Simple parts inventory program? (free or opensource)

george graves:
Can anyone recommend a simple to inventory program?

The reason why I ask is last night it took me 7 hours to figure out what I needed to order from mouser. It was not fun trying to figure out what I had on hand, what was needed, ect…

To give you an idea of my needs - I need to keep track of about 1500 parts, and be able to group them into 30 assembles.

My budget is $0. So, even an old dos program would be fine by me. Just as long as it works.

(BTW - I don’t want to roll my own in excel or access)

Any suggestions? Advice?

you could try openerp (www.openerp.org) may be a bit of overkill though. there is an electronics inventory module for it