Features
Stock count
Holds a live count against every product, automatically, and flags a short pick the moment it happens.
Stock count is knowing what is actually in the cold store before it is sold again, not a walk-round or a spreadsheet that is already a day old. It holds a live count against every product, takes stock off before it is bought twice, and flags a short pick the moment it happens.
A count taken on Monday is a guess by Wednesday. The stock a wholesaler actually needs to know about is whatever is left after this morning's picks, not whatever a clipboard said at the start of the week.
How it works
- 01A live count sits against every product, taken off the moment stock is used: picked, sold, or spoiled. Not counted at the end of the week.
- 02What is already in the cold store comes off the buy list before anybody buys it twice.
- 03A short pick is flagged at the point it happens, on the sheet, not discovered once a van is already gone.
- 04Catch-weight and single-count lines are tracked the way they are actually held, not forced into one unit.
- 05Stock ties back to the same catalogue as pricing and buying, so a count is never a separate system to keep in sync.
What a short pick looks like
What it replaces
Stock count replaces a walk round the cold store, or a stock book, before every buy. Nobody has to check what is already there from memory.
What it works with
- Buy listWhat is already held comes off the list automatically, before it is bought again.
- Invoice runnerA catch-weight line is invoiced on the actual weight held, not a nominal one.
- Margin watchThe cost behind a stock line feeds straight into the margin view.
Plainly
What it will not do on its own
- It does not count stock for you. Somebody still has to walk the cold store or scan it in; it holds the count once it is taken.
- It will not stop a line being bought twice if the count behind it was never entered.
- It does not forecast demand on its own. That is a separate, later capability, not this one.
What it replaces
A walk round the cold store, or a stock book, before every buy.
Time it saves
The walk round the cold store, checking what's already there, before deciding what to buy again.
Questions people ask
- What is stock count for a food wholesaler, specifically?
- It is knowing what is actually in the cold store and the yard before it is sold again - a live count per product, not a walk-round or a spreadsheet that is already out of date by the time it is checked.
- Does it stop double-buying a product already in stock?
- Yes. What is already held comes off the buy list before the buyer goes to the market, so it is not bought a second time.
- How does a short pick get recorded?
- It is flagged on the picking sheet the moment it is short, against the actual line, rather than being quietly reduced to whatever went out.
- Does it handle catch-weight stock?
- Yes. A catch-weight product is tracked at the weight actually held, not a nominal figure, the same way it is invoiced.
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Send us one evening's orders. We run the night next to you. In the morning you compare the two.