Inventory and staff scheduling for a multi-branch trade supplier - fully offline.

Each branch counted stock differently, so head office never had a real picture of inventory. Reordering was guesswork, and popular lines ran out while slow stock piled up in the back.

Rostering was a manager redrawing a wall planner every week, then phoning around to fill gaps. Cloud retail systems existed, but the branches’ broadband was unreliable - a sale couldn’t wait for a spinning loading screen.

A branch inventory tool that standardises stock counts, tracks levels per branch, and surfaces what to reorder before it runs out - with a simple end-of-day sync between sites when convenient.

A staff scheduling planner that builds the weekly roster around availability and predicted demand, highlights over- and under-staffed shifts, and prints or exports cleanly.

A head-office rollup that combines each branch’s figures into one view for purchasing, without any branch needing a live connection to work.

Every branch runs its own copy of the tool locally, so the till-side and stockroom workflows never stall on a network call. Sales and stock data live on the branch’s own machine first; the head-office rollup is a deliberate, controlled sync rather than a constant cloud stream.

That means no monthly per-store SaaS bill, no customer or supplier data sitting on a third-party server, and a system that keeps trading through a broadband outage - the branch simply syncs when the line is back.

Head office finally sees true stock across all four branches. Stock-out surprises dropped sharply, rosters take minutes instead of an afternoon, and the whole operation runs on hardware the company owns - no dependency on a vendor that could change its prices or its terms.