Rolling Out Real-Time Inventory Across 40 Retail Locations
Multi-location retail chain
23% reduction in stockouts within 90 days
Stock counts cut from weekly to real-time
40 locations onboarded in under 6 weeks
The problem
A 40-location retail chain was running inventory on a mix of spreadsheets and a legacy point-of-sale system that didn't talk to each other. Store managers reconciled stock counts manually once a week, which meant stockouts and overstock were discovered days after they happened — not when they happened.
The approach
We onboarded the chain onto StockSouq, Inventixo's cloud inventory management product, in phased waves of 8–10 stores at a time. Each store's existing product catalog was imported and mapped to StockSouq's SKU structure, and staff were trained on the daily receiving and stock-take workflows over a single afternoon session per location.
Key parts of the rollout:
- Real-time stock visibility across every location from a single dashboard, replacing the weekly manual reconciliation process.
- Low-stock alerts configured per product category, so reorders happened before shelves went empty rather than after.
- Barcode-based receiving to cut data-entry errors during stock intake.
The result
Within 90 days of full rollout, the chain saw a 23% reduction in stockouts and eliminated the weekly manual count process entirely. Store managers now check stock status in seconds instead of compiling it by hand, and head office has live visibility into inventory health across every location.
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