BB Inc., Brand & Business Incubator

There are eight of us that use Acctivate on a daily basis including warehousing, sales, and customer service. Then we have the accounting department who use it for purchasing orders from vendors and to invoice the sales orders.
We also have a couple of interns here trying to clean up old contacts and customers in the database and doing reporting.”

For a particular company, they use interchangeable parts. They have items that can fit different components: one item will use three different parts. Because of Acctivate, we know what to pick: it tells us the three components to make the item.”

Acctivate is almost foolproof. Inventory previously in Access was pretty much manual – you had to update. With Access and Excel, there was a lot of room for human error. Acctivate eliminates a lot of that human error.
Without Acctivate, there is no way we would be able to run this particular company. If we were still doing it through Access or Excel, there would be no way to manage the company.”

Lot number control is essential because we have medical companies. Lot numbers are regulated by the FDA. A lot number is essential due to the fact if there’s a recall. If there is a bad lot, all that lot has to come back.
We also use lot numbers in a different way for the tooling companies. We use the lot number as locations on the shelf.”

We used to use Act! for CRM. I have been telling the company for years, “I don’t know why you use Act! because Acctivate can do the same thing,” Beta said.