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 IT & Integration Lead
Lots, serials and expiry dates are tracked end to end — assigned at goods receipt or manufacture, suggested first-expiring-first-out or first-in-first-out at picking, with expiry alerts, write-offs and a per-lot movement history that exports to CSV — and stock sits per location with bins and aisles, transfers, counts, reorder points per product per location and sync to the storefronts. We found no public information on a stated valuation method (FIFO or average cost) for costing or documented demand forecasting, so I stop short of the top. 3 6 7 8