FOCUS ON RETAIL - The Hidden Cost of Poor Stock Control... and How to Fix It

Join our highly practical workshop designed to help small retailers take control of their stock, reduce waste, prevent losses, and protect profit using simple lean thinking and smart digital tools.

It will focus on the real-world challenges retailers face every day:

• Overstocking
• Dead stock
• Shrinkage
• Theft
• Poor stock visibility
• Cash tied up in the wrong products

This session shows you how to run tighter, safer, more profitable inventory systems without complexity or big investment.

You will learn how to:

• Reduce overstock, expired stock & dead stock
• Improve stock accuracy and visibility
• Identify where waste and shrinkage are happening
• Protect your business from theft & loss
• Use Lean principles to simplify stock systems
• Use simple digital tools to track stock more effectively
• Release cash tied up in excess stock
• Build a practical 30–60 day inventory improvement plan

What We’ll Cover:

• Why stock is often your biggest hidden profit leak
• How Lean thinking applies to:
  • Buying
  • Storage
  • Replenishment
  • Stock rotation
• Where waste really happens in retail:
  • Over-ordering
  • Damage
  • Expiry
  • Returns
  • Understanding shrinkage, error and theft
  • Simple theft prevention & stock security measures
  • Using digital tools for stock control (POS, barcode, simple reporting)
  • Turning inventory from a risk into a commercial advantage

You don’t make money by selling product once — you make money by controlling how you buy it, store it, protect it, and move it through your business.

This event is being provided free of charge to our clients.

Please only book if you intend to attend.

This supports our team to correctly prepare for the event and that those that want to attend get the opportunity to do so.

Thank you for your cooperation.

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