Inventory & stock control
How this is scored
Whether the stock figure can be trusted: every goods receipt, sale, transfer, return and correction booked as a movement, stock per location and channel, batches, serial numbers and best-before dates where the goods need them, reorder points and purchase orders, and stock synchronised to every sales channel so nothing is oversold.
0 — No stock keeping; quantities live in the shop or in a spreadsheet.
3 — A stock number per product that can be edited by hand, with no movement history, no locations and no link to purchasing.
5 — Stock per product and warehouse updated by orders and goods receipts, synchronised to the connected sales channels, with low-stock alerts and purchase orders to suppliers.
8 — Every movement booked with a reason and a user, stock per bin location, batches, serial numbers and expiry dates tracked, stocktaking (cycle or annual) supported, bundles and kits resolved to components, and reorder suggestions from sales history.
10 — The stock record is an audit-proof ledger: complete movement history exportable, inventory valuation method stated (FIFO, average cost), multi-warehouse and multi-entity stock with transfers in transit, demand forecasting documented, and the stock figure reconciled across every channel in near real time.
The Fulfilment Provider
Stock lives per location with bin and aisle positions, full inventory counts, and end-to-end lot, serial and expiry traceability including FEFO and FIFO suggestions; reorder points run per product and per location, purchase orders are tracked, and fulfilled sales push updated levels back to the connected storefronts. That is close to a proper stock ledger, though we found no public information on movements being booked with a reason and a named user, a stated valuation method, or demand forecasting. For a 3PL like mine we also found no public information on keeping several client brands' stock apart as separate entities. 6 7 8 13