invent.sale
Supply · Expiry

Prevent a write-off before the goods lose their value

A write-off is money spent twice: once to buy the goods, once to dispose of them. This product surfaces the risk early and proposes an action while the goods are still worth something.

who this is for

pharmacy or grocery network, warehouse director, CFO

layer
Supply

What is wrong today

  • Expiry becomes visible only at stocktake, or when a customer refuses at the till.
  • Goods expire in one location while another is short of them.
  • What was written off lands in demand, and the system orders more.

How it works

A 30/60/90-day horizon with the amount at risk

Not a list of items but an amount: what the goods that will not sell in time are worth at this location's current rate.

Three modes of expiry reliability

Exact batch, estimated from turnover, and manual verification required. These must never be mixed into one number, and on screen they never are.

An action instead of a report

Move it where it sells, mark it down, return it to the supplier, or block further purchasing — each with the numbers for what it achieves.

the working screen

What it looks like in use

The date alone decides nothing. What decides is whether this location sells the stock before it.

invent.sale · Supply · Shelf lifeby batch, as of today
All batchesSell in time31Too late6
ItemLocationExpiresOn handWill sellAction
Nourishing cream 75 mlLocation Cin 34 days12040 pcsmark down
Nourishing cream 75 mlLocation Bin 34 days20all of itleave
Shampoo 400 mlLocation Ain 12 days6418 pcsmove to B
2.1% of stock is heading for write-off · the markdown is sized to lose less than the write-off wouldBuild the markdown plan
Shelf life against sales speedThe date on the box decides nothing. What decides is whether the stock sells before it — and that differs by location.
“Move”, not only “mark down”Where the item moves faster it sells at full price. A discount is not the only answer, and not the first.
The warning arrives a month outA markdown three days before expiry is a write-off with extra steps. A month before, it is still a sale.

An anonymised example: locations are lettered and the dataset is shared across every screen on this site.

Who stays in control

Markdowns and returns are commercial decisions confirmed by a person. The system prepares the numbers and the document, but never changes a price or ships a return on its own.

How it is measured

Through a prevented-loss ledger: what was at risk, which action was taken, and what happened next.

what to read next

Show us one critical process. We will show how it runs here.

We look at your cycle: how an order is assembled today, who decides, where time leaks and what the system takes over.

Start with one critical process

Connect replenishment, supplier ordering or another first workflow, then expand across one platform.

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