A bill of materials for a bakery
Most stock software assumes you buy things and sell the same things. A bakery buys flour and sells bread, which means the stock record has to be able to turn one thing into another — and account for the difference.
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Most of what you lose, you did not lose to thieves
When stock goes missing, the instinct is to suspect people. Sometimes that is right. But the standard definition of shrinkage contains three causes, and only one of them is theft.
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The food you lose before you sell it
For anyone selling something that can go off, loss is not an exception to manage — it is a structural cost of the category. The regional figures are stark, official, and more conservative than the ones usually quoted.
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Batch, expiry and FEFO for an Ethiopian pharmacy
The regulator has done the hard part of this problem for you. The information you need for batch-level stock control is already required to be on the pack — the gap is that almost nobody reads it into a system.
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