5 Benefits of Warehouse Management Systems for Businesses

Inventory Management in NetSuite

A warehouse management system (WMS) is a software application that supports the day-to-day operations in a warehouse. WMS programs enable centralized management of tasks such as tracking inventory levels and stock locations. It is the core module offered in ERP Solutions.

Let us discuss some common challenges in warehousing and how we can overcome them using our ERP Software.

  1. Maintain Inventory Accuracy:

Inventory is one of the most important assets of an organization. Inaccuracy occurs when recorded inventory does not match physical inventory. Without an automated system, companies often don’t know what they have in stock, causing inaccuracies. Inadequate visibility can lead to excess/obsolete inventory build-up or unexpected shortages.

How ERP Software will help you to maintain accurate inventory:

ERP enables you with automated WMS which helps you to generate accurate stock report and to check which stock is limited. You can compare it with what’s been selling well and get it restocked in time. It this way you can have a great inventory management system.

  1. Easily Locate Inventory:

If you do not know where your inventory is located, you may put your company at risk. Lack of inventory oversight can lead to numerous inefficiencies within the warehouse, which may potentially slow down your operations and increase cost. For example, if pickers do not know the location of the products, they will take more time to locate the products, resulting in a slow loading process and delayed shipment.

How will ERP Software help you to Track products?

ERP Software employs barcode technology under warehouse module. When a barcode scanner reads the barcode of the particular product the information is directly sent to the central computer system for tracking.
For example, a purchase order may contain a list of products to be picked for packing and shipping. The ERP Software serves a variety of functions in this case.

• It can help a worker locate the products on the order list in the warehouse,
• It can encode shipping information like tracking numbers and delivery addresses
• It can remove these purchased products from the inventory tally to keep an accurate count of in-stock products.

  1. Eliminate Redundant Processes:

Redundant warehouse processes are detrimental to the success of your warehouse. Redundant processes are not only a waste of time, but they are also damaging to your employee’s productivity. Reevaluate your current warehouse processes and streamline workflows to boost productivity rates and optimize efficiency.

How will ERP Software help to do this?

The warehouse module of ERP Software helps you to eliminate any redundant or unnecessary processes, and train your warehouse workers on any new processes or proceed

  1. Make Picking Processes More Efficient:

Every minute that is spent on finding each inventoried product can add up over the day, therefore having a major impact on operating costs. When inventory location is not organized and easily available, pickers will take longer to find items that need to be shipped. This can ultimately lead to a backup in labour.

How will ERP Software simplify picking process?

The warehouse module in ERP Software helps you to smoothly manage picking process. It helps you to find out the relevant products easily and improve your delivery services as well as the employee’s working efficiency.

  1. Better Space utilization:

Your warehouse layout matters. If you are not fully optimizing your storage systems, pallets and rack patterns, you are inviting in wasted space and warehouse inefficiencies. Inefficient warehouse layouts also cause unnecessary labour and affect productivity rates. For example, if you store high-selling inventory in the back of your warehouse, your employees will waste time driving back and forth to retrieve items. It would be more beneficial to move high-selling inventory to the front of your warehouse for quick and easy picking.

How will ERP Software help you to utilize space?

Warehouse module under ERP Software helps to improve space utilization in the warehouse. The system tells an operator where to put an item and attempts to maximize the utilization of each slot by selecting a storage location that best fits the product.

For any enquiry about ERP Solutions, contact us on sales@bistasolutions.com

 

 

Odoo Implementation for Health Care eCommerce Company

Case study

Client Profile

“Tools for Healing” a US based company, provides information to health seekers about various healing tools and techniques. They also sell medical, healthcare products on their E-commerce website.

What were the challenges Tools for Healing was facing?

Tools for Healing managed their ecommerce operations with  Solution (It allows you to create your own ecommerce store) but they were facing challenges in terms of manual product entry into the system which was time consuming, duplication of entries, delay in order shipment and warehouse management.

Why did they approach Bista Solutions?

To avoid above challenges, Tools for Healing approached Bista solutions.
Bista Solutions helped Tools for Healing with Magento website development and integrated it with Odoo. Bista Solutions has also helped them with entire customization of Odoo catering  to their business needs.

• Automated entry of order into the Odoo system
• Processed orders from warehouse management to dispatch
• Send projects to the Quality Control
• Payment getaway integration ( authroize.net ) and Strong Accounting
• Shipping integration with Odoo Implementation
• Notifying the customer about the shipment

What was the Impact on Business after Project Implementation?

