About
What this is, and who it is not
An editorial site about stock control. It has no connection to any person or business that previously used this domain name.
If you arrived from a podcast, an interview, a directory or an old link, and you were looking for that person, please search for her by name — she works under it and can be found directly. Nothing published here is written by her, endorsed by her, or connected to her work.
On Hand publishes guides on stock control for small businesses: counting so the record is true, setting reorder points that account for how long a supplier actually takes, checking deliveries properly, and understanding what disappears and why.
Nothing here is in her field
That is deliberate. This site publishes nothing in the professional field of the person who previously used this domain name, and it will not. A site carrying somebody else’s name that published in their profession would be taken for theirs however many disclaimers it carried, and that is not a risk worth taking with a working person’s reputation. Stock control is about as far from it as a subject can reasonably get.
Most retired pages from the previous site continue to return a permanent “gone” response. A small set of legacy paths supplied for migration are redirected to neutral current pages so old references do not terminate in an error.
Who this is written for
A shop with a stockroom. A workshop that holds parts. A small distributor with four hundred lines and one person who does the counting alongside another job.
Most stock control writing assumes a warehouse, a planner and a system built for pallets. Very little of it translates to a back room, a spreadsheet and an annual count that everybody dreads.
Why time keeps coming up
A recurring theme in these guides is that stock decisions get made on software price while the labour they consume is never measured. That is why the annual shutdown keeps winning over cycle counting, and why manual processes look free.
Several guides therefore suggest measuring the hours for a fortnight, once, as a diagnostic rather than a permanent practice. The mechanism matters far less than doing it at all.
What this site is not
- Not a review site. Products are named as examples of a category, never scored or ranked.
- Not a consultancy or a supplier. Nothing is sold and no services are offered.
- Not open to guest posts, sponsored content or paid placement.
- Not an affiliate, other than the disclosed link to the owner’s own product.
- Not connected to any previous use of this domain name.
On the advice given here
These guides describe common practice and are written in general terms. Stock valuation methods, the evidence required for write-offs, the tax treatment of stock losses, and the rules on monitoring or investigating staff differ substantially between jurisdictions and change over time. Nothing here is accounting, tax or legal advice; take qualified advice on your own situation.
How the guides are put together
Each guide deals with one problem and tries to answer it at a level someone could act on: what to count, what the number means, what to write down and what it costs. Where a recommendation has a cost — and most do — the cost is stated rather than omitted.
The full list is in the index.