You buy something for 100 and sell it for 200. On paper you are delighted with a 100% profit. In reality, you may already be running into a loss, not just on this transaction but on the customer, the vendor or even the market segment as a whole.
The problem is simple. Businesses often look at selling price minus purchase price and call that profit. But in a real business environment, cost is far more complex. Let us look at where the illusion of profit disappears.
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Inventory is often seen as one of the most complex and error-prone modules in any ERP system. But in mature platforms like Tuhund, the system itself is rarely the source of trouble. Over years of experience working with customers in industries dealing with machines and spare parts, one insight has become abundantly clear:
"99% of inventory issues are human mistakes — not software limitations."
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