Clear Spider is a comprehensive, cloud-based inventory management solution designed to enhance visibility, control, and efficiency across the entire supply chain. Here’s an overview of what the product does and its key features:
What Clear Spider Does
Clear Spider is tailored for mid to large-scale businesses, including wholesalers, distributors, and logistics companies. It provides a centralized platform for managing inventory, orders, and shipping operations. The system is accessible from any location worldwide, requiring only an internet connection, making it highly versatile and convenient.
Key Features and Functionality
Inventory Management
- Real-Time Tracking: Clear Spider allows users to track inventory in real-time, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information on stock levels, locations, and movements.
- Serialized Inventory Tracking: The system supports serial number tracking, enabling the automatic tracking of inventory items on a serial-wise basis.
Warehouse Management
- Integrated Warehouse Management: Clear Spider’s Warehouse Management System (WMS) optimizes day-to-day warehouse processes, including shipping, receiving, and storage. It integrates with various software systems such as accounting, e-commerce, shipping, and ERP systems to ensure full visibility of the supply chain.
- Barcode and RFID Scanning: Utilizes barcode and RFID scanning to track and manage inventory accurately, reducing data entry errors and improving efficiency.
Supply Chain Management
- Supplier Management: Automates and manages the supplier lifecycle, including pre-contract and post-contract tasks, enhancing supplier-retailer relationships.
- Consignment Inventory: Manages consignment stock stored at customer locations, providing complete control over these inventories.
Order and Fulfillment
- Order Management: Handles order entry, fulfillment, tracking, and recurring orders. It also manages backorders, special orders, and returns.
- Fulfillment and Replenishment: Fulfills customer orders and anticipates inventory demands to prevent stock-outs and reduce related costs.
Analytics and Reporting
- Reporting/Analytics: Generates detailed reports and analytics, enabling users to run comparisons, create graphs, and optimize inventory based on data-driven insights.
Additional Features
- Kitting: Categorizes, assembles, packs, and supplies stock items together, which is particularly useful for light manufacturing processes.
- Return Material Authorization: Manages products for return, refund, replacement, or repair, streamlining the returns process.
- Lot Control and Shelf Life: Tracks batch productions and monitors shelf life to ensure compliance and quality control.
Mobile Access
- Mobile App: Allows users to connect to the cloud-based system via mobile devices, enabling data-driven decisions from anywhere. The app supports barcode scanning even when working offline.
Customization and Support
- High Customizability: The system is highly flexible and can be customized to mirror the current workflow of the business, with the ability to add new features, integrations, or users as needed.
- Comprehensive Support: Offers various support options including chat, phone, 24×7 support, webinars, in-person training, and extensive documentation.
Clear Spider’s robust features and cloud-based architecture make it an ideal solution for businesses seeking to enhance their inventory management, supply chain visibility, and overall operational efficiency.