One stock position across central and site stores

A central store sends cement to three sites. One site runs short and orders more from a supplier — while the site next door has forty bags it will not use for a month. This happens every week in companies that track stock site by site.

• Emergency purchases at higher prices.
• Material expiring or going missing in a store nobody checks.
• Write-offs discovered only at the year-end count.

Every store — central, site or in transit — is a location in the same system. Receipts, issues and transfers update the same record, so anyone with access sees what is held where, right now.

Start with an opening count at each store, agree who records receipts and issues, and give site teams a phone-friendly way to do it. Within a month the numbers become trusted enough to plan from.