Comments on: Apparel (Matrix) Inventory

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:03:24 +0000

I cant wait for QB matrix any longer. Who has an apparel program that works and what is it? Thank you.

By: Jessie

Jessie — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:46:25 +0000

@Harlan, I have a client that needs a QB inventory add on for matrix inventory, and was considering AIMS. I just spoke to them, and they said it was a hosted solution, but you mention it running on DOS?

Are you on an older version of it? Has anyone found a solution, or worked with any other QB add-ons for the garment/apparel industries?

By: Harlan

Harlan — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 06:49:48 +0000

All- I have a manufacturing company (which I just bought). The previous owners used an antiquated system called AIMS, which runs on DOS. IT WORKS for what you are asking for – all sizes for one style on one line!

It creates Sales Orders, Pick Tickets, Invoices, and allows Payment Postings. However, its not an accounting software, and it only prints to XPS writer which you have to buy something like Able2Extract just to get the data into excel.

By: Chris Nelson

Chris Nelson — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:00:18 +0000

Oh my God! This is what I absolutely need and why I found you. Searching for a program I can use for oder entry that allows me to do as you mention. I will drop QB if necessary to get a program that allows me to enter order by size across the line, rather than a separate line for each size!

If anyone knows where I can ge this, PLEASE let me know!

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:10:34 +0000

Greg, usually when we look at matrix inventory in a QuickBooks realm we look at QuickBooks Point of Sale. POS handles a matrix inventory.

There aren’t good options in QuickBooks itself because of the limitations of the inventory system. Coming up with a workaround in QB, if you rely on the inventory structure it uses, is a bit of a pain.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:47:31 +0000

I’m currently consulting with a fairly large print shop in which they currently are using a custom color/size matrix we bolted on to a low end accounting system close to 12 years ago. Now we are looking to transition them to something more robust. I was going to write this in this thread to find out if there had every been a strong solution in Quickbooks. Specifically we would need color/size matrix for at least 20-30 colors and full range of sizes from child to 6x+. As we had already built an ‘acceptable’ color/size matrix on a rather low end accounting project we are now considering quickbooks for that addon. If there is enough demand… this maybe something we would write that we could offer to others and reduce the capital costs of our primary client. Regardless I would be interested in discussing solutions and determine what the best path forward would be.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:59:17 +0000

Mena, either upgrade to Premier, or consider using Group items instead. http://qbblog.ccrsoftware.info/2008/06/groups-vs-assemblies/

By: Mena

Mena — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:23:45 +0000

Hi Charlie,

i have purchased QB Pro 2010 for my t-shirt printing comapny. As i am entering the data into the software i realized there is no option for BOM. What do i do?

help

Thank you

By: brianpnicus

brianpnicus — Fri, 07 May 2010 18:23:09 +0000

Just came across this issue and I felt I should share my input to handle this the easiest way. My company has a very complex inventory model but to avoid explaing my setup in great lengths, let me tell you the solution. We decided the best way to handle inventory like on this post is to use a 128 Bacode which is Alphanumeric and have this on all items. This would be a concatenation of style/color/size and as such will make every SKU unique. Then place this barcode under a care/content label on the garment so your customers don’t scan it by accident. But this is what the warehouse should scan to record inventory under and then you will have accurate inventory count and is not held down by prepacks and any type of variations..

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:31:20 +0000

Thanks for the info, and let us know how it goes. Note that the QuickBooks POS system, which integrates with QuickBooks, also supports a matrix inventory of its own.