Sage News and Discussion

Looks like new Sage Inventory Advisor pricing is on the way April 1. No joking.

FAQ on this change

Pricing goes from SKU based to inventory value based

Yes, I spoke to Russ Graf at lunch at the SLA meeting, and he told me about it. Didn't realize it was coming so soon.

This change will narrow its market rapidly.

It sure will give users incentive to clean up their inventory.

I'm sure we'll only get tier on the base fee, not the usage fee.

Inventory should be cleaned BEFORE SIA is installed, no matter what Netstock spouts. The 'robin-hood' model of letting users with higher value inventory carry the costs for lower value inventory users is so misguided I can't even find words to describe it. SIA is a tool and usage of that tool depends not on how many dollars of inventory but quantity, complexity and number of locations. If you have 100 items valued at $1,000,000 you probably don't need or want SIA, but if you have 1,000,000 items valued at $1 then you might and usage would be greater due to quantity not the value. What happens if an end user hits a decimal out of place and jacks the inventory value for a month or two? When the end user seeks a refund for a typo this model will prove that once money goes to Sage it rarely (never) comes back.

@JohnHoyt, they've changed it from tier to tear (long e sound).

Customer: How much will this product cost me. Partner: Well it depends, you see we have this formula which attempts to match the cost of the product with the value it provides you. Customer: ?!?#?

I know we can bring more value to most of our customers by providing inventory clean up and consulting services than selling SIA.

And in doing so @JohnHoyt help them discover they may not need SIA just clean data and some training.