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Thoughts and ideas on how to build tools, automate workflows and speed-up the workplace.
How to Build an Inventory Calculator
Managing inventories - especially the finances surrounding them - can pose serious challenges and create mountains of admin work. Custom inventory calculator apps are a powerful solution. We might need to regularly perform calculations around stock changes, valuations, efficiency, warehouse utilization, or other KPIs. The trouble is that these kinds of calculations are often deceptively complex - with many of the figures we need stored in different locations, in different formats.
Ronan McQuillan
Nov 10, 2023
Upcoming pricing and limit changes
The Budibase team is excited to introduce updates to our pricing plans that will go live on the 28th of November, 2023. Here’s a quick summary of what will change: Instead of charging the same per-user fee for all users, we will price differently for users who create apps (app creators) and those who use apps (app users). This breakdown in pricing will allow us to offer a reduced per-user fee.
Joe Johnston
Nov 7, 2023
Make work flow - Introducing Budibase's new look
Today, we’re sharing the biggest change to the Budibase brand in our recent history. We have a vibrant new look, with the aim of making Budibase as beautiful as the workflows that it enables. It’s a makeover a long time in the making, and a lot of love went into it. We hope it shows. Why a rebrand? Budibase is on a mission to help you and your team turn data into action.
Joe Johnston
Nov 6, 2023
How to Build a Procurement Dashboard
Sourcing raw materials and handling incoming stock are some of the most fundamental challenges that logistics teams face. The right procurement dashboard can make all the difference here. See, a huge part of the problem is visibility. Procurement processes draw on a number of different types of data - across inventories, supply chains, finances, and more. Without unified, coherent reporting, it’s almost impossible to make sense of all of this.
Ronan McQuillan
Nov 2, 2023
How to Build Inventory Automations with Budibase
Inventory automation is potentially the most transformative tool that logistics teams have at their disposal. See, managing inventories can be incredibly tricky - owing largely to the complexity of the data and processes involved. Not only does this make it difficult to understand the current state of our inventory - it can also create mountains of administrative work and introduce unnecessary scope for error. Inventory automation seeks to address all three of these problems simultaneously.
Ronan McQuillan
Nov 2, 2023
How to Build Project Cost Management Software
In the fast-paced world of project management, having real-time insights into your financial situation is not just a luxury, it’s a necessity. Therefore, effective project cost management software is too. Every penny counts, and understanding where it’s been spent can be the difference between a project’s success and failure. But beyond just tracking project costs, what if you could effortlessly add new cost data? How do you seamlessly integrate this financial tracking into a database you may already use?
Ronan McQuillan
Nov 2, 2023
How to Build a Warehouse Dashboard
If you carry physical products - your warehousing solutions are right at the center of your business. Warehouse dashboards provide much-needed visibility into your performance across a huge range of KPIs. Situations can change quickly - so it’s critical that decision-makers have fast, reliable access to important insights. Dashboards are the perfect solution for furnishing teams with repeatable reporting - while also eliminating the need for manual analytical work. Today, we’re going to see how Budibase can be used to build custom dashboards around existing data sources - saving your team hours of development work at the same time.
Ronan McQuillan
Oct 30, 2023
How to Build a Vendor Request Form
Vendor request forms are a key part of managing inventories, supply chains, and procurement processes - specifically when it comes to registering new suppliers. However, this can also create a huge amount of administrative work for logistics and finance teams alike. In particular, handling vendor requests manually or with pen and paper can lead to excessive data entry, validation, and other admin tasks. Today, we’re checking out how you can use Budibase to digitalize your vendor request forms with minimal custom coding skills.
Ronan McQuillan
Oct 27, 2023