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Outsourced Inventory Service for Calloway’s Nursery Pays Dividends
Founded in 1986, Calloway’s Nursery was created by local nursery professionals who saw the need for a new Garden Center & Nursery experience. The founders wanted to provide not only the highest quality plants for their customers, but also unique offerings that hadn’t been available before – all coupled with industry-leading customer service. Calloway’s operates…
Read MoreReporting–What Do You Want To Know?
The crew showed up, they started counting, they counted everything. What do you need at the end? Well, it depends on how they counted it! If it was a “Financial” count where just dollars and units were counted, you will want to see how much was counted in each Area (based on the location within…
Read MoreALL Successful Inventory Counts Require This
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: I choose this order for a reason—without…
Read MoreFull vs. Partial Inventory Counts
Typically when we talk about inventories it means a Full Inventory where a crew of auditors goes into a store, counts everything in that store, and goes home. The data is captured electronically and transmitted to the store IT department, numbers are evaluated, shrink is detected, and basically the store performs a “re-set” based on…
Read MoreBenefits of TWO Inventory Services
It may seem that using two inventory services would mean double the trouble, twice the work, or that it would needlessly complicate a process that’s already complicated enough. However, there are real benefits to using two vendors: 1. Scheduling flexibility. Improved chances of receiving the dates you want, not what the service can give you.…
Read MoreGlobal versus Regional inventory services
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…
Read MoreTexting and Driving — DON’T, especially at this time of year
(Re-printed here with permission from Jill Konrath, author of “SNAP Selling”) Last week a friend told me about a recent fender bender. While driving, he’d been dictating an email on his cell phone. He wanted to get a few extra things done before he got to the office. We all do things like that. Multitasking…
Read MoreConverting from Financial to UPC counts
Bar Codes and UPC’s have become a part of everyday life, from scanning product through customer checkout systems and assisting in warehousing shipment logistics to scanning product back end and front end, ensuring complete, accurate ordering and receiving. This simple mark on your soup cans has provided tremendous advantages necessary for today’s successful and profitable…
Read MoreDump Bins — Oh no!
It’s a grocery store’s dream—the “dump bin”. Set up a barrel, fill it with mixed product, attach a splashy sign screaming an unbeatable sale price and watch the customers buy, buy, buy. It’s an inventory auditor’s nightmare—the “dump bin”. There’s no way to organize the different flavors within the bin, so as they work through…
Read MoreInventory Scheduling — 5 reasons why this is important
One part of the inventory process that doesn’t get much attention (at least initially) is Scheduling. You want to have a count done, you need it done. But when do you do it? Dates This question depends a great deal on your type of business, and your Accounting practices. Smaller companies with less than 5…
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