Why your stock count is wrong before you finish counting

Every company we work with counts its stock at least once a year, and almost every one of them finds a difference they cannot explain. The reasons are rarely exotic. They are procedural, and they repeat.

The count moves while you count it

If dispatch keeps running during a stocktake, the sheet you started at eight is a work of fiction by eleven. Either you freeze movements for the duration, or you count by zone and record every movement against the zone that has already been counted.

In practice most operations cannot stop shipping. Zone counting with movement capture is the compromise that survives.

Your unit of measure is not one thing

A pallet, a box and a piece are all "one" to somebody in the building. Until the system knows the conversion and the label carries it, two honest people will count the same shelf and disagree.

Fix the unit of measure before you buy the scanners. It is the cheapest week of work in the whole project.

Nobody owns the difference

A count produces variances. Variances need an owner, a reason code and an approval — otherwise they are adjusted quietly and the same gap opens again next year. This is where the approvals module earns its place: the write-off leaves a trail.

What we set up instead

Rolling counts by zone, on a schedule tied to value and movement. Bin-level labels with the unit of measure printed on them. Variance approval with a reason code. After the first full cycle, most customers stop closing the warehouse for a weekend altogether.

If your last count took a weekend and still did not reconcile, we can walk through your process and tell you where the difference comes from.

If this sounds like your operation, we can walk through your process and show you where Logirynx would fit.

Talk to our team