Its use in the warehouse
Compared with the annual physical inventory, a cycle count finds discrepancies weeks or months earlier and allows their cause to be investigated while the movement that produced them is recent. It requires coded locations and a reliable movement record, because each count is compared with the stock recorded in the system.
How Chainlink WMS applies it
In Chainlink WMS, each count is created by zone, aisle, level or list of locations and is divided into sections for a team. Counts on the handheld work without a signal. On closing, Chainlink separates matches, wrong locations, overages, shortages and products not in the system, and an Administrative user applies the adjustments.