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Fourteen inventory optimization strategies for a retail shop, each paired with its measure and the point at which to act, then one shop's monthly scorecard in cedis.
Stock and inventory mean the same goods in accounting and tax law. What the popular finished-goods split gets wrong, shown on a GHS bakery example, and the three places the words really differ.
FIFO, weighted average and specific identification, run through one quarter of sugar sales in UGX, with the IAS 2 and Uganda tax rules and the write-down step most guides skip.
Six POS reports show the sales you are losing now. Here is the action for each, a worked Nairobi example, and why a 10% discount can halve your profit.
A one-week plan to train shop staff on a new till: credit, split payments, returns, the cash register and the offline drill, with a sign-off sheet to copy.
US rankings pick systems that don't take cards in Africa. Here are ten tests to run in a free trial, built for African shops, with a scoring sheet you can copy.
A flat 10% points reward can give away most of a thin margin. Price points product by product, run credit with a limit, and ask before you send offers.
A point of sale system does more than take money: every sale moves stock, cash and credit. Here is one sale in a Kampala shop, traced record by record.
The four records every product needs, when a stock book, spreadsheet or POS fits, the African shop realities global guides skip, and a 30-day plan.
