Product Updates

While our system has supported barcoding for quite some time, we were receiving feedback that many of you needed more barcodes at one time than the system could handle easily, like in receiving.

To make sure everything that needs a barcode has one, we’ve enabled the mass printing of barcodes. If you’ve got the stickers to print, we’ve got the data to print on them!

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Since a review of the order and item details sometimes happens when a sales order is entered into Fulcrum, we’re no longer requiring that same level of review when users go to turn that sales order into a job. You’ll now have the option to bypass the approval process and automatically schedule jobs after the sales order is confirmed, which should greatly speed up the approval flow and get your team back to business.

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While there isn’t much of a visual change to the inventory section, we built almost an entirely new back end architecture so that we can build a better, more capable system for you going forward.

The first element of that improvement is the lot tracking system we’ll introduce down below, but looking down the roadmap, this work had to be done before we got into serialization and other more complex inventory needs.

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We now support lot tracking both from an inventory standpoint as well as from production. So, if lot tracking or traceability is important in terms of the products you make, we can help you give your customers the certainty that they require from you. When used, the lot ID, will appear on your packing slip to customers.

For products you’re buying to use in-house, you can also trace the lot it was purchased from. This will help with any lot analysis you need to do as well as give you and your customers better visibility into the supply chain as a whole for a given product.

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Our new work order feature will help make your production more efficient by allowing you to group up similar work across different jobs, which decreases the amount of set-up time required during the day. Once the work is grouped, you'll be able to schedule and job track it together as one unit.

Production managers can now see which operations should be grouped for maximum efficiency and each job in the operation can be given its own instructions, attachments, and quantities, so everyone knows the precise details of what needs to happen and when.

We're excited to release this, it is fully ready for its debut, but we're already working on ways to make the groupings more robust and even to offer up suggested groupings based on the jobs in your system.

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