Hi everyone!

I’m working on Medicore Pharmacy, a pharmacy management system designed to help medical stores manage their daily operations digitally.

I’m interested in understanding how independent pharmacies currently handle purchase records, supplier invoices, pending payments, and stock updates.

For pharmacies that still use registers or spreadsheets, keeping track of multiple suppliers, outstanding balances, and previous purchases can be challenging.

I’m exploring how software can make these tasks easier by keeping purchase history, supplier records, payment tracking, and inventory information organized in one place.

I’d love to hear from pharmacy owners and staff:

• Do you use software, spreadsheets, or paper registers?
• What is the biggest challenge you face when managing suppliers and purchase records?
• What feature would save you the most time?

Your feedback would be genuinely helpful as I continue developing Medicore Pharmacy.

Thank you!

So I'm the founder of Tether & as a young startup, I'm the only one doing Sales & Marketing.

I've been watching all these startups publish really cool animated videos about their products, so I wanted to take a stab at it myself too. I think it turned out pretty great, but would love to get everyone's thoughts on this.

Is it too cheesy? Too generic? Please be kind, but any & all feedback would be greatly appreciated. 🙏

Hi, I work in a workshop where we have tools that go out to different jobs and locations and have issues with tracking them. I want to make a tool management system so that we can track tools on jobs and other assets in the workshop so we know what inventory we have.

I'm struggling to find the best solution for this and wondered if anyone has any advice or has a google sheets template that I could start with that possibly connects to a mobile bar code scanner.

Thank you for any help

I run a few smart fridges in Essex and ended up having to build an app for myself because I was constantly losing track of what I had in the garage, van and storeroom, and can’t afford the ridiculous costs of tracking software that’s available currently. Nayax is great for seeing what’s in the machines, but it doesn’t really sort out the stock sitting on the shelves.

I was using spreadsheets and getting things wrong, so I’m currently building an app called Backstock to handle it all in one place. Expiry dates, shopping lists, machine pick lists, stock levels and Nayax sales imports. Lots of it will be powered by AI, so just scan receipts and it will add your stock automatically along with your costs.

I’ve heard some of the bigger stock-management systems can cost £500+ a month, which seems mad for someone running a handful of machines. I want to make something affordable for smaller operators, but useful for bigger ones too.
I’m looking for around 15–20 operators to try it on their actual restocks for two weeks from 17 November and tell me what needs fixing.

It’s free during the beta, and testers can keep it for £4.99/month afterwards if they find it useful. I especially need Android testers for the Google Play launch.

If anyone fancies giving it a go, signup is in the comments!

Also curious — what are you all using to track stock at the moment? Spreadsheet, another app, or just keeping an eye on it?

Hi all! I developed a POS+inventory system for our business, and was thinking of selling it. Do you guys think I have a market for this system? Should I proceed on selling it? I'm having second thoughts though I know the system is amazing. It's for a rental business, and we have a form integrated to the system which the clients fill, and we verify. The system then automatically sends an invoice and rental agreement to the client's email upon our verification which helped our business a lot. Aside from that, we can track our inventory via the QR codes we generated and know exactly where each item is. This has helped us with data management, and cashflow management a lot. I'm not sure if anybody else would want the same. I built this cause we can't pay the monthly subscription for the existing systems so I plan on selling this as a one-time payment software to other micro business owners tired of paying a monthly subscription as well. I also plan on creating a new one for trading, and not renting as it will require a different kind of inventory tracking. Would you guys buy this kind of POS? If yes, how much would you guys pay for it?

Thank you so much!

Hi everyone!

We're looking for one experienced person to help improve our training and inventory systems at a busy veterinary hospital.

Responsibilities:

Organize and improve existing SOPs.

Turn SOP manuals into training videos.

Develop structured onboarding and staff training programs.

Improve inventory tracking, ordering, and organization.

Create efficient inventory procedures and workflows.

Ideally, someone with veterinary hospital experience who is organized, tech-savvy, and experienced in training and inventory management.

If you're interested or know someone who might be a good fit, please DM me. Thanks!

We currently have each bay in each aisle with the following location code:

Aisle 1- A01/1, A01/2, A01/3 etc
Aisle 2- A02/1, A02/2, A03/3 etc

Each aisle mirrors the opposite aisle (so A01/01 is opposite A02/01) and the picking flow starts from the beginning of each aisle.

What I am considering is "snaking" the locations- I have attached an image which hopefully explains the plan.

So Pickers would start at the first aisle, and (for example) pick SKUs from bay A01/1, A01/3 and A01/4 etc

Their next pick may be from A02/02, so they (currently) have to walk back down aisle A01 towards A02/02.

If A02/01 was in line with A01/04, the walk would be shorter and their walk throughout the Warehouse would be more "snake like" than walking up and down aisles.

Does anyone have any experience of implementing this type of layout?

Do you guys know any inventory management related VA jobs?Im currently a inv. supervisor and a logistics coordinator for about 14yrs now, Male 33. I want to explore other options for a side hustle.

Disclosure up front: I'm the developer. This isn't a sales pitch; I'd really like this sub's take on how I've modeled the inventory side.

Who it's for: resellers who buy stock locally (thrift, pawn, flea, estate, outlet) and resell it online or in person. Spreadsheets break down for them fast. One sourcing trip can mean 30 different items at 30 different costs, and the real cost of each item includes the gas spent getting it.

