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Useful reads on warehouses, stock counts and audits.
Year-end, sample or perpetual count: which method fits?Three methods, three kinds of warehouse. Range, turnover and your head office rules decide which count method suits your stock, and what to clear with the auditor.
Applying the head office count guideline in an Uzbek warehouseThe guideline from Germany knows neither your racking nor your documents. How to turn each requirement into a step that the local warehouse team can carry out.
Count differences: thresholds, clearing and approvalNot every difference deserves the same attention. A tiered model by quantity and value shows what is recounted, what is investigated and what is released for posting.
German expectations, local practice: five count misunderstandingsHead office expects a traceable count record, the warehouse delivers a list. Five typical misunderstandings between Germany and Uzbekistan, and how to resolve them.
Second count: how to make it truly independentA second team counts independently only if it does not know the first result. Team make-up, procedure and comparison of the second count, step by step.
Blocked stock, returns, samples: store apart, count apartBlocked, returned and defective goods easily vanish into normal stock on count day. How to mark, record and report them separately from the free stock.
All articles (40)
- Year-end, sample or perpetual count: which method fits?
- Applying the head office count guideline in an Uzbek warehouse
- Count differences: thresholds, clearing and approval
- German expectations, local practice: five count misunderstandings
- Second count: how to make it truly independent
- Blocked stock, returns, samples: store apart, count apart
- The count sheet: layout, numbering and issue control
- The inventory record: content, signatures and filing
- Moving the count date: counting before or after the balance sheet date
- The auditor attends the count: preparing for the visit
- Fixed-asset count: from the asset register to the location list
- Sample-based count: drawing, size and documentation
- Writing the count instructions: ten points that must be included
- Count commission and order: what local accounting expects
- Fixed bins or random storage: what it means for the count
- Freezing and checking the book stock from 1C at the cut-off time
- Assigning asset numbers: one numbering scheme for sites and classes
- Perpetual count: a count plan for the whole financial year
- A count glossary in German, Russian and Uzbek
- Defining count zones: zone plan, sequence and gap control
- Systematic or random? Spotting patterns in the difference list
- Goods receipt for EU deliveries: checks before posting
- Rack and bin labels: structure, size and legibility
- Goods in transit at the count date: delivery terms and risk transfer
- A full count over one weekend: schedule by shift
- Tidying up before the count: making the warehouse countable
- Timing gaps: receipt posted, goods not yet on the shelf
- Stock movement without a document: enforcing paperwork on the floor
- Asset not found: clearing, reporting and disposal
- Holidays and heat: planning a realistic count day in Uzbekistan
- Changing method: from the full count to a perpetual count
- Putting count teams together: independence and segregation of duties
- Management summary for head office: one page, five items
- Batches and expiry dates: FEFO picking and counting
- Recording warehouse equipment: racking, forklifts and scales
- A new subsidiary's first count in Uzbekistan: realistic planning
- The count calendar with head office: dates, reports, approvals
- Post-count review: setting and tracking actions
- Returnable packaging and pallets: the stock people forget
- Scales and measuring tools: no reliable count without a checked scale