Automotive parts inventory management systems
- Inventory turns a year
- 4.0
- Days of stock on hand
- 91
- Weeks of stock on hand
- 13.0
Every figure on this page is computed from the inputs entered, by the method stated below it. Binstockly publishes no catalogue, no interchange table, no fitment data and no target margin: the usage, the lead times, the costs and the prices are yours, and the defaults are a worked example to replace with your own figures.
Automotive parts inventory management systems come in three shapes and the gap between them is money, not features. The first is a spreadsheet, which does the arithmetic perfectly well and fails as a record the moment two people touch it or you need to know what a part cost eighteen months ago. The second is a standalone parts inventory system: it keeps the parts, bins, counts and reorders, produces the four figures that matter and costs tens of dollars a month. The third is a full jobber system with a licensed catalog, interchange numbers, vehicle fitment and electronic ordering into distributors, which costs an order of magnitude more because the parts data subscription is most of the price. All three are legitimate purchases for different operations, and the expensive mistake is buying the third to solve a problem the second solves. This guide sets out which fits which operation and what each one costs you in cash and in effort.
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Spreadsheet: right until it is not
It computes everything on this site for free. It stops being enough when more than one person edits it, when you need the history of a part's cost and price, or when the count and the live stock figure drift apart because two versions exist.
Standalone parts inventory: the shelf, kept
Parts with bins, counts with variance, reorders with lead times, suppliers, and the four figures on demand. This is where Binstockly sits, at $49 a month for the whole counter. It has no catalog and no fitment data, on purpose.
Full jobber system: the catalog is the purchase
If you sell across a counter to the public and need interchange and fitment, buy this and budget for the data subscription. Judge it on the same four figures anyway, because a catalog does not manage a shelf.
Will it do what you need for Automotive parts inventory management systems?
Tell us what your counter needs and we will tell you straight whether Binstockly Pro does it today, whether it is coming, or whether you need a full jobber system instead. A person reads these and replies.
Automotive parts inventory management systems: common questions
How do I know which one I need? Ask what goes wrong most often. If it is customers asking for a part by a competitor's number, you need the catalog. If it is running out of fast lines while cash sits in slow ones, you need the shelf kept properly, and the catalog will not help.
Can I move up later? Yes, and it is worth asking any vendor how you would get your data back out before you go in. Binstockly exports every part, count, reorder and supplier at any time and for 90 days after you cancel.
What does a system like this cost? A standalone parts inventory system is tens of dollars a month; Binstockly Pro is $49. A full jobber system with parts data is materially more, and the data subscription is usually the larger half of the bill.