IPMax vs. Smart Inventory Planning & Optimization Comparison


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		Related Products EazyStock EazyStock is designed to remove the complexities of inventory planning and purchasing for wholesale distributors. EazyStock is a cloud-based software that is available for an affordable monthly subscription. Distributors gain access to a powerful and user-friendly system that easily connects to ERPs to provide improved demand forecasting and order purchasing recommendations. Extend your Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system easily with EazyStock to ensure you have optimized inventory levels, today and in the future. 65 Ratings Visit Website RetailEdge RetailEdge is an easy to use and feature-rich point of sale (POS) and inventory management software solution for retail businesses. RetailEdge offers multi-location support, credit card processing, website integration, mobile POS, and gift card management capabilities within a suite. The solution supports secure and mobile payments like EMV and Apple Pay and integrates with multiple e-commerce platforms for efficient order processing and price updates. RetailEdge was developed in June of 1989 to provide a powerful, flexible, full-featured POS software and hardware solution at a reasonable price that is easy to install, use, and configure, but also affordable to maintain and run. We strongly believe that a good POS solution, in addition to providing great features for a low price, must be supported well. So we have developed a strong support system that provides a backbone of local resellers and quick access to US-based Tier 3 (highest) level support. 201 Ratings Visit Website Vibe Retail Vibe Retail is a cloud-based, all-in-one retail point-of-sale (POS) and operations platform built exclusively for single-store and multi-location retailers. Unlike POS systems designed for restaurants or service businesses, Vibe Retail focuses only on retail, enabling workflows tailored to physical product sales. From a single mobile-friendly interface, retailers can manage inventory, sales, staff, customers, and suppliers across stores and warehouses in real time. Features include multi-location inventory tracking, warehouse visibility, stock transfers, product variants, serialized items, barcode printing, purchase orders, and supplier deliveries. Vibe Retail supports cards, cash, checks, gift cards, and EBT, along with retail workflows such as layaway, loyalty programs, deliveries, branded receipts, and mobile receipt printing. Integrations with Shopify and WooCommerce and 40+ real-time reports provide operational visibility and performance insights. 89 Ratings Visit Website Jesta Vision Suite In business for more than 55 years, Jesta I.S. is a global developer and provider of enterprise software solutions for retailers, e-tailers, wholesalers, and brand manufacturers specializing in apparel, footwear and hard goods. Jesta’s retail and supply chain suites are anchored by our master data foundation, which collects, manages and organizes your business data in a central repository to instantly unify your business and kickstart its digital transformation. The Vision Suite is a leading, organically engineered, cloud-based, end-to-end solution that unifies and optimizes back/front-end and supply chain operations from trade/product/demand management to merchandising ERP, Point of Sale and Order Management /Omnichannel. It eliminates the inefficiencies of disjointed applications, and provides real-time visibility of enterprise inventory, cross-channel orders, and AI-driven CRM data. It accommodates various brands, currencies, and languages. 42 Ratings Visit Website MarkMagic MarkMagic barcode label software is the easiest way to design and print the barcode labels, electronic forms, reports, and RFID tags you need to communicate with your customers and suppliers. MarkMagic is the barcoding software engine inside the most popular warehouse and retail inventory management software in the industry such as Manhattan Associates, Oracle, Infor, United Rentals, Honeywell Intelligrated, Apparel Business Systems, Varsity Logistics, and VAI. Powerful and easy to use, once you try MarkMagic, you’ll see why thousands of software vendors and customers worldwide rely on the software to create their business-critical documents. 48 Ratings Visit Website KORONA POS Developed by COMBASE, KORONA POS offers innovative point of sale software with unique features built for retailers, ticketing and event operations, and quick-service restaurants and cafes. The subscription service includes automatic updates, 24/7 in-house customer support, and zero contracts, fees, or surcharges. With KORONA POS, businesses get an array of features to improve operations and increase efficiency and insight. Detailed reporting, inventory analysis, product performance, promotions, loyalty, employee management, vast integrations, multi-store management, online retail and ticketing, hardware options, and credit card processing options are just a handful of the point of sale features that make KORONA POS the fastest-growing POS solution in the U.S. Learn more by setting up a no-commitment free trial or scheduling a product demo. Your dedicated product specialist will walk you through each feature your business will use to succeed. 228 Ratings Flowlens Flowlens - built by a small business, designed for small businesses. Flowlens is end-to-end business management software designed specifically for growing SME manufacturers around the world. Whether you’re scaling production, managing complex supply chains, or improving customer service, Flowlens brings your people, processes, and data together in one connected platform. With Flowlens, you can: • Centralize your business information in one secure, cloud-based system • Manage customers, suppliers, and inventory with complete visibility • Streamline production and capacity planning • Automatically identify stock shortages and create purchase orders • Handle multi-level BOMs and production routings with ease • Manage unlimited SKUs across your product lines • Maintain traceability and quality compliance • Control multi-site and multi-level stock operations • Deliver exceptional after-sales service with full product history • Integrate