Sometimes it’s good to take a step back, take a big picture view, and seek a clear understanding of just what this business is all about. What I’ve found is that at the end of the day, the entire inventory industry boils down to the following key pieces: People Technology I choose this order for […]
Large vs. Small 3rd Party Physical Inventory Services The inventory industry is basically two dimensional. On the one hand, there are a couple of huge international companies which are well established with offices throughout the United States and all over the world. On the other hand, there are regional companies with concentrations in certain areas […]
Back in the old days when Phyle Inventory Control Specialists (PICS) was just an idea, the question we were faced with was, “How can we grow an inventory company with no managers, no offices, no crews, and no customers, but we have the world’s greatest technology?” With that, we knew if we were going to […]
Malcolm Gladwell is a hot commodity these days. One of his main tenets is that anyone can become a master at something if they dedicate 10,000 hours to that activity. I thoroughly debunked this theory with my golf game, but in other areas this theory has real merit. Take Grocery inventories. When the same crew […]
It’s been called “a necessary evil”. Employees don’t like it, management doesn’t like it. Talk about boring! Who wants to count every single item in an entire store? Yet it’s a reality that every business faces, usually at year’s end. It means everyone either has to get up exceptionally early to get to work well […]