Orders for stock already on handFewer
- Before
- Ordered again while it sits elsewhere
- With Milestone
- Seen across locations before ordering
Supply chain · Inventory and warehouse
Know What You Have, Where It Is, and What It Is For
Every receipt, issue, transfer and return updates stock by location, so sales, production and sites work from the same position.
1Operational impact
What It Costs Today
- Inventory managerStock in the wrong place
Material sits in one warehouse while another team orders it again.
- CFOInventory is working capital
Ageing and slow-moving stock ties up cash that the balance sheet shows only as a total.
- Production and siteIssues nobody recorded
Material leaves the store without a document, so consumption and returns cannot be checked.
2Milestone capability
What Milestone Does
Each capability works on the same database as the rest of Milestone, so nothing is copied between systems.
- Stock by warehouse, site and locationOne position across every location, including project sites.
- Transfers with in-transit stockStock moving between locations is tracked until it is received.
- Inspection statusStock awaiting inspection is shown separately from usable stock.
- Issues and returnsIssued against an order, job or project; unused material returns to stock.
- Allocation against ordersStock reserved for a confirmed order is not sold twice.
- Ageing and returnablesSlow-moving stock and returnable material followed until it moves or comes back.
Everything listed here is available today unless it carries a status tag.
3Process transformation
Inventory Movement Across Locations
Select a step to see its document, who acts and the control applied.
Receiving
Warehouse
Transfers
Production and site
Customer
Information moves onControl pointUnused material returns to stockSteps in the same column run in parallel
01 · Goods receipt
- Document
- Goods receipt note
- Who acts
- Stores
- Control
- Received against a purchase order
- 1ReceivingGoods receiptReceived against a purchase order
- 2ReceivingInspection holdNot usable until accepted
- 3WarehouseUsable stock by locationOne position for every team
- 4Transfersin parallelTransfer in transitShown in transit until received
- 5Production and sitein parallelIssue to production or siteIssued against a job or project
- 6Customerin parallelDispatch to customerDispatched against the order
- 7TransfersReceived at destinationDifferences recorded on receipt
- 8Production and siteConsumed or returnedConsumption compared with what was issued↺ Unused material returns to stock
Read the steps as text
- Goods receipt (Receiving). Goods receipt note; Received against a purchase order.
- Inspection hold (Receiving). Inspection record; Not usable until accepted.
- Usable stock by location (Warehouse). Stock ledger by location; One position for every team.
- Transfer in transit (Transfers). Stock transfer; Shown in transit until received.
- Issue to production or site (Production and site). Material issue; Issued against a job or project.
- Dispatch to customer (Customer). Delivery note; Dispatched against the order.
- Received at destination (Transfers). Transfer receipt; Differences recorded on receipt.
- Consumed or returned (Production and site). Consumption and return; Consumption compared with what was issued.
4Management visibility
What Management Sees
- What does each location hold right now?Stock by warehouse, site and location
- What is in transit, and since when?Open transfers by age
- What is awaiting inspection?Received but not yet accepted
- Which items are ageing without demand?Slow-moving and idle stock
123Layout sketch · live screen shown in your demo
- 1Stock by warehouse, site and location
- 2In-transit and under-inspection quantity
- 3Ageing and slow-moving items
5Business outcome
What Changes
Directions, not percentages. Your baseline is measured during the study, and improvement is measured against it.
Stock accuracyHigher
- Before
- Corrected at the yearly count
- With Milestone
- Kept by every movement
Idle stockVisible
- Before
- Hidden inside the total
- With Milestone
- Listed by item and age
See It Running on Your Own Process
Bring one live process. We will walk through it with your documents and show it running end to end in Milestone.