Retail and distribution stock is meant to be simple — buy it, hold it, sell it. It stops being simple the moment you add a second branch, a distributor, a batch with an expiry and a customer who wants to return something. Fast Inventory keeps it straightforward: PO- and sales-driven in and out, batch and expiry where you need them, barcode entry, reorder discipline across every location, and sales returns booked against the invoice. One configurable system, cloud or on-premise, India and worldwide.
Each location runs its own spreadsheet, so nobody sees that Branch 2 is out of a fast-mover Branch 4 is sitting on. Sales are lost and cash is tied up at the same time.
A customer returns goods; someone scribbles a note; the credit and the stock update happen days apart, or never. Books and shelf quantity drift out of agreement.
Batches with expiry dates sit unsold until someone spots them on the shelf. Write-offs pile up because there's no FEFO discipline and no near-expiry warning.
Goods come in and get counted onto the shelf without anyone matching them to the purchase order — so excess, short and wrong-item receipts slip through unnoticed.
Every movement in the network — receipt, transfer, sale and return — posts to one ledger, so head office and each location always read the same stock and the same value.
Fast Inventory gives store and branch managers one stock picture — no more phoning around to find out who has the item a customer wants.
Every goods receipt (GRN) is booked against its purchase order, so quantity and item are verified as they arrive. Receive exactly what was ordered and it clears; receive more than the PO and the excess is flagged; receive short and the balance stays open. Urgent stock with no PO can still be taken in on a receipt-without-bill basis and reconciled later — the door is controlled, not a bottleneck.
Fast Inventory keeps a per-location balance for the main store, every branch and every distributor, with an item-by-location cross-reference and warehouse-wise totals that still roll up to one company-wide number. A stock transfer moves goods from surplus to shortfall and posts on both sides, so you rebalance the network instead of over-ordering for one branch while another sits on the same item.
For dated goods, switch on batch and expiry tracking: a near-expiry dashboard buckets stock by expiry window and FEFO issue sends the nearest-expiry batch out first, so write-offs fall. Item barcodes — 1D, 2D and QR — drive fast scan-based receipt, sale and counting, so the counter moves quickly and the count is right. Simple items skip batches entirely; nothing is forced.
When a customer brings goods back, book the sales return against the original invoice. Stock is added back to the store and an automatic debit is raised against the customer in the same posting, so books and shelf quantity never drift apart. Returned goods can go to normal saleable stock or to a separate returns store if they need checking first — a recurring pain point for dairy and FMCG distributors, solved cleanly.
Reorder-level control flags any item at or below its minimum, so buyers replenish before a stockout. Fast-moving and slow-moving reports show what to push and what to clear, ABC analysis focuses attention on the items that carry the value, and valuation and aging reports keep the money side honest — all from the same immutable ledger, per location or for the whole network.
Codes, barcodes, UOMs, tax group, pricing, valuation and min/max reorder levels — one catalogue shared by every branch, distributor and warehouse.
Goods receipt against PO, stock transfer between locations, gate pass, adjustment and sales return — every movement on one engine and one ledger.
Batch tracking with expiry dates, a near-expiry dashboard and FEFO issue — switched on for dated goods and left off for everything else.
1D, 2D and QR barcodes for fast receipt, sale and counting, with handheld scanner support — the everyday scanning retail and distribution live on.
Reorder-level, fast- and slow-moving, ABC, valuation, aging and reconciliation reports — per location or rolled up across the whole network.
Movements post to Tally as stock journals with no double entry, and reorder and near-expiry alerts reach buyers by WhatsApp, email and SMS.
Yes. Every branch, warehouse and distributor holds its own balance, with item-by-location cross-reference and warehouse-wise rollup, and stock transfers move goods between them cleanly.
Yes, per item. A near-expiry dashboard buckets dated stock by window and FEFO sends the nearest-expiry stock out first, while simple items stay a plain in-and-out.
A return is booked against the original invoice, which adds stock back and raises an automatic debit in one step — so books and shelf quantity stay in agreement.
Yes. Barcodes (1D, 2D, QR) drive scan-based receipt, sale and counting, and reorder-level control flags any item at or below its minimum for replenishment.
Yes. Goods receipts are matched to the purchase order, so excess, short and wrong-item receipts are flagged at the door rather than discovered at month-end.
Either. Fast Inventory runs cloud and on-premise for retailers, distributors and traders across India and worldwide, and connects to the rest of the Fast Suite when needed.
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See all solutionsA 30-minute demo — your SKUs, your branches, your movements on screen. See receipt against PO, multi-location balances, FEFO and a sales return with auto-debit work as one system.
