Business Challenge

Projects after projects, we heard our clients telling us how challenging it is to have all users inputting correct data into the database, or sharing with us stories about how field office workers who have been entering data correctly for years and created this data mess today, which is excruciatingly tedious to rectify.

As we all know, a system or database is only as good as its data; that being said, we as technologists will all have to share some of that responsibility. One thing that developers, sometimes even seasoned developers, often overlook is putting together an interface from the perspective of users, beyond just form validation.

Habitually, developers look at the data from a database perspective and understand how data should be inserted which is usually not as intuitive to business users. Common complaints include users having to go through a series of screens before they can key in relevant data, users being concerned if information is stored correctly as data, or they are unaware of repeat mistakes until results show up a quarterly or annual reports, etc.

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PCG Inventory Management Framework

Based on our extensive experience dealing with manufacturers, distributors, or just all the other companies having a need to track their inventory, we discovered having a canned solution might be quick but a lot of times either the quality is absent or the software is simply not fit for their business. Every product across industries has different attributes and usually that also comes with a unique way of counting or cataloging. Besides that, the way quotes, sales orders, purchase orders are handled are subtly different. Not to mention order fulfillment, RMAs, inventory tracking, security management, and all the related pieces in a complete inventory solution.

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