Inventory Management

Inventory management is about ordering, storing and tracking your products so you always have enough on the shelf to meet demand without getting stuck with goods that just sit there. The gap between those two extremes decides how much working capital is tied up in your warehouse and how often you have to tell a customer something is sold out.

Where it goes wrong in practice

Most problems don't come from bad products, they come from stock numbers that don't match reality. If you sell on multiple channels, you risk selling the same item twice when only one is left. On the other side, slow-moving items keep sitting in the warehouse and quietly eat into your margin through storage costs and tied-up cash.

Three things that make the difference

• Stock that's correct everywhere. ShopLinkr keeps your stock levels in sync across all your channels in real time, from bol to Shopify and WooCommerce, so you never sell what's no longer there.

• Looking ahead instead of reordering too late. With stock forecasting and purchase advice per supplier you see in time which items to reorder, before you hit zero.

• Knowing what's really happening. Reports on revenue and margin per product, stock value, dead stock and an ABC analysis show you where you make money and where it stays stuck.

From insight to execution

Accurate stock is only half the job. The other half is getting orders out the door smoothly. ShopLinkr processes orders from all your channels in one place, sends pickers into the warehouse with a smart route and barcode scanning, and creates shipping labels in one click for carriers like PostNL, DPD and MyParcel. The track & trace is sent back to the sales channel automatically.

Want to manage your stock and orders in one place? Try ShopLinkr free for 14 days and see how quickly you're set up.