Know what's on the shelf. Always.
Inventory management software keeps a live count of every product across your shop, storeroom and website, updated by barcode scan, not by memory. Zilware implements Odoo inventory for stock-driven businesses in Mauritius: reordering that runs itself, stocktakes that take hours instead of weekends, and one number everyone can trust.
LAST UPDATED · 11 JULY 2026
Book a callStock you can't see is money you can't count.
Most Mauritian SMEs don't have an inventory system. They have a person, a spreadsheet and a habit. It works until it doesn't, and it fails quietly.
The count never matches the shelf
The system says 14, the shelf says 9, and nobody knows which sale, breakage or delivery went unrecorded. Every decision downstream (reordering, pricing, promises to customers) inherits the error.
Reordering runs on memory
The person who "just knows" when to reorder goes on leave, and two weeks later your best seller is out of stock while slow movers pile up in the back.
Stocktakes eat weekends
Full counts happen twice a year because they take the whole team a whole day, so for six months at a time, the numbers are guesses.
Spreadsheets disagree with each other
Purchases in one file, sales in another, the storeroom in a third. Reconciling them is a job in itself, and the answer changes depending on who you ask.
One count, kept by the system.
Odoo's inventory, purchasing and POS apps configured as a single ledger: every movement recorded at the moment it happens, by the person doing it.
Receipts, transfers, picks and counts done by scanner. No typing, no transcription errors. The stock record moves when the box moves.
Every POS sale, online order and delivery decrements stock the moment it happens. The website, the till and the storeroom read the same number.
Minimum and maximum levels per product per location. Purchase orders draft themselves before the shelf goes empty, sized to your supplier lead times.
Full traceability from goods-in to invoice: which batch went to which customer, and what expires next. Built for food, pharma and anyone an auditor visits.
Shop floor, back store, warehouse, van stock: separate counts, one system. Internal transfers tracked like any other movement.
Landed costs and average costing mean your margin reports reflect what stock actually cost, not what the last price list said.
Running where stock is the business.
- Retail & hardware. Thousands of SKUs across shelves and back store, with reordering rules that fire before the gap appears. Running live at hardware retailers like Quincaillerie Meilleur Choix & Fils, and at our own store.
- Distribution & wholesale. Van stock, customer pricelists and credit limits, with AVCO costing so wholesale margins are measured, not guessed. Live with AS Hardware Dealer Ltd and Shoemax.
- Food & meat processing. Lot tracking end to end and manufacturing yields booked automatically. Quarter-breakdown workflows live at Island Meat Distribution.
- eCommerce. The storefront reads the same stock as the till, so the pair that sold out yesterday stops selling online today. Live with MIJI Studio and Afoz Studio.
Full sector breakdowns are on the industries page; the implementation itself follows our five-phase method, and hardware ships from our Sunmi POS line.
Asked before, answered here.
- What inventory management software do you implement?
- Odoo, specifically its Inventory, Purchase and Point of Sale apps configured as one system. We are an Odoo Learning Partner, and we run our own retail hardware business on the same stack we sell.
- We track stock in Excel today. Is the jump too big?
- No. Excel-to-Odoo is our most common migration. Your product list, stock levels and supplier data import from the spreadsheets you already keep; the difference is that after go-live the numbers maintain themselves.
- Do we need barcode hardware?
- For most stock-driven businesses, yes. It is where the accuracy comes from. We supply and configure Sunmi scanners and terminals, so hardware and software arrive working together.
- How long does implementation take?
- A typical inventory + POS implementation runs 6–12 weeks: stock-flow audit, configuration on your real product data, migration, training at the counter, then a supported go-live with the first stocktake done together.
- What does it cost?
- A fixed-scope quote follows the free audit, no hourly meters. Lighter scopes start around Rs 5,000/month on a subscription basis; see the pricing page for the standard packages.
Start with the free stock-flow audit.
We walk your floor, follow a product from goods-in to invoice, and show you exactly where the count leaks, before you commit to anything.
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