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How do you control materials inventory?

Are inventory procedures written and cascaded to inventory team? 

How often should you take the physical inventory count?

Are discrepancies matched with actual count and inventory records?

Is it necessary to make a daily count of your inventories?

What other best practices that you know to make your inventory accurate or compliance with industry practices?

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Question added by ROBERTO FLORA , Warehouse Manager , Abucay, Bataan Philippines
Date Posted: 2016/08/03
Shahid Mamoon Abbasi
by Shahid Mamoon Abbasi , Senior Billing & Logistics Officer , MOL Group (Oil and Gas Pakistan)

Daily Stock Inventory through Computerised System

Items in and out are properly managed.

Stock report on daily basis

ROBERTO FLORA
by ROBERTO FLORA , Warehouse Manager , Abucay, Bataan Philippines

To properly manage or control your materials inventory the team or department handling the materials should have the following:

1) Written procedures on conduct of physical inventory.

2) Method of taking the inventory; FIFO (First-in-first out)..method suited in type of business or materials being handled.

3) All materials transactions must be documented; Inbound materials should be confirm received via Receiving Report (RR), outbound materials should be documented using (MIN) or (MT) Materials Issuance Note or Material Transfer.

4) Physical inventory count MUST be conducted on regular basis, i.e., weekly, monthly or yearly.

5) Actual count must be compared with inventory records and if not matched or with variance. Extra effort must be exerted to reconcile or make tally your inventory.

6) Any variance or discrepancies observe must be documented and reported to Financial officer for proper adjustments.

 

 

Murali Jeppu
by Murali Jeppu , MATERIAL STORE CLERK , JOANNOU & PARASKEVAIDES (SAUDI ARABIA) Ltd.

Inventory will be conducted periodically on a daily,monthly & yearly basis.

ubaid qureshi
by ubaid qureshi , Inventory Exceutive , Al madina logistics Pvt ltd

ERP system ..mean inventory software

sakthivel chinnaiyan
by sakthivel chinnaiyan , assistant incharge , RAK Ceramics

daily stock inventory through coputer

daily basics manitaing stock satus

 

You must always monitor the movement of the materials or product, all the movement of the product and materials must be recorded and documented. Physical Inventory count must be conducted regularly. Variance must be reconcile.

Only one thing i can say about inventory is that Inventory has to be updated end of the day on daily basis if your company is getting lot of business. 

SabibAhmed Sheikh
by SabibAhmed Sheikh , warehouse section head , kuwait Saudi pharmaceutical industries Co

1. Material inward & consumption entries should be posted online so that MRP run will be accurate.

2. Rejected/ Expired goods to be handeled daily basis so that it will not impact MRP.

3. SOP should be available for material reconciliation. High value materials to be reconcile monthly basis and all materials inventory count to be taken yearly basis. There should be Excess/shortage limits to be defined in the SOP.

4. Reconciliation to be done at the end of each batch stock.

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