Re: [sap-log-mm] Cyclical counting best practice

Posted by Sap Land Monday, 16 May 2011 08:35

Posted by jeansagi (Systems Analyst)
on May 16 at 11:36 AM

Wow !

110 articles per day !!

That's the double we are expecting to count per day this year and while we
have like half the articles you have we actually just count only a fifth the
articles you have. Additionally, we expect to cover a full cycle in a year!.
Have to say that we count just 3 days in the week (other 2 days are for
other duties).

Numerically that is: we expect to count some kind of 10000 articles in a
year with 1 manager and 3 counters, counting +/- 50 articles, 3 days a week.
So, for more or less the same task force you are really beating us ;) .

I really don't know "cyclic inventory" best practices, I think it can depend
of the type of industry (mine is healthcare btw), additionally we are just
starting SAP this year and we'are trying to implementing cyclic counting
with the same parameters we did with our older software so your scenario
would be an ideal goal for us to achieve.

I'd like to know what others have to say on this and how it goes for you.

J.

---------------Original Message---------------
From: Reynier
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 4:12 PM
Subject: Cyclical counting best practice

My company ( FMCG retail) is currently doing cyclical counting. We have on average 3 counters with the inventory manager responsible for the counting and the updating of the inventory balances. How many articles can be expected to be counted by these employees? We have had Industrial engineers do a survey and have advised that 1 person will be able to count 110 articles a day, thus 330 for the 3. Is this reasonable / too little / too much? We are expected to complete a full cycle in 120 days, with approx 50 000 articles to be covered. What does best practice dictate?

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