Data Migration Eases Inventory Control

michelle — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 22:27:22 +0000

A Fair Trade retail store had been using manual inventory control due to the lack of technology. Other similar businesses had recommended a Back Office/POS System. As part of the initial implementation, the volunteers from the store would need to manually enter the bar code, product description, category, cost, vendor, prices, and quantity of every item in inventory. Many of the volunteers had little experience with computers.

We partnered with the major vendors to get files containing this data, converted the files, and imported the data into the Pervavise SQL database used by the application. This saved the volunteers many hours and also ensured accuracy of the data for the initial roll out of the system.

We learned that Fair Trade vendors are usually willing to assist with improving the efficiency of retail operations.

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Data Migration Eases Inventory Control