Two shop visits and a sitting
Stockroom reading
Shop owners in Bueng Kum, Min Buri, and further across Bangkok ask for a stockroom reading when the card on the bin and the pile in the back room have stopped agreeing. We count what is actually there, then sit with you and turn the drawings.
Who asks for it
Independent retailers and small family shops in Bangkok: hardware, fabric, grocery, pharmacy, and household goods. A first reading is one address, sales floor plus back room. A second branch is a separate file.
What you leave with
You leave with bound drawings of what is on the shelf, what is sitting in opened cartons, which sizes or lines have stalled, and which festival reserve is still in the way. The sitting names the piles. It does not place the next order for you.
Who does the work
Suda Prasert leads the reading and the sitting. Ploy Rattanapong takes the second-day count. Kiet Thongchai draws the maps in the studio.
Before we arrive
Name one person who can open the back room. If you use stock cards or a notebook, leave them where we can read them. Invoices from the last season help the movement sketch and are not required to begin. Tell us if a supplier truck usually arrives on a set morning.
Bounds of the file
One address in Bangkok. Thai and English notes are both fine. The span is usually twelve to sixteen days from the first visit. We do not move stock onto the floor to make a shelf look full. Shops outside Bangkok are accepted only when travel is written into the quote before the deposit.
In the file
- A short note from you about the shelf or the pile that worries you
- A first visit on a trading day you choose, covering the sales floor and the facing
- A back-room pass: opened cartons, returns, and anything kept for a festival or the rainy season
- A second visit on a different kind of day, often a delivery morning or a quiet afternoon
- Shelf maps and a movement sketch drawn in the Seri Thai studio
- A check against invoices or stock cards if you choose to share them
- One sitting of about ninety minutes, in the shop after close or at our desk
- Two bound copies and a PDF
Left with you and your own advisers
- Placing purchase orders or calling suppliers
- Tax, VAT, or an audit for the Revenue Department
- Installing or running a cash register
- Pricing stickers, promotions, or a sale
- A second shop, unless it is commissioned as a branch ledger
- Goods stored in a warehouse that is not part of this address
How the pages are drawn
The shelf map is a drawing of the room, not a list that could belong to any shop. Each bay is marked with what we counted, including the opened carton that the bin card ignores.
A stalled line is one that was present on both visits and did not match a recent invoice leaving the shop. We do not call it dead stock. We write the two dates and the quantity.
Where you keep sizes, the size run is drawn as a row. A missing size is a gap in that row. We do not fill the gap with a guess from last season.
The order of the work
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01
The note
You tell us what the shop sells, which room feels wrong, and a week that is not a festival peak unless the peak is the point. We say whether one reading can hold the floor.
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First count
Suda or Ploy works the sales floor with your staff still trading. We do not close the shop. Bins stay where you keep them.
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Back room
Opened cartons, the pile behind the labelled stack, and goods kept for Songkran, the rains, or a supplier who is late are counted separately from the facing.
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Second day
We return on a different rhythm of the week so a delivery does not get drawn as ordinary stock, and a quiet afternoon does not get drawn as a shortage.
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Studio
Kiet draws the shelf maps at 31/5 Seri Thai Road. If you shared invoices, the movement sketch uses those dates and no others.
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Sitting
We turn the pages with you. Questions stay on a unit, a size, or a carton. The hour is confirmed by email.