The customization, Integration and development by Bista Solutions empowered “Tools for healing” to manage the eCommerce operations very smoothly and efficiently

What Tools for Healing talking about Bista Solutions?

“AWESOME JOB EVERYONE!!!!

Everything is in place, we’ve already got a couple orders, and the order flow has worked like a charm, front to back, for online orders. At this point there is no reason to think we’ll have issues with phone orders.
Can’t really ask for anything more than that. And thanks for your non-stop help with everything else as well. We’ve enjoyed working with Bista Solutions, and have been awesome.
Said by Jonathan Bouldin, the Director, Tools for Healing”

Can Bista do it for you?
Off course, Bista Solutions provides wide range of Business Applications to the leading enterprise companies. For any enquiries or any assistance, Click here or email us on sales@bistasolutions.com

How to print Label in Odoo Open Source ERP using Thermal Printer.

For Manufacturing Industry, it becomes important to generate serial numbers for manufactured goods and products.

After Manufacturing finish products, to begin with the delivery process we need to apply labels/serial numbers for each product.

Now, let us understand how we can print serial/labels in Odoo using thermal printer.

Initially, we need to connect Odoo server with printer server so that we can easily send the formatted data into Thermal printer.

Process Begins

1- After generating Labels for Finished Products, Click on Print Label which will redirect to an open wizard

When you click on ‘Print label’it will redirect to an open wizard which will ask to select thermal printer as shown below.

The Order list

Below is the syntax which you need to create for socket connection with the printer.

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

then we need to connect with printer.Syntax is-

s.connect((printername, RAW_PORT))

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Once the printer is connected you can send request for label print.

3-In the 3rd Step theOdoo will send printing request to connected printer for labels printing. (If printer is connected to server then it will print all labels as requested)

socket.send(print output)

“Printout” is formatted data that will accept by thermal printer.

Each printer has own formatted data so make sure you are send correct data to printer.
Thermal printer

For more information regarding this module, kindly contact us at sales@bistasolutions.com

How to Implement FIFO in Odoo OpenERP

Odoo OpenERP Inventory management module is especially designed for managing industrial products. Today let us understand how to manage Inventories in FMCG and Pharma Industry where we have an Expiry Date on each and every product.

In Odoo we can easily track the Inventories based on its expiry date using Odoo OpenERP Out-of-the-box module as FIFO.

This module indicates that whatever comes in first goes out first.

Let us see the Step by Step process of FIFO Module:

1. Firstly we need to make sure that whatever products we are receiving at the same time with same expiry date needs to be kept at one box or one place called as LOT. For this whenever we receive an Incoming Shipment the system assigns a particular Lot Name for each product received with their quantity. Doing this we have list of all the lots and their order in which they have arrived.

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Fig 1 : shows how a lot is assigned to a particular Incoming Shipment

2. Now the major step, though we have lots in sequence but we need to make sure that while creating Sale Order we are selecting the lot which has arrived first. If we miss this than we will not be able to achieve the complete FIFO rules and products may go out of Expiry.

For this reason OpenERP has a function called as Default Lot Selection where the lots while creating Sale Order will be automatically selected as per FIFO. Truly speaking this is a cumbersome task for user to select the right lot but now the system will be doing this for us.

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Fig 2 : shows that as we add a product in sale order and enter the quantity the system by default selects a Lot as per the FIFO.

The best part of this module is that we can also override the FIFO so if we want to select any other lot here we can simply delete this and select another one.

For implementing Odoo inventory management you can simply contact us on sales@bistasolutions.com

An Error Occurred While Handling json requests python

You might face this issue while exporting records from Odoo in a CSV.

ERROR: An error occurred while handling a json request
TypeError(‘Expected bytes’)

Don’t Panic. Here is a simple solution.

Solution:

You might be facing this because of the werkzeug version (0.9.4) which is not that stable and might cause the above problem.

To overcome this try downgrading the version to (0.8.3), you can use the following command pip install werkzeug==0.8.3.

OR

Else download the file from:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Werkzeug/0.8.3 and install it.

Thank you!

For more assistance or for an Odoo consultation, message us using our enquiry form.

