“When will you make an end?” Pope Julius II famously asked Michelangelo concerning his painting of the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling in The Agony and the Ecstasy.
Michelangelo’s epic response? “When it is finished!”
It took Michelangelo four years to complete his masterpiece. Thankfully, you don’t have to go through as much time and agony as this master artist to turn your inventory management into a work of art.
Many companies are in pain. They’re suffering from bad inventory management, double data entry, poor tracking of inventory in Excel spreadsheets, and slow picking, packing, and shipping. And that’s just scratching the surface of many companies’ inventory woes.
Here are four inventory agonies companies face and how to turn them into ecstasies. (more…)
Robert Lockard is a copywriter with Fishbowl. He writes for several blogs about inventory management, manufacturing, QuickBooks, and small business. Fishbowl is the #1-requested manufacturing and warehouse management software for QuickBooks users. Robert enjoys running, reading, writing, spending time with his wife and children, and watching movies.
