Aralco Inventory Management vs. Fourth Procurement and Inventory

Aralco Inventory Management is well suited for a retail operation with one or two locations that is expanding to 5+. At that point, there is small enough start-up costs and significant benefits available for this software to assist a company with the inventory and POS challenges associated with rapid growth. Aralco Inventory Management is also particularly helpful for retail companies that have complicated sales orders or a sales fulfillment time that is longer than a day or a week.

Incentivized

The product is user-friendly in automating the tasks, managing the master data through central purchasing, and creating custom reports. It lacks certain basic functionalities like a record of wastages, sending automated emails confirming if the automatic tasks (scheduled tasks) have been completed or not, and the ability to automate the nutrition information, etc.

Incentivized

• Retail focus
• Single source for all inventory control requirements
• Power-to-cost ratio
• Training package

Incentivized

• The 'stock management' tab on the home screen is of particular use when keeping tabs on incoming deliveries into the restaurant.
• The option to open and close your stock period is great as you have the chance to edit your stock at a moment's notice.

Incentivized

• Lengthy set-up process that requires strong management
• High base hardware requirements (can't be used with just a phone, for instance)
• Inventory forecasting is not linked to any external or macro forces

Incentivized

• It would help massively to see via Enterprise and menu items what ones are no longer active, to keep the data tidy.
• When you take purchase reports from Enterprise and select to organise them by category, show the name of the category on the actual report download.
• Quick and easy upload/download of supplier products for correcting prices, descriptions, prices in bulk.

Incentivized

Too long to get an answer.

Incentivized

• Short training time reduced costs and increased sales which increased ROI
• Less downtime which reduced costs and increased ROI
• Good customer support which boosts employee morale which leads to efficiencies and higher sales which increased ROI

Incentivized

• Procurement: Integrating some of the key suppliers with Trade Simple has saved labour hours.
• Integration: GL Integrations have increased the efficiency and quality of data.

Incentivized