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Optimise
What is not moving, and what it costs.
Every figure here is worked out from movements you have already recorded. There is nothing new to type in, and it says nothing it cannot back up. A product that has sat on the shelf for a year without a single sale is money that could have bought something that actually moves, and this is the screen that finds it before it becomes a write-off.
For an owner who suspects money is sitting on the shelves in stock that is not selling.
What is on it
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Money on the shelves
What your stock cost you, and how much of it is tied up in products that have not moved.
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Not moving
The products that have not sold in the period you choose, and the money sitting in them.
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Days left
How long each product's stock will last at the rate it has been selling, shortest first.
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Stock turn
How many times a year each product's stock sells through.
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Selling fastest
What is actually selling, so a reorder list is not just the things that happen to be low.
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Choose how far back
Look back 30 days, 90 days, 180 days or a year.
How it works
- Record sales and deliveries as they happen, in Sell, Pick and Receive.
- Open Optimise and choose how far back to look.
- Switch between not moving, days left, stock turn and selling fastest.
What it does not do yet
A screen that looks like it did something it didn't is the worst outcome, so this is said here as plainly as it is in the app.
- A product with no cost entered has no money against it, and the screen says so rather than guessing.
Try it on one product first
Stock value and turnover calculator. Stock value, turns a year and how long cash sits on the shelf, with no sign-up.
Read more: Inventory optimisation
The fuller picture of finding and acting on dead stock.
Questions people actually ask
What counts as not moving?
Nothing has gone out in the window you choose: thirty days, ninety, a hundred and eighty, or a year. The window is a button on the screen because a fortnight of nothing means one thing in a corner shop and another in a warehouse full of spares.
Why does one of my products show no money against it?
Because no cost has been entered for it. Rather than guess, or quietly leave it out of the total, the screen says so: a stock value with invented numbers in it is worse than one that admits what it does not know.
What is stock turn, in plain terms?
How many times over you sell through the stock you keep, in a year. Two means you hold about six months of stock; twelve means a month. It is worked out from what has actually gone out and what you are holding now, and it is the figure that tells you whether cash is sitting on a shelf.
Why look at this instead of just checking what is low on Overview?
Overview tells you what is about to run out. Optimise tells you the opposite problem, which is easier to ignore because nothing goes wrong today: money already spent, sitting on a shelf, not coming back until something changes. Both matter, and neither one shows you the other.
Is this the same as dead stock or slow-moving inventory reporting?
Those are the two problems this screen answers, in StockRoom's own words. Not moving is what most people mean by dead stock: nothing has gone out in the window you choose. Days left and stock turn are the slow-moving side, the stock that is still selling but slower than it should, before it turns into dead stock. Most shops only notice the first kind, once it is a write-off. Catching the second kind is what stops it getting there.
The other tools
- OverviewThe whole business on one screen: stats, graphs and alerts.
- FindWhere everything is, and what you have got.
- ScanPoint the camera at a barcode.
- CountCount a shelf and record what you actually find.
- ReceiveTake a delivery in and record what actually turned up.
- MoveMove stock from one place to another, and know it arrived.
- PickGather an order in the order the shelves are in.
- SellRecord what went out of the door.
- BuyWhat is running out, and how much to order.
- AutomateThe jobs the app should do instead of you.