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Tips for organizing your inventory

Tips for organizing your inventory

If the inventory in your store database is well organized, you can create count sheets for specific portions of your inventory. This allows you to count your inventory in sections, for specific zones in your store, or by product type, which in turn makes it easier for you to divide the work of counting your inventory among a number of employees.

For example, suppose your store carries a selection of toys, with all of the toys located in one area of the store. By assigning all of the toys to one department in your store database, you can create a count sheet just for that area and ask one employee to perform the count for that department, while other employees count other departments.

Another way to achieve similar efficiency is by setting the bin location for each of your items. Bin locations can be shelves, displays, baskets, rooms, or areas in the store, as you choose. When it is time to count your inventory, you can generate a count sheet for each bin location and distribute the count sheets to your employees.

Using bin locations or departments and categories can speed up the physical inventory count considerably, even if only a portion of your inventory is organized this way.