McCauley Technologies
Inventory Essentials is QR-based inventory tracking for companies still running on Excel, paper, handwritten lists, and tribal knowledge. Scan a code, tap what you are doing, done — without implementing an ERP.
The demo is a real, working warehouse with sample data. Nothing to install, no signup.
SKU RG-BLK-038
It works, right up until it does not. The spreadsheet is not wrong because anyone is careless — it is wrong because it has no idea what physically happened on the floor this morning.
The whole product is one workflow, done properly. Moving a pallet should be faster than finding the row in the spreadsheet that tracks it — if it is not, nobody will do it, and the numbers go wrong again.
Step 1
Point a phone at the label on the box, the bin, or the pallet. No handheld scanner to buy.
Step 2
What it is, which lot, how much, and exactly where. One screen, readable at arm’s length.
Step 3
Receive, move, use, or count. Four buttons on the screen — not four menus deep.
Step 4
Who did what, when, and why. Balances update the instant the transaction is written.
A move, start to finish
A03 goes from 1,200 lb to 700 lb, B07 goes to 500 lb, and the history records who moved what, from where, to where, and when. Neither side can move without the other.
Every item and every location gets a code. Plain paper and tape is enough to start. The code carries no information about your business — it is meaningless to anyone who photographs it.
Turn lot tracking on per item. Nothing ever makes you invent a lot number for a box of bolts.
System said 700, you counted 680: the history records an adjustment of −20 with the reason, your name, and the time. Nothing that already happened is overwritten.
Set a minimum on the items that have one. They surface on the dashboard and in inventory. No forecasting, no MRP run, no planning horizon.
Quantity times current unit cost, so you can answer “roughly how much is sitting in there?”. Operational, not accounting — no FIFO layers and no general ledger.
Import from the spreadsheet you already have, with a preview before anything is saved. Export current inventory and full transaction history to CSV or Excel whenever you want.
It is not an ERP, an MRP system, a full warehouse management system, an accounting package, or a purchasing suite. There are no purchase orders, no sales orders, no invoicing, no production scheduling, no bills of material.
That is the point. Every one of those is a project, and most companies running on a spreadsheet today do not need one — they need to know what they have and where it is.
McCauley Technologies builds custom industrial automation and operations software — production systems, integrations, data platforms, and the awkward things in between. Inventory Essentials is often the first step: get the inventory right, then decide what else is worth building.
Tell us what you are dealing withStill using Excel? Email us the sheet you are working from and we will show you what it looks like in Inventory Essentials — your items, your locations, your quantities. No obligation, and we will delete it afterwards if you would rather we did.
Email inventory@mccauleytechnologies.comAttach it to the email — we have deliberately not built a public upload form for somebody’s operational data.
The demo is a complete warehouse with about thirty items across five categories, real lot numbers, a week of history, and a few things deliberately running low. You can scan, move, issue, and count exactly as a customer would.
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