Bista Solutions becomes partner with Jaspersoft

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Bista Solutions Inc. has partnered with Jaspersoft, a leading BI solution to provide BI, Reporting Dashboards, Data warehousing, Ireport, Talend (ETL), R analytics, Mondrian OLAP analysis and other modules.

Bista Solutions has expertise and have delivered BI solutions for various verticals such as retail, eCommerce, HealthCare, Telecom and Manufacturing.

Mr. Pradip Kulkarni, Chairman of Bista Solutions said, Jaspersoft tie-up is very great achievement for Bista solutions. Our technical domain expertise and Jaspersoft Platform together will help enterprise companies to get better insights in their business.

About Bista Solutions,

Bista Solutions is the first ISO 9001 and HIPPA Compliant certified Partner of Jaspersoft, We are also Gold Partners for Odoo (Open source ERP) in USA and silver partner for Canada and India region. We also provide Cloud ERP, Business Process management, Big data, and other industry specific Business Solutions

About Jaspersoft,

Jaspersoft is a leading Open source Business intelligence solutions, with more than 8 million downloads worldwide and more than 10,000 commercial customers in 96 countries.Organizations want timely, well-informed decision-making, in operational settings and in the corner office—no matter what their mix of platforms, applications, or infrastructure environments. Jaspersoft’s modular, scalable, standards-based solution architecture provides the flexibility needed to easily deploy in any environment. Jaspersoft offers Business Intelligence Tools that can span your enterprise.

Odoo eCommerce Features – Version 8

Usually eCommerce website is created within “days” or sometimes it may even across few “months”, but have you ever imagine creating your own ecommerce website within few minutes without any technical expertise?

Yes! You can.

Now create your awesome online e-commerce stores instantly with Odoo eCommerce.
Now you might be excited to know how you can create instant online Odoo eCommerce store and to answers you’re the all questions; let me run through the features of Odoo website builder.

Features of Odoo eCommerce:

Odoo e-commerce allows you to create awesome product Catalog along with product description. The features are highly scalable for any system integrations and superb customizable.

Watch Video to quickly understand the Odoo Open source eCommerce website, Builder.

Design, Create stunning Product Pages.

Simple Drag and Drop designed interface enhance you to create stunning product pages. Whether you want to replace the product or change the price? Or Highlight the descriptions, create discount offers? A single click can do all your work.

Odoo-ecommerce

Each order can increase your Revenue.

The cross-selling feature of Odoo eCommerce helps you to offer other products similar to what customer has put in his cart. The cross-selling algorithm of Odoo allows you to display the related products while purchasing which can lead to up selling income.

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Analyze your Performance with Google Analytics

Track your Business performance with Google Analytics integration with Odoo e-commerce. Easily count website impressions, call to actions and clicks.

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• Target Any Languages and Multi Languages

The Odoo e-commerce languages translate features allows you to translate languages automatically with a click. When you change any part of the website for any language it gets automatically updated within 32 hours.

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• Your Website Your Taste

You can change your Odoo e-commerce online stores to any layout or any colour which you want. You can easily customize your store with Drag and Drop interface and pick up any colour which you want to paint on your online store.

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• Emphasize the Best Products

Easy to fine-tune your Catalog and highlight the best product along with discounts, special offers. You can set grid and list view as per your need.

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• ORM and SEO Tools

Search, find out and identify new customers with the help of dedicated keywords which are mostly used on Google search using keyword research tool in Odoo e-commerce.

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Managing eCommerce Operations

Odoo e-commerce helps you to manage your e-commerce operation with Odoo open source ERP, You can simply integrate your warehouse, shipping, and payment getaway services. You can also manage your network and distributors; allot them access to your resellers. The geo-localization feature helps you to forward leads to resellers.

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About Odoo (OpenERP)
Odoo is best leading open source ERP Solutions Company, It has reached strength of nearly 2,000,000 users and after launching the latest version of Odoo 8 the fortune 50,000 companies are using Odoo OpenERP for their Business growth.

About Bista Solutions
Bista Solutions is the fastest growing business Solutions Company. We are the only ISO certified Gold partners for Odoo in US region, Silver partners in Canada and India. We are also HIPPA Compliant. We have strong strength of more than 70 offshore developers in India who are experts in Odoo customization, Implementation and Integration.

For Any Enquiries please contact us on sales@bistasolutions.com or Dial (404) 631-6219.

