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Inventory Control: The Real Lever for Rising Retail Costs
Posted on 12th October 2026The Budget Spared Warehouses — Fuel and Labour Costs Didn’t Chancellor John Healey has reportedly ruled out further taxes on large warehouses ahead of his 28 October Budget, following warnings from major retailers that the proposal misunderstood how high streets actually work. For retailers running distribution-heavy operations, that is a genuine relief: one less unpredictable […]
AI Pro: Business Intelligence for Inventory Operations
Posted on 6th October 2026Most inventory teams already have reports. What they lack is a system that translates operational truth into profit and cash impact, recommends specific actions, and can write those actions back into day-to-day execution: replenishment settings, purchasing, transfers, pricing and supplier controls. This is what AI Pro does. AI Business Intelligence is the commercial-intelligence layer of […]
Built, Supported and Sold In-House: Meet the Team Behind Stok.ly
Posted on 2nd October 2026When you work with Stok.ly, you work with the people who built it. Our platform is designed and engineered in-house, our customers are onboarded and supported by in-house team. The six people you’ll meet below bring almost 100 years of combined experience across retail, wholesale, ecommerce, finance, software and operations. Leadership: Iain Coplans, Co-Founder and […]
The Difference Between Knowing Your Stock and Controlling It
Posted on 28th September 2026Why growing retail, wholesale and distribution businesses need operational control, not just inventory accuracyRetail and wholesale businesses have spent the last several years fixing a real problem: knowing what stock they actually have. Barcode scanning, cycle counting and AI-assisted reconciliation have closed a lot of that gap, and for most growing operations, “does the system […]
Software QA Engineer
Posted on 25th September 2026The Role You’ll work in a small Agile sprint team alongside our CTO and software developers, testing new features, investigating issues and helping the team release software with confidence. The role has a strong focus on manual, functional, exploratory and regression testing. You’ll take ownership of testing activities and help improve our QA processes, documentation […]
The Peak Season Visibility Gap: A Bullwhip Problem, Not a Staffing Problem
Posted on 26th August 2026Our CEO, Iain Coplans, wrote recently about why now isn’t the moment to change systems before peak on LinkedIn. This is the analytical version of that argument: what the peak-season visibility gap actually is, why it recurs so predictably, and what the correct response is once it’s named properly. The observation Every year, growing retail […]
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