smartsm - the world's leading stock management solution

smartsm's powerful Stock Management Module is based on the proven Evidence Based Stock Management methodology.

This gives clear advice, via Stock Action Plans, on what to do with your stock at item level in order to maximise its effectiveness and hopefully generate more issues.

All of smartsm's Stock Action Plans can be output directly from the application to any RFID handheld reader by branch staff.

On average, 12% of our client's stock is MISSING before they start using smartsm.

smartsm offers a couple of useful tools to help identify missing and long overdue items from their catalogues.

Customer Service

Most library services are promoting their OPACs as a way for customers to discover and reserve items. On average therefore, 12% of requests will result in frustration, wasted time and poor customer service experience.

Performance Reporting

When reporting Stock Turn figures, clearly an accurate collection size is imperative.

Stock editing and removal of under utilized (Dead) and worn out (Grubby) stock is an important part of managing any collection. Finding the time to do this can often be difficult. smartsm brings considerable time savings by carrying out detailed stock analysis and its Stock Action Plans give clear recommendations as to which titles need to be inspected/removed.

smartsm's sophisticated swapping and stock transfer algorithms allow you to intelligently rotate your stock in order to maximise its usage and to generate more issues from your collection.

Supply:Demand Balancing

smartsm matches supply in one library with demand in another – creating Action Plans to transfer stock to meet this demand without resorting to costly and often unnecessary purchase.

Best Value

smartsm has a number of Action Plans which practice Best Value for example one which allows you to replace worn out, grubby stock at one branch with under utilized, dead copies of the same item from another branch.

Resource Sharing

On a wider scale, smartsm could be set up to allow greater resource sharing between library services whereby services could potentially swap un-required material.