Power Apps low-code approach means that even those without extensive coding experience can build powerful applications to keep inventory in check. By automating updates and reducing manual errors, Power Apps helps businesses maintain accurate stock levels, avoid costly mistakes and ensure they’re always ready to meet customer demand.
Challenges
While Power Apps is suitable for businesses of all sizes and types, let's focus on an online store preparing for the holiday season. Suddenly, one of the items becomes incredibly popular, and the regular inventory system struggles to keep up.
What would we wish for in a potential tool dealing with this sort of challenge? Well, we´d certainly like it to give us stock updates inreal-time and automate tedious tasks that were otherwise prone for errors. This is where Power Apps jumps in and present itself as the right solution.
App solutions
Let´s have a look at some of the advantages of leveraging Power BI in your inventory management presented in this graphic.
Inventory Tracking in Real-Time:
With Power Apps, companies don´t need to deal with manually updating their stock levels and outdated spreadsheets, instead having real-time updates and complete transparency of their stock levels across all locations.
To that effect companies always have the right amount of stock on hand, thus preventing costly stockouts and overstock situations.
Automation of your workflows:
Repetitive manual tasks such as data entry, stock checks, and order processing consume a significant amount of time for the employees.
On the one hand this prevents them from directing their time resources towards more beneficial tasks and on the other hand this bears the risk of human error in the shape of incorrectly inserted data entries or overlooked stock discrepancies.
Suite of different AI features:
What makes Power Apps stand out is its capacity to leverage Microsoft AI features. For instance, it features functionalities such as analyzing historical sales trends and predicting future demand fluctuations.
These advanced features companies get guarantees that their inventory levels always match customer needs, which in turn leads to a higher degree of customer satisfaction and a great deal of cost reduction due to lower storage costs.
High degree of Flexibility and Customization:
You are probably telling yourself: All these benefits sound great, but does Power Apps really provide solutions tailored to the exact requirements of my company?
Let me tell you this: Power Apps isn´t a rigid one-size product, it much more so offers the flexibility to the specific issues and workflows of your company.
It offers seamless integration with already existing systems such as SAP. Additionally, it is possible to customize the interface in a way that it matches your Design and branding policies.
Scalability for Growing Businesses:
The goal of every business is to grow, no questions asked. You mightask yourself now how adaptable Power Apps is when your businessis growing at rapid speed.
Don´t worry about that, Power Apps is designed to grow alongside your business. Without a hassle new features can be integrated keeping your prior workflows a float.
Conclusion
In this part of our series of use cases for Power Apps, we saw how Power Apps has the potential to revolutionize inventory management by offering real-time tracking, workflow automation, AI-driven insights, and unmatched flexibility and many more things.
For businesses like the online store in our example, especially during peak seasons, the ability to maintain accurate stock levels, automate repetitive tasks, and predict future demand can be a game-changer.
When considering Power Apps for your business, it's also important to choose the Power Apps licensing model with the best financial fit for your company.
As discussed in our previous article, the choice between the Per App Plan and the Per User Plan can impact the costs, depending on your company's size and specific needs.
Selecting the appropriate plan ensures that you maximize the benefits of Power Apps while keeping costs as low as possible.
In the final use case, we turn our attention to an often-overlooked aspect of every business—Employee Onboarding.
We’ll explore the challenges companies and new hires encounter during the onboarding process and how Power Apps can play an important role in addressing and resolving these issues.
