2 posts tagged with "purchasing"

A cement or building-materials distributor in Dar es Salaam might order three truckloads from the factory on Monday, receive two of them on Wednesday, and have six customers waiting on orders by Friday. If those orders, deliveries and stock counts live in a notebook, a WhatsApp group and a spreadsheet, nobody can say with confidence what's in the yard, what's still on its way, or which customer orders haven't been invoiced. This guide shows how to run the whole cycle in one place.

Saturday morning, a new delivery lands at the shop — some items you've never stocked before, some are just more of what's already on the shelf. The sale you make an hour later depends on what happens next: does someone type the new stock into the system correctly, or does it sit as a mental note until the shelf runs dry and nobody knows why the report still shows stock you don't have? This is the exact moment most small-shop inventory tracking quietly falls apart — and it's completely avoidable with the right two-minute habit.