Watch Christina Barea and Todd Sellers interview Kedar Joshi, Solution Architect at Bista, on how Bista has helped companies with eCommerce solutions:

How To Take Automated Backups of Your Odoo Database.

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Database Auto Backup module is basically used for creating database backup at a regular interval automatically. It is performed at a scheduled time which needs to be mentioned at the time of configuring the module.

Steps for configuring the Module:

1) After installing the module, will have to create a scheduler.

For eg. (for Ver. 8.0) Go to Settings > Automation > Scheduled Actions. (as shown below)

Odoo Implementation

Following things needs to be taken care while configuring the scheduler:

i) Interval Number: It indicates interval time between the next backup schedule run.

ii) Interval Unit: It works in combination with the Interval number as it contains the unit for interval for eg. In the above snapshot the interval time is set for 5 minutes.

iii) Next Execution Date: It carries the next run time along with the dates, While configuring for the first time we have to set the time from here.

iv) Number of Calls: It indicates the number of times the schedule action will happen, Its recommended to keep a negative value (eg. -1), so that it runs infinite times without being stopped.

v) Repeat Missed checkbox needs to be kept unchecked.

vi) Under Technical Data tab, set the value for ‘Object’ to ‘db.backup’ and ‘Function’ to ‘schedule_backup’.

2) Configure Backup:

Go to Settings > Configure Backup (as shown below).

Odoo Customisation

Following things needs to be taken care while configuring the Backup:

i) Host: It should be set to localhost or the appropriate host name.

ii) Database: Mention the name of the database which needs to be backup.

iii) Port: Mention the appropriate port number.

iv) Backup Directory: Mention the location of the directory where the backup files needs to be stored on the system.

Note: Make sure the destination directory has full rights, to avoid permission issues. Once all the configuration is done, the backup will be executed at its scheduled time and a .sql file would be available at the mentioned location.

If you want assistance with this or are looking for consultations regarding Odoo implementation, you can get in touch using our contact form.

New GUI Odoo ERP Customization by Bista Solutions Inc

This time Bista is proud to customize and Improve Odoo ERP Design with GUI, this customized GUI web- based interface for Odoo ERP allows users to experience an awesome visualized and appealing user interface to increase the user’s perception of Odoo ERP usefulness, ease of use and efficiency.

Bista has successfully completed the refreshment of UI design over the Traditional Odoo interface for the US based Customer “Elemental Wellness”. Elemental Wellness is medical cannabis collective in San Jose.

Bista is working on on-going customization for Elemental Wellness, and this project is still in the development phase.

Let’s check, How the Odoo interface was before the GUI customization ?

UI Odoo Interface Customisation

After the customisation

GUI Customisation of Odoo ERP

Can Bista Solution Implement GUI with Our Odoo?

Yes, Bista solutions has the intelligences to implement any GUI design with Odoo ERP, If you’re doing for any customizations, implementation or any integrations you can email us on sales@bistasolutions.com, Click Here

Successful Odoo Migration 7 to 8 Version

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FocusPDM, a California based custom product design and manufacturing company had been using Odoo 7.0 and wanted to customize Odoo as per their business processes.

After vetting many Odoo partners they chose Bista Solutions Inc. Bista suggested doing an upgrade to Odoo 8.0 before doing any further customizations. Bista successfully migrated their code and data from Odoo 7.0 to Odoo 8.0 and has started working on the needed customizations.

“I really truly do appreciate all your hard work! You guys have gone above and beyond to get this working well for us. I’m really looking forward to the next phase where we can start customizing Odoo! “

Alex Tramie, Operation Manager – FocusPDM

 

Can Bista solutions do it for you?

Off course, Yes! For Odoo implementation, customisation, migration and integration you can email us at sales@erpincloud.com, or simply call us on 404 631 6219.

About FocusPDM: Focus Product Design is a turnkey product design and engineering firm located in Menlo Park, CA, in the heart of the Silicon Valley. FocusPDM brings innovation to life for Fortune 500, entrepreneur and start-up customers in the Silicon Valley and beyond.
http://www.focuspdm.com/

About Bista Solutions Inc: Bista is a Gold partner of Odoo for US, Silver for Canada and India. Bista is also partners with Jasper Soft and ProcessMaker. They are an ISO 9001 certified company and specialize in implementing, customizing and integrating Odoo and other enterprise applications.
www.bistasolutions.com