Inventory & Procurement

Keep food, retail, parts, supplies, prizes, packaging, and chemicals on one inventory model — with items, locations, stock levels, purchase orders, counts, and three-way matching all in one place.

Why it matters

Stop the loss hiding across everything you stock.

Every dollar of shrink, spoilage, and missed sale to an empty shelf comes straight off your margin — and it hides across food, retail, parts, supplies, prizes, packaging, and chemicals, all moving at once at different speeds. The Park Operations Platform holds every one of those categories in a single model, so consumption is captured where it happens, reorder points fire before a shelf runs dry, and what the books say you have matches what's actually on hand.

$1.2T
lost worldwide every year to empty shelves — the sale you can't make when stock isn't there
6.5%
of global retail sales swallowed by out-of-stocks and overstocks combined
1.6%
of sales lost to shrink — theft, error, and spoilage — about $112B across U.S. retail

Sources: IHL Group, Retail Inventory Distortion, 2025 (out-of-stock cost, distortion as a share of sales); National Retail Federation, National Retail Security Survey, 2023 (shrink rate, FY2022).

What it does

From item definition to three-way match.

Items

One clean catalog for everything you stock — no more duplicate or mismatched records.

  • Item definitions across every category
  • Unit conversions between purchase and use
  • Vendor catalog
  • Pricing history

Locations

Know exactly where every item sits, down to the truck or the shelf.

  • Warehouses and central storage
  • Storerooms by area
  • Outlets and points of sale
  • Trucks and mobile stock

Stock levels

Reorder before you run dry — without tying up cash in overstock.

  • Current quantity by location
  • Available vs. reserved
  • Reorder points and maximum levels
  • Shortages automatically flag the menu items and products they affect

Transactions

Every movement of stock is captured, so counts stay honest between physical counts.

  • Receiving against orders
  • Issues and consumption
  • Transfers between locations
  • Adjustments and returns

Purchase orders

You pay for what you ordered and received — nothing more.

  • Purchase requests with two-person approval and one-click conversion to purchase orders
  • EDI 850 transmitted to the vendor automatically on PO approval — or by email or portal
  • Three-way match — PO, receipt, and invoice — within your configured quantity and cost tolerances
  • A nightly low-stock sweep drafts purchase orders for review

Counts

Find and explain the shrink instead of writing it off blind.

  • Cycle counts on a rolling schedule
  • Annual physical inventory
  • Variance investigation
  • Adjustment with audit trail

Specialty stock

Catch perishables and regulated items before they expire on the shelf.

  • Kits assembled from components
  • Serial- and lot-tracked items
  • Expiration tracking and alerts

See Inventory & Procurement in action.

A 30-minute working conversation — we'll walk through inventory and purchasing with scenarios drawn from operations like yours.

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