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Mistimed Stock Replenishment

Automated inventory systems and corporate replenishment push excess, mistimed stock that stores cannot shelve or sell, while accurate counts and fast sellers go unaddressed.

In their words

standard POS systems (like Square or Shopify) are just digital cash registers. They record what sold, but they are completely blind to what you need to make today

r/InventoryManagement on Reddit

not knowing what was actually in stock vs what the system said, especially across multiple locations

r/smallbusiness on Reddit

I am certainly not counting 5,000 skus every week to make sure it's accurate.

r/smallbusiness on Reddit

A real solution would need to remove the weekly cleanup, not add another dashboard.

r/Businessowners on Reddit

I’m convinced Target’s entire inventory management system is broken.

r/Target on Reddit

we have at least 4-5 dump bins worth of new yarn and probably another 3-4 dump bins worth of old yarn from previous trucks in the back

r/MichaelsEmployees on Reddit

Our stock room is bursting at the seams. Literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in product just sitting there.

r/DollarTree on Reddit

If I sell 1 product they send 2 cases and the on hand is correct so they know what they are doing!

r/DollarTree on Reddit

It's literally impossible to keep things organized when they treat the store like a hoarder's storage unit.

r/tractorsupply on Reddit

I wait until it is absolutely necessary to reorder or else someone will inevitably stack on top and crush them

r/tjcrew on Reddit

If I have room for 16 BBQ Lays and have 20 stuffed on the shelf and 3 are forecasted to sell I don't need 4 more.

r/FritoLay on Reddit

have half of my inventory "lost" within our warehouse the. Forced to buy and recover asap

r/procurement on Reddit

Retail store employees and managers

Where they talk

  • r/Target
  • r/DollarTree
  • r/smallbusiness
  • r/tractorsupply
  • r/InventoryManagement
  • r/HomeDepot
  • r/kroger
  • r/walmart

Tools they use today

  • Shopify
  • Relex
  • Excel
  • IMS
  • MyDevice
  • Square
  • Tally
  • Afresh

Why those fall short

  • System routes picks to casepack locations and allows partial pulls, corrupting counts
  • system sends more product than stores can push or store
  • Scans misreport backstock; counts and locations stay wrong
  • system ignores corrected on-hands and keeps sending more
  • not enough labor to complete process; backstock unorganized; managers zero out items