Inventory counting problems include chaotic placement in the warehouse area and collection of documents; improvement countermeasures include departmental coordination and optimization of staffing.
Inventory counting problems:
1. The warehouse area is arranged in a chaotic manner. Because in addition to the warehouse keeper, there are also personnel from other relevant departments to cooperate during the inventory, and these personnel may not be familiar with the warehouse. The warehouse keeper can easily confuse other personnel in the chaotic warehouse area. The warehouse keeper substitutes his own feelings for the feelings of others. Due to the different abilities of the warehouse keeper, the inventory supervisor cannot take inventory. The warehouse keeper is sometimes busy looking for items, which not only wastes time but also easily causes errors.
2. Collection of documents. After determining the inventory time, the warehouse personnel did not coordinate the deadline for the documents with relevant personnel, and only collected the warehouse documents during the inventory, not knowing that each document would have time to circulate. For example, items returned to the warehouse, in transit, and on the production line, etc.
Improvement strategies:
1. Department coordination: The logistics of a company with normal production and operation changes all the time and is a dynamic indicator, and the purpose of enterprise inventory is to Find out the inventory at a certain point in time, but the inventory is a static indicator, which creates a contradiction. This requires the production and sales departments to temporarily stop the sending and receiving operations of materials during the inventory period to achieve the required warehouse requirements. No change status.
2. Staffing: The warehouse inventory must be equipped with certain personnel. The personnel participating in the inventory must have certain abilities to identify and measure materials. For the inventory work, each department must also have a corresponding supervision mechanism.
The role of warehouse inventory
1. Reduce the occurrence of errors.
Since materials are constantly sent and received, differences and errors will inevitably occur over time. Inventory can confirm the existing quantity of materials and correct inconsistencies in the accounts. Normal production plans will not be affected by accounting errors. .
2. To review the performance of materials management and make improvements therefrom.
For example, bad debts, the amount of scrap materials, the storage and maintenance of materials, the inventory turnover rate of materials, etc. can be identified and improved after inventory.
3. Calculate profit and loss.
The profit and loss of an enterprise is closely related to the material inventory, and the accuracy of the material inventory amount depends on the accuracy of the inventory and unit price. Therefore, in order to obtain the accuracy of profit and loss, an inventory must be carried out to confirm the existing quantity of materials.