Inventory · hair & barber
A missing colour at 10am becomes everybody's problem remarkably fast.
A salon mixes fast consumables, many technical variants and durable equipment. The right level of tracking depends mainly on what can block a service or force an emergency order.
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What to track
- Gloves and protection supplies
- Foil and technical accessories
- Shampoo, treatments and finishing products
- Colour and developer by service
- Clippers, dryers and durable equipment
02
Check cadence
- Frequent tracking of daily technical products
- Weekly check of critical families
- Cycle count by area or category
- Monthly review of slow or dormant products
03
Why stock breaks
- Large number of shades and variants
- Shared use across several stations
- Promotions or seasonality shifting demand
- Open products with poorly estimated remaining quantity
04
Simple workflow
- Group products by family and location
- Set thresholds on products that can block a service
- Normalize consumption across several weeks
- Use dormant inventory to find tied-up references
- Adapt budget by number of stations
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