The stores manager's job is governance — every bag of cement, every length of steel, every drum of paint accounted for, with the contractor it went to and when. The traditional stack: paper registers, end-of-day reconciliation, contractor disputes when the numbers don't match. Farvision's inventory engine puts the godown on a phone — issues with digital signatures, returns acknowledged on the spot, transfers tracked in-transit, reorder alerts before stock-outs, ageing reports for slow-movers. Stock visibility live to HQ. The day stops being about reconciliation and starts being about anticipation.
The contractor walks up to the stores window: 50 bags of cement, today, for the slab. Old way: register entry, supervisor signs, slip handed over, spreadsheet later, dispute next week. New way: stores manager opens the app, picks the contractor, picks the item, enters quantity, contractor signs on the screen, photo of issued goods captured. Stock auto-deducted from project store. Surplus material returned at end-of-day? Same flow in reverse — stores accepts the return, stock added back, contractor's running balance updated. Both sides see the same number, the same minute.
Tower B has 600 bags of surplus cement; Marina is running short for tomorrow's casting. Old way: a phone call between site managers, an informal vehicle dispatch, a paper challan, and a reconciliation argument the following week. New way: stores manager initiates inter-location transfer on the app, picks destination project, raises transfer challan, vehicle and driver KYC tagged, source store stock decremented, in-transit bucket increments. Receiving site acknowledges on arrival; in-transit clears, destination stock adds. Both stores managers, both project managers, HQ — all see the same picture.
Material that's been dispatched but not yet received sits in a third bucket: in-transit. Not at source any more, not at destination yet. Critical for cash-flow accuracy, for insurance claims, for spotting a vehicle that's been in-transit for too long. Every transfer creates an in-transit lot tied to vehicle, driver, departure time, and ETA. The in-transit dashboard shows lots ageing — anything beyond ETA + buffer flags red. One click to call the driver, one click to escalate to the procurement head. Material doesn't get "lost" between godowns any more.
Running out of cement during a slab-pour costs days, not hours. Reorder levels per item are configurable per project — minimum stock that triggers an alert, maximum holding that triggers a hold. The system also runs predictive consumption — based on the last 4 weeks' issue rate and the casting calendar, it forecasts when you'll hit minimum and fires the alert with enough lead time to procure. Alert routes to stores manager + procurement + project manager. Auto-creates a draft indent if configured. The "we're out of cement" call to procurement at 6 PM stops happening.
Cement ages. So does steel. So do paints, tiles, fittings. Slow-moving stock ties up working capital, takes up godown space, and depreciates. Stock ageing reports group items by how long they've been in the godown — 0–30, 30–60, 60–90, 90+ days — across stock value, by item, by project. The Stores Manager spots the slow-mover early, the Procurement Head sees the patterns, the CFO sees the working-capital cost. Action: transfer to a busy site, return to vendor, sell at salvage, or write off — every option logged, audit-ready.
The stores manager isn't behind a desk. They're at the godown gate, at the unloading bay, at the cement silo, at the contractor's pile. The mobile app puts every workflow in their hand: receive against PO, run gate-pass intake (which then ties into P2P's gate flow), issue to contractor, accept return, raise transfer, scan stock, check reorder. Offline-capable — at remote sites with patchy mobile signal, work continues; data syncs when signal returns. Branded as your firm. Multi-language. Field-rugged. iOS + Android.
I used to walk back to my office cabin to update the register every time a contractor took 50 bags. Now I issue from where the contractor is standing. The HQ team sees the same number I see, the same minute. We've stopped having the "whose number is right" conversation.— Stores Manager · Tower B project · Mumbai
30 minutes. We'll set up the mobile store app on a phone and walk through a real day at site — receiving against PO at the gate, issuing 50 bags to a contractor, accepting a return, raising an inter-location transfer, watching reorder alerts fire. Bring your stores manager and your project manager. They each get to see what they need.