Vigen

Hello everyone, I am a mechanic shop and body shop owner here in las vegas and I opened up the paint and body part of the business about 2 years ago. I am just looking for some tips on how you guys manage and keep track of the inventory/materials in the back, I do have a body shop manager that runs the whole show and he seems to be doing a good job but I dont want to rely on just hes 'expertise'. 2 heads are better than 1! The paint for the paint booth is digitally tracked, (when someone uses some it measures the weight when it goes back into the rack and notifies my paint company and they send me weekly reports as well as refills) so there really is no need for the paint, but for all the other materials (ie tapes, poly urethane, wax, the metal glaze stuff, respirators, you guys know what i mean) i need a good way to keep track of these items. I don't really have a way of keeping track of these inventories right now but i would like to establish one. THanks in advance guys! and girls!

My father owns a mechanic and body shop and I help him manage and run the business. Its basically a one stop shop, only thing we stopped working on are tints lol. Anyway, what my question is does anybody have any tips that I can use to accurately track all our orders for paint supplies in the body shop? We have quickbooks and i'm looking into fishbowl inventory (mainly because it can work with quickbook) but from my experiences the best way for me to stay on top of my guys is to get some advice from people who are in the business, who know what they are doing and have done it for some time. I have about 10 guys working in the body shop in a unit about 5000 square feet, maybe more.