The biggest inventory challenge? Making sure the numbers match the shelf Everyone points at stockouts or overstock like those are the disease. They're not. They're what you see after the real problem has already done its damage. The real problem is stale data. A cycle count happens Monday morning. By Wednesday afternoon, three pallets of that SKU moved, one got shorted on a receipt that nobody flagged, and someone pulled from a location that was supposed to be empty. Your sys

More people don't always solve process problems We had a rough stretch last spring. Inventory adjustments hitting four or five times a week, a variance rate sitting somewhere around 3.2% on our fast-moving slots, and every post-mortem landing on the same diagnosis: not enough bodies on the floor. We put in the hours. We hired a temp crew. We counted harder. The variances barely moved. It took a blunt conversation with one of our leads — someone who'd been counting that buildi