What problems is Quickbase solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before Quickbase, we were drowning in excel sheets. Everything was manual—tracking spare parts, managing inventory, and even comparing revisions on engineering drawings. For example, engineers used to spend four or five hours going line by line through a 4,000-line excel sheet to see what changed between revisions. Now, with Quickbase, they just import the file, and in 30 seconds, it flags all the changes—parts added, deleted, quantity changes, or even part number changes. That’s a huge time saver, and it’s caught mistakes that would’ve cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Another big win has been inventory management. We used to lose millions of dollars in wasted inventory because we couldn’t track what we had. I built an app that scans our warehouse inventory and flags what’s available, so we don’t buy parts we already have. It’s streamlined the whole process and saved us money.
Quickbase has also helped us grow. It started with just my team using it, but now other departments like purchasing and engineering are seeing the value and asking to use it. It’s been a slow process, but the results speak for themselves. It’s not perfect, and I still have to fight some resistance from people who don’t see the value yet, but every time I show them how much time and money we’re saving, it gets easier to bring them on board. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.