Product Manager, Inventory & Operations
Retail inventory management is the set of practices that keeps the right products on the shelf or in the dispatch queue at the right time. The core practices are real-time stock visibility, disciplined reordering, and accurate counts across every sales channel.
Retail margins are thin, and a best-seller sold out on Friday afternoon is lost revenue you never recover. Real-time tracking means every sale, return, and transfer updates stock instantly, so your reorder decisions use today's numbers, not last week's.
The biggest retail complaint is promising a product you don't have. Reorder points and automatic stock requests keep replenishment ahead of demand, and low-stock alerts warn the right person before a stockout becomes a lost sale.
Retail operations should never re-key the same order twice. When a packing list is fulfilled, Retten Work converts it straight into an invoice and customer receipt — cutting transcription errors and speeding up your order-to-cash cycle.
Report on items that haven't sold in 60-90 days. Discount, bundle, or return them to suppliers early. Dead stock doesn't just tie up money — it costs storage and spoils your valuation.
Stock availability (or fill rate) — the share of customer demand you can actually fulfil from stock — is the metric most tied to sales.
Set reorder points per SKU, use safety stock, and automate stock requests so replenishment happens before you run out.
Dead stock is inventory that hasn't sold in 60-90 days. Report on slow movers monthly and discount, bundle, or return them early.
Yes. Retten Work tracks stock across locations and channels from one real-time record, with transfers between stores and warehouse.
Scanning at stock-in, stock-out, and cycle counts removes typing errors and makes stocktakes hours instead of days.
