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Had a chat with an old coworker about inventory tracking that made me rethink our whole system
Ran into Mike, a guy I used to work with at a distribution center, at a gas station last Tuesday. He told me their new warehouse switched from cycle counts to real-time bin tracking and cut their shrinkage by 12% in the first quarter. That got me thinking about how we still rely on weekly counts and paper sheets at my current place. Has anyone else made a switch like that and seen actual results that made it worth the hassle?
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maxmurphy12d ago
Huh, have you looked at how your current paper sheets handle things like bin transfers or returns? That's usually where the real problems hide. When I worked with a system that used paper, we found almost 30% of our shrinkage came from stuff getting logged in the wrong bin after someone moved it, not from theft or miscounts. Real-time tracking catches that stuff automatically since it updates the second a scanner reads the move. Plus, it makes training new people way easier because the system tells them exactly where to put things instead of relying on memory or messy handwriting on a clipboard.
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