A blended number hides the shortfall
Style-level stock is an average of many different realities. One colour sells out while another sits, size sets run uneven, and a ratio pack quietly consumes the sizes you needed for the next order. When the sheet holds one figure per style, the shortfall only surfaces at packing — after the customer has been promised a date.
- Availability must be stored per size and colour, not per style
- Reserved quantity is not the same as sold quantity
- Incoming quantity from job work belongs in the same view
Three numbers instead of one
dailycrm keeps available, reserved and incoming quantities separately for every SKU variant. Confirming an order moves pieces from available into reserved, dispatch moves them out entirely, and finished goods coming off job work add to incoming until they clear. Nobody has to interpret which number the sheet is showing.
What changes on the floor
Order confirmation becomes a check instead of a judgement call. A shortfall is visible while the buyer is still on the call, so it can be met from another lot, planned into production, or negotiated on quantity — not discovered a week later.
Takeaway
Track stock the way you sell it: by size, colour and lot. The blended style figure is where oversells are born.