Stock control6 min read
Slow-moving and obsolete stock: the money already on your shelves
The stock nobody has touched in four years is not costing you nothing. It is costing you the shelf it is on and the decision you keep not making.
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Getting started6 min read
Choosing stock control software: the questions that actually separate them
Every system demos well. The differences show up in month three, and they are almost never on the feature list.
Read it →Hardware5 min read
Asset labels that survive a workshop
A label that falls off has not merely stopped working. It has turned a tracked asset into an untracked one, silently.
Read it →Equipment5 min read
Issuing PPE: what you have to record, and what people actually need
Nobody wears the wrong-sized glove because they are careless. They wear it because it was the only one in the cupboard.
Read it →Compliance5 min read
Calibration control: keeping instruments in date without a spreadsheet of dates
The hard part is not remembering to calibrate. It is knowing what you measured with an instrument that turned out to be wrong.
Read it →Getting started6 min read
Setting up stock control from nothing: the first thirty days
Most of these projects fail in week three, and they fail the same way: someone tried to get the data perfect before anyone used it.
Read it →Stock control5 min read
Goods in: the ten minutes that decide whether your stock record is true
Every error you make receiving a delivery gets copied into every count, every reorder and every report until somebody finds it.
Read it →Stock control6 min read
Van stock: why engineer boot stock never reconciles
A van is a warehouse that moves, staffed by someone whose actual job is fixing things.
Read it →Equipment6 min read
What belongs in an asset register, and what quietly ruins one
The register that gets maintained is the one somebody can fill in with cold hands in a stores doorway.
Read it →Compliance6 min read
The inspection records you have to keep — and where they go missing
Almost nobody fails an inspection audit because the kit was unsafe. They fail because the paperwork proving it was safe is in a van.
Read it →Stock control4 min read
Cycle counting: how to stop shutting the store for stocktake
An annual count tells you that you are wrong. A weekly one tells you why.
Read it →Hardware5 min read
Choosing a barcode scanner for a store room: what actually matters
Buy the boring one. The expensive decisions in scanning are about labels and workflow, not hardware.
Read it →Equipment5 min read
How to stop losing tools on site without treating people like suspects
The systems that recover kit are the ones that make signing something out faster than not bothering.
Read it →Stock control4 min read
How to set reorder points that actually prevent stockouts
The formula takes one line. Getting the two numbers that go into it is the real work.
Read it →Stock control5 min read
When a stores spreadsheet stops working (and why it is not the spreadsheet)
It is rarely the number of rows. It is the number of people who can change stock without changing the file.
Read it →Stop reading, start counting.
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