Inventory Management System

[FIRST DRAFT — Het to confirm] A MERN inventory system that replaces the shared spreadsheet small distributors outgrow: live stock levels, per-product low-stock thresholds that warn before an item hits zero, role-separated owner and staff views, and an attributed change history so a discrepancy can be traced to who made it.

[FIRST DRAFT — Het to confirm] Small distributors run on a shared spreadsheet until two people edit it at once. What they actually need is a single source of truth with live stock levels, an audit trail of who changed what, and alerts before an item runs out — not after a customer asks for it.

[FIRST DRAFT — Het to confirm] We built a MERN inventory system with product and stock CRUD, role-based access so staff and owners see different things, low-stock alerting, and a dashboard with movement charts. Every change is attributed, so discrepancies can be traced.

Key decisions — and why

• Roles from day one

  Retrofitting permissions is painful and risky. Separating owner and staff views at the start also keeps the staff screen simple.

• Alert before zero, not at zero

  A low-stock threshold per product turns the system from a record of what went wrong into something that prevents it.