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
Batch, serial and expiry tracking are documented with traceability back to the charge and quality checks, stock counts are a listed feature, composite bundles compute from component availability in the chosen warehouse, and reorder points trigger automatic low-stock alerts while purchase orders deliver into a named warehouse. Stock syncs out to the connected sales channels and transfers carry batch or serial detail. I found no public information on a complete movement ledger with reason and user, a stated valuation method, or demand forecasting, which is what I would want before trusting the figure for client billing. 2 3 7 8 9 10 13