Reporting–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…

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Full 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…

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Benefits 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.…

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Full vs. Non-Flavored UPC Inventories

Non-Flavor UPC UPC Non-Flavor level inventories are generally used by the retailer to gain proper departmentalization/categorization and/or price capturing. This is dependent on what the retailer can provide the inventory service with on the validation file provided to complete the inventory. Any detail provided on the validation file can be extracted by the PICS program…

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