ABC Analysis: Focus on the 20% of Stock That Pays the Rent
Not every item deserves equal attention. How to split your inventory into A, B, and C classes using your own sales data — and how to treat each class.
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Articles about inventory — Practical guides on POS, inventory, accounting, and local marketing for growing businesses — from the Tenavora team.
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Consignment Both Ways: Recording Goods You Place or Host
Placing goods in other stores, or hosting someone else's on your shelves — both fall apart with sloppy records. A clean consignment guide for small business.
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Why Your Small Business Should Start Using Purchase Orders
Ordering by chat is fast — until the wrong goods arrive and the invoice does not match. Why POs matter for small businesses and a simple flow to start.
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FEFO: Managing Expiry-Dated Stock So It Stops Eating Profit
Food, cosmetics, and medicine all fight the expiry date. Learn FEFO rotation, batch tracking, and shelf habits that push expired write-offs toward zero.
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Boutique and Fashion Store Software: Size-Color Matrix, Dead Stock
One shirt design can be 15 size-color SKUs. How fashion retailers manage variants, seasons, returns, and catch dead stock before it eats the capital.
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Product Variants Done Right: Sizes, Colors, and Flavors
One t-shirt in five sizes and four colors is 20 SKUs. How to structure variant codes, use a product matrix, and read reports so variants stay manageable.
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Building Supply Store Software: Multi-Units, Tiered Pricing, Tabs
Hardware stores sell cement by the sack, cable by the meter, nails by the kilo — and contractors buy on credit. Why generic retail POS breaks down here.
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Multi-Warehouse Stock Without the Phone-Call Circus
Overstocked at branch A, sold out at branch B. How to run transfers, allocation, and real-time visibility once your business spans several locations.
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Barcodes for Small Shops: A No-Nonsense Starter Guide
Label printers, sane SKU naming, and what to do with products that have no factory barcode — a practical guide to starting barcodes in a small store.
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FIFO vs Average Costing: What It Does to Your Profit
Two identical stores can report different profits just by valuing inventory differently. FIFO vs weighted average, the impact on COGS, and how to choose.
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Reorder Points and Safety Stock, Minus the Math Degree
A one-line formula for when to reorder and how much buffer to keep, with worked examples — so you stop running out of bestsellers or drowning in dead stock.
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Stock Never Matches the System? Causes and Real Fixes
The shelf says 9, the system says 12. Where stock discrepancies really come from — entry mistakes, shrinkage, theft — and how to squeeze them down.
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Stocktaking Without Closing the Store for a Whole Day
You do not have to shut the shop and count all night. Cycle counting, zone-by-zone schedules, and simple tools turn stocktakes into a light daily routine.
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