The number of products counted each day using the Ranking Method will vary depending on the number of products that are assigned to each rank. No wonder rank based cycle counting is a popular alternative to geographic counts or an annual physical inventory. Determine who should count. When you conduct a physical inventory, you have to count every piece of every item in your warehouse in a short period of time. To accomplish this task, most distributors draft, and put to work, anyone in their organization who can breath and count at the same time.
Cycle counting is different.
Only a limited number of items are counted each day. To ensure the counts are accurate, only knowledgeable, experienced warehouse people should do the counting. Sure, you ll have to put them on a slightly different schedule. That is, they ll have to come in early or stay late. But the one or two hours of their time spent counting each day will be well worth the investment.