S4 EP10 - Effective Purchasing Management

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our senior consultant Robb Delprado, a BC/NAV subject-matter expert, trainer, and champion member of the New View Strategies team, shares a new success story of an organization he's assisted. Despite the company doing a great job on the implementation and moving to go live, they faced issues with their year-end inventory. They struggled with why they couldn't delete old purchase orders. Tune in to learn how they achieved a breakthrough in improving processes, particularly in purchasing and procurement.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Essential points covered in this episode:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">✔️ It can be highly frustrating to encounter errors and not know what to do about them just as everything's going great with your BC/NAV system. The systematic way to solve this is ensuring that people train upfront as part of the onboarding process or take refresher training.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">✔️ Managing the expected receipt date on those purchase orders is the tiny field that makes a big difference. In today's environment, where vendors have much longer lead times than anticipated, that impacts the sales side, too, because the people placing sales orders think that the inventory or the equipment will arrive sooner than it probably will. Managing the expected receipt date on those purchase orders will get a better timing for your availability. It also lets the sales staff know when they're putting the orders in review availability. A big thing these days is a lead time on purchase orders and making sure you're current. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">✔️ Users can do the darndest things due to lack of training, creating future issues that could have been 100% preventable in the first place. Catch problems before they happen and dodge possible errors and inventory hits by getting experts to help you assess purchasing and procurement processes and evaluate where you are today.</span></p> <p><span style="font