Inventorying systems

[OhYou_]

I have had decent success at my company implementing and using InvenTree to track consumables that I purchase for work. 
Despite the system being designed for manufacturing, I have been able to adapt my use case to it with almost no downsides. 

But after my finding of success in this, my company would like to begin tracking inventory of other departments that do purchasing. 

The downside of using software in ways it is not designed for is that there is lots of training involved in particularly low skill users.

And another downside is this specific app has usability issues if scaled to multiple users and their own respective warehouses. 

 

So, I was just wondering first off, what inventory management system does LMG use? And after that, what other inventory management systems are out there that you lot use and like? I'd prefer FOSS but the option is open to any system with in perpetuity licensing.

[Needfuldoer]

13 minutes ago, OhYou_ said:

So, I was just wondering first off, what inventory management system does LMG use?

They've gotten Merch Messages about this, and I think Luke said it's Snipe-IT with custom plug-ins written by the Floatplane team.

 

https://snipeitapp.com/

[manikyath]

11 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

with custom plug-ins

this is probably more noteworthy than the exact system used.

 

the thing about inventory management is that every usecase is unique in at least one detail, so to have a system that can operate without (human) error, you essentially need customization wether you want it or not.

 

also, key detail (that one of my previous employers missed outright, and it was infuriating AF..) is that "consumables" are inventorized very different from "products". think "inventorizing a pound of sand" versus "inventorizing 7 bricks."

[OhYou_]

Yeah I can see where detailed customization comes into play. 
 

but my usage is very basic.
it is just pure tracking, create an item in the system, slap a qr code on the physical item, scan it and assign that code to the created item, then mark down (or scan) where it is currently. 
if it moves, I scan the code on the physical item to bring it up in the system and then scan it into the new location or create/manually move the location. if it gets consumed, I scan the qr and click sell to sell it to either the name of the employee or the machine that consumed it. 

The other departments will have similar use cases, but they will be doing a lot more "selling" which the current InvenTree phone app does not support and requires a bit of manual process. the app used to make it easier and it could have worked out but they updated the ui and removed many critical features, so I may be forced to move away from it.