stock control
Tracking warehouse quantities
Stock control is the process of managing inventory levels—tracking what goods a business has, ordering replacements, and minimizing waste from overstocking or shortages.
Also called inventory control or inventory management.
The new stock control system reduced our warehouse costs by thirty percent.
- stocktakingCounting stored merchandise
- FIFOEarliest in, earliest out
- inventory managementOverseeing stored merchandise levels
- countReckon a total
- just-in-timeExactly when required
storage life · bulk supply · backorder · turnover · pallets · ledger · shelves · logistics · replenish · shortage · demand · supply · shrinkage · surplus · tracking · barcode scanning · receiving · warehouse
business function
stock controlsales
Revenue from goods moved
purchasing · procurement · distribution · order fulfillment · merchandising
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