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Efficient Inventory Management is the backbone to any business that buys and sells products. This template will help you with basic inventory management.
To understand basic inventory management principles, read our ebook - Inventory Management: Getting Started
Products
Enter the details of your products in the Products sheet.
• Enter a suitable name that describes the product.
• For advice on defining your SKUs, click here
Original Stock Level: Enter the original stock of each product at the point of time when you start to use this spreadsheet. This is important in order for the
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spreadsheet to maintain an accurate running total of the stock level.
Reorder Point: Enter the stock level at which you reorder a fresh shipment of the product. To learn how to determine reorder points for your products, click
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here.
Enter the Cost Price as the price at which you buy the product from your supplier. If needed, you can overwrite this value for specific cases on the Purchases
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sheet.
Enter the Markup value for the product to decide the price at which you sell the product to your customers. If needed, you can overwrite this value for specific
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cases on the Sales sheet.
“Orders waiting to be fulfilled” are automatically calculated from the Sales sheet. This calculates the number of Sales Orders placed for a specific SKU which
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are yet to be fulfilled.
“Stock waiting to be received” is automatically calculated from the Purchase sheet. It calculates the quantity of Purchase Orders for a specific SKU that have
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not arrived yet.
“Stock on hand” is automatically calculated by adding the Purchase Orders and subtracting Sales Orders from the Original Stock Levels. If this value drops
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below the Reorder Point, the cell will turn red.
Purchases
• The Unit Price is set as the Cost Price from the Products sheet, but if necessary, you can overwrite this with a different price.
• The Amount is calculated automatically
Sales
• If you have yet to send out the Sales Order, leave the Sent Date blank so that the spreadsheet can count the order under “Orders
waiting to be fulfilled”.
• The Unit Price is set at the Retail Price from the Products sheet, but if necessary, you can overwrite this with a different price.
• The Amount is calculated automatically
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INVENTORY MANAGEMENT WORKBOOK
Products
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INVENTORY AND SALES MANAGER
Purchases
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All the information here is based on Purchase Date for Purchases, and Order Date for Sales.
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Save this sheet as CSV, and export to TradeGecko
1. Go to File > Save As > and choose .csv as your file type.
2. Start a free trial on TradeGecko, or sign in to your existing account.
3. Under Inventory > Products > choose the “Import Products’ option.
This Excel is already formatted for easy upload.