Stock in one place
Goods enter and leave the warehouse all day. Instead of the count, the supplier order, and the return living in three files that never agree, everything is recorded on one screen that warns before the shelf runs empty.
Systems involved: Stock counts, supplier orders, and returns
The full story
Where the day starts
Goods move all day: a sale at the register, a return from a customer, a delivery from a supplier. Each is a routine action in the business, and each one changes what is on the shelf.
Where it gets stuck
The count is kept in one file, supplier orders in a second, and returns in a third. At the end of the day two employees sit down to compare the copies, and the numbers do not add up. Nobody can say for certain how many units are on the shelf, and the next supplier order is placed on a hunch.
What Flow Vector connects
Flow Vector records all three movements in the same place: a sale deducts from stock, a return adds back, a supplier delivery adds in. When an item drops below the quantity you set, an alert goes to the warehouse clerk together with a suggested reorder.
What stays with a person
The warehouse clerk still inspects an item that came back damaged and decides whether it returns to the shelf, and still counts the shelf itself from time to time. The screen says how much there should be. Only a look at the goods says how much there is.