Today I want to talk about how much a stock take costs. We base our costs on a day and a half day rate. What this means is that you should get, extra return on investment (ROI) on it, but we can’t actually say straight away how much it will cost.

First we like to come out and visit your site to ascertain the scope of the job.

The factors that we will be looking at are your stock holding;

How many items were going to count?

Because that can take a long time or it can be a short time.

The type is stock you’ve got?

Are we looking at just wet? Are we looking at wet and food? Are we just looking at food?

Have you got lots of one item?

Is your wine in cases? Do you have cases of one particular type of beer or you’ve got one case or one bottle of several different wines?

The number of storage areas we have to count and are they tidy?

Also how many bars are we stocktaking?

Obviously if it’s one small bar it’s going to take a lot less time than doing it in a venue that’s got five bars.

Your paperwork, is that in order?

Are we going to be able to easily access things like delivery notes, invoices, takings and allowances? Are they going to be ready for us or are we gonna hang around while the accounts office or somebody gets them all together?

And also the period.

A monthly stock take will usually be a little bit less than a two monthly stock take simply because we are only processing a month’s paper work rather than two months paperwork.

They’re all the things that we look at when we’re coming up with a price.

We don’t have extras, when we agree a price that will be the price going forward. Subject to yearly reviews, unfortunately just like your suppliers, we have to look at it. But certainly when we always agree a price, and that’ll be price for at least the first year.

We always come out and meet you because we want to look around your premises, ascertain exactly what you want, because it might be you just want stock taking, or it might be that you want us to do consultancy work, you might want us to look at our you costs in your business.

They all will be things we will discuss with you at the time.

They’re all things that we will discuss with you at the time as we get to know you, why you want stock taking and agree a price with you. We will then usually put a proposal out to you, for you to decide on and then go forward, we will get you in the diary and look forward to working with you.