Advantages & Disadvantages of a Centralised Stock Control System?

I have the basics:

potential cost saving as materials can be bought in bulk
and
you lose touch with what customers want from each individial area.

Can anybody give me other suggestions? Thanks :)

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1 Comment for Advantages & Disadvantages of a Centralised Stock Control System?

1. Elana | February 15th, 2011 at 8:36 am

Single system is a case of “all your eggs in one basket”. You can imagine it being “hacked” and all of the world markets being destroyed.

On the other hand, it is probably simpler to predict what will happen without the element of stocks being in different marketplaces.