seamlessly with Xero, QuickBooks and Sage. 39 Ratings Visit Website Runit RealTime Cloud Established in 1992 in NYC, Runit is THE cloud-based Retail Management and Point of Sale (POS) system for high-end apparel, footwear, sporting goods and gift retail chains. Combining a flexible platform with highly personalized 24x7 service, we will enable you to integrate processes across your stores, warehouses, websites and third party online channels. Whether your chain is comprised of three stores, fifty stores or more, Runit RealTime Cloud will adapt with you as it helps you streamline ordering, distribution, customer experience, payments and e-commerce integration. Runit RealTime Cloud is available for PC, Mac and iPad, giving you plenty of options to leverage hardware you already have. Available on an affordable month-to-month subscription basis (which includes all support), our depth of experience and flexible platform is well within reach, even when budgets are tight. We do not require long-term commitments or hefty upfronts. Request a customized demo today! 25 Ratings Visit Website Odoo Odoo is a fully integrated, customizable, open-source software packed with hundreds of expertly designed business applications. Odoo’s intuitive database is able to meet a majority of business needs, such as: CRM, Sales, Project, Manufacturing, Inventory, and Accounting, just to name a few. Odoo is an all-in-one software solution designed to meet the needs of companies, regardless of their size (or budget). The unbeatable, seamless nature of Odoo helps businesses become more efficient by reducing redundant manual processes, which helps companies save countless hours of labor. Every module is interconnected to provide a fully-integrated experience from app to app, and users can automate many processes that would’ve otherwise required manual inputs into multiple applications. Odoo keeps all business functions in one place, allowing teams to collaborate with other departments from one unified platform in the most efficient way possible. 1,714 Ratings Visit Website Fishbowl Fishbowl is the #1 selling manufacturing and warehouse management software for QuickBooks. Designed for small and medium-sized businesses, including manufacturers, distributors, and service providers, Fishbowl gives businesses the flexibility to stay within the QuickBooks platform for accounting while seamlessly integrating advanced inventory features with it. It also offers multi-location tracking, work orders, bills of materials, barcoding, shipping, auto reorder points, and integrations with EDI, shopping carts, merchant services, and other business solutions. If you are looking for an affordable inventory management solution that can help your business take advantage of the latest technology to streamline operations and save time and money, Fishbowl is a great option. 1,141 Ratings Visit Website
About Profit Optimized Store Replenishment applies a sophisticated economic model that analyzes demand patterns, inventory costs, margin, case pack size, lead times, and other supply chain parameters to determine the inventory level that maximizes profitability. We offer a replenishment solution that automatically determines the level of inventory that will maximize your profitability. There are no upfront software license fees, hardware hosting costs, or staff training expenses. Profit-optimized replenishment starts accruing benefits from day one. We deliver hundreds of millions of reorderpoints to our clients every week, including some of the largest retailers in the world. There are lots of ways to set inventory levels for the items you carry in your omni retail environment. But if you aren’t using 4R, those methods all involve some serious guess-work.	About Smart Software is a leading provider of demand planning, inventory optimization and supply chain analytics solutions headquartered in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1981 Smart has helped thousands of customers plan for future demand utilizing industry-leading statistical analytics. Smart Inventory Planning & Optimization (IP&O) is the company’s next-generation suite of native web applications, helping inventory carrying organizations reduce inventory, improve service levels and streamline Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning. Smart IP&O, hosted on Amazon Web Services, is a Digital Supply Chain Platform driving three applications: demand planning, inventory optimization, and dashboard reporting. Smart IP&O functions as a transparent extension of our customers’ ERP systems of choice, receiving daily transaction data and returning forecasts and inventory policy values to drive replenishment and production planning.
Platforms Supported Windows Not Supported Mac Not Supported Linux Not Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Not Supported iPad Not Supported Android Not Supported Chromebook Not Supported	Platforms Supported Windows Supported Mac Supported Linux Supported Cloud Supported On-Premises Not Supported iPhone Supported iPad Supported Android Supported Chromebook Not Supported
Audience Companies searching for an inventory control solution	Audience Businesses that want to increase the return on their inventory assets using demand forecasting and optimization
Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported	Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported
API Offers API Not Supported	API Offers API Not Supported
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Pricing No information available. Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Not Supported	Pricing No information available. Free Version Not Supported Free Trial Not Supported
Reviews/Ratings Overall 0.0 / 5 ease 0.0 / 5 features 0.0 / 5 design 0.0 / 5 support 0.0 / 5 This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review: Review this Software	Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 5.0 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews
	Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros Built in integration to the ERP. Responsiveness of company to add functionality that was needed. Easy export/import capabilities. Cons Length of time needed to tweak functionality to match our requirements, but I appreciate the responsiveness and willingness to do that.
Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Not Supported In Person Not Supported	Training Documentation Supported Webinars Supported Live Online Supported In Person Supported
Company Information 4R Systems United States 4rsystems.com/solutions/store-replenishment/	Company Information Smart Software Founded: 1981 United States smartcorp.com
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Categories Inventory Control Supported	Categories AI Manufacturing Supported Billing and Provisioning Supported Business Plan Supported Data Analysis Supported Data Warehouse Supported Demand Planning Supported Healthcare CRM Supported Inventory Control Supported Inventory Management Supported Machine Learning Supported Manufacturing Analytics Supported Manufacturing Intelligence Supported Marketing Planning Supported Medical Inventory Supported Operations Management Supported Purchasing Supported Sales Forecasting Supported Sales Intelligence Supported Strategic Planning Supported Supply Chain Management Supported Warehouse Management Supported
Inventory Control Features Allocation Supported Barcoding Not Supported Cost Tracking Supported Forecasting Supported Item Management Not Supported Order Management Not Supported Procurement Management Not Supported Reorder Management Not Supported Serial Number Tracking Not Supported SKU / UPC Codes Not Supported Supplier Management Not Supported	Inventory Control Features Allocation Not Supported Barcoding Not Supported Cost Tracking Not Supported Forecasting Supported Item Management Not Supported Order Management Supported Procurement Management Not Supported Reorder Management Not Supported Serial Number Tracking Not Supported SKU / UPC Codes Not Supported Supplier Management Not Supported Show More Features Billing and Provisioning Features Billing & Invoicing Not Supported Carrier Access Billing Not Supported Contract Management Supported Customer Accounts Not Supported Customizable Billing Not Supported Flexible Rate Tables Not Supported Internet Not Supported Order Management Not Supported Post-Paid Systems Not Supported Pre-Paid Systems Not Supported Provisioning Not Supported Rating Not Supported Self Service Portal Not Supported Service Order System Not Supported VoIP Not Supported Business Plan Features Business Plan Templates Supported Collaboration Supported Dashboard Supported Financial Projections Not Supported Financial Templates Not Supported Fundraising Management Not Supported Investor Management Not Supported Pitch Presentation Not Supported Social Sharing Not Supported Step-by-Step Wizard Not Supported Demand Planning Features Capacity Planning Supported Data Visualization Supported Historical Reporting Supported Inventory Optimization Supported Planned vs Actual Tracking Supported Product Introduction Planning Supported Promotions Management Not Supported Replenishment Management Not Supported Sales Forecasting Supported Supply Forecasting Supported Inventory Management Features Alerts/Notifications Not Supported Barcoding / RFID Not Supported Forecasting Supported Inventory Optimization Supported Kitting Not Supported Manufacturing Inventory Management Supported Mobile Access Supported Multi-Channel Management Not Supported Product Identification Not Supported Reorder Management Supported Reporting/Analytics Supported Retail Inventory Management Not Supported Supplier Management Not Supported Warehouse Management Not Supported Marketing Planning Features Budgeting & Forecasting Supported Collaboration Not Supported Flowchart Not Supported Goal Setting / Tracking Not Supported Marketing Calendar Not Supported Media Planning Not Supported Predictive Analytics Not Supported Presentation Tools Not Supported Project Tracking Not Supported Spend Management Not Supported Purchasing Features Catalog Management Not Supported Compliance Management Supported Contract Management Supported Inventory Management Not Supported Invoice Processing Not Supported PunchOut Not Supported Purchase Order Management Not Supported Requisitions & Approvals Not Supported Sourcing Management Not Supported Spend Management Not Supported Supplier Management Not Supported Supply Chain Management Features Demand Planning Not Supported Electronic Data Interchange Not Supported Import / Export Management Not Supported Inventory Management Not Supported Order Fulfillment Supported Order Management Supported Sales & Operations Planning Not Supported Shipping Management Not Supported Supplier Management Not Supported Transportation Management Not Supported Warehouse Management Not Supported Warehouse Management Features 3PL Management Not Supported Barcoding / RFID Not Supported Category Customization Not Supported Channel Management Supported Demand Planning Not Supported Inventory Management Not Supported Location Control Not Supported Order Management Not Supported Purchasing Not Supported Quality Control Not Supported Receiving / Putaway Management Not Supported Returns Management Not Supported Shipping Management Not Supported
Integrations Epicor Kinetic Not Supported Infor CRM Not Supported Infor CloudSuite Business Not Supported JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Not Supported Microsoft Dynamics 365 Not Supported NetSuite Not Supported NetSuite CRM Not Supported Oracle APEX Not Supported Oracle BPM Suite Not Supported Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) Not Supported Oracle CPQ Not Supported Oracle PeopleSoft Not Supported SAP Access Control Not Supported SAP Analytics Cloud Not Supported SAP BPC Not Supported Sage 300 Not Supported Sage X3 Not Supported Smart Demand Planner Not Supported Show More Integrations	Integrations Epicor Kinetic Supported Infor CRM Supported Infor CloudSuite Business Supported JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Supported Microsoft Dynamics 365 Supported NetSuite Supported NetSuite CRM Supported Oracle APEX Supported Oracle BPM Suite Supported Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) Supported Oracle CPQ Supported Oracle PeopleSoft Supported SAP Access Control Supported SAP Analytics Cloud Supported SAP BPC Supported Sage 300 Supported Sage X3 Supported Smart Demand Planner Supported Show More Integrations View All 18 Integrations
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