Product Manager, Inventory & Operations
SME inventory management is the end-to-end control of stock from request to fulfilment, using stock requests, packing lists, and dispatch-to-invoice conversion to keep procurement and finance on the same numbers.
Most SMEs discover their stock problems the hard way: a best-selling item runs out during a big order, a warehouse full of dead stock ties up cash, or a cycle count reveals numbers that have drifted from the ledger. These problems share one root cause — inventory is tracked in spreadsheets, notebooks, or people's heads instead of a single system of record.
Retten Work gives you real-time visibility into stock levels, movements, and commitments across every location, so the numbers you see in the morning are still true when you pick an order in the afternoon.
Instead of casual emails and verbal promises, route every replenishment through a formal stock request. A team member raises a request with the products and quantities needed; an approver reviews it against current stock and budget; and once approved, it becomes a purchase order or a warehouse transfer.
This approval workflow stops duplicated orders, captures who authorised what, and gives finance a clean audit trail from request to payment.
Fulfilment should never require re-keying the same data twice. Retten Work links a packing list to its source order, tracks dispatch in real time, and lets you convert the fulfilled packing list directly into an invoice and customer receipt.
The result is fewer transcription errors, faster turnaround, and a dispatch-to-collection timeline that finance and customers can both follow.
Because every movement is logged against a user and a timestamp, you can always answer the question 'where did this quantity go?' That auditability is what turns a simple stock system into a control your auditors and lenders will trust.
End-to-end stock control from request to fulfilment — stock requests, reorder points, packing lists, and dispatch-to-invoice conversion in one system.
A formal request for replenishment that an approver reviews before it becomes a purchase order or warehouse transfer, with a full audit trail.
A fulfilled packing list converts directly into an invoice and customer receipt, eliminating re-keying and speeding up dispatch-to-collection.
A record of every stock movement logged against a user and timestamp, so auditors and lenders can verify quantities quickly.
Because stock is tracked in spreadsheets, notebooks, or memory instead of a single system of record, leading to stockouts and dead stock.
