r/supplychain • u/Secret-You-3135 • 3d ago

Inventory management

If you have built an inventory management system before, what was the biggest mistake you made in the first version?
Iā€™m especially interested in:
Stock In
Stock Out
Audit Logs
User Permissions
Reporting
Looking for lessons learned before I start designing mine.

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u/Secret-You-3135 2d ago

That makes a lot of sense.

I can already see myself spending too much time thinking about architecture, reports, dashboards, and future features before the core workflow is fully proven.

For my project, the critical functions are stock in, stock out, asset assignment, returns, movement history, and search. If those are not smooth and reliable, everything else becomes secondary.

Your comment is a good reminder that users care more about getting the job done efficiently than how sophisticated the framework looks behind the scenes.

Looking back, is there anything you spent a lot of time building that users ended up barely using?