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  3. February 2006

Cycle Counting

We have not been using BPCS cycle counting but are considering starting using it. I have a question whether it functions similarly to physical inventory.
In BPCS Physical Inventory we get a list of items and warehouse locations where BPCS thinks there is inventory on-hand or very recent activity, for all the warehouses that we choose to do a physical on. We count what is there, then key in count found there. We also have the option of using handwritten tags to record inventory that is in locations or for items that BPCS did not know about, and did not generate a tag on. BPCS has inventory transaction records showing difference between what was previously on-hand and what the count was.
When the count is identical to what was in on-hand, there is a ZERO transaction difference entry in inventory history showing the fact that we counted that inventory, and what we counted showed that what was already in BPCS on-hand was 100% correct. 

Does the BPCS cycle counting system (menu INV option 17) have the same feature?
According to the documentation ( SSARUN03 in BPCSDOC ) it has the feature of us keying in our count, BPCS calculating difference, and showing in the history what the discrepancy was, but I am not seeing any reference to anything going into inventory history when there is no discrepancy. 

I think it would be useful if we could show for example
We did 2,000 cycle counts of which 200 of them involved discrepancies, so we would see over time what % of cycle counts confirmed our inventory was correct, and what % needed a correction. 

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Al Macintyre
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