Access can solve many of your business problems.
- You might be using Excel to maintain stock lists and levels, customer lists, quotes and ordering etc. But are finding it hard to maintain.
- You may be struggling with a paper system and is now becoming unbearable to manage. An Access database can take over and make it easier for you to keep on top of everything. It will give you a ‘heads up’ with reporting on such things as, when you need to purchase stock, or to stop you from missing lead times (e.g. meeting deadlines for orders).
Consider some of these solutions for potential problems you may experience:-
- Inventory System
- Keeping track of inventory, when ordered, delivered, supplied.
- Able to create invoices
- Able to track payments
- Contact Database
- Create a contact database, and enter details about your interaction with clients/suppliers
- Link to documents that you send clients, or they send to you.
- Billing System
- If you provide a service, you will want to track who you are billing
- When you receive payments
- Outstanding bills
- Purchase Orders
- Create purchase orders for suppliers
- Know when the products are received from suppliers
- Know when purchases haven’t been fulfilled
- Asset Register
- Keeping track of assets.
- Knowing when you’ve had assets serviced.
- Knowing when you purchased the asset.
