory throughout the Best Bar network had highlighted problems with the company’s system of manual documentation. Whenever an item was taken from inventory, employees were required to enter data such as product description, quantity, origin and destination into one of a number of controlled books maintained in various store and production departments. These documents would work their way through the business before ending up at inventory control to be key punched and processed. A central register was used to track the documents to help ensure that no transactions were missed. The problem was inventory could move from stock to finished goods in a matter of minutes, yet the manual transaction required to record that move could take up to 24 hours!
The solution was to automate inventory transactions. Best Bar decided to implement Panatracker GP auto data capture solution and sought the assistance of Professional Advantage for managing the deployment.
