Guides and ideas for running a shop: point of sale, stock and the numbers that matter.
Which code goes on raw materials, cartons and finished packs, where to scan, and why a batch code on every carton turns a UGX 86.4 million recall into UGX 14.4 million.
A distributor sells to shops across a region, a dealer to the people who use the product. The margins worked for a Kampala maker, the law on resale prices, and the contract points.
The one full count your accounts depend on: what to include, where to draw the cut-off, how to value what you count, and how a UGX 3 million mistake moves profit and tax.
Count a few products a day, never close the shop, and still count every line several times a year. The rota formula, the corrected accuracy formula and a worked pharmacy example.
How to write an inventory SOP your staff will follow, with a template of six one-page procedures you can copy and a worked example of what one missed step costs.
Reorder quantity answers how much to buy, and the popular formula answers a different question. Here are four methods compared, worked in rand, rounded to the case.
The reorder point is the stock level that tells you to order again. Here is the formula worked for one product in UGX, and what to change when you order on a set day or import.
What an ERP does for stock that a POS ledger does once a month, worked through one month in rand, with a 20-point checklist marked for what ArmPOS covers and when a small business needs an ERP.
Choose the right stock job, test candidates on your own shelf in an hour, set pay from salary surveys for Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, and plan the first 90 days.
A central store in Kampala and four branches, worked in shillings: holding the safety stock back saves 21.8% with a van every three days, and 7.1% with a weekly one.
Inventory efficiency is about the hours your team spends receiving, storing, finding and counting stock. A Lagos example times each job and shows which techniques cut it.
The same UGX 2,000 of profit is a 25% markup and a 20% margin. The two conversion formulas, a table to copy into a spreadsheet, and prices worked from a carton's cost.
