You know that sinking feeling when you check stock and find 200 units of a product you swore you sold out of last month? Yeah. I’ve seen that mess in a mid-sized electronics distributor. They were losing about $15,000 a month just on dead stock and rush orders gone wrong.
The real problem wasn’t their warehouse
Everyone assumed it was a picking or packing issue. But the deeper look showed their purchase orders and sales orders were out of sync. ERPNext Consulting stepped in and mapped their actual order-to-fulfillment flow. We found items sitting on shelves for 60+ days while similar products were constantly backordered.
- First, we flagged every SKU with zero movement in 45 days
- Second, we set reorder points based on actual sales velocity, not gut feeling
- Third, we created automated alerts for slow-moving inventory so they could run discounts early
What happened after three months
Their inventory carrying costs dropped by 22%. The CFO didn’t believe the numbers until he saw the bank statement. The trick was making the data visible to the warehouse manager daily, not just during quarterly reviews.
If you’re still relying on spreadsheets to track inventory, you’re bleeding cash. A targeted engagement with ERPNext Consulting can fix that in weeks, not years.