Daily management
Managing your stock without spending your evenings on it
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Trying to track every single item down to the gram is the surest way to give up after a month. It’s better to track 20% of your products well than 100% of them badly.
Identifying the products that “matter”
The ones that generate the most turnover, the expensive ones, the ones that often run out, the ones that go off. Focus your stock tracking on these.
Stock that decreases on its own
When the register knows your items, every sale removes one unit from stock. You don’t have to enter anything: the level drops throughout the day on its own.
Alerts, not spreadsheets
Set a low threshold for each product you’re tracking. The register alerts you when it’s reached. You reorder, log the delivery, and stock goes back up.
A light, regular stocktake
Rather than one exhausting annual stocktake, count one product category per week. Within two months, everything has been reviewed, without ever spending a whole evening on it.
Spotting shrinkage
The gap between theoretical stock and actual stock is shrinkage: theft, breakage, errors, expired goods. Measuring it by category shows you where to take action.