Coventry Plumbing & Heating plugs stock gaps with Solarsoft

Andy Harris, project manager at Coventry Plumbing, explains that its depots in Canley, Coventry and Nuneaton can now identify best selling products and achieve more competitive pricing, with the dashboards presenting relevant information in real time. Harris cites sales and stock analysis, supplier price and delivery performance, and credit and cash flow forecasts. "Solarsoft Dashboards brings clarity and precision to management decision-making, enabling us to monitor stock levels far more effectively across all three of our depots," he says. "We can also identify trends in customer spending and adjust our stock levels to ensure we can always meet [their] needs. Previously, we weren't using reports to manage our stock, which meant we were losing sales with no understanding as to why." Importantly, he also says that the system also allows the firm to predict trends and seasonal peaks and troughs for products, "so we can ensure that we only buy the correct amount of stock at the right time, preventing us from losing money by storing large quantities of unwanted stock".