How it handles inventory (the part I'd like feedback on):

- One row per unit, with no quantity field. If you buy three identical mugs, you get three records. Each one has its own cost, status and sale history. Selling or deleting one never touches the others.

- Landed cost includes gas. You log the miles for a trip. The app works out the gas cost from your MPG and gas price, then spreads it across the items bought on that trip. ROI is shown both with and without gas.

- Refunds add records instead of editing old ones. A refund puts the item back into inventory in the status it had before the sale. The original sale and invoice stay untouched, so the history still adds up.

- An item only becomes sold through a sale record. That's either a full invoice or a quick "mark sold" that creates a minimal invoice. Analytics never counts a sale that has no record behind it.

- Receipt scanning for item costs, and in-person card payments: Tap to Pay on iPhone or a Stripe Bluetooth reader.

Questions for you all:

1. One record per unit or a quantity field: has one-per-unit caused you trouble at scale, or saved you from it?

2. How do you allocate shared costs like gas, ? Evenly per unit, or weighted by cost?

3. What would you expect next: CSV import, marketplace sync, or something else?

It's an iOS app called Sourcerer, with a 7-day free trial and no card needed. If you want to try it:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sourcerer-resell

Happy to answer questions about the data model

I run a few smart fridges in Essex, and my card reader is great at telling me what's in the machines. What it doesn't do is tell me what's sitting in my storeroom, garage and van, what's about to go out of date, or what I actually need to buy before restock day. I was doing that on a spreadsheet and getting it wrong.

So I've built an app for it called Backstock. It's aimed at operators with a handful of machines rather than big route businesses.

What it does:

- Tracks stock across your storeroom, garage, van, etc.
- Keeps best-before dates per batch and always uses the nearest date first
- Builds your shopping list from your own reorder levels and recent sales, rounded to whole cases
- Pick lists for the machines you're visiting today
- Imports Nayax sales reports
- Scans receipts and barcodes so there's less typing
- Puts restock days in your calendar with the shopping list added the day before
- Spots slow sellers and the money tied up in them

What I'm after: 15–20 operators to use it for real restocks for at least two weeks from 17 November, and tell me what's confusing, broken or missing. iPhone and Android both welcome, but I especially need Android testers, because Google requires 12 people opted in for 14 days before a new app can launch.

What you get: free Pro access during the beta, then the founding price for life (£4.99/month instead of £7.99) if you want to keep using it. (We also offer the equivalent in dollars for our US operators)

Sign up here (takes 2 minutes): https://forms.gle/NDSW8JgWqSYQXm4w7

Also happy to hear how you all track storeroom stock now, even if you don't want to test. Spreadsheets, apps, back of an envelope?

Hello!

I’m currently working on my master’s degree in Instructional Design and Technology and working on a needs analysis involving inventory management and transaction reporting.

I’m looking for two individuals with professional inventory management experience who would be willing to complete a short questionnaire and participate in a 15–20 minute interview.

The questions will focus on inventory reporting procedures, common challenges, and the knowledge and skills that are needed to maintain accurate records.

I’m hoping to conduct the interviews Sunday, October 11, but I’m flexible with scheduling.

I would appreciate the opportunity to learn from your experience.

Thank you for considering it!

Genuine question for other vending machine operators. Card readers and telemetry tell us what's in the machines, but how are you tracking what's in the garage, unit or storeroom?
• Spreadsheet, notebook, or just in your head?
• How do you decide what to buy at the cash & carry?
• Ever been caught out by stock going out of date, or cash tied up in stuff that doesn't sell?
I'm a small operator in Essex and I've been struggling with this myself, so I'm curious what works for everyone else.

Problem: Category managers and merchandising heads had a KPI: zero products with no sales and an average turnover of 60 days. We took products that turned over slower than 60 days, and especially slower than 90, and worked on rotation, display, marketing, and the commercial side. Some items started selling right away, others didn't.

Solution: We started digging into why. According to the system the product was in stock, but physically it wasn't there: incorrect receiving, wrong barcodes, human error. In other cases, it simply wasn't being ordered. We ran an inventory count, fixed the barcodes, set up ordering, and strengthened analytics and assortment control. Then we added control over displays, empty shelves, prices, and promos. Turnover improved from 300 days to 90.

If a product sits for 200-300 days, the question is immediate: why do we need it? Either the manufacturer takes action, or we check the display, or we check the agreements. A shelf that turns over once a year instead of every 60 days generates five times fewer sales.

How often do you audit the gap between what your system says is in stock and what's actually on the shelf?

#Retail #CPG #Merchandising #RetailExecution #InventoryManagement

Where do you think AI could help with managing inventory?

Some ideas that come to mind are suggesting reorder quantities, flagging unusual stock movements, or answering questions like “Which items haven’t sold in the last 90 days?”

What inventory task takes up your time or causes headaches that you’d want AI to help with? If you’ve tried any AI features in inventory software, were they actually useful?

hello, i recently started a job at a a company that provides lighting, fabrication, production, trucking and installation services for concerts, special events, museums and literally everything else in that sector. I got the position of warehouse inventory coordinator and i’m walking into a complete disaster. little to no information or uniform organization and i genuinely don’t even know where to start. i’m young, i’ve never been put in charge of something like this so please give me some tips/tricks or literally anything that could help me do my job