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Inventory Control: The Real Lever for Rising Retail Costs
Posted on 2026-10-12The 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 2026-10-06Most 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 2026-10-02When 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 2026-09-28Why 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 […]
Creating Purchase Orders in Stok.ly
Posted on 2022-01-18Creating Purchase Orders is easy in Stok.ly. Send your suppliers Purchase Orders directly from Stok.ly. Receive Goods In against Purchase Orders. Retain a complete audit trail from the point of Purchase Order created, Reviewed and Approved, Submitted through to Goods In received in single or multiple shipments. Watch the video below on creating Purchase Orders […]