Multi-site businesses: centralizing stock without losing local autonomy
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As soon as a business runs several locations (shops, warehouses, points of sale), a real dilemma shows up: give each site its own isolated stock and risk losing any overall visibility, or centralize everything and risk ignoring each site's own needs.
The problem with a separate stock per site
Without central visibility, each site operates in a silo. Head office discovers stockouts after the fact, doesn't know where an available product actually sits elsewhere, and can't easily compare consumption between two sites to adjust orders.
The problem with a fully centralized stock
On the other hand, a fully unified stock erases what makes one site different from another: a downtown storefront doesn't run at the same pace as a suburban warehouse, and both lose relevance if treated as a single flow.
The right scale: one warehouse per site, one overview at head office
The approach that works in practice: each site manages its own stock day to day (its own warehouse, its own thresholds, its own movements), while head office keeps a consolidated view across all of them: total per product across sites, comparison between sites, without re-entering or cross-checking separate files.
Frequently asked questions
?Do all sites need the same alert thresholds?
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No, each site has its own consumption pace, so its own thresholds, adjustable independently.
?Can one site see another site's stock?
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It depends on how you set it up: Fluxalyo allows an isolated stock per warehouse, with a consolidated view available to primary managers.
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