They say that cleanliness is close to godliness. If that’s true, then organization-li-ness is certainly close on the totem pole. This is especially true when we need to prepare for an important event such as a corporate meeting or a public speaking engagement. However, it’s also essential for the most practical of daily business realities, in this case managing a stock room to perfection.

A stock room is more than just a place in which items are stored to be used for a particular purpose. A room of this nature may preserve an item’s freshness or condition for perfect use despite long periods of storage. It may also be that, such as in the case of a shoe store, a backroom stock needs to be accessed quickly and feasibly in order to guarantee a sale and provide a better service to our customers.

Organization can help your stock room, but it’s important to submit to the logic of this most reliable of environments and apply some of your own. To that end, we have some useful advice:

Color-Coded Organization

Color-coded organization can truly help you mark certain items depending on how they should be handled, transported, or where they should go. Bag sealing tape can be used in this way, allowing you to ensure your packages are prepared for freight in the best way, while also providing visual identification to ensure staff knows how to handle a certain item. Visual referrals such as this can help you save time by avoiding the need to continually refer to indexed measurements before managing your stock room. The more foolproof you can make this process, the better.

Continual Rotation

Rotation of your stock is, of course, important to get right. Placing newer items near the back and vice versa can help you avoid losing out on items due to a passed expiration date while retaining some backup items can help you in the case of a massive order or intensive sales need. Rotating your stock is also the best means in which to continually inspect it to retain its hygiene, and will help you continually organize your space in the easiest possible manner. With signed dates and accountable names tracked for every change made, you can ensure that confusions are cleared up in a matter of seconds.

Stock Handling Accountability & Management

Accountability, as explained prior, can help you understand whose role it is to clean the stockroom, and it can also help you understand where problems might be caused. For instance, it can be that in a kitchen environment you have no cameras, but if you notice that restaurant food is going missing, tying this to the last person who signed into a said room with their keycard may not be a hard task, provided you can verify those details correctly. The more you are able to ensure your stock room is organized, the better you can protect it.

With advice, we hope you can allow organization to better aid your stock room, day and night.