How an Efficient Cash Register Can Help to Maintain Correct Inventory

Correct stock is always a dream come true for every retailer as it is of utmost importance in the retail world. Stock is all items that are ready to sell inside the retail store. What kind of business a retail store is going to do depends on the status of stock held by the store. You must be wondering how come both things are co-related. Just take a random example of shoes in a shoe store, if it is kept in a wrong shoebox while billing cashier scans box, not shoes then what will happen is that there will be a mismatch in physical and virtual inventory. 

Repercussions of same will be that in inventory list this shoe will exist but not physically, as nowadays all replenishment are autorun thus store will never get this shoe from warehouse, and everyday sale will be lost due to unavailability of same. So, what do you want in an inventory? The following are some points that need to be followed at the cash counter to ensure healthy stock.

• Cashier to check all kinds of bags being sold as many times either by mistake or by intent some or other items are found in it. If it is unbilled, it is a loss of turnover and also wrong stock in ERP.

• While billing any kinds of shoes both left and right shoe to be checked with their foot size as many times if it gets unchecked then the customer can either take both left shoes or right shoes and also both formats can be different which leads to irritated customer and bad stock at stores end.

• Just after billing cashier can also compare several items in the bill with several items handed over to the customer, this helps in the correct stock situation and also reassures the customer that he is getting what he is paying for. 

An efficient cash register is a base of correct stock, which helps in boosting turnover. There are several issues that can sprout up due to mismanagement at the cash counter.