Lumber Inventory Software : Sierra Stock™
Sierra Stock™ is a Lumber Inventory software for lumber and wood products businesses. It's a cloud-based system accessible anywhere. The system helps you manage wood products inventories, create reports, provides search capabilities, enter transactions, and integrates with Sierra's mobile app to quickly count and measure wood, and more. It's a robust application that has been developed with simple controls and screens via feedback from our customers over the course of many years. It's a proven application with a solid track record, to help you take control.
Sierra Stock application is a lumber inventory software accessible from anywhere and on any devices, your tablet, laptop, or desktop PC, via browser interface on the cloud. It integrates with Sierra DigiTally Mobile.
The Problem with Lumber Software
Missing vital parts for lumber operations
As you realize the benefits of using a lumber inventory software system, and now convinced to bring technology into your operations, your next challenge is even more difficult; choosing the right software.
Many software products are available for the lumber and wood-products industries, but typical systems often focus on processing information after the activity has taken place. What's frequently missing is up-to-date-data, and an efficient way to capture operational data where the work actually happens—in the yard, warehouse, mill, or receiving area — and make that information immediately available throughout the company.
When field activity depends on paperwork and subsequent data entry, every transaction creates another step. Someone must record the information, deliver it, interpret it, and enter it into the system; involving 2 or more persons in the chain of events. Each step introduces the possibility of delay, lost paperwork, duplicate effort, or human error.
The consequences of manual data-flow are not always immediately visible. Inaccuracy in inventories may still remain hidden. Receipts may not be recorded promptly. Shipments and production activity may lag behind. Employees spend valuable time entering information that has already been recorded once, while managers make decisions based on data that may be outdated in comparison to actual work-data in operations.
A well designed software should reduce this burden—not add to it. Yet complex systems can require businesses to adapt their established workflows to the software, introduce additional data-entry requirements, keep using the existing manual steps, and demand extensive training and special courses simply to perform everyday tasks.
The real challenge isn't just managing data. It's capturing accurate information the first-time, in real-time, when the activity occurs, and making it immediately useful throughout the business.
The Solution
Sierra Stock Differentiation for Lumber Inventory Management
A streamlined system that provides fresh data, Sierra Stock addresses the concerns and urgency around operational-data. Our "Scan Once. Know Always" philosophy is designed into all components of our software solutions. Sierra Stock is structured to emphasize and serve Sierra DigiTally mobile operations seamlessly so that data can be available to management and users with ease.
Sierra Stock is built to receive operational data from the source, when and where the activity occurs, and make that information immediately available throughout the business. Receiving, inventory, picking, shipping, and other activities can be recorded where the work happens, reducing duplicate data entry, delays, and opportunities for error.
Sierra Stock is available online through a web browser with a user-friendly interface designed for everyday business operations. Powerful features are accessible through intuitive controls, minimizing the need for extensive training, while online help is available whenever additional guidance is needed.
The result is a simpler workflow, more timely and accurate inventory information, and a business that can respond to what is happening now. Such streamlined systems can improve operations by 58%.
Benefits:
- Up-to-date inventory visibility (stock knowledge helps business-decisions)
- Real-time data supplied by Sierra DigiTally Mobile operations
- Available anywhere on any device via browsers (benefits company personnel tasks)
- Leading edge technology (provides ease and speed of access to information)
- Smooth workflow means increased profit-margins
- Higher Inventory Turnover (streamline how you buy/store, reduce the time inventory sits in stock)
- Accurate Demand Forecasting (Predicting sales prevents over-ordering)
- Better communication between yard and office, overall business benefits
- Clerical efficiency (Reduce labor spent in unnecessary/manual steps)
- Improved Customer Service (More happy customers means higher growth and profits)
- Improved worker productivity
- Practical tool for easy day-to-day operations
Sales personnel can check inventory availability while on the road and respond to customers with current information. Managers can evaluate stock levels and initiate replenishment orders. Administrative staff can prepare detailed tally reports for domestic shipments and exports.
Throughout your organization, Sierra Stock becomes a practical day-to-day tool for accessing information and moving business processes forward efficiently.
Who Uses Sierra Stock:
Management: Access vital information to make decisions, check inventory levels, identify life-cycle of products
Office Administrator: Prepare packing lists, shipping reports, detailed tally reports, review orders and transactions.
Sales Team: View current inventories from anywhere, on the road, at the office, on smartphone, tablet, laptop...
Operators: Inspect quantities, grades, identify, locate inventories, enter/edit bundles, print barcoded labels
Sierra Stock Features:
Cloud Application: It's a web application to manage your lumber inventory from anywhere, including your warehouse or yard, on any device, tablet, pc, or laptop.
Real-Time: Data is available in real-time, bundles and tallies are uploaded directly from mobile devices.
Multi-Platform: Runs on your tablet, smartphone, laptop, and desktop PC
Mobile Integration: Sierra DigiTally Mobile data integrates with Sierra Stock Lumber Inventory
Manage Lumber Inventory: Review, edit, manage lumber packs and tally data
Search: Detailed search by species, grades, thickness, dimensions and quantities
Reports: Detailed tally reports, pack reports, packing lists, shipments, transactions, and more...
Your Logo: Include your company logo on reports
Labels: Print bar-coded labels to your standard printer for basic labeling needs.
Transactions: Create Shipments, Orders, Pick, and other transactions
Export Data: Data can be exported to Microsoft Excel, reports can be saved as PDF
Integrate: Integrate data with Accounting/ERP systems
Multiple Units of Measure: Imperial (Board-Feet) and Metric (cubic meters, mm and cm) units
Multi-lingual: Available in English, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, and Turkish. Can be translated to language of choice.
Sierra Stock and Sierra DigiTally products are designed and built specifically for the lumber and wood products industries; generic software applications that list "lumber" as one of many sectors their software happens to serve, may require you to adapt to general practices without regard to the requirements of your business and without recognizing lumber/wood as a major resource in commerce.
We encourage our new customers to explore Sierra Stock and Sierra DigiTally system capabilities to compare, we offer live demos, and we're ready to address your specific challenges, want to understand your objectives. Please reach out to us, we look forward to receiving your inquiry: Contact Us
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