The symptom
“Stock doesn’t match between branches”
Multi-branch inventory that agrees with itself
What it’s costing you
The bill nobody itemises.
- Purchasing decisions made against numbers nobody fully trusts
- Manual stock counts to reconcile physical quantities with system quantities
- Negative inventory, products still selling while the system shows below zero
- A daily phone call between branches and head office that has become somebody’s job
How it gets fixed
What actually changes.
- 01One inventory record that every branch reads from and writes to, rather than a copy each
- 02Point of sale connected to stock in real time, so a sale moves the number immediately
- 03Receiving checked against the approved purchase order at the branch, not by telephone
- 04Head-office visibility of every location without asking anyone to send a report
Platforms that suit this
Where we’ve done it
Questions
Why does our system show negative stock?
Almost always because sales are deducting stock through a channel that receiving does not update, so the system never learns about arrivals. It is a connection problem rather than a counting problem, and recounting will not fix it.
Do all branches need to be online all the time?
No. A properly configured point of sale keeps trading offline and reconciles when the connection returns. What matters is that there is one authoritative record to reconcile against.
“Stock doesn’t match between branches”
If that sentence sounded familiar, the Health Check maps it properly before anything is bought.