A stock figure per branch, and no reliable figure across the group
One stock position across every location.
Each branch has a point of sale. None of them agree on what head office is holding. Buying decisions get made on numbers that were true on Friday.
The questions we’d open with
A first meeting is not a demo. It is these four questions and a notebook.
If you can answer them off the top of your head, you probably don’t need us yet. If answering them means asking three people and opening two files, that gap is the thing we build against.
- How do you handle inventory across multiple locations today?
- What are your biggest pain points with the point of sale and stock management?
- How current is the stock figure head office buys against?
- What does shrinkage cost you, and how would you know?
What it usually looks like first
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Transfers between branches recorded at one end and not the other
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Reordering done on last week's numbers
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Shrinkage discovered at stock-take rather than as it happens
None of this means the operation is badly run. It means the operation outgrew the tools that were right for it three years ago. That is a different problem, and a cheaper one to fix.
Where we start
Usually a single stock position across branches, fed from the tills you already have rather than replacing them.
We ship in slices rather than in one release. Something useful reaches real users within weeks of the design being agreed, and grows from there. You see whether it works before the bill gets large.
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Map
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Design
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Build
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Adopt
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Run
What we usually build for retail and supermarkets
Who we talk to
Supermarket chains, retail groups
Where we meet
- Retail associations
- Trade shows
- Supplier networks
Start with the walkthrough, not the demo.
An hour on site, the four questions above, and an honest answer about whether a build is warranted. It costs nothing.