Many locations.
One count each.
Binlogic supports multi-location retail operations, including store transfers and cycle counting. Each location holds its own stock position, counted on its own cycle, with movements between them recorded as they happen rather than reconstructed at year end.
The problem
Three stores is fine. Ten is a different job.
Head office says twelve. The store says four.
Every location keeps its own version of the truth, and the gap only surfaces when somebody promises stock that is not there. Nobody is lying. The count simply has not been the same number in two places for a while.
Stock moves between stores and nobody records it
A manager needs three units, another store has them, and the transfer happens by text message. The boxes arrive. The system never hears about it. Two locations are now wrong instead of one.
You cannot offer pickup in a store you do not trust
Pickup only works if the number behind it is right. When it is not, the customer arrives for an order the store cannot find, and the fix is a refund and an apology rather than a sale.
How it works
Count where the stock is.
01
Count each location on its own cycle
Counting is per location, done on a handheld while the store is open, a section at a time. No shutdown, no annual weekend, no clipboard transcribed on Monday.
02
Record the movement when it happens
A store-to-store transfer is a tracked movement with a sender and a receiver, scanned at both ends. The units are accounted for while they are in transit, not reconciled afterwards.
03
One position per location, not one number for the chain
A chain-level total hides the thing you need to know, which is where the unit actually is. Every location holds its own position, and the total is what falls out of them.
The shape of it
Every location reports. One system holds the record.
Binlogic is built mobile-first: floor work such as receiving, putaway, picking and cycle counts runs on a handheld device. That matters most in a store, where there is no packing bench and no terminal, and the person counting is also serving customers.
Your locations
Counts in · Transfers recorded
Handheld on the floor
Position
System of record
Questions
What retailers ask before they start.
Do we have to close stores to count?
No. Cycle counting is designed to run while the store trades: a section at a time, on a schedule, on a handheld. The alternative, a full physical count, means closing or counting after hours, which is why most retailers do it once a year and live with the drift in between.
What counts as a location?
Anywhere a unit can sit and be promised to a customer. That usually means each store, its stockroom, the distribution centre and any overflow space. If a place can hold stock but is not a location in the system, its stock is invisible and will eventually be sold twice.
Can we offer buy online, pick up in store?
Binlogic can support buy-online-pick-up-in-store workflows where store inventory is tracked in the system. That condition is the whole job: pickup is only as reliable as the count behind it, so the counting discipline comes first and the pickup promise follows it.
Where should we start if our counts are already wrong?
Start by counting the items that move fastest and matter most, rather than everything at once, and fix the transfer process before widening the program. Counting harder while stock keeps moving unrecorded between stores just measures the same problem more often.