Automate & Integrate Your Inventory
Everyone knows that the items you sell need to be tracked, but so do the items you use, lend and repair. Where most inventory systems only handle the stock that you receive and sell, SchoolVision helps to manage everything in one system: From ingredients in your dining hall, to parking passes in the security office, to loaner laptops while your customer’s laptop is in for repair.
Tablet-Centric Inventory Counting
Tablets with a barcode scanner remain the most efficient, cost-effective way to count inventory. That’s why SchoolVision includes an inventory counting system designed just for tablets. You could spend more on a handheld computer that just does inventory. Instead, when you’re done counting for the day, the SchoolVision inventory tablet can be docked to act as an extra point of sale terminal or can be a roving point of sale station to reduce the waiting time in line or to lookup items for consumers.
Scheduled Cycle Counts
To optimize your efforts, Cycle Counts calculate how often an item is sold, used or shrunk with how often it is counted. Unfortunately, Cycle Counts are often hard to plan and most stores revert to a count by line, by department or a once-in-a-while whole store count. No more! When you set up the Cycle Count system in SchoolVision, specify how often you want each type of product counted (by month, quarter, year, etc.) and how many hours you have per day of the week to count inventory, and voila – SchoolVision delivers you a new Cycle Count schedule for each day, planned a month ahead of time, and sends the daily count list by email or to the inventory count tablet interface. When your inventory count person starts their day, they just need to count the items on their tablet. And, you’ll know that every item you need to count is being counted as often as its sales and usage warrants.
Automated Target Setting
Take your inventory to the next level with automated target setting for each item. It not only replenishes the stock you need, but integrates the demands of incoming students, the schedule of school events and holidays, seasonality and perish-ability to optimize your days-in-stock and your Gross Margin Return On Investment (GMROI).
Student & Staff Bills of Materials & Kits
Schools are uniquely able to predict demand for certain items like textbooks & course supplies based on the upcoming quarter/semester enrollments by program, course and activity. Through SchoolVision’s integration with leading Student Information Systems (SIS), SchoolVision can match each student’s enrollment to the predicted demand for each item their courses require. Further, kits for specialized programs like nursing can be pre-assembled from items before students arrive to purchase them. Then it’s just one bundle package, at a bundled price, keeps the inventory of each item intact, but only requires a single product lookup at the point of sale.
Vendor-Optimized Ordering & Receiving
With recent shipping delays and cost overruns, you need an inventory system now more then ever that understands availability and matches your product needs by calculating how long it will take your vendor to ship them, freight costs, and minimum order amounts, all while keeping your overstock and vendor return costs as low as possible.
Warehouse & Multi-Channel
When you have more than one location, youor inventory complexity multiplies. Warehousing for multiple locations can help ease overstocking and lower costs by buying in bulk but only if the customer can find the product on the shelf. Wouldn’t it be nice if your software knew which products you should warehouse, which you should direct ship to your stores, when and in what quantity? SchoolVision can. When one store has too much and one has too little, wouldn’t it be nice if the computer automatically setup a transfer order for you? SchoolVision can. Want to always know when an out-of-stock item is coming in? With SchoolVision you will.
e-Commerce Shipping & Curbside Pick-Up
With an Amazon-fueled, Covid-aware retail world, your customers expect online ordering to be seamless and contact-less pick-up to be quick and accurate. SchoolVision turns these new demands into potential profit-centers by integrating fulfillment packing ticketing, intelligent up-selling, in-the-box “bounce back” discounts, and automatic fulfillment integration with shipping services, to ensure your customers keep buying from you with all the benefits they have come to expect.
Educational Discounts & Software Compliance
Compliance doesn’t end with financial aid or accounting: Purchasing and fulfillment need to stay aware and enforce the latest standards from software providers like Microsoft & Adobe and educational discounts from manufacturers like Apple & Dell. With direct integration to leading compliance management services and integrated SIS-powered identification checking, you will stay compliant and never turn qualified business away.
Bundles, Clearance & Promotions
When you have too much of a given item, or its seasonal demand window has passed, vendor returns are often not an option. Rather, your inventory management system should alert you and suggest promotions to help clear out the inventory. By identifying those items that are consumable, bundles of multiple items at a discount can drive higher demand. Clearance of those items nearing their pull date or end-of-shelf space should also be automated to encourage buyers even off-season.
e-Commerce-Aware Shelf-Tags
Shoppers are always comparison shopping and many stay hyper-informed about not just price but ingredients, specifications, and all the other details of an item. Whether customers are in-store or online, SchoolVision presents them with a QR-code-enabled shelf-tag system that is continually updated to match the current prices and give all the information they are looking for along with promotions and upsells. The system designs can turn the pickiest consumer into your biggest fan. With SchoolVision’s automatic scheduling engine, all new shelf tags will be emailed every morning to the stores email box and be ready to print. SchoolVision also integrates electronic shelf-tag systems to provide over-the-air updates as well.
Integrated Barcode Printing
When an item is received or when an inventory stock count is taken, SchoolVision can automatically generate barcode labels for those items that are identified as needing or allowing barcode labels to be affixed. This automation helps confirm that the receiving or stock-take count is accurate because the number of labels printed should match the physical units in hand. SKUs are also less likely to fluctuate for the same product when a manufacturer changes product packaging for size or season, for example, because your SchoolVision generated barcode will be the same number while the UPC code on the box many change. With perishable or limited time items, SchoolVision’s labels visually indicate when an item was received to easily remove those items that are out-of-date from the shelf to be sold at a discount or returned to the vendor.