Black Friday sales Australia-wide are now one of the busiest times of the year for product businesses, and the stock problems that hurt the most usually start a few weeks before the sale begins. It often goes like this. Someone picks 20 products for the promotion, and nobody checks how many of each are actually […]

Ask a warehouse manager for stock management tips in late October, and the answer usually begins with a story about last December. A pallet of gift sets that sat in receiving for three days while the website showed it as sold out. A Shopify listing that kept taking orders on a Friday night after the […]

The real test of your holiday ecommerce inventory management strategies arrives at about 7pm on the Friday of Black Friday weekend. The campaign email has gone out, the ads are live, and your best-selling SKU is moving faster than anyone forecast. Shopify still shows 40 units. The warehouse has 12. A marketplace listing, quietly running […]

Christmas inventory management gets its real report card in the second week of January. The warehouse is quiet, the sales dashboard still shows a record December, and the bank balance looks thinner than it should. Supplier invoices for stock that landed in November are falling due, the BAS is on its way, and a few […]

Holiday inventory forecasting usually gets decided in a hurry. A supplier wants confirmed quantities by Friday, the sales team is quoting last December from memory, and the buyer is working from a spreadsheet that doesn’t quite match what Cin7 Core or Xero says is on hand. The purchase order goes in anyway, because the container […]

Most holiday season inventory management strategies are decided in October, on a quiet afternoon when nobody in the warehouse is thinking about Christmas yet. A buyer signs off a purchase order based on last year’s numbers. Someone notices that Cin7 Core and Xero are a few thousand dollars apart and parks it until January. A […]