Originally Published: November 29, 2025
Managing inventory is often the bane of a business owner’s life. Everything else in your company might be running as smooth as butter, but there’s a messy backroom just behind you that you can’t quite take your mind off!
And there’s probably a reason for that: when your inventory is all over the place, the rest of your business will be too. Your profit margins and acquisition costs, your team’s general sense of organization, and the amount of waste you produce month after month too.
Really, bad inventory management can be a genuine working hazard! But there are ways to smooth them out and get them just as well oiled as everything else in your workplace.
Here are a few ways to get your stock room back under control.
Don’t Apply a One Size Fits All Procurement Approach
You know what this leads to? Over AND under stocking. When you order the same things, in the same way, on the same schedule every single time, you’re going to have a lot of things you don’t need and few of the things you do need.
It might feel like you’re saving money within your procurement, but all you’re really doing is putting yourself at a disadvantage.
Think about it. Ordering the same way every time you go back to your account doesn’t factor in your actual, real time needs. It just makes sure you have the same 10 to 20 things in stock, whether or not you actually need them.
That could leave you without the essentials, and then you spend more because you need a rush order to get them ASAP. And if that’s happened more than a couple times already, you need to change!
You Need More Space (Or You’re Wasting Some!)
How much storage do you have in your stock room or warehouse? Chances are, not enough! You could do with some more shelving units, as building up vertically is the best way to use all of the space available to you.
And yes, that really does matter. Because wasting space is one of the worst contenders for inventory management issues in the modern business world. After all, there’s all that space in the middle of your stock room just doing nothing!
But if you’re crammed to the brim as is, this won’t really help you. Instead, you’re going to need to find and/or add more space to your storage area.
And if it turns out that you do need more space, don’t delay. Even a temporary storage addition will make it much easier to manage your operational inefficiencies, which will then plan something better for the future.
Measure the space you do have, measure out where your new extension could go, and then give a company like Metal Structure Concepts a call. With a pre-fab metal building, it’s much easier to get the new storage space you need whenever you actually need it, what with metal structures able to be both put up and taken down with ease.
Use a Software Tracker to Eliminate Time Costs
It’s hard to keep an eye on everything that’s going on in your stock room, let alone the business as a whole. That’s why you should rely on software to automate the process for you.
Inventory management platforms are one stop shops for business owners, where you can be in and out of your stock without even having to walk into the room. Instead, it’s all there at your fingertips – and you just need to tap a couple of buttons to see each shelf and aisle in turn.
And if you don’t already have a system like this set up and running, it’s more than past time to get one underway.
Get Ahold of Your Inventory
When you’ve got ahold of your inventory, it’s not got ahold of you!
Instead of constantly playing catch up when trying to rotate stock after it’s already degraded or needs to be thrown away, you’re able to use and sell it as planned.
And not only that, you’re using the space effectively, eliminating the risks of working in your stock room, and you’re keeping your waste low and your carbon footprint small.
All of this stems from a proper inventory management system. It smoothes out the struggles above, and it makes it easier to run efficiently as a cost-effective business.
So why not invest in your inventory control this year? It might just be the best decision you’ve ever made!
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