Software can increase any company’s bottom line and efficiency. Many of the benefits will count toward every kind of company, but there’s one thing intrinsic to fishing supply companies. From improving employee efficiency to helping track inventory to locating shipments, software can revolutionize the operations of a company specializing in fishing supplies and equipment.
1. Keeping Track of Inventory
Depending on the size of your company, you could have hundreds, if not thousands, of lures, hooks, lines, poles, tackle boxes, and all other fishing equipment in your inventory in both your stores and storage locations. Having inventory tracking software can let you know how many of each item you have, and when you sell something, most software can adjust your inventory accordingly.
2. Keeping Track of Shipments
In the age of the internet, your company will likely have a web presence for selling your items. The customers who order online expect their items to be shipped to them. You have to be able to track each shipment, if necessary, to ensure that it gets where it’s going. Coupled with your inventory tracking software, it can also let you know when you’re getting low on rubber worms, spinner baits, or a 4-pound test line.
3. Ordering New Product
Unless you make your own fishing products, you have to be able to get a new product to replace that which you sell. Sure, you can call up “Joe the Fishing Line Producer,” but can you really spend as much time as necessary calling the folks who make the products as needed? The chances are that you cannot. Instead, having software in place that automatically orders new products based on forecasting is a great way to streamline the process.
4. Personalized Service for Your Customers
Imagine that you have a customer named Sue. Sue always fishes for trout, and she always needs a certain line and type of fly. Further, let’s say that you know Sue well, but your new employee Bob doesn’t. Sue comes in and speaks with Bob. If you have the right software, then Bob can look up Sue’s preferences and provide her with what she wants before she even has to say anything even if he doesn’t know her at all. That kind of customization for personalized service can be a real difference maker in both your customer satisfaction levels and sales numbers.
5. Giving Your Customers Fishing Information
Let’s say that the state government in your state stocks certain streams with bass. Further, let’s say that 20% of your customers are exclusively bass anglers. How cool would it be if you could tell them that the state was stocking their favorite streams, rivers, and lakes as it happens? You can use software to find out this information. Not only that, but you can also keep track of the stock of various species using software.
All of these reasons are important ways that you can use software to improve your fishing supply business. To find out ways that we can help you with such software, contact us today.