Inventory automation in Terrassa: a practical guide for SMEs
18 April 2026 · 6 min
The hidden cost of manual inventory
In many industrial SMEs in Terrassa, inventory still lives in three places at once: ERP, spreadsheet and chat. Result: repeated questions, slow answers and purchase decisions on stale data.
If someone asks “how many HX-4420 units left in Terrassa” and the answer takes more than 5 minutes, there is clear automation headroom.
Signs you should automate now
- Sales waits on the warehouse to close an order.
- Duplicate purchases from lack of real stock visibility.
- Production stops on avoidable stockouts.
- Finance does not trust month-end inventory figures.
Quick prioritisation framework
For one week, measure:
- Minutes per stock query (real average).
- Queries per day (per person and team).
- Hourly cost of the people involved.
hours lost / month = (minutes per query × queries per day × working days) / 60
That number turns the problem into euros and decides if a pilot is worth it.
Typical Vallès Occidental case
An SME with 18 daily inventory queries at 7 minutes each loses about 46 hours/month in manual work. Automating even 70% already justifies a short pilot.
You need a first delivery that answers inventory questions in natural language, with role permissions and audit trail — not a six-month programme.
What to look for in a solution
- Connection to your current ERP or database.
- Per-user permissions.
- Query history for audit.
- Answers in seconds, not minutes.
At D4TA this is usually tackled first with Oracle.