does anyone know of a small program that can be used, by a couple who make ceramics, to keep track of their product line - production, sales, raw materials etc. Preferably something that has already been set up along these lines for arts/crafts people.
thanks
plain old excell or lotus could be set up to do that function. it basically is a computer paper tablet.
whatever method you use by hand can be helped with a spreadsheet program.
i used an excell spreadsheet to review what i CAN make, what the build rate should be, scrap rates, etc, and correlate this to what the selling price should be, and whether it would be worth while bothering to make certain products. it was very helpful in showing me that while i can make a bunch of things, it's not always prudent to bother SELLING all these things...
i'm not familiar with the low budget accounting programs available such as Quicken Books, etc. they SOUND like they should work, but i have no idea if they do or how well. or they may be slanted to a different industry instead of manufacturing.
see ya
steve
Email me off list ( snipped-for-privacy@3dogspottery.com ) and I can put something together for you. I do programming for my day job. I have a program that I wrote for myself but it is very specfic to my pottery business. Putting together an inventory/sales program usually a fairly simple process.
R> does anyone know of a small program that can be used, by a couple who make
Ron I am interested in building something in Microsoft Access or Lotus Approach, but need the fields that would be used. If you don't mind sharing the fields I can then build something for my personal use or something I could share.
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