170 : Why your Inventory Counts w/ Albert Amar and Pierre-Francois Rio of SwiftCount

Chris DeferioBusiness, Podcast, Uncategorized

 

What you have on your shelf is of the utmost importance. Tracking it and evaluating its performance is key to being able to make good decisions that will increase the health of your business. Unfortunately we in coffee tend to rely on either our own personal knowledge of what we can see on our shelves or on very rudimentary systems that don’t give us enough information. Today we are going to be exploring the importance of accurate counting and tracking of your stores inventory with special guests Pierre-Francois Rio and Albert Amar of SwiftCount.

Swiftcount is a cloud-based inventory management solution suitable for small to midsize businesses in a variety of industries. It has been designed to make taking inventory simple, accurate, and easy to manage. Especially nice is the reporting it gives you on the back-end to help you track the flow of inventory, profitability, performance, and more.

Albert and Pierre take us through why the company was formed and detail a ton of examples, mindsets, and actionable solutions we can take to get a hold of our inventory which is life blood of our shops.

I hope you take notes and apply what is presented today because the importance of this aspect of our businesses cannot be over-stated!

 

In this episode you will learn:

  • What inventory tracking does for your businesses’ cost of goods and cash flow
  • Why we tend to rely on faulty ways of measuring this important area of business.
  • Examples of businesses that have seen success from proper inventory management
  • How SwiftCount works
  • The steps we can take to get a hold of our inventory today
  • The mindset to infuse into yourself and your culture so that these practices last well into the future.

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Guest Bios:

Albert Amar:
Albert is a business management specialist with over 25 years of experience in inventory strategy and software development, for both small size retail and large enterprises.
He started his entrepreneurial journey as a giftshop store owner which he then sold to move on to solving a problem he and every retailer have to deal with when running a retail business; Implementing the actions and habits necessary to practically manage inventory.
Pierre-Francois Rio:
Pierre-Francois is an entrepreneur and marketer with an obsession to help passionate business owners grow their business. At age 21, Pierre-Francois started his first company selling clothes to big box retailers in France, a way to get practical experience in his learning years in university, which he then left to newer students to take over as he decided to move to Canada to take on bigger projects.
Today, Pierre-Francois took the challenge to popularize the importance of inventory counts when running a small business as well as bringing the tools to help implement this strong and misunderstood business practice.
Pierre-Francois is also the creator and host of the Retailer Secrets Podcast, a place for store owners and managers to learn what the “big guys” are actually doing to be successful in their retail business.

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