For a wholesaler, stock is cash sitting on a shelf. Too much of the wrong item and your money is frozen; too little of the right one and you turn customers away. The goal is not a perfect warehouse — it is knowing, at any moment, what you actually have.
Make stock update itself
Manual stock registers are wrong within a week. The fix is to tie stock to the transactions you already record: a purchase adds stock, a delivered order subtracts it. When inventory is a by-product of billing, it stays accurate without anyone counting.
Watch your fast movers and your dead stock
Twenty percent of your SKUs drive most of your turnover. Know them, never run out of them. At the other end, items that haven't moved in 90 days are frozen capital — discount them, return them, or stop reordering them.
Set reorder points, not reorder panic
For each key item, decide the level at which you reorder. A low-stock signal turns purchasing from a last-minute scramble into a calm, planned decision — and stops the 'we're out of the best-seller' phone call from a salesman in the field.
Capture demand you can't yet supply
When a shop asks for something you don't stock, that is market intelligence. Log it on the spot. A running wishlist of unmet demand tells you what to add before a competitor does.
