Reading list
- What AI can and cannot do with stock and reorders
What AI tools actually help with when you track stock in a small shop, and the places where their suggestions go wrong.
- Getting your stock data ready for an AI tool
What to tidy in product names, codes, counts and sales records before an AI tool can give you stock answers worth checking.
- Reorder points explained in plain English
What a reorder point is, how the usual formulas work, and how to check by hand what an AI tool suggests.
- Asking an AI tool to suggest reorder quantities
How to give an AI tool your sales and lead times, what to ask for, and how to check the quantities it gives back.
- AI in spreadsheets and inventory apps: what is built in
Which spreadsheet features offer forecasting or AI help, what the makers say they do, and what to confirm on their own pages.
- Using AI to spot slow and fast sellers
How to sort products by how quickly they sell with an AI tool, and the checks that keep you from trusting the ranking blindly.
- Stock counts and checks a person must still do
Shelf counts, damaged goods and odd sales that stay with a person even when an AI tool makes the forecast.
- When AI stock forecasts go wrong
What causes bad stock suggestions, such as one-off sales, stockouts hiding demand and new products, and how to notice them.