Santos Mini-Grocery

The situation.

Maria Santos ran a 120-sqm mini-grocery in Quezon City's Project 6 for eight years without a formal inventory system — just a supplier delivery logbook and her memory. Every month she'd find expired goods on the shelf, but had no way to calculate the cost until she did a manual year-end count and found roughly ₱80,000 in written-off stock — about ₱6,700 per month on average. Expired goods weren't the only problem. Slow-moving SKUs were tying up ₱40,000 in shelf capital while fast-movers like cooking oil, rice, and canned goods ran out weekly. She was over-ordering on products no one was buying and under-ordering on the ones that actually sold.

What changed.

1. 1NexusStock tracked expiration dates per batch and sent 7-day alerts before expiry — Maria now discounts or returns near-expiry goods before they become write-offs, bringing expired waste to near zero.
2. 2NexusAI's demand forecasting flagged 23 slow-moving SKUs in the first 30 days. She reduced orders on 18 of them and freed ₱28,000 in working capital that had been locked in dead stock.
3. 3Total waste reduction in Month 1: ₱8,200 compared to her prior monthly average — with no additional staff and no change to her ordering workflow beyond following the system's alerts.
4. 4Fast-movers are now tracked in real time through NexusSales, so she can see which items are running low before the shelf is actually empty.

The modules in practice.

NexusStock handles batch-level expiry tracking and reorder alerts. NexusAI reads the sales velocity data and surfaces demand predictions in plain Filipino-friendly language. NexusSales ties it all together — every sale auto-deducts from stock, keeping her inventory count accurate without manual counting.