Know what you have, where it is, and what is already promised to somebody else.
Early accessStock Control Software in Bicester
Need stock control in Bicester? CubeERP implements and supports stock control software across Bicester, Oxford, Banbury and Witney and the wider Oxfordshire area.
- Part of CubeERP
- Bicester, Oxfordshire
- 01234 672 617
Being well within our regular travel radius from Olney, Bicester is somewhere we get to regularly.
Discovery, training and go-live are all better done in the room, and at 26 miles that is entirely practical.
Bad stock data costs money in two directions at once: you carry inventory you do not need while short-shipping orders for parts you thought you had. CubeERP tracks free, allocated and on-order quantities across every location and bin, updates them the moment something is received, picked or produced, and puts those figures on the quote screen rather than in a report nobody runs. Barcode scanning removes the transcription errors that quietly destroy stock accuracy, and perpetual counting keeps the numbers accurate without shutting the warehouse for an annual stock take that everybody dreads.
- 99%+
Typical accuracy once scanning is in
- 3
Numbers: free, allocated, on order
- Per bin
Location detail, not per warehouse
What it does
Inside stock control software
The parts of CubeERP that make up stock control. Everything here shares one database, so nothing needs re-keying between them.
Multi-location and bin level
Warehouses, vans, consignment stock and individual bins, with transfers, in-transit visibility and minimum levels held per location rather than globally.
Scanning instead of typing
Goods-in, put-away, picking, transfers and counts done on rugged mobile devices. Every transcription you remove is an error you no longer have to find later.
Free, allocated and on order
Three numbers that matter, all visible at the point of promise, so nobody sells stock that is already spoken for by somebody else’s order.
Perpetual counting
Cycle counts scheduled by value and movement, with variance analysis by location and reason - so accuracy is maintained continuously rather than restored once a year.
Valuation you can explain
FIFO, average or standard costing, landed costs including freight and duty, and a stock valuation that reconciles to the ledger without a spreadsheet in the middle.
Slow, dead and excess
Ageing analysis, obsolescence flags and excess-stock reporting, so working capital tied up in things nobody has ordered for two years becomes visible.
In practice
Problems this actually solves
Anonymised, but not invented. These are the situations businesses describe to us before they change anything.
Stock accuracy in the seventies
The situation
A distributor counted annually and ran at roughly 78% location accuracy. Pickers routinely searched for stock the system said was there, and the annual count produced a write-off nobody could explain.
What changed
Scanning and cycle counting brought accuracy above 99%. Picking time fell, the annual shutdown count was dropped entirely, and the write-off became a small, explained adjustment.
Two warehouses, one number
The situation
A business with two sites held one aggregate stock figure. Orders were promised on total availability and then discovered to need an inter-site transfer that added three days.
What changed
Stock is now held per location with transfer lead times understood. Availability at the point of promise is location-aware, and transfers are planned rather than reactive.
Working capital in the back corner
The situation
A manufacturer knew its total stock value and nothing about its shape. Roughly a fifth of the value had not moved in over two years and was being counted, insured and stored regardless.
What changed
Ageing and movement analysis identified the dead stock. Some was sold at a discount, some was written off and scrapped, and the reorder rules that created it were corrected.
Local coverage
Stock control across Oxfordshire
We cover Bicester and the surrounding area, including Town Centre, Bicester Village, Launton Road, Bure Park and King's End, across the OX25, OX26 and OX27 postcode districts. We also work with businesses in Oxford, Banbury, Witney and Abingdon and elsewhere in Oxfordshire.
Postcode districts
- OX25
- OX26
- OX27
Areas we cover
Town Centre, Bicester Village, Launton Road, Bure Park, King's End, Bicester Business Park, Graven Hill and Elmsbrook.
Getting to you
Roughly26miles from our Olney office
Discovery, training and go-live are done on site as standard - not because it looks good on a proposal, but because most of what a system needs to know is learned in the building.
Stock control elsewhere in Oxfordshire
All of OxfordshireHow it happens
What implementation actually involves
The same process wherever you are, and for Bicester it is done in person.
- 1
Discovery
A structured session mapping how you work now - the systems, the spreadsheets and the bits held together by one person’s memory. We come back with what the platform covers as standard, what needs configuration, and what needs building.
- 2
Configuration
Your sites, warehouses, price lists, approval limits, document templates, workflows and permissions set up to match the business - not a demo tenant with your logo dropped on it.
- 3
Data migration
Customers, suppliers, parts, bills of materials, price lists, open orders and stock balances brought across and reconciled. We migrate, you check the numbers against the old system, and only then do we cut over.
- 4
Training & rollout
Role-based training so the order desk learns the order desk and the warehouse learns the warehouse, with a pilot group first where it makes sense. Documentation and short screen recordings left behind for new starters.
- 5
Ongoing support
UK support from the people who built the platform, with a named contact, agreed response times, and a product roadmap you can influence.
You might call it something else
Stock control goes by a lot of names - if you are searching for any of these, this is the page you wanted.
Questions
The things people ask first
Rugged Android scanners are the sensible choice for a busy warehouse, and we will specify them. A phone camera works for lower volumes, and label printers are standard Zebra-compatible units rather than anything proprietary.
You can, and the system supports full counts with count sheets, blind counting and variance approval. Most customers move to perpetual counting once accuracy is high, because the annual shutdown stops being worth the disruption.
Both, at item level, with full genealogy from goods-in through production to despatch. Expiry dates, certificates and test results are held against the batch, and FEFO picking is supported where shelf life matters.
Yes. Stock movements post to the nominal ledger via the accounting integration, so the balance sheet figure matches the warehouse figure without a reconciliation spreadsheet standing between them.
Yes - consignment stock at customer sites, customer free-issue material and supplier-owned stock on your premises are all tracked separately from your own inventory and valued correctly.
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Part of a bigger system
Stock control is one part of CubeERP. You can start here and switch the rest on later - it is the same system, not a separate purchase bolted on.
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Stock control for your Bicester business
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