✱ STOCK CONTROL, FINALLY SIMPLE
Most South African SMEs still track stock on paper, in a spreadsheet, or purely from memory. ZANAVA keeps an accurate, live count of every item across all your branches, so you stop guessing, stop over-ordering, and never run out of your best sellers. Whether you're counting units on a shelf or ingredients in a kitchen, the same system handles it.
ZANAVA / MODULE ZNV-INV-01
ZANAVA OS
INVENTORY
STOCK CONTROL
ZNV-INV-01
A high-level look at what Inventory Management does inside ZANAVA.
Inventory looks different across industries. A hardware store counts units per SKU, a butchery tracks cuts by weight, and a bakery or takeaway needs ingredient stock to deplete automatically when a finished item sells. ZANAVA's inventory module is built to handle all three without forcing every business into a retail-shaped box.
On-hand, reserved, on-order and in-transit quantities update the moment a sale, transfer or receipt happens.
Set a minimum per item and get flagged the instant something needs reordering, no more dead shelves.
Record damages, recounts and write-offs with a reason trail, and reconcile physical counts in minutes.
Move stock between stores with a full audit trail, so the right products are where the demand is.
Sell a finished item and its ingredient stock depletes automatically, so kitchens, bakeries and butcheries don't need a separate stock system.
The problems that show up before a business puts Inventory Management in place.
A stock count on a clipboard is out of date the moment a sale happens. Within weeks, what's on the shelf and what's on the sheet stop matching.
Without live minimum-stock alerts, owners either over-order and tie up cash in dead stock, or under-order and lose sales to empty shelves.
Restaurants, bakeries and butcheries often track finished-item sales but never connect them back to raw ingredient stock, so shrinkage goes unnoticed.
Stock moved from one branch to another on a WhatsApp message has no audit trail, and nobody can explain the gap later.
✱ BEST PRACTICE
Frequent spot checks on high-value or fast-moving items catch shrinkage early. ZANAVA's stock takes are built for a few minutes at a time, not a full weekend shutdown.
A minimum-stock threshold turns reordering from a guess into a notification. Start with your top sellers and expand from there.
Damages, theft, expiry and recounts are all different problems. Tagging the reason on every adjustment is what turns raw numbers into a shrinkage story you can act on.
If you sell prepared items, set up your recipes before you go live. Retrofitting ingredient depletion after months of untracked sales means reconciling a mess.
Every branch transfer should be logged the same way a sale is. It's the only way to know whether stock imbalances are a buying problem or a movement problem.
✱ WHY IT MATTERS
✱ FAQ
Yes. The recipe-based depletion feature lets a bakery, restaurant or takeaway link a finished item to the raw ingredients it uses, so ingredient stock depletes automatically on every sale.
Yes. Every branch has its own stock levels, and you can transfer inventory between branches with a full audit trail on both ends.
Set a minimum quantity on any item and ZANAVA flags it the moment on-hand stock drops below that line, so reordering happens before you run out.
Inventory Management is one of seven modules in ZANAVA, and your subscription includes them all.