So what can Sumer do?
Many businesses already have forms and procedures to handle these common management tasks
- Purchase Order control,
- Receiving and sequence coding of raw materials,
- Inventory tracking and control including direct and flush-back materials tracking,
- Customer Orders,
- Tracking, completion, and cancellation of back orders,
- Production control,
- Scheduling for shifts, meetings, production runs, projects, Gantt charts,
- Employee time cards and payroll,
- Wholesales and invoices,
- Docket scheduling and control,
- Retail cashiering and point-of-sale,
- Bookkeeping and accounting,
- Full user log and audit trail,
- Instant End-Of-Period inventory posting to accounting,
- Graphic reporting,
- Intra-company communications,
- Cash flow analysis and control,
- Bill of Materials and Process costing and routing,
- and more.
Sumer can do these.
Keeping it simple
Never mind all the hype about AI. Big Tech has held back reasonably priced business management software to SMEs for over 20 years, it is not likely to change now. AI will bring greatest advantage to those who can afford it—meaning big business—because while AI is cheap now, when the promotions end someone will have to pay the costs of the data centers, electricity, cooling systems, and more.
But fortunately, achieving basic needs for SMEs involves only HI—Human Intellegence.
Sumer's intent in design was to be:
- free of jargon,
- free to download,
- free to add users,
- free open-source templates,
- requiring no knowledge of IT,
- with data in the cloud based only on data storage fees,
- and with a platform encouraging peer-to-peer sharing in the medium and small enterprise and organization communities.
Keeping it simple means:
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Forms and reports are built with a spreadsheet-style interface that looks exactly like the underlying form,
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Menus are built with drag-and-drop and can be customized down to an individual user level,
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That's all.