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Ahrom Yoo

Ahrom Yoo

Customer Experience Manager at BoxHero. Works closely with customers to turn their feedback into better product experiences. Shares updates and tips to help teams get the most out of BoxHero.

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Inventory Valuation After You Pick a Method: Closing, Write-Downs, and Audits

Inventory valuation puts a dollar value on two things at the end of an accounting period: the units still on your shelves at the end of a period, and the units you sold during it. The first number appears on your balance sheet as ending inventory. The second becomes cost

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Do You Need a WMS? Two Checklists to Find Out

A warehouse management system (WMS) is one of the larger software purchases a growing business will make. Cloud subscriptions commonly run $2,000 to $10,000 per month, and the implementation work — setup, data migration, integrations, hardware, and training — can easily cost more than the first year of the software

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ABC Analysis for Inventory: Rank Items and Set Count Rules

Some of what you stock barely needs a second look. You reorder it on autopilot, and a miscount hardly matters. But a smaller group of items is the opposite: expensive, slow to replace, and a real problem when the count is wrong. Most stockrooms apply the same reorder point, count

BoxHero Highlight: 7 Extra Features

7 BoxHero Features You're Probably Not Using (But Should Be)

There's a lot tucked inside BoxHero that doesn't get enough attention. Some of these features were added recently, others have been around for a while — but they're easy to miss if you're sticking to the same screens every day. Beyond the basics,

BoxHero Feature Highlight: Sales Reports

Using Sales Reports to Guide Inventory Decisions

According to the U.S. Small Business Administration, many small businesses rely on sales records mainly for compliance rather than inventory planning. Even though thousands of item movements are recorded each month, those transactions are often reviewed only for tax reporting or month-end reconciliation. BoxHero’s Sales Reports help

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MRP Functions for Manufacturing and Warehouse Businesses

Material Requirements Planning, usually shortened to MRP, is often discussed as if it were a single piece of software or a rigid system meant only for large factories. In practice, MRP is a collection of planning functions that help manufacturing and warehouse teams answer a few very real questions every

BoxHero Feature Highlight: Sales Orders

Sales Orders: Managing Customers, Invoices, and Shipping Status

When a customer places an order, it triggers a chain of tasks: verifying stock, creating the sales order, issuing an invoice, picking and shipping items, and finally recording revenue. How do you what’s been confirmed, what’s shipped, and what’s still waiting? BoxHero’s Purchases & Sales feature