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14.10.2026
Book Before the Christmas Rush: Handheld Scanners and Stocktaking Software for Year-End Counts
Store revamps change the count plan. Retailers who reserve loan devices and test their data in October and November count faster in January.
Dublin, 14.10.2026 (PresseBox) - Irish grocery and convenience retailers continue to invest in new stores and refurbishment programmes. Bank of Ireland's outlook for the grocery and convenience sector, published in July 2026 and reported by ThinkBusiness.ie, cites Centra's €27 million investment programme and Lidl Ireland's plan to invest €600 million over five years in stores and distribution, and notes that a store revamp can lift sales by 5 to 10 per cent. A refitted store sells differently. It also counts differently, and that is rarely considered until the year-end stocktake is days away.
Why a refit affects the stocktake
A stocktake follows the shop floor. Count areas are defined by bay, aisle and stockroom, and the sequence is built so that nothing is counted twice or missed. After a revamp, chilled runs are longer, food-to-go has its own zone, and the back room has been reorganised. Last year's count plan no longer matches the building. Teams that discover this on the night lose the first hour to working out who counts what.
Three things to settle before December
First, redraw the count areas for every store that has changed, and give each area a clear name that staff recognise. Second, calculate the number of devices from the stock volume and the hours available, not from last year's order. Third, run a short test: load the current product file onto one device, scan one bay, return the data and check it. Problems with new product lines or unreadable labels appear in ten minutes rather than at midnight in January.
Software, devices and support from one source
COSYS provides its stocktaking software together with loan devices from a large rental pool, so retailers do not need to buy handhelds for a few days of use each year. Count orders are prepared in COSYS WebDesk, staff scan with the COSYS Inventory App on handheld devices or smartphones, and results are reviewed centrally before they are passed back to the retailer's system through interfaces or agreed import and export files. The native app supports combined offline and online operation, which helps in cold rooms and stockrooms with poor Wi-Fi. Which functions are available offline depends on the configuration.
The count itself stays with the retailer's own people, who know the store and the range. Retailers can combine their own staff with preparation and help from COSYS, so the choice is not limited to doing everything alone or handing everything to an external counting firm.
Why October is the right time
Demand for loan devices is concentrated around the turn of the year across Europe. Reserving in October or November secures the preferred dates and leaves time for the test run before Christmas trading absorbs every spare hour. Devices that prove useful during the count can later be used for goods receipt or stock transfers, because these processes run on the same COSYS platform.
Next step
Retailers planning a December or January stocktake can request loan devices now. To arrange an appointment, contact vertrieb@cosys.de or call +49 5062 900 0.
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Die COSYS Ident GmbH mit Sitz in Grasdorf bei Hildesheim entwickelt seit 1982 Lösungen zur Digitalisierung und Optimierung von Logistik- und Geschäftsprozessen. Als mittelständischer Spezialist für Auto-ID, mobile Datenerfassung und Intralogistik bietet COSYS heute eine integrierte Plattform für die Digitalisierung von Waren-, Material- und Informationsflüssen. Das Portfolio umfasst unter anderem Lagerverwaltung, Bestandsführung, Lademittel- und Behältermanagement, Transport- und Werkslogistik, Inhouse-Logistik, Paketmanagement, Inventur, Asset Management und Business Intelligence. Mobile Apps, WebDesk sowie Cloud- und On-Premises-Lösungen verbinden operative Prozesse mit zentraler Verwaltung, Analyse und Optimierung. KI, Task Management, Process Mining und eigenes MDM erweitern die Plattform um intelligente Automatisierungs-, Analyse- und Verwaltungsfunktionen. COSYS begleitet Unternehmen von der Prozessanalyse und Konzeption über die Implementierung und Integration bis hin zu Support und langfristiger Betreuung. Ergänzend stehen passende MDE-Hardware, Auto-ID-Technologien, Reparaturservice und WLAN-Funkvermessung zur Verfügung.
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