Stock control — item master and locations, counts and adjustments, transfers and approvals, traceability and quality holds, replenishment, and warehouse operations.
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A batch with four months left is stock you can sell if you move it now. A batch with four days left is a write-off that has not been declared yet. Most pharmacy systems hold both as the same number, and the day the difference becomes visible is the day it stops mattering.
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A SKU is how your system knows what an item is; a bin location is how a human finds it. Get both naming systems right and stock control becomes almost easy.
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The hardest inventory problem in Kenya, and not because of volume — the same alternator carries four names, so stock is counted three times and one person holds the mapping. What fixes it, in what order, and the vehicle record this does not have.
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Every quantity the inventory module stores is a whole number — on hand, per location, expected, counted, in transit, received. And no record anywhere carries a unit of measure, so an item is a countable thing and the system has no opinion about what kind of thing it is.
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Our asset register knows a forklift on your floor might be owned, leased or borrowed, and enforces it in five places. Our stock system has no equivalent idea at all — every unit is yours by assumption. For anyone holding supplier-owned components, that assumption is the difference between what is in the building and what belongs on the balance sheet.
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On hand and available are two different numbers and most systems hold only one. Where goods sit out a mandatory hold before they can move — and where one season carries most of the year — that gap decides whether the vessel sails full.
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Ask our stock reports what one warehouse holds and you get an answer. Ask the ledger and there is nowhere to look, because a journal entry carries no branch. Two views of the same goods, one dimensioned and one not.
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The purchase order goes out on Tuesday. The same item is sitting four kilometres away, above what that branch needs, and has been since March. What the balancing calculation compares, why an item with a reorder point of zero produces no suggestion in either direction, and when buying is still the right answer.
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There is no delivery note. An invoice knows which warehouse the goods left from, and there is no separate document that travels with them and gets signed at the other end. For internal transfers there is exactly that.
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A quotation commits you to nothing and carries six fields describing tax and currency. A credit note reverses a taxable supply and carries none of them — no tax split, no currency, no line items. What that costs a single-country business is almost nothing; what it costs a group trading across four EAC currencies is an ambiguity on every unapplied credit.
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Our asset register knows who holds the cold-chain unit, where it is, what condition it was in at the last hand-off and when a person last laid eyes on it. It does not know when it is next due for calibration — and the reason is more useful than a flat absence: the machinery that watches a date arrive is built and running, for batch expiry, quotations, purchase orders and invoices. It is simply not wired to assets.
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Groups configure their systems for the trading subsidiaries, because that is where the stock and the customers are. Then they discover annually that the entity nobody configured is the one with the evidence obligation.
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Every item's reorder point is recomputed at one in the morning from thirty days of demand, a lead time and a safety stock. Nothing is excluded from the sweep, so a figure somebody typed by hand survives until the job next runs.
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Our demand forecast adds twenty-five per cent in March, June and December — three Gregorian months written into the code, identical for every customer in every country. In a market whose largest demand event moves eleven days earlier each year, that is not a small approximation.
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Reorder point, safety stock and lead time all live on the item and nowhere else, and every low-stock check compares the national total against them. A distribution centre can sit at zero for a fortnight while the dashboard stays green.
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When stock runs low our system can raise a purchase requisition on its own. It raises it against a department. It does not name a supplier, look at who supplied the item last time, or consider who is cheapest — because nothing in the automation has any concept of who you buy from.
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Every allocation goes oldest-expiry-first, with no setting, no per-item policy and no override — and there is a column on the item that looks exactly like one. The behaviour is stricter than the interface suggests, which is an unusual direction to be wrong in.
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Every bin location can be given a pick sequence. The field is validated, stored and displayed, and nothing in the product has ever sorted anything by it. The sixth inert field of exactly this shape, and what it tells you about reading a form as a promise.
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A batch is identified by your organisation, the item and the number on the carton — nothing else. Receive that combination twice and the second delivery joins the first, filling in what was blank and rewriting exactly three fields that were not.
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One shipment, two companies, two systems. Two records that were both correct when they were made — and a difference that only appears when somebody adds them together.
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You can tell our system how much a storage location holds. There is a field for it, it is offered when you create one, and it saves correctly. Nothing has ever read it — you can put four times that quantity in the location and the system records it without comment.
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Goods in transit are on your balance sheet and in nobody's stock count. Most systems model a location you operate, so a consignment sitting in a foreign port for eleven days becomes a purchase order — which is a document, not an asset.
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Three automatic stock alerts now watch an input store, and every input they read is a number somebody typed. Which of them helps a business that buys once a season, which will train your team to ignore it, and where the notice period is actually spent.
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Ninety-four cartons left Industrial Area and eighty-nine arrived in Eldoret. The system knows what went on the lorry and what came off it — and has no opinion about the person in between.