We went to visit a shoe shop that sells ladies' wedding shoes, court shoes and dancing shoes.
They provide custom-made shoes too.
This is the stock label that will be on every display shoe, when one of the shoe is sold, staff will make a cross on the respective size sold.
Base on this stock card, they determine the number of shoes sold and the balance stock.
Shop still uses manual stock-taking system as it is a small company.
The sticker will have to tally with the stock record. Their stocktake is done on a monthly basis. Manually checks which items are out of stock.
The boss is friendly and explains clearly how their system works and also gave us lots of useful information.
Disadvantages of the manual stocktaking system:
- tedious
- time-consuming
- troublesome ( because staff will need to pass down information on stock, needs explaining)
- accuracy problem
Here are some of the reasons why they are still using a manual system,
- small company (so don't need automated system)
- computer system also relies on human to be accurate
- current software are hard to use
- users need to have basic knowledge of Accounting (to operate the system)
The products in the store are sort in categories like, grocery, non-food, chilled products etc.
Store manager checks quantity and quality of stock, if everything's ok, she'll sign on the delivery form.
This is the poultry section. Meat will be packed into smaller portions for sale. And this is where they weigh their meat.
