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    Fourth Procurement and Inventory

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AFourth Procurement and Inventory is software that ties together procurement, 3-way matching, inventory and recipe control. It’s fully integrated, mobile-friendly and can be accessed with a single login. Using predicted sales functionality and analytics, it lets the user forecast demand more accurately.N/A

    IBM Sterling Order Management

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AIBM now owns and supports Sterling Commerce products (since August 2010), the most notable product being IBM Order Management. The platform emphasizes order promising and fulfillment and provides tools to adaptively complete orders specified to customer demands.N/A

    Orderhive (discontinued)

    Score3.1 out of 10
    N/ACin7 Orderhive was a SaaS based solution for order, shipping and inventory management functionalities. Acquired by Cin7 in 2021, it was discontinued in 2023.

    $95

    per month

    Pricing
    Fourth Procurement and InventoryIBM Sterling Order ManagementOrderhive (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Essentials
    $95
    per month
    Standard
    $195
    per month
    Enhanced
    $295
    per month
    Enterprise
    $500
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Fourth Procurement and InventoryIBM Sterling Order ManagementOrderhive (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Fourth Procurement and InventoryIBM Sterling Order ManagementOrderhive (discontinued)
    Considered Multiple Products
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    67%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    67%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    60%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    3 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Fourth Procurement and InventoryIBM Sterling Order ManagementOrderhive (discontinued)
    Inventory Management
    Comparison of Inventory Management features of Fourth Procurement and Inventory and IBM Sterling Order Management and Orderhive (discontinued)
    Feature
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    IBM Sterling Order Management
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    Orderhive (discontinued)
    5.8
    1 Ratings
    26% below category average
    Inventory tracking00 Ratings00 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Barcode scanning00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Automation rules00 Ratings00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Reporting and analytics00 Ratings00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Item kitting00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Forecasting00 Ratings00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Accounting integration00 Ratings00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Fourth Procurement and InventoryIBM Sterling Order ManagementOrderhive (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.4
    (4 ratings)
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    3.1
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    -
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    -
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    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.5
    (4 ratings)
    -
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    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    Fourth Procurement and InventoryIBM Sterling Order ManagementOrderhive (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    HotSchedules and Fourth
    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
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    IBM
    It's perfect for medium to large retailers
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Setting up was covered by a dedicated account rep. It was a smooth and relatively easy process. Problems started a year in when I lost my dedicated account rep. Customer service would refer to the instructions when a question was asked. Sadly they didn't understand the question most of the time.
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    Pros
    HotSchedules and Fourth
    • 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.
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    IBM
    • Centralizing data.
    • Instantaneously updated data.
    • Ad hoc reporting.
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    Discontinued Products
    • Around 18 months ago I started conversations with Orderhive as a potential vendor to run a large portion of our ecommerce business. It seemed promising, and the idea that the Plus (now called Enterprise) solution was customisable was the reason I decided to select Orderhive.
    • There was a significant amount of due-diligence from my end. It took me around 6 months to get my head around what features the software currently had, and what we would need to have Orderhive complete as a customisation.
    • This in itself was also quite a bit of work - there were a number of revisions to the contract documents, created by a non-technical sales representative. My concerns started around this point when I was unable to speak with a technical representative to discuss, in more detail, how each feature would work.
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    Cons
    HotSchedules and Fourth
    • 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
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    IBM
    • RCP Based deployment
    • Wider variety of sourcing configuration
    • Product Documentation
    • COM Features need to better so that Customer case handling is facilitated
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    Discontinued Products
    • shipping, I would like to be able to handle returns more easily.
    • I would like to be able to handle stock differently according to order delivery dates. Order hive reserves qty for all the orders we place, I would like to be able to decide which orders reserve stock and which ones shouldn't.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    HotSchedules and Fourth
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    IBM
    The package of Sterling Order Management / Sterling Store / Sterling Call Center works very well and it supports the expansion to Geographies like US/EU/JP/China, some of hottest markets for e-commerce.
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    Discontinued Products
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    Usability
    HotSchedules and Fourth
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    IBM
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    Discontinued Products
    Extremely poor, it is not a user-friendly automated time-saving system like what was promised. It is clunky and the development team is slow and creating very poor and unreliable results.
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    Support Rating
    HotSchedules and Fourth
    Too long to get an answer.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    The worst I have ever experienced, they are arrogant, rude and often abusive. They then blame us when we get angry due to the poor quality of the product and the extremely bad customer service.
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    Alternatives Considered
    HotSchedules and Fourth
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    IBM
    Warehouse Management System which is mainly focussed on warehouse fulfillment but not on the routing and availability tracking
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Sadly I can't give Cin7 Core a review, because they haven't been able to resolve connection issues and it's been 3 months. But I'm done with this company
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    Return on Investment
    HotSchedules and Fourth
    • 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
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    IBM
    • Optimal inventory management resulted in more orders per minute and good ROI and customer experience
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    Discontinued Products
    • There has been a negative ROI in this case. Not only have we paid a deposit toward the customisation of our orderhive implementation, there has also been a massive sunk cost of approximately 18 months of my time and effort.
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