The benefits of a healthy Inventory count:
- Accurate inventory reordering.
- Optimum Blank Selection.
- Manageable on-self quantities.
The steps to a successful Inventory count are:
- Freeze the Inventory items to be counted.
- The idea behind a Freeze is to take a snapshot of the inventory on hand at a given moment in time. It is important when doing the count that everything that has been picked has been scanned through Lens Pick Verification and that no one is picking lenses while the physical count is going on.
- Scan/count the Inventory items.
- Post the Inventory count to the inventory database.
To access the "Inventory Count" function; from the Main Menu:
- Go into the "Inventory" tab.
- Select the "Inventory Count" option:
Entering the "Inventory Count" function you will see the "Lens Filter" window; basically this is how you setup your lens criteria of what inventory items you want to freeze (count):
Once you are happy with your selections, click on the button.
The next window will show you the "Lens Filter" in a more summarized format:
You will need to enter a "Batch ID"; this can be a number or alphanumeric. The "Batch ID" can be used to track your different transactions made during the day.
Below I entered "1" as my "Batch ID":
