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Orange County Convention Center

Orlando, Florida | May 15-18, 2011

Improving Inventory Accuracy With Cycle

Countin

 Joe Knoblauch

Charmer-Sunbelt Grou

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[ Learning Points

Cycle count process.

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Opportunities.

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[ Charmer-Sunbelt Group

2nd Largest Distributor of Wine and Spirits.

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[ Charmer-Sunbelt Group

2nd Largest Distributor of Wine and Spirits.

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Over 80% on SAP.

Over 60 million cases per year.

20,000 + transactions each warehouse daily.

6000 materials average per DC.

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[ Cycle Counting

Cycle counting is a method of physical inventory whereby

inventor is counted at re ular intervals within a fiscal ear.

These intervals depend on the cycle counting indicator set forthe material. (SAP)

 roupe y e ma er a s .e a o a ma er a s

Grouped by Type (i.e Vendor or supplier)

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[ Cycle Counting Benefits.

Less disruptive than Full Physical Inventory.

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Better accuracy through constant surveillance.

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[ Current process limitations

DCC- Directed Cycle Count

 

Bin Driven

Slow process due to limited functionality.

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[ Empire Requirements

Manual selection of materials to be counted.

 

Active bins throughout inventory process

Management approval prior to differences clearing.

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[ Main Gaps

Blocked bins a inventory doc creation

 

RF screen modification

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[ Configuration settings

Allow for creation of docs by “Quant”

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[ ABC Analysis

Used for determining count frequency.

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Movement Stock value

Inventory turns

Manually controlled or automated analysis.

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[ ABC Analysis

Used for determining count frequency.

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[ Material Determination

A- materials: important, high usage/requirements value

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C- materials: relatively unimportant, low usage/requirementsvalue

D-materials: very low usage/requirement value.

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[ Counting Determination

A -count 12 times per year

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C-count 3 times per year D-count 1 time per year

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[ Configuration Screen for count frequency

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[ Document Creation

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[ Material Selection

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[ Bin and Material Review

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[ System Guided Counting

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[ System Guided Counting

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[ System Guided Counting

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[ System Guided Counting

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[ System Guided Counting

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[ System Guided Counting

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[ Reporting.

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[ Benefits

System guided / Efficient count path

 

Material / quant based. Accountability

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[ Opportunities

0 inventory on forward pick bins

 

Handling counts of empty bins

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[ KPI Goals

150 – 250 bins per counter daily.

 

Reduce unknown shrinkage due to increased awareness Potential reduction of full physical inventories.

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[ Key to Cycle Counting

Determine your count method approach

 

Maintain Process consistently.

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