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 […]

Payday Super compliance usually slips on an ordinary Thursday afternoon. The pay run has gone out, wages have landed in staff bank accounts, and the super batch is sitting in payroll waiting for the one director who can approve payments. That director is at a supplier meeting in Melbourne and will not get to it […]

Your estimated landed cost is the number you need on the day a buyer asks for pricing, and that day almost always arrives while the container is still somewhere between Ningbo and Port Botany. The supplier invoice is sitting in your inbox in US dollars. The freight forwarder has sent a quote. The broker has […]

A Cin7 Core Xero integration is supposed to solve one very specific problem: stopping your stock numbers and your accounting numbers from telling two different stories. If you have ever pulled a stock valuation report out of Cin7 Core on a Friday afternoon, then opened Xero and found a different figure for the same period, […]

Multi-channel inventory accounting starts failing quietly, long before anyone notices the number is wrong. Shopify says 14 units left. Amazon has already sold the last one an hour ago. MYOB still shows 18, because nobody has told it about either sale yet. Nobody made an error. The channels just stopped agreeing with each other, and […]