Stock Control System
Stock Control System (SCS) is a Dutch retail inventory application from LTT. Self-learning forecasting algorithms generate order advice across the entire assortment, supporting store staff, head office and distribution centres in food retail supply chains.
What is Stock Control System?
Stock Control System (SCS) is the stock management application built by LTT — Logistics between Today and Tomorrow — a Dutch software company based in Bodegraven. It is a web-based application running on PCs and hand-held devices, described by its maker as device agnostic, and it is aimed squarely at store-level inventory control in food retail.
The product rests on a deliberate conviction: stock deserves an application of its own rather than being a module inside a point-of-sale or ERP system. From that starting point, SCS covers all store processes, including the critical ordering process, and adds a central module through which head office can actively support its stores in real time.
Its artificial intelligence is forecasting, not generative. LTT researched sales prediction from the 1990s onward, looking at data quality and at the influence of holidays, promotions, seasons and weather. The resulting algorithms are self-learning: they adjust themselves continuously to reach the best fit for each item in each store. The stated consequence is that no statistical knowledge is required from the customer's organisation. SCS then issues order advice for the entire assortment — including promotions, variable-weight goods and day-fresh bread, the categories generic tools handle worst — and makes decisions itself to relieve the shop floor.
Usability is the second design axis. Retailers face high staff turnover and uneven training, so the user is led through tasks and instructions, works from a single screen in normal operation, and only sees extra functionality when an exception arises. LTT claims a store can start using SCS without prior training, and that the retailer can carry out the implementation itself, which cuts external implementation costs and keeps the know-how in-house.
Named customers are Dutch supermarket chains: PLUS, SPAR, Dirk, DekaMarkt, MCD, Boons Markt and Dirck III. One important caveat: LTT announces on its Dutch about page that it is now part of Anchr, with SCS remaining available both as a standalone solution and within Anchr's Retail Cloud Suite.
What it does
- Forecast sales per item and per store with self-learning algorithms that continuously re-tune themselves
- Generate order advice covering the entire assortment, including promotions, variable-weight items and day-fresh bread
- Track stock at consumer-unit level, recording movements, corrections and forecasts for every article
- Surface exceptions so staff manage by exception instead of reviewing every line
- Guide store staff through inventory counts and best-before date management via tasks and instructions
- Let head office support its stores in real time through the central module
- Feed integrated e-commerce orders into the store order advice, in-store picking and checkout
When to use Stock Control System / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Stock Control System is the right fit.
When to use Stock Control System
- Supermarket and food retail chains that want ordering driven by sales forecasts rather than by staff intuition
- Store managers and shop floor teams who need a guided, single-screen tool they can use without prior training
- Head office demand planners and category buyers looking for item-level, store-level forecast accuracy without in-house statisticians
- Distribution centre and logistics teams suffering from rush orders and uneven order flow across the week
- Retailers handling difficult assortments — promotions, variable-weight items and day-fresh bread — that generic tools cover poorly
When not to use Stock Control System
- Buyers who need public pricing or self-service sign-up: nothing is published and every route goes through a sales conversation
- Teams expecting a free plan or a trial before committing, since neither is offered anywhere on the site
- Organisations with strict procurement checklists, as no privacy policy, terms of service, GDPR statement or security certification is published
- Developers looking to build on an API: no documentation, endpoint or developer portal exists on either domain
- Businesses outside grocery and store-based retail, for which this highly specialised stock control tool has no purpose
How to use Stock Control System
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Contact LTT through the website form, info@ltt.nl or +31 172 636836 — there is no online sign-up
- Discuss scope and commercial terms directly, since no pricing or plan is published
- Have the project team trained by LTT in the early stage of the project
- Run the implementation yourself using LTT's proven tools and procedures, rather than buying external implementation services
- Deploy the web application to store PCs and hand-held devices
- Let the forecasting algorithms learn from each store's own sales history and re-tune per item
- Work day to day from the single main screen, following the tasks and instructions the system assigns
- Review and, if needed, adjust the order advice generated for the full assortment
- Handle stock counts and best-before date checks through the guided routines
- Use the central module at head office to monitor stores and support them in real time
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Self-learning forecasting removes the need for statistical expertise inside the retailer's organisation
- Covers the full assortment, including promotions, variable-weight items and day-fresh bread that many tools skip
- Designed for high staff turnover: single-screen operation and a claimed start without prior training
- Self-implementation cuts external rollout costs and keeps implementation knowledge with the retailer
- Named references across Dutch grocery — PLUS, SPAR, Dirk, DekaMarkt, MCD, Boons Markt, Dirck III
- Signed, attributable customer testimonials rather than anonymous quotes
- Roughly two decades of continuous operation behind the product
Cons
- No pricing published at all, and no free plan or trial to evaluate the product
- No privacy policy, no terms of service and no GDPR mention on either domain
- No published security certification — no ISO, SOC 2 or NEN 7510 claim appears anywhere
- No public API or developer documentation, despite the product interfacing with store systems
- The publishing entity is struck off the Dutch trade register, and the product has passed to Anchr
- The Anchr link LTT publishes on its own about page returns a 404
- A very thin, partly outdated website whose Dutch and English versions do not say the same thing
Pricing & Plans
No pricing is published. Neither ltt.nl nor the English sister site lttsoftware.com carries a pricing page, and no amount, tier or currency appears anywhere in the collected material; the usual pricing paths return 404 on both domains. No permanent free plan and no free trial are announced. The commercial model observable from the site is sales by contact: the calls to action invite the visitor to get in touch, and terms are evidently negotiated per customer. The only economic argument LTT makes is unquantified — because the retailer can carry out the implementation itself, external implementation costs disappear and the payback period is shortened. Prospective buyers should expect a quotation process rather than a published rate.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Stock Control System handles your data.
GDPR overview
There is no mention of the GDPR anywhere on ltt.nl or on the English sister site lttsoftware.com. A search of the full collected corpus for GDPR, AVG and gegevensbescherming returns nothing, and no privacy policy, terms of service, cookie policy or legal notice is published on either domain — the usual paths all return 404. No data protection officer, no privacy contact address and no Article 27 representative is named; as an EU-established company, LTT would not need the latter. A cookie banner does appear on ltt.nl, asking visitors to accept cookies by continuing to browse, but it links to no policy page. This is a complete silence rather than a refusal: the company never claims GDPR compliance and never denies it.
Who owns the data?
LTT publishes no terms and conditions and no privacy policy on either of its domains, so ownership of customer data is simply never addressed contractually. Nothing states who owns the sales history, stock movements and forecasts that the application accumulates, what LTT may do with them, or with whom they may be shared. The only related statement is functional: SCS records, for every store, the movement of every item at consumer-unit level — stock, sales forecast, corrections and order advice — and LTT describes this as a reliable source used to optimise the wider supply chain. Prospective customers should expect to settle data ownership entirely in a negotiated contract.
Reuse rights
No published terms grant or restrict any reuse right, so nothing confirms that a customer may freely reuse, export or redistribute the data held in SCS. In practice the application is built to feed the retailer's own decisions: LTT states that the information SCS holds is used to optimise the entire supply chain, and that forecasts, corrections and order advice are tracked per item and per store. On the vendor side, the forecasting algorithms are described as self-learning and continuously self-adjusting to obtain the best fit per item and per store — learning that operates on the customer's own store data. Whether any data is pooled across customers is never discussed, and no opt-out from that learning is offered or denied.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Nothing is published about where customer data is hosted. Neither LTT domain carries a privacy policy, terms of service or trust page, so no jurisdiction, data centre location, hosting region or subprocessor is disclosed, and no data residency commitment is made. The company itself is established in the Netherlands, which makes EU hosting plausible, but plausibility is not a statement and the site never makes one. It is worth being explicit about one false lead: the ltt.nl website resolves to an IP address in the Netherlands operated by a Dutch hosting provider, but that is the marketing website only. It says nothing about where the Stock Control System application and its retail data actually run, which in an on-premise or private deployment could be somewhere else entirely. Anyone with data residency requirements will have to obtain this in writing from the vendor.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Stock Control System.
- The publishing entity, Logistics between Today and Tomorrow B.V., is recorded as struck off in the Dutch trade register while the site still trades under its name
- The acquisition by Anchr is announced only on the Dutch page; the English about page never mentions it, so English-speaking readers get an outdated picture
- The Anchr link LTT publishes returns a 404, and Anchr's own homepage does not visibly mention LTT or Stock Control System
- With no privacy policy or terms, buyers have no written basis for data ownership, retention or subprocessor questions and must settle all of it contractually
- Order advice that staff learn to trust can erode their own judgement over time — LTT itself notes shop operators quickly come to trust the advice
- The contact page on the English site shows a mistyped address and a broken mailto link pointing at a domain that does not exist
- The English site still advertises roadshows planned for early 2024, a sign that published information is not being maintained
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Deliberately low by design, but this is enterprise software rather than a sign-up. LTT's central claim is that the retailer implements SCS itself, using proven tools and procedures, with the project team trained beforehand; in the store, LTT says a shop starts using SCS without prior training, guided by tasks and working from a single screen. Set against that, there is no self-service onboarding, deployment spans a store estate with PCs and hand-held devices, and everything begins with a commercial conversation. Expect a structured retail rollout project, not an afternoon's configuration.
Deployment
Behind Stock Control System
Resources
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Frequently asked questions
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Should you pick Stock Control System?
Stock Control System is a narrow, seasoned tool rather than a fashionable one. It has been sold into Dutch grocery since 2002 by a team whose retail experience goes back to 1992, and its customer list — PLUS, SPAR, Dirk, DekaMarkt, MCD, Boons Markt, Dirck III — is the strongest argument on the site. The AI is real but classical: self-learning forecasting models that re-tune per item and per store, deliberately built so that the retailer needs no statistical skills. For a supermarket chain struggling with availability, shrinkage and order quality on a difficult fresh assortment, that focus is genuinely valuable, and the self-implementation model is an unusual and credible cost argument.
The reservations are about transparency and continuity rather than capability. Nothing is published on price, data ownership, retention, hosting, security certification or the GDPR — an unusually complete silence for enterprise software handling a retailer's commercial data, and one that pushes every question into a negotiated contract. The website is thin, partly out of date, and inconsistent between its Dutch and English versions.
Most importantly, the product has changed hands. LTT announces on its Dutch pages that it is now part of Anchr, with SCS continuing as a standalone solution and inside Anchr's Retail Cloud Suite — yet the link it publishes to Anchr is dead, and the publishing entity itself is recorded as struck off in the Dutch trade register. Anyone evaluating SCS today should approach it through Anchr, and should treat the material on ltt.nl as a description of the product rather than as a current statement of who stands behind it.
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