How Custom Apps Can Overcome the Top 5 Inventory Management Problems of 2025

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Okay students, answer this question. What’s the most prominent reason behind businesses shutting down? Come on, faster. The most prominent reason behind a business not making enough money and eventually shutting down is the incapability to meet the demands. Basically, a faulty demand and supply chain which again happens due to inventory management problems. 

So, what’s inventory management and what are those problems? To make you understand, we Googled the term but most answers were a bit complicated, so here’s a simple version for you:

What is Inventory and Inventory Management?

Inventory is nothing but goods or products you use and sell as a business. For example, if you are a jewelry brand and you order jewelry from manufacturers, project them on your website and then sell them. In this case, all of the jewelry pieces, and packaging items like bags, plastic wraps, cardboard boxes, stickers, etc. are all inventories. 

Inventory management is the process of managing your inventory efficiently till the point of sale. If your products do not go out of stock all of a sudden or you have never run out of products for sale in times of high demand, that means your inventory management system is killing it(It's pretty good, not killing anything or anybody, it's an expression). 

Who Faces Inventory Management Problems?

Businesses of any size can face this problem. However, small businesses are most vulnerable to such problems as they are not experienced enough about the demand and supply analysis. In addition, big businesses with large inventories face a similar situation because large inventories not being quick to manufacture and cost more to store. 

So, what’s the solution? There are 5 major inventory management problems, and one custom app can solve them all. Hahahaha! That sounds like a commercial. Anyway, let’s get into it.

Lack of Real-time Inventory Tracking

How many slots of a particular product do you have in your warehouse? It can be anything. You said what? No idea? See, here’s the problem. This is why the demand and supply chain gets disrupted. You need to keep track of your inventories constantly. How many slots are there, what’s their expiration date, are the stocks clearing or not, are you selling the newer slots forgetting the older ones, and more? 

Hey! Don’t need to panic. We understand that you are doing the best for your business and sometimes keeping it all together might be a bit difficult, that’s why it’s important to get help. No need to hire a biiiig team of professionals, a custom inventory app is enough. 

So, what does a custom inventory app do? It keeps track of all of your inventories. With the help of IoT, Barcodes, and RFID, these apps keep scanning your inventories and give you live updates on your mobile phones or systems. 

It looks like this: Suppose, your your inventory slot has been there in the warehouse, but you didn’t notice and moved on to sell the comparatively newer ones. What the custom app will do is send an alert that an older stock is there and it needs to be sold out. 

Yeah, it’s relaxing, very relaxing. Imagine not being stressed about the slots and sitting with a calculator all the time, It’s all being recorded, and it’s all being tracked.

Inefficient Stock Replenishment

Freshness is the key. Here at Stealth Technocrats, we believe that there is one rule to grow your business and that is to be fresh, follow fresh, and sell fresh yes even if you are a tech brand. No, we aren’t talking about selling fresh TVs or phones. How on earth a TV be fresh? Wait a minute, it can be. Fresh means trendy, latest, feature-rich, and all the things that make it demand of the time. We have seen our clients do that all the time. Each time, they would say “Stealth, I need a fresh app for this concept.” At first, we used to be like what’s a fresh app but gradually we realized that it’s about fulfilling the demand. 

Sorry, we love storytelling sometimes. Okay, time is ticking and we gotta be quick. Inefficient stock replenishment means that either your products are out of stock now and then and you are not able to serve customers or you have too many products and they will soon be expired. 

You do, right? Don’t lie to our faces. It’s not something to feel shallow or incapable about, okay? You’re good. Let’s see how a custom app can solve this inventory management problem:

Custom apps use advanced technologies like predictive AI, ML, and other analytics tools that study the market trends thoroughly and give you a full-fledged report about which inventories you should restock, which to keep on hold, which to add, and which to not continue with. This way, you’ll no longer end up with too less or too many products but with sufficient products. 

P.S: You are gonna save a lot of money this way, trust us. Buy some ice cream.

Poor Warehouse Organization & Management

Even if you are a business owner, you are someone’s customer, right? Have you ever faced a situation where you ordered something and received a completely different product? Moreover, the platform is forcing on you that you receive the same product that was ordered. Ugh.. how frustrating.  But don’t let your customers feel that way. This inventory management problem is very common but the solution is pretty simple. (It’s just that nobody cares and they don’t wanna learn new things, huh! We said what we said.)

Yeah, same thing. A custom app can solve this as well. How? Warehouses are a mess. There are products here and there just on the shelf. No order, no management. A custom inventory app scans everything, it has GPS, a barcode reader, and all the needed technology that not only helps warehouse staff correctly organize the goods but also helps them find the goods. What’s the result? They don’t waste time searching, they don’t ship the wrong product, your customers are happy and your business is growing.

Ineffective Inventory Auditing & Control

Still, maintaining a spreadsheet to keep track of stocks? Knew it! Get some eye masks and give your eyes some rest from those hallucinating sheets. A custom app can do it. Audits are important because if you don’t do it, you can get into a loss for lack of calculation and you might also end up in jail. Yes, CMAs won’t spare you brother. 

Yeah yeah we know, they conduct financial audits but still, they need a number and if that number somehow mismatched with the actual one, there will be consequences. Therefore, 

It’s better to perform an inventory audit before the financial audit with a custom app. They have an auto stock counting feature which makes it easier to keep track and also eliminates the chances of human error leading to further discrepancies. 

Difficulty in Managing Multiple Sales Channels

If a business is successfully selling goods both online and offline, there’s a custom inventory app or inventory management software behind it. Well, this is one of the most common inventory management problems. Businesses often lose track of inventories and they accept all the offline or online orders and then they find out that oh, they’re out of stock.

A custom app creates a chain between the warehouse, your system, and the third-party provider or manufacturer. It updates you regarding the available stock and how many orders it can serve. Moreover, in case of inability to fulfill the demand, they also notify the third-party providers so that even if you don’t have enough goods, you can still serve customers within a span of 48 hours to a week. 

Conclusion

….. We’re out of stock. Have we satisfied the demand(readers)? Please give a review. See, we deal with it all the time because we build custom inventory apps but making someone understand how it manages it all is something very experience-based. One needs to use inventory management software to understand it all. However, we hope that this blog was easy to understand and it simplified your business operations. If you still have doubts though, you can reach out to us.