Excellent inventory control is vital to the health of your business, and tracking your inventory effectively is key to maintaining good customer service and manageable stock levels. Prophet 21's strong inventory management capabilities help you meet service levels without investing too many valuable dollars in stock.

Plus, it's the nature of the industry: certain items go in and out of style or are regularly replaced by newer, more innovative products. Prophet 21 tracks customer buying trends, so you always know which thermostats are most popular. This helps ensure that you keep the right items on your shelves at the right time - and reduces the chance of today's investment becoming tomorrow's dead stock.

Activant also understands that the HVAC business is very seasonal. Your customers buy air conditioners in the spring and summer and heating units in the fall and winter.

Prophet 21 helps you to turn inventory before it goes out of season. For example, when the solution produces POs for September, it uses the previous year's historical data to create orders for seasonal items - instead of producing reports based on previous months' usages.

As a result, even though you may have sold 2,000 air conditioning units during the months of June, July, and August, the solution doesn't recommend that you order a similar quantity for September, October, and November - ensuring that 800 air conditioners are not sitting on your shelves in the middle of February.

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