Belk is the nation's largest family owned and operated department store chain. The stores are mainly located in southeastern states. Belk offers mid-priced variety of brand name and also private label items such as: apparel, shoes, jewelry, cosmetics, gifts, and home furnishings. The corporation has an increase in sales and is also looking to open more locations. Belk already has 299 locations in 16 different states and is looking for a way to improve their inventory tracking systems. Lack of inventory management causes some products to go unknowingly out of stock and others to be overstocked. By not having resources to analyze inventory movements, the company will make decisions that do not maximize our return. Another downside Belk is trying to avoid is customer …show more content…
We cannot predict when the stock levels will reach our preset reorder point, but when it does reach that level, we need to be able to send an order immediately. Belk warehouse managers also need to be able to periodically check stock levels when they are not at the warehouse. We must also be able to search for a specific item by barcode or category at any given time. Zoho would allow us to see all of these things with its mobile application and cloud / web based storage. Vend also has a cloud / web based storage system, and using mobile application. Square Up does not use the cloud to store information and charts, but they do you the web. Square also offers mobile application. Fishbowl Warehouse offers something more than the other three companies. Fishbowl Warehouse integrates with Xero, a Web-based accounting solution for businesses. This integration ensures that all orders and updates made in Fishbowl Warehouse are automatically recorded in your accounting solution (Fishbowl, ). This feature would be very helpful to our company. They offer a web based storage system and mobile application as