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Useful reads on warehouses, stock counts and audits.
What a recount is and why it is a big eventWhat a recount is: counting all of a shop's goods at once and comparing the result with your records, which is why it needs planning and the whole team.
The recount routine in a retail shopThe recount routine in a retail shop rests on three rules: divide it into zones, count each zone in pairs and write the result straight onto one sheet.
Counting at night or by day: which works betterCounting at night or by day: the strengths and weaknesses of each option and a few simple questions that help you choose the time that suits your shop.
The recount order and committee: who is responsible for whatDo not start a recount without an order and a committee: what the order should contain, the committee roles, how to swap zones and who decides on differences.
Recounting without closing the shopRecounting without closing the shop: sections are closed in turn while the rest keep trading, so takings are kept and customers hardly notice a change.
The counting team: how many people you needHow many people a recount team needs comes from a simple formula: the number of positions, one person's counting speed and the time you have planned.
All articles (40)
- What a recount is and why it is a big event
- The recount routine in a retail shop
- Counting at night or by day: which works better
- The recount order and committee: who is responsible for what
- Recounting without closing the shop
- The counting team: how many people you need
- The day before: eight preparation steps
- Recounting in a pet shop: feed, weight and accessories
- Numbering shelves and mapping the shop
- Counting the stockroom and the sales floor together
- The count sheet: what it should look like
- Your first recount without records: stall and hardware shop
- The second count: a verification layer
- Sales during a count: how to account for them
- The till cut-off: marking the sales boundary
- Recounting in a bookshop: editions, ISBN and consignment titles
- Recounting in a clothing shop: size and colour
- Recounting in a grocery: dates and weighing
- Recounting in a pharmacy: batch and expiry
- Recounting in an auto-parts shop: part numbers and equivalents
- Recounting in an electronics shop: serial numbers
- Recounting in a building-materials shop
- Recounting in a cosmetics shop: small items, many positions
- Recounting in a furniture showroom: samples, sets and orders
- Counting kitchen stock in a café or restaurant
- One counting standard across a chain
- After the count: analysing differences
- Recount in-house or by an outside team: how to decide
- Talking to the team about the shortage result
- Speeding up a recount: golden rules
- The most common counting mistakes
- Recounting in an optician's: frames, lenses and customers' items
- Matching the till figures with the count result
- Repricing goods during the count
- A list of dead stock: a useful by-product of the count
- Recounting in a flower shop: counting perishable stock
- A yearly recount calendar
- Range decisions from recount results
- Recounting in a jewellery shop: grams, purity and security
- Moving to continuous counting