Point of sale, stock and retail management in Morocco
Guides, comparisons and practical advice for retailers: POS software, offline inventory management, barcodes and invoicing.
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Avoiding stockouts without tying up cash
Ordering “when it is nearly gone” produces both problems at once: stockouts and overstock. The reorder point is three numbers. A full worked example at 96 units.
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The cash float: how much, in what notes, and who counts
A cash float is not picked at random: it is sized on the change you hand back, composed of specific denominations and counted twice a day. A worked example at…
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The ten numbers to check every week
Ten numbers, each with the report it comes from, read in fifteen minutes on the same day each week. Not twelve, because two of the usual twelve cannot be corrected…
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Average basket: measure it, then move it
Two shops with the same average basket can have opposite problems: few items, or cheap items. The fix for one makes the other worse. Here is how to separate them…
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Doing a stock take without closing the shop
The annual inventory is the worst method for a small shop: a ten-month-old variance cannot be explained. Here is how to count one shelf a week, in an hour, without…
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Loyalty programmes: what works, and what it costs
Most schemes reward behaviour that would have happened anyway. Here are the three mechanisms, what each actually costs, and why a well-kept customer record is often worth two of them.
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Restaurant stock loss: five causes, five fixes
“We throw too much away” is not a diagnosis. Loss takes five forms with nothing in common, and the biggest one never reaches the bin. Here is how to separate…
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Cash variance: where it comes from, in order
Almost every article on this starts with theft. It is the rarest cause and the most toxic to assume. Here are the five real causes, in order of frequency, and…
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Glovo, Yassir, Kooul: three tablets, one stock
Every platform puts its own tablet on your counter, and none of them talks to your till. The real problem is not the noise, it is that your stock and…
