A standard cycle count verifies that the on-hand quantities for selected inventory items are accurate at a specific branch in your company. Unlike a full physical inventory, a cycle count involves a selection of products at a branch. Companies can cycle count inventory on a daily basis because it requires less effort and involves fewer products.
Advanced Cycle Counting verifies that on-hand quantities for selected inventory items are accurate over the course of a specified time, usually a year, within a specific branch or territory. Use the advanced cycle counting tools to define branches or territories, counting time frames, and which products to count by rank at the specified branch. Your selections create a regular schedule by which warehouse personnel must count the indicated inventory. The system provides at-a-glance progress and analysis data throughout the annual counting process so you can track products more accurately.
Note: You can use advanced cycle counting for manual warehouses or RF warehouses. If you have an RF Warehouse, use the same setup processes described in this documentation. See RF Versus Non-RF Branches Setup below.
Eclipse analyzes your products and counts at run time. If a product was not part of the initial count, then the system adds it to the list of products eligible to be counted. This ensures you are counting everything you wanted to count, including new items that may have been added to inventory since the last analysis. However, if an item changes ranks, then that product stays in that same rank for the entire count cycle.
Note: You must be assigned the ADVANCED.CYCLE.COUNT authorization key to manage counts through Advanced Cycle Counting. Users without this authorization key can access the windows in view-only mode.
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Important: You can use these features in addition to your standard cycle counting. However, while these tools can be used in tandem, the selections of products are separate. Using these counting processes at the same time, may result in duplicating your counting efforts. |
Before setting your counts, do the following depending on your warehouse setup:
For an RF branch count, set the RF Cycle Count Max Entries to zero (0) to disable that feature.
For a non-RF branch count, cancel any phantom processes for Random Cycle Count Generation.
Review the following for more information: