POS and ERP by industry
Supermarkets
Thousands of items, several tills and fast-moving stock make losses easy to hide. Many owners only discover shrinkage at the month-end count.
Pharmacies
Expired stock is money lost, and mistakes at the counter matter more than in most shops.
Hardware stores
Credit sales are common and stock comes in many sizes, so it is easy to lose track of who owes what and what is left.
Restaurants and cafés
Orders pile up at peak hours and ingredients quietly run out. At the end of the day nobody is sure which dishes make money.
Salons and barbershops
Busy chairs, mixed services and staff earnings are hard to track on paper, and walk-ins are easy to forget.
Agrovets
Products have their own batches and shelf lives, demand follows the seasons, and farmer credit can stretch for months.
Kiosks and mama mboga
Every shilling counts. Paper notes get lost, M-Pesa and cash mix together and profit